Know who's available before you commit.
When a prospect says yes and you need to staff the engagement, how quickly can you answer 'who can take this on?' Bridge Planner shows each team member's effective capacity, current load, and first-open date — so you commit with confidence, not hope.
No per user fees, ever.
Every firm owner has made the same mistake: saying yes to a new engagement because it felt like the team could handle it, without actually checking. Capacity planning is how you stop guessing.
How this actually gets used
“Who can take this on?” takes a round of Slack messages
The Old Way
A prospect says yes and wants to start in two weeks. You Slack the team leads asking who has bandwidth, wait for replies, and piece together a guess from whoever responds first — sometimes committing someone who’s actually slammed the next two weeks, because the person who knew that was on vacation when you asked.
Capacity gets treated as one fixed number
The Old Way
You staff a new engagement assuming someone’s at their usual 40 hours, because that’s the number everyone uses. Their actual availability is more variable than that, but nobody wrote it down, so the plan quietly assumes a level of availability that was never realistic.
Per-person capacity cards
Each team member gets a card showing nominal hours, effective capacity (adjusted for PTO and ramp time), current load percentage, and the first week they have meaningful availability. One glance tells you who can absorb new work.
Calibrated capacity bands
Capacity isn't a single number — it's a range. Expected, low-band, high-band. Planner computes confidence intervals so you can staff to the expected case but know the worst case. Most tools show you a number; Planner shows you a range.
Time-off and ramp-time aware
Approved PTO, holidays, and configurable ramp time (for new hires or new-engagement onboarding) reduce effective capacity automatically. The capacity view reflects reality, not a naive 40-hours-per-week assumption.
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Bridge replaces
One product, one bill, one source of truth — instead of stitching 4 subscriptions together.
How Bridge compares to Float
Float's approach
Float is a focused resource scheduling tool — clean drag-and-drop, per-person availability, and utilization reports. It does scheduling well. But it doesn't know about your agreements, invoices, or engagement budgets — so capacity planning is disconnected from the financial reality.
\$100/mo for 10 users on Float Pro
Choose Float if: you need standalone scheduling for a creative team, and billing lives elsewhere.
Uplift Bridge's approach
Bridge Planner builds capacity from the same engagements and time entries already in Bridge. When a SOW is signed, the capacity demand is already known. When hours are logged, load updates in real time. Capacity and revenue are one picture, not two.
Bridge Planner add-on at \$39/mo flat (Team)
Choose Bridge if: you want capacity grounded in signed agreements and real hours, or you're already running engagements in Bridge.
Frequently asked questions
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See also
Utilization
Capacity tells you who has headroom. Utilization tells you how the existing hours are being spent.
Learn moreAllocation
Once you know who has capacity, allocation is where you assign them to engagements and manage the schedule.
Learn moreCoach
When capacity gaps emerge, Coach surfaces hiring signals and reallocation recommendations proactively.
Learn moreNo per user fees.
No forced contracts.
No sales call.
Built by Tommy Spann after 25 years running consulting firms. Bridge is the practice software he wanted and couldn't find — so he built it.
