Case Study: Suburbia Studios achieves streamlined time tracking and increased billable hours with FunctionFox

Turning a point of pain into an unexpected opportunity

Suburbia Studios, a British Columbia–based marketing and communications firm serving retail, shopping centers, financial services and health and wellness, faced a major operational bottleneck when paper time sheets produced late or incomplete records, inaccurate estimates and billing delays. Existing project-management software was expensive and designed for large agencies, so the team built a simple online timesheet to resolve their time- and project-management pain points.

The in-house tool immediately reduced tracking errors, cut late submissions, improved estimates and raised billable hours; with added features and key hires, the product was launched as FunctionFox. FunctionFox has grown into a leading time-tracking and project-management platform used by creative teams in over 100 countries, and Suburbia continues to launch new ventures, including an award‑winning kids’ app and the upcoming CreativeApproved.

Suburbia Studios

Mary-Lynn Bellamy-Willms

Co-Founder and CEO