One click per project pulls together what shipped, what's in review, and what's coming up — generated from the activity that actually happened that week. Edit the parts that need polish. Hit send. Your Friday afternoons come back.
Most agencies send weekly updates per client. Even at 30 minutes per update, an agency with 8 active clients loses half a day every week to writing the same shape of email — pulled together from the PM tool, the design files, the meeting notes, the rough idea of what your team did this week.
It's rote work. The information already lives in the tool. The PM tool just doesn't know how to write it back.
Workhouse pulls the past week's activity — tasks shipped, approvals decided, milestones hit, comments by client, what's in flight, what's blocked.
The draft is structured: shipped, in progress, coming up, awaiting decisions. Written in clean prose, not a feature list.
Add the context only you have. Cut sections that aren't relevant. Click Send — the report lands in the client portal AND emails the contact.
Status update — Acme website redesign · Mar 18 → Mar 24
Hi Acme team,
Here's where things stand on the website redesign for the week of Mar 18–24.
Shipped this week. Homepage v2 landed and was approved on Tuesday. The pricing page wireframes are in your portal for review. We also completed the brand asset audit — 47 assets cataloged, recommendations attached.
In progress. Mobile responsive treatments for the homepage are with our design team and should be ready for review Wednesday. The case-study template is in copywriting; first draft Friday.
Awaiting your review. Pricing page wireframes — feedback needed by Wednesday to keep the timeline.
Next week. Homepage mobile responsive, case-study template first draft, kickoff on the careers page redesign.
— Acme website redesign
Generated from one week of activity on a Workhouse project. Edited lightly before send.
Tasks moved to Done since the last report. Grouped by what your client will recognize as a deliverable.
What got signed off, what was sent back for changes, what was declined. Decisions with names attached.
Project milestones reached in the period. If you've structured milestones, they anchor the narrative.
Tasks currently in progress, with assignee and ETA where available. Not just "we're working on it."
Items that need a decision from the client. Surfaced first because the report is also a nudge.
Tasks scheduled to start in the next period. Sets the table for next week's update.
For workspaces without the AI Gateway configured, Workhouse falls back to a deterministic markdown assembly of the same activity. Same structure, less polish. Your team edits more, but the report still drafts itself.
The AI is a feature, not the product — we built the deterministic version first to make sure the report works without it.
No. Reports are drafts until you click Send. We deliberately don't auto-send — every status update should have a human in the loop, even if just to add one sentence of context.
Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 via the Vercel AI Gateway. Cost-efficient, fast, plenty good at turning structured activity into clean prose. Anthropic's policy via the Gateway is zero data retention — your activity isn't used to train models.
The current generation uses a fixed shape (shipped / in progress / awaiting / coming up). On the near-term roadmap: per-workspace section ordering and custom section types. Email us if you have a specific structure you need.
The report omits empty sections rather than padding them. A quiet week reads as a short update, not a fake one. Better signal-to-noise; clients learn to read what's there instead of skimming.
Yes. Generate, mark it Internal-visibility, send to a team-internal recipient list. Useful for portfolio-level weekly snapshots between the AM and the agency owner.
Related: visibility model → · approvals → · client portal →