For freelancers

One tool. Many clients. One link each.

Most planners are made for teams. You aren't a team. You're you, juggling five clients, three deadlines, and a half-finished pitch. Narcove fits how you already work. One free public link per client. Honest time guesses. A plan that updates itself when work moves.

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What's hard right now

Three things that eat your Friday

Status emails. Five clients, five updates. You write the same thing in five ways. Each one is a small task that adds up. By the end of the month you've given away a full day to status alone.

Time guesses. A new card comes in. How long? You guess high to be safe, low to win the work, then split the difference and hope. When you're wrong, you eat the cost. When you're right, you got lucky.

Replanning. A client says "can we move the launch by a week?" You spend an hour redoing the dates on six cards. They move it again. You do it again. The plan stops feeling real because the plan stops being real.

What changes with Narcove

Three things you stop doing by hand

Status updates write themselves. Each project has a public link. Your client bookmarks it. They see what's in flight, what's next, and when each thing should land. When the plan moves, a one-line reason appears: "pulled forward because copy review finished early." You stop sending status emails.

Time guesses come from your past work. Every card gets a low / likely / high time guess from cards you've shipped before. The first ones are wide guesses. After 30 cards they tighten up. After 100 they're close to your real speed. You stop guessing high to be safe.

The plan replans itself. Move a card. Mark one done. Change a date. The other cards shift to match — automatically when the change is small and safe, with a quick check-in when it's big or risky. A week of replanning becomes a one-second drag.

A typical week

Monday morning. Five clients. One screen.

You open the board. The Tide log on the side shows what moved over the weekend. Three cards finished. One slipped a day. The slip already has a reason — you wrote it on Friday. Each client's portal has the change.

A new card comes in from Acme via the public form. It lands in your Harbour column. You read it, give it an honest time guess (the AI suggests one based on past Acme work), and move it to Open Water. The plan slots it in.

By Wednesday two cards finish ahead of guess. The plan pulls the next ones forward on their own. By Friday you're at 4pm and your three clients already know where they stand. You book off early.

Pricing for freelancers

Start free. Move to Pro when you have more than one client.

Free
£0
One project. One public link. Up to three collaborators. No AI features.
Pro
£15 / month + VAT
All projects, all clients, full AI: time guesses, plan-with-AI, the Tide cascade.

FAQ

Freelancer questions

Can I have more than one client on a free plan?

The free plan covers one project. Most freelancers run one project per client, so most fit on Pro at £15 a month + VAT. The free plan is a good way to try the tool with one client first.

Do my clients have to make an account?

No. Each project gets a public link like narcove.com/r/your-name. Your client opens it in a browser. They can see the board, send you new work, and reply to your emails. They never log in.

What if a client wants to keep things private?

You can mark cards private one by one. Private cards never show on the public link. You can also turn the whole link off for a project — clients then see the work only over email.

How do you handle hours on retainer work?

Each card has an honest time guess (a low/likely/high range). Add up the times for any month and you get the hours used. When the total gets close to the cap, the chart turns coral. You can talk to the client before the bill is a surprise.

Can I move my work over from Notion or Trello?

Yes. Drop in a CSV from any tool. Trello has a one-click move. Your card titles, labels, and dates come with you. Time guesses fill in over the first few weeks as we learn how fast you work.

Things you stop doing

Six small jobs that add up to half your week

Writing five status emails on Friday. The portal does it. Each client opens their own bookmark when they want to know.
Guessing time on every new card. Soundings reads your past work and proposes a low / likely / high range. You override when you want; you accept when it's close enough.
Redoing the calendar after every slip. The Tide moves downstream cards on its own. You spend zero minutes a week dragging dates.
Tracking retainer hours by hand. Each card's actual time logs against the project pool. You see how close the cap is — and so does the client.
Re-explaining the same plan three times. One link. One source of truth. The client opens it, reads it, and stops asking.
Worrying about the cards you've forgotten. The Adrift flag fires automatically on cards that have stopped moving. They float to the top of the board with a coral indicator until you do something about them.

What it's not

Three things Narcove won't do

It's not a time tracker. If you live in Toggl or Harvest for billable-minute tracking, Narcove won't replace that. We track durations on cards as a by-product, not as the main job. Use Toggl alongside if you bill by the minute.

It's not a CRM. Client contacts, deals, lead pipelines — those live in your CRM. Narcove starts where the work starts. You drop the kickoff into a project and we take it from there.

It's not a Notion replacement. Long-form docs and wiki content don't live in Narcove. We do project plans, schedules, and client portals. Keep your knowledge base where it is and link to it from cards when it's relevant.

Parts that matter most for freelancers

Start free — one project

No card. No team. Just you and your clients.