I Tried 67 Tools to Improve My Agency, These Are The Best
About This Video
Tool fatigue is real. Every week there's a new SaaS product promising to revolutionize your agency's workflow, and most of them don't deliver. Dylan Hey took an exhaustive approach: he actually tested 67 different tools across every function of his agency, from project management and client communication to billing, reporting, and internal automation. This video is the highlight reel—the tools that survived real-world use and genuinely improved his margins, delivery speed, and team happiness. The video is organized by function, so you can jump to the stack that matters most to your bottleneck. Dylan shares not just which tools won, but why the runners-up lost, what he measures to evaluate a tool's ROI, and how he thinks about stack consolidation vs. best-of-breed. For agency founders and operations leads drowning in SaaS subscriptions, this is a practical filter that saves months of trial and error.
What You'll Learn
- •The winning tools across 7 agency functions including PM, delivery, and finance
- •Dylan's evaluation framework for measuring a tool's actual ROI in an agency context
- •When to consolidate your stack vs. when best-of-breed actually pays off
- •Which popular tools failed real-world testing and why they didn't make the cut
- •How to structure tool onboarding so your team actually adopts new software
- •The total cost comparison: what Dylan's agency pays vs. what he started with
