What Glass Factory does

Glass Factory is a privately-held SaaS company founded around 2014 and headquartered in Los Angeles that sells a single web-based platform for visual resource planning and time tracking targeted at services businesses — primarily digital agencies, marketing firms, and IT shops with teams ranging from 10 to over 1,000 people. The platform is a unified system that combines forward-looking resource scheduling and budgeting with real-time actuals capture: users build per-project plans that schedule people against budgets, drag-and-drop team members into roles based on availability, monitor utilization by individual, role, and department, capture time via desktop or web, and generate invoices from those actuals. Forecasting and plan-vs-actuals reporting are layered on top of the same data model.

Underlying the product is a horizontal SaaS architecture with native integrations to developer, project-management, time-tracking, and accounting tools — specifically Jira, Pivotal Tracker, GitHub, Harvest, and QuickBooks — positioning Glass Factory as a connective operations layer rather than a replacement for project task management. Pricing is fully transparent and per-seat at $15 per team member per month, with published tiers starting at $15/month for 1–20 seats, $300/month for 22–90 seats, and $1,500/month for 100+ seats. Distribution is entirely product-led: customers self-serve through the website and begin with a 30-day free trial that requires no credit card. No funding rounds, institutional investors, M&A activity, or leadership changes are disclosed, indicating a bootstrapped, founder-led operation with a 1–10 employee footprint and a small, distributed SMB customer base including FUZZ, Learn Trials, SISU, Castle Digital Partners, Beyond, and Pet Screening.

Name

Glass Factory

Legal name

Glass Factory

Website

https://glassfactory.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Glass Factory is a Los Angeles-based SaaS platform for visual resource planning and time tracking, serving digital agencies, marketing firms, and IT shops with subscription-based per-seat pricing and a self-serve, product-led go-to-market.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Subscription - Per Seat: Glass Factory charges $15.00 per month per team member. Team members include named resources that are active or managed in Glass Factory. Pricing tiers scale based on team size: small teams (1-20 people) start at $15/month, medium teams (22-90 people) start at $300/month, and large teams (100+ people) start at $1,500/month.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Glass Factory is a unified SaaS platform for visual resource planning and time tracking built for service businesses such as digital agencies, marketing firms, and IT shops. It combines planning and forecasting with real-time actuals tracking, offering drag-and-drop team staffing, revenue/profitability/utilization forecasting, desktop and web time tracking, and flexible invoicing with QuickBooks integration.

Product overview

Glass Factory is a single unified SaaS platform for visual resource planning and time tracking built for services teams. The core product encompasses resource planning, budget scheduling, real-time utilization tracking, intelligent team staffing via drag-and-drop interface, business insights and forecasting, desktop/web-based time tracking, and flexible invoicing capabilities. These modules work together as an integrated system where project plans feed into resource visibility, staffing decisions, actuals capture, and ultimately invoice generation—all connected in real-time.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Glass Factory

Named customers6 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• QuickBookscoreTechnology or IntegrationQuickBooks integration enables seamless invoicing from Glass Factory actuals. Invoice data can be automatically synced to QuickBooks for accounting purposes.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Asana: Asana is a work management platform used by agencies and professional services teams for project planning and workload management. Competes broadly with Glass Factory on project staffing and visibility but lacks specialized invoicing and utilization forecasting.
• Monday.com: Monday.com is a broad work management platform used by agencies and service teams for project planning and resource tracking. It overlaps with Glass Factory's planning and tracking use cases but as part of a much wider horizontal product portfolio.
• Wrike: Wrike is a work management platform with resource scheduling and time tracking capabilities used by agencies and marketing teams. Competes with Glass Factory in project staffing and visibility within a broader collaborative work management suite.
• 10,000ft by Smartsheet: 10,000ft, part of Smartsheet, provides resource management and project planning for agencies and consultancies. A broad incumbent offering overlapping with Glass Factory on scheduling and utilization, backed by Smartsheet's larger platform.
• ClickUp: ClickUp is a horizontal work management platform offering project planning, time tracking, and resource views. It overlaps with Glass Factory's planning and tracking capabilities while serving a much broader user base beyond services teams.

Direct peers

• Resource Guru: Resource Guru provides cloud-based resource scheduling, team availability tracking, and utilization reporting for agencies, consultancies, and professional services firms. Overlaps directly with Glass Factory's resource planning and utilization visibility capabilities.
• Harvest: Harvest offers time tracking, invoicing, and reporting for teams and freelancers. Glass Factory integrates with Harvest rather than competing head-on, but they overlap on time tracking and invoicing for service businesses.
• Float: Float is a resource management platform for agencies and consultancies offering visual scheduling, capacity planning, and time tracking. It directly competes with Glass Factory on the core resource planning use case for service businesses.
• Productive.io: Productive is an all-in-one agency management platform covering resource planning, time tracking, profitability, and invoicing. Highly comparable to Glass Factory's integrated approach for agency and service business operations.
• Mavenlink (Planview AdaptiveWork): Mavenlink, now part of Planview, provides professional services automation including resource management, project accounting, and collaboration. A direct PSA competitor targeting agencies and services firms at a higher enterprise tier than Glass Factory.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/glassfactory

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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