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Getting started

What Worksynk is, and what it takes to start.

What is Worksynk for?

Running client delivery — projects, people, time, and the reporting that keeps clients informed. It is aimed at teams who are answerable for dates: agencies, studios, and in-house delivery orgs.

Why can I not see a feature I expected?

Worksynk ships as modules, and most are off by default even when your plan covers them. A workspace owner or admin turns them on under Settings → Modules. If a settings page looks empty, that is almost always the reason.

Who can turn a paid module on?

Only the workspace owner, since enabling one affects what the account is billed.

What happens if we turn a module off later?

Disabling a module hides its interface and blocks its endpoints, but does not delete your data. Turn it back on and your policies, budgets, or SLA configuration are where you left them.

Can we move over from another tool?

Yes. Connect Jira, Asana, Azure DevOps, or Zoho and import a project — issues arrive as tasks with their status and assignee mapped. Linked projects keep syncing, so a team mid-migration can work in both for a while.

Work items, sprints, and milestones

How work is structured, and what the reporting keys off.

Work items and sprints
Can we keep our own workflow states?

Yes. Five statuses ship by default and you can rename, recolour, reorder, or archive any of them and add your own under Settings → Statuses. Velocity and reporting read from status categories, so the numbers keep working after you change the labels.

Do we have to use both sprints and milestones?

No. Sprints suit teams working to a cadence who care about throughput; milestones suit dated outcomes a client is waiting for. Plenty of teams use one and not the other — both are modules you can leave off.

Is tracked time good enough to invoice from?

That is the intent. Timers run against the work item, timesheets split billable from unbilled, and timer security settings exist specifically to keep the hours honest enough to bill.

What happens to work that repeats?

Set a recurrence rule instead of recreating the task. The next instance appears on schedule, and editing the rule changes future instances rather than the history.

Delivery confidence

What the score is, what goes into it, and what it is not.

Delivery confidence
Is the score a prediction?

No, and the product is explicit about this. It is a decision aid computed from your data. A low score is a prompt to look at something, not a verdict on whether the project will land.

What exactly goes into it?

Overdue work, blockers, movement through statuses, and milestone progress. Because each input is real work in the workspace, you can open the items driving a change rather than trusting a number.

Can we see how it changed over time?

Yes. The score is captured daily, so you read it as a trend. A project drifting down over a fortnight is a different conversation from one bad day.

Who can see the executive view?

The executive summary and workload reports are visible to owners and admins only, and depend on the Analytics module being enabled.

AI and MCP

What an assistant can reach, and what it may change.

AI agents and MCP
Can the assistant see things a user should not?

No. It operates inside the permissions of the person asking. If you cannot open a project, neither can the assistant on your behalf.

Will it change data without being asked?

In the app, no — an action that changes data shows you what will happen before it runs. Over a connected MCP host it can: a write tool executes the moment it is called, with no confirmation prompt. That is why connections default to read-only, and why you should only grant write access to a host that genuinely needs it.

Which AI hosts can connect over MCP?

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP-compatible hosts. Each has its own setup walkthrough, and every connection can be reviewed or revoked from settings.

How is AI usage billed?

Usage draws on workspace AI credits. Consumption is visible in the workspace, so spend is something you can watch rather than discover.

Clients and the portal

Seats, status links, branding, and sign-off.

Client collaboration
Does a client in the portal use up a seat?

No. The portal is a client-facing read-only view specifically so you can give visibility without consuming a workspace seat.

What is the difference between the portal and a status link?

The portal is a persistent view of their projects with updates and approvals. A status link is lighter, for when a client just needs to see progress. An external member seat is the third option, for clients who need to participate directly.

Can it look like our studio rather than Worksynk?

Yes, with white-label branding — your name, colour, and logo replace ours across the surfaces your team and clients see.

How do we prove a client signed off?

Handoff packages the deliverables, captures the client's confirmation, and issues a certificate — so sign-off is a record rather than a recollection.

Integrations

Code hosts, imports, webhooks, and meetings.

Integrations
Do we have to use GitHub?

No. GitHub has first-class support, and there is generic git-host support for teams on something else. Both link repositories to projects so commits and pull requests attach to the work they reference.

How do we verify a webhook really came from Worksynk?

Deliveries are signed, so your endpoint can verify the signature. Destinations are validated when you create them, and every delivery attempt is recorded so failures are diagnosable.

Can we migrate from our current tool?

Yes — import jobs bring existing work across rather than asking someone to re-key a backlog.

What happens after a meeting?

Meetings are scheduled against a project with a join link, reminders go out beforehand, and AI follow-ups capture what came out of the call next to the work it concerns.

Operations and governance

Keeping reporting comparable across teams that work differently.

PMO and operations
Do all teams have to work the same way?

No — that is usually why standardisation fails. The hierarchy and the definitions stay consistent, but modules, statuses, and workflows are configured per workspace so each team keeps the parts that fit its work.

How do we keep reporting comparable if teams rename statuses?

Statuses map to categories. Teams can rename, recolour, and reorder freely, and velocity and reporting continue to read from the underlying category.

What can we show a security reviewer?

Activity logs, login history, credential access logs, AI action records, and IP whitelisting — all product surfaces rather than policy documents.

Can SLAs account for our working hours?

Yes. SLA policies are aware of business hours and holidays, and warn you before a response or resolution target is missed rather than after.

Reporting for executives

Who sees the rollup, and whether the numbers compare.

Executives
Who can see the executive and financial reports?

Owners and admins only. Financial reporting also depends on the Budgets module and on rates being set for your people.

Is the confidence score comparable across teams?

Yes, because it is computed the same way everywhere — overdue work, blockers, movement, and milestone progress — even when teams have renamed their statuses.

Can I see why a project dropped?

Yes. Risk patterns and blocker radar name the cause, and every input is real work you can open from the score.

Do I need to ask someone to build this report?

No. It is a standing view that reads live data, which is generally the point — nobody should be assembling a portfolio slide by hand.

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