Case Study: Masuga Design achieves scalable, client-friendly project management and faster response times with ActiveCollab

From Solo Developer to a Team

Masuga Design, founded by Ryan Masuga, started as a solo freelance web developer and needed a professional, scalable project management system to present to clients and manage growing workloads. They adopted ActiveCollab (self‑hosted) to organize multiple clients and complex projects while maintaining a polished client-facing presence.

ActiveCollab’s Project > Milestone > Task > Subtask structure, browser notification plugin, email‑replyable task comments, Appearance branding, and support for third‑party modules like Tasks Plus enabled Masuga Design to scale to many simultaneous projects — handling hundreds of Tasks and many hundreds of Subtasks — run a secure, branded install on a subdomain, and noticeably improve team response time to comments and discussions. By using ActiveCollab, Masuga Design gained clearer client visibility into progress, faster internal coordination, and continued hands‑on control via self‑hosting.

Masuga Design

Ryan Masuga

Masuga Design