The Best Tools for Consultants in 2024
To optimize client comms, combat scope creep & scale your productivity.
Being a consultant means many different things, but the nature of the work is the same; multiple concurrent projects, hundreds of client questions and emails and tackling complex business problems every day. It’s a rewarding career, but it’s a demanding one.
According to this report from Reclaim.ai 64.3% of consultants are burnt out from lack of work-life balance or not having enough time off, 57.1% are burnt out from lack of time for focused work and 64.3% are burnt out from notification and distraction fatigue. That’s a lot of burnout.
While consultants are typically considered to be in-the-know on tech tools to improve productivity (and ensure more time-off to avoid burnout) word-of-mouth and resources provided to consultants by firms don’t keep up with the incredibly fast-pace of new technologies on the market — particularly tech that serves consultants as much as (or more than) their clients.
Fortunately it’s our job at Stackradar to keep up, and we’ve curated a list of modern, innovative tech tools to help consultants scale their output and — as we live by — do less, but better
⚡️ Quick list
- Cal.com → scheduling infrastructure for everyone.
- Qatalog → centralized, streamlined & coordinated Work Hub.
- Bubbles → quick back-and-forth videos and smart reminders.
- TalkNotes → turn messy thoughts into actionable notes, fast.
- Ply → build features, not apps.
- Toggl → time tracking that’s easy, powerful, and frictionless.
- Reclaim → smarter scheduling for busy teams.
- Taskade → AI-powered productivity.
- Missive → team email, chat & tasks.
- Akiflow → the time blocking platform to save 2 hours every day.
- Fellow → making meetings delightful for everyone.
- Supernormal → create amazing meeting notes without lifting a finger.
- OpenPhone → the all-in-one phone system for teams.
- Craft → feels like writing & publishing from your favorite notes app.
- Notion → a workspace that adapts to your needs.
- Copilot → customizable client portal software.
- Attio → the data-driven CRM for modern teams.
- Gamma → a new medium for presenting ideas.
Cal.com
Meet Cal.com, the event-juggling scheduler for everyone. Focus on meeting, not making meetings. Free for individuals.
- 📅 Connect all your calendars
- ⏱ Set your availability
- ⚡️ Share your link
- ✅ Let people book when it suits both of you
- ⚙️ Workflow automations
- 🚀 Route bookers to the right person
Qatalog
Qatalog is a digital work hub for your people, projects, and tools. Enabling teams to gain an understanding of the bigger picture and make quality decisions. Scale fast with radical transparency, automated knowledge flow, and tightly aligned teams and projects.
- 🚀 Projects
- 🏆 Goals
- 🔦 Search
- ⚡️ Workflows
- 👋 Company
- ⚙️ Integrations
Bubbles
Teamwork. On your time. Share remote work updates that actually get responses with bubbles’ next-level collaboration platform. Keep your projects on schedule using screen, video, and audio recordings with response deadlines, so everything stays in motion.
- 👋 Makes remote work human
- 🪐 Everything in one place
- 🌐 Async with confidence
- 💬 Works with Slack
- 📸 Record from anywhere
- 🗾 Show what you’re talking about
TalkNotes
The #1 AI. voice note app Turn hours of note taking into minutes. Just record a voicenote, and let the AI transcribe, clean up and structure it for you. Available on web, iOS and Android.
- 🎙️ Voice memo transcription
- 💬 Transcripts, task lists, journal entries & more
- 🗂️ Tweak, tag & organize
Ply
Supercharge work and streamline processes by building contextual, internal features into the apps you already use. Made for ops, loved by everyone.
- ✅ Add buttons inside your apps
- 🚀 Bring your apps’ functionality out of your apps
- ⚡️ Custom, app-connected, post-click functions
- 💬 Build custom features into your command bar
- 🔮 Build powerful features in a simple UI
- ☎️ Hyper-personalize customer experience
Toggl
Simple time tracking to save you time and money. Bill accurately, measure profitability, manage workloads — and spend less time on it all. With Toggl Track, you’ll bring order out of chaos. You’ll spot the things that are pushing you forward, and the things that are holding you back. And above all, you’ll make better, more informed decisions.
- ⏰ Time tracking
- 🔗 Integrations
- 📊 Reporting
- ✅ Project management
- 👋 Team management
- 🤖 Automation
Switchboard
Switchboard is on a mission to make teamwork the best part of work. Bring your team and your tools together in a cloud coworking space designed for remote collaboration.
- ✅ All your apps
- 🪐 Shared workspaces
- 🗂 Organise with rooms
- 🌐 Interactive shared browsers
- 💡 Meeting memory
- 🤝 Visual collaboration
Taskade
Your second brain, supercharged by AI. Automate 700+ tasks across marketing, sales, support, HR, startups, and agencies. Generate streamlined workflows, spark creative ideas, automate tasks, and chat with AI in every project. Embrace the future of productivity with Taskade, the AI-powered workspace for modern teams.
- 🔮 Taskade AI
- ✅ Tasks & Projects
- 📝 Notes & Docs
- 📍 Mind Maps
- 💬 AI Chat
Reclaim
Reclaim creates the perfect schedule for your team’s priorities, and saves up to 40% of the workweek with intelligent, flexible and adaptive time orchestration.
- 🗂 Planner
- ⚡️ Habits
- ✅ Tasks
- 💬 Smart 1:1s
- 📅 Calendar Sync
- ⏱ Buffer Time
- 🌐 Scheduling Links
- 🔗 Integrations
Missive
In our fast-moving world, good old emails are becoming more time-consuming than productive. For teams, when it comes to collaborating around an email there’s no proper way to share thoughts other than more emails.
- 📬 Team & Personal Inboxes
- ✅ Chat & Tasks
- 🗂 Canned & Variable Responses
- ⌘ Command Bar
- 💬 Conversation Assignment
- ☎️ Contact Management
- 🎨 Custom Branded Live Chat
- 📺 Custom Channels
Akiflow
Consolidate all your tools in one place and block time for your tasks in your calendar.
- ⚙️ Connect your favorite tools and take care of all your tasks in one place
- 📅 Drag and drop tasks into your calendar to create the perfect schedule
- 📊 Stay productive throughout the day with powerful analytics and notifications
- 🚀 Prioritise, Plan and Snooze with keyboard shortcuts
- ⚡️ Automatically linked content from your tools to avoid context switching
- 🏷 Custom labels to organize your work the way feels right for you.
Fellow
Great meetings are just the start. Fellow is where teams gather to have productive team meetings and meaningful 1:1s, build collaborative meeting agendas, record decisions, and keep each other accountable.
- ⚡️ Run effective meetings
- 🗂️ Get started quickly with templates
- ✅ Accountability with action items
- 👋 Enable important 1:1
- 🚀 Organise ideas with Streams
- 💬 Encourage improvement with feedback
- 👥 Host Guest Users
- 🔗 Integrate your workflow
Supernormal
Supernormal helps you and your team unlock your best work with amazing meeting notes all in one place.
- 🎙️ Record audio & video
- ⏰ Save 10 minutes every meeting
- 💬 Stay focused on the conversation
- 📬 Send notes to your CRM & ATS
- 📅 Calendar integration
- 🌎 Create notes in multiple languages
OpenPhone
Your business calls, texts, and contacts in one delightful app. Work anywhere, across all your devices. More collaboration, better communication
- 🤳 Phone number
- ☎️ Calling
- 📔 Contacts
- 👥 Teams
- 💬 Messaging
- 🔗 Integrations
Craft
Craft is a significant evolution in the world of docs. We enable our customers to create an entirely new type of document format, which is powerful, beautiful, and shareable. Their product is built with love and driven by deep collaboration, striving to provide frictionless, easy-to-use yet powerful software, empowering everyone to work the way they want.
- 🔗 Structured & Linked Notes
- 🔥 Unparalleled mobile editing experience
- 👋 Frictionless Sharing & Export
- 💾 Works on all your Apple Devices, Online & Offline
- 🚀 Visual Content as a First Class Citizen
- ⭐️ Personalize to your heart’s content
Notion
One workspace. Every team. Notion is more than a doc. Or a table. Notion is a single space where you can think, write, and plan. Capture thoughts, manage projects, or even run an entire company — and do it exactly the way you want.
- 🚀 Web, desktop & mobile apps
- 🔲 40+ block content types
- 🗂 50+ starter templates
- 📝 Wikis, docs & notes
- 📅 Now with Notion Calendar
- 📊 Databases with rich property types
- 🌀 Synced databases
- 🔗 Link previews
- ⚙️ API & numerous integrations
Copilot
Give your clients a one-stop shop experience with a portal that streamlines messaging, payments, file-sharing, help centers, custom app access, and more. Tech-enabled service businesses of all types — marketing agencies, accounting firms, law firms, and 100s of others — run on Copilot to provide clients a branded, unified, and delightful experience on web and mobile.
- 💬 Messaging
- 💸 Billing
- 🗂 Files
- 📝 Forms
- ☎️ Helpdesk
- 🔗 Integrations
Attio
Attio is a radically new type of CRM built from the ground up for you, the user. With Attio, you can build your CRM exactly the way you want it — all without lines of code or expensive consultants.
- 🌐 Sync your data streams. Import, sort, and organize all your relationship data
- ⚙️ Build your ideal workflow. Easily design and implement the perfect workflow for you
- 💬 Collaborate more effectively. Share workflows, contacts, & communications in real-time
- 📬 Keep track of all the important conversations your team are having with intelligent communication sorting
- 🚀 Easily pull in data from all your favorite tools through Attio’s first-class API and Zapier integration
- 📝 Keep track of every update and thought while working with your team with notes.
Gamma
Gamma is inventing a new medium to replace the slide deck. Memos combine the best parts of slides and docs: you can write and share them asynchronously, but also present them live to guide a richer, more inclusive conversation.
- 💡 Get your point across with present mode
- 🔎 Drill into the details using nested cards
- 💬 Keep things concise with footnotes
- 🎨 Restyle your entire deck in just one click
- ⏰ Use a flexible template to work faster
- 📊 Measure engagement with built-in analytics
- 😁 Get more feedback with quick reactions
- 💬 Comments make collaboration straightforward
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