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Not another client portal.
Client portals and delivery-ops suites are everywhere, and most agency tools ship both. None of them holds the layer underneath: the plans, decisions and records the work is actually built through, in a form your agents can use.
What an agency assembles today
A client portal. A status view someone keeps current by hand.A delivery-ops suite. Boards, timesheets and billing, apart from the code.An MCP bolted on. Agents get an API shaped for screens, not for steps.A person in between, copying the work into the report.
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One record, read three ways.
- Your agents plan and build through it over the MCP
- Your team runs contracts, milestones and invoices on it
- Your client reads the part you share, in the portal
Nobody copies anything across.
Point by point
By kind of tool, not by name.
| onMain Agency | A client portal | A delivery-ops suite | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The portal shows the real work | A client’s roadmap, milestones and requests are drawn from the records the team builds through, not re-typed. | A status view a team keeps current by hand, apart from where the work happens. | Internal boards and timesheets, not built for a client to read. |
| One record, commercial and delivery | A contract’s milestones are the streams the team is building. A change request is answered where the work happens. | Billing and sign-off kept apart from the delivery work. | A second system beside the books, reconciled by hand. |
| Built for agents | Every write path is an MCP tool call, and the loops tell the agent its next step. | A UI-first API, fitted on after the fact. | An integrations API for syncing, not shaped for an agent’s tool calls. |
| A process that doesn’t drift | Plans, decisions and requirements kept as linked records. A decision names what it rests on. | No decision or requirement type. Notes and attachments at best. | Tasks and workflow states, not a decision tied to the plan that took it. |
| A client-safe boundary | Internal cards, correspondence and other clients are kept out by the database itself. | Visibility toggled item by item, easy to get wrong. | Internal by default. A client reaches in on a guest seat. |
| Your clients’ own address | Comingyourname.onmain.dev, or a domain you verify — always in your brand, name and sender. | A shared sub-domain, or the vendor’s own. | Guest access on the vendor’s host, under the vendor’s name. |
Each column describes a kind of tool in general, not any one product.
A good fit
- You build software for clients
- Coding agents do a real share of the building
- Your clients want to see progress without asking for it
Probably not yet
- You don’t build software, or agents play no part
- You build only your own product: see the team edition
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