Audience
Solo consultants, freelancers, and small agency studios in design, marketing, and consulting that bill hourly or on retainer, have outgrown single-purpose freelancer tools, and find enterprise PSA platforms overkill.
About Ascend
Ascend is one workspace for the five workflows agencies run every week: forms, databases, pages, time tracking, and invoicing. Instead of stitching together Notion, Tally, Calendly, Toggl, and FreshBooks, you run the whole client lifecycle in one system that shares the same data.
A client intake form writes straight into your database. Every record opens into a full page with notes, files, sub-tasks, and a built-in timer. Tracked hours flow into an invoice generated from the same record. No CSV exports, no copy-paste between apps.
Built for solo consultants and small agency studios billing hourly or on retainer. Free tier to start, Solo at $19/month, Studio at $49/month, with no per-seat fees. A 30-day free trial is available on paid plans, no credit card required.
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Pricing
Starting Price:
$19/month
Pricing Details:
Ascend uses flat pricing — no per-seat cost for solo operators.
Forms Free — $0
Client intake and lead-capture forms. Up to 3 active forms and 50 submissions per month, viewed in-app and exported to CSV. Docs and community support.
Solo — $19/month ($190/year, two months free)
Everything needed to run client work from first task to paid invoice: Inbox, Pages, Databases, Contacts, time tracking, branded invoicing, Forms and Dashboards, AI Advisor and Assistant, full API and MCP access, and Gmail/Outlook integration. One seat, 1M AI tokens per month. Email support.
Studio — $49/month ($490/year, two months free)
Everything in Solo, plus team roles and permissions, real-time co-editing, team chat, access groups, a 7-year compliance-grade audit log, and 5M AI tokens shared across seats. Up to 3 seats included; additional seats are $19/seat per month. Priority email support.
Free trial: 30 days, no credit card required, with all Solo features unlocked. If you do not upgrade, the account moves to the Forms Free plan and your data is retained. Annual billing saves two months on Solo and Studio.
Forms Free — $0
Client intake and lead-capture forms. Up to 3 active forms and 50 submissions per month, viewed in-app and exported to CSV. Docs and community support.
Solo — $19/month ($190/year, two months free)
Everything needed to run client work from first task to paid invoice: Inbox, Pages, Databases, Contacts, time tracking, branded invoicing, Forms and Dashboards, AI Advisor and Assistant, full API and MCP access, and Gmail/Outlook integration. One seat, 1M AI tokens per month. Email support.
Studio — $49/month ($490/year, two months free)
Everything in Solo, plus team roles and permissions, real-time co-editing, team chat, access groups, a 7-year compliance-grade audit log, and 5M AI tokens shared across seats. Up to 3 seats included; additional seats are $19/seat per month. Priority email support.
Free trial: 30 days, no credit card required, with all Solo features unlocked. If you do not upgrade, the account moves to the Forms Free plan and your data is retained. Annual billing saves two months on Solo and Studio.
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Integrations
Company Information
Optivation
New Zealand
www.optivation.io
Videos and Screen Captures
Ascend is an all-in-one "inbox to invoice" workspace for agencies and freelancers. This overview shows an issue database with a record open in the detail panel — full description, steps to reproduce, and a Priority/Status/Assignee sidebar — alongside the left-hand navigation for Inbox, Databases, Pages, Time & Billing and more.
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Kanban Board
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