Why We Built Orsane: A lightweight Task Management Tool for agencies
Every agency founder knows the feeling. You sign up for a project management tool, excited by the promise of clarity and speed, and within a month your workspace looks like the cockpit of an aircraft. Dashboards you never asked for. AI triage nobody on your team relies on. You came looking for a clean surface to organize work, and instead you got a platform that needs its own onboarding program.
That’s exactly where we were. We ran a web agency ourselves. We managed multiple clients, juggled design handoffs with development sprints, and tried to keep project managers, designers, and developers aligned across dozens of moving pieces. The tools we used were either too simple to handle real agency workflows or so bloated they created more work than they solved. Nothing felt like it was built for the way we actually worked: fast, collaborative, and across disciplines.
The tool problem nobody was solving
We tried a lot of them. One tool that came close was Height, at least in its early days. The first version had something rare: it was simple, collaborative, and stayed out of your way. It understood that task management should feel lightweight, not like enterprise bloatware. But then it changed direction. More AI, more complexity, more features chasing trends instead of solving problems. It lost exactly the quality that made it worth using. And when Height eventually announced it was shutting down, it didn’t just leave a gap in our stack. It confirmed something we’d been thinking about for a while: nobody was going to build this tool for us.
So instead of searching for yet another replacement, the decision was made to build one from scratch. Not as a side project or an experiment, but as a real product, shaped by years of firsthand experience running an agency.
That product became Orsane.
Built from experience, not a business plan
Orsane is built specifically for web agencies and creative studios. It supports multi-client workflows by design, not as an afterthought. Discussions & files live alongside tasks without bouncing between tools. The main interface is grid-based and immediately familiar. No training sessions, no two-week adoption curve. Your team is productive from day one.
Orsane is independent and bootstrapped. There are no investors pushing us to ship AI chatbots or bolt on features just to inflate a quarterly metric. In 2025, building meaningful software without VC pressure is more possible than ever, and we’re fully committed to that path. Steady, sustainable progress in true indie maker fashion. We ship what makes the product better. We skip what doesn’t. Every decision gets made with one question in mind: does this help agencies do clearer, faster work?
We don’t think task management tools for agencies need to be complex to be powerful. We think the opposite is true. The best tool is the one that disappears into your workflow. That’s what we’re building with Orsane. No noise. No bloat. Just a clean, lightweight workspace designed around the way agencies actually work. Not the way they say they work.
Try it out now?
Try all of Orsane together with your team for free for 2 weeks. No credit card required. After that, if you accidentally subscribed after the trial period and are unhappy with Orsane, you can request a refund within 14 days. Just sign up at my.orsane.app/signup.