Cash Flow for Creative Agencies

Creative work delivers in milestones. Cash needs to work every week.

Creative agencies deliver in projects but spend in weekly payroll cycles. The Sprint maps your upcoming project milestones against your weekly staff and production costs so the timing mismatches are planned, not discovered.

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13-week cash map
3 what-if scenarios: late invoice, client pause, new hire
72-hour delivery — pay nothing if it's late
5-min weekly update — yours to run

Production costs hit before final invoices

Photography, printing, studio time, and production vendor costs are incurred weeks before final delivery and client invoicing.

Speculative work consumes paid capacity

Pitch presentations, mood boards, and spec work are real costs that don't appear on invoices. The Sprint accounts for your true capacity utilization.

Award-season and peak periods create boom-bust cycles

A great Q4 makes December look exceptional. January is usually a desert. The Sprint makes that seasonal pattern visible in November.

Best fit

Creative agencies with 3–20 staff using QuickBooks Online or Xero, with project-based or retainer revenue.

Free Assessment — No Email Required

How clear is your cash picture?

5 questions. 60 seconds. Get a personalized cash flow readiness score and your top risk areas — generated from your answers, not a generic template.

72-hour delivery guarantee. If your 13-week cash map isn't complete and working within 72 hours of submitting your inputs, you pay nothing.

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Tell us where cash visibility is breaking down

Submit the basics and Spark Cashflow will review fit for the fixed-scope Sprint offer. Delivery stays manual for now. Intake does not.

Can the model track production costs separately from overhead?

Yes. Production passthrough costs are tracked separately from operating overhead so your margin picture stays accurate.

We win projects inconsistently — how does the model handle that?

Scenario tabs are built for this. One tab assumes 60% of pitches close on schedule; another assumes 30%. You see the cash impact of both.