Kyo

Agency Management all in one place.

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May 21, 2026 We ran an agency, hated every tool we used, so we built our own

We've been running a digital agency for a few years. At peak chaos, we were juggling Notion for docs, ClickUp for tasks, Airtable for deals, a spreadsheet for the team, and Slack threads for everything else.

Nothing talked to each other. Context-switching was constant. And every time we onboarded a new client or hired someone, we'd spend days just getting them across five different tools.

So we started building Kyo, not because we thought we could out-feature the big players, but because we just needed one place that worked the way we actually worked.

What Kyo does:

- Project & task management (with kanban, sub-projects, assignees, due dates)

- A lightweight CRM for deals and contacts

- Team management — roles, contracts, leave tracking, efficiency metrics

- OKR dashboard — objectives, key results, linked tasks

- A canvas that surfaces your Google Drive, Docs, and Miro boards in one place

- Automations that trigger across all of it

- Zapier integration for everything else

Where we are:

Early. We have a small number of workspaces live, including our own agency using it daily. That's both the validation and the pressure, we're dogfooding hard.

What's next:

Tightening the core, getting more workspaces on it, and seeing what breaks when people we don't know start using it.

If you're running a small agency or team and feel the same tool sprawl we did, give it a shot. We'd genuinely love the feedback.

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We ran an agency, context switching between tools; CRM, project management, finances killed our focus and slowed progress. So we built Kyo, the tool we wished existed.