Use cases
Built for the studio that just stopped fitting in one head
Growth in a design studio has a specific failure mode: the projects multiply, you hire help, and suddenly the way you've always worked — the spreadsheet, the inbox, the notes only you can decode — stops working, because it only ever worked inside your head. Mortar gives the whole studio one workspace where budgets, selections, approvals, and orders live together.
When the volume breaks the system
Designers rarely go looking for software when things are calm. The trigger is nearly always the same: more concurrent projects than the current system can hold, and the sinking realisation that the details are starting to slip. The spreadsheet that ran three projects beautifully runs seven badly.
Mortar is built for that moment. Every project keeps its own budgets, selections, and order status in one structure that looks the same across the whole studio — so picking up a colleague's project doesn't start with an archaeology dig.
Your first hire shouldn't need a month of telepathy
The hardest part of growing past yourself is that the process lives in your head. A new assistant can't search your memory for why the sofa was substituted or whether the client ever approved the fabric.
In Mortar, they don't have to. Every item carries its own history — who approved it and when, what the supplier quoted, where the order sits. Handing over a project means sharing it, not narrating it.
One budget picture across every project
With multiple projects running, "where are we on budget?" becomes a daily question — and a dangerous one to answer from memory. Mortar's budgets are visual and live: progress bars and colour-coded status by room and by project, updating as selections change. Glance across the studio's projects and know which ones need attention this week.
Procurement the whole team can run
Ordering is where studio hours quietly disappear — and it's the workflow designers most often hire someone to take over. Mortar keeps it in the project: paste a product URL and the details fill themselves in, send supplier quote requests and track the replies, then follow every item from ordered through lead time to received. Whoever places the order, the whole studio sees its status.
Clients see a studio, not a scramble
Every client gets a branded portal — no app to install, nothing to learn — with the project's boards, budgets, and approvals live. Approvals land with a date against the item instead of a maybe in an inbox. When any team member can answer "what's happening with my living room?" without checking with you first, the studio feels bigger than its headcount.
One plan that grows one seat at a time
Mortar is $59 per user, per month — unlimited projects, no onboarding fee, every feature on every seat. Add your first hire when you make them, not a tier upgrade before you're ready. Payment fees are published on the pricing page, including our share.
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