Routine's built-in CRM tracks the companies, contacts, and deals that win you work — and the Client Portal gives every client one live, cross-module view of their production, plus a way to talk straight to your team. Two shared tools, on every plan, no extra licence.
Send a client a single secure link and they see their production across Production, Marketing, Distribution, and Post — no matter which team or office is doing the work. You control exactly what's visible.
A secure token link opens a live view of the client's production. No sign-up, no password to reset — the pattern proven across Routine's external access.
Production milestones, marketing, distribution, and post status in one place — so the client sees the whole picture, not four disconnected updates.
Toggle each module on or off per portal. Show a client Production and Marketing, keep Post internal — decided per link, changeable any time.
Clients reply from the portal and your team answers from a unified inbox. Every message is attributable, with an email-verified identity.
Changes your team makes are reflected on the client's view automatically. No re-exporting a status deck, no stale PDF doing the rounds.
Reads are view-only by token; every client message requires a verified email code. An audit trail built for Disney/Apple-grade accountability.
The client lands on a clean, branded view of their production — milestones with clear statuses (approved, in review, pending) and dates — and a message box to reach the team. It's the shared surface an agency or studio can hand to any client, on any device.
Status the client understands. Approved, in review, pending — with dates — instead of internal jargon and task IDs.
Client-safe by default. They see the milestones that matter, never your scenes, breakdowns, or call sheets.
"Changes are reflected here automatically." The portal states it plainly — this is the live view, not a snapshot.
Create a portal for any production and label it for the client. Choose exactly which modules they see, decide whether they can message you, and pick who gets emailed when they do. Copy, preview, deactivate, or edit any time — all portals live in one place, grouped by production.
Per-module visibility. Tick Production, Marketing, Distribution, Post, and more — the client only ever sees what you enable.
Messaging on your terms. Allow client messages, and route new-message emails to just you or the whole team.
Manage from anywhere. Create portals from any production; the Portals tab lists them all, ready to copy or deactivate.
When a client replies from their portal, it lands in your Inbox — client messages on one side, your team's on the other, each attributed by name and timestamp. Answer from Routine and it appears on their portal instantly. No email threads to lose, no "did the board see this?"
Routine's CRM is a shared tool on every plan — companies, contacts, and a deal pipeline that flows straight into delivery. When a deal is won, it becomes a production in the right module in one click. No separate sales tool, no re-keying, no gap between selling the job and doing it.
Your deal pipeline
A shared directory of the studios, agencies, and people you work with — contact details, industry, and history, visible to your whole team.
Move deals through your stages from lead to won, with value tracking. One clean funnel the whole team reads the same way.
Colour-coded, free-text tags on contacts, companies, and deals — slice the funnel by venture, sector, or anything you like, and filter instantly.
Store contracts, NDAs, proposals, and invoices against a company in private, org-scoped storage — downloads via short-lived signed links.
Mark a deal Won and convert it to a production in the right module. The client is linked, not copied — one company, one record, no duplicates.
The CRM feeds the modules that deliver. Win it in the CRM, deliver it in Production, keep the client updated in the Portal — one connected loop.
How it fits together: the CRM wins the work, the modules deliver it, and the Client Portal keeps the client in the loop. A won deal becomes a job in the relevant module; that job carries a linked, de-duplicated projection of the CRM company — so the delivery client is never an orphan copy. Once there are stages and items to show, you spin up a Client Portal off the job. Sell, deliver, update — one platform, one thread.
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