Agency delivery without chaos: portals, approvals, and clear status

Clients want visibility and fast answers. Here’s a portal-driven workflow that cuts status meetings and prevents endless email threads.

7 min readBy UNOBITS Team

The real problem: status is scattered

Most agency friction comes from visibility gaps. Clients ask for updates because they can’t see progress in real time.

A client portal solves this by giving one source of truth for deliverables, files, and approvals.

Approvals should be a workflow, not a thread

When approvals live in email, they get missed. In a portal, approvals are owned, tracked, and timestamped — and everyone can see what’s next.