Because they happen in email. Version four is approved, version five is sent, and what goes live is whichever the person publishing happened to have open.
When a client says they never signed that off, reconstructing the truth takes an afternoon and produces a maybe.
Each deliverable carries an approval state, a named approver and a dated record of what was approved, at the version level.
The client sees the same records in the portal rather than a summary, so approval happens where the work is rather than in a thread beside it.
It will not make a client approve faster. It shows exactly how long each approval has been waiting, which is what makes the conversation possible.
And it does not host your work. It references wherever the files actually live.
Waiting time becomes visible with a name against it, which is usually the largest hidden delay in delivery and the hardest to raise without evidence.
And because approval can open the next phase, the handover after sign-off stops depending on somebody noticing.
Yes, with the approver and the date.
No — the portal shows what you publish to it.
Yes, so the handover does not wait on somebody noticing.
We will run it end to end on your own numbers in half an hour, and tell you honestly which parts Treepie does not improve.