Float

What it does

Float is a resource management platform for agencies, consultancies, and professional services teams - providing capacity planning, project scheduling, time tracking, and utilization analytics to help teams manage who is working on what. AI capabilities include AI schedule suggestions that recommend optimal resource allocation based on skills, availability, and project requirements, intelligent capacity forecasting that predicts future resource availability and flags overallocation, automated schedule conflict detection that identifies double-booked or overloaded team members, smart project timeline modeling that accounts for team capacity constraints, utilization analytics that surface billable vs non-billable time patterns, and AI-powered workload balancing recommendations.

Strengths

• Mid-market agencies and consultancies use Float for systematic capacity management - intelligent forecasting preventing overallocation and utilization analytics informing hiring decisions.
• Small agencies use Float for resource management - AI scheduling reducing manual planning time and utilization analytics identifying capacity and profitability issues.
• Float is a resource management platform for agencies, consultancies, and professional services teams - providing capacity planning, project scheduling, time tracking, and utilization analytics to help teams manage who is working on what.

Watch-outs

• Harvest Forecast and TeamGantt compete for agency resource management: Harvest Forecast and TeamGantt offer competing resource planning tools — agencies should compare capacity planning depth, time tracking integration, and project analytics.
• Limited project management depth — primarily scheduling focused: Float excels at resource scheduling but lacks deep project management features — teams needing full project management alongside resource planning need additional tools.

Pricing

Starter at $6/user/month. Pro at $10/user/month. Enterprise pricing negotiated. Annual billing saves 20%.