ChasePad

Most client projects don't stall on the hard creative work. They stall on a missing logo file, a homepage paragraph nobody has written yet, or a sign-off that sits in someone's inbox for nine days. ChasePad is built around that one bottleneck: getting everything you need out of a client before the real work can start.

What ChasePad actually does

You build a single request that bundles every file, piece of copy, link and approval a project depends on, then hand the client one page to fill in. From there, ChasePad tracks what's done and what's still hanging.

• Collect logos, images, documents, ZIP files and other project assets in one request
• Gather written copy, URLs and notes alongside the file uploads
• Set approval checkpoints for directions, assets, deliverables and milestones
• Track which items are waiting, overdue, ready for approval or complete
• Send reminders for outstanding items straight from the workflow
• Keep internal notes and request history attached to each request

The features that matter

The feature list is short on purpose. Two details stand out more than the rest.

The first is the client side. Your client gets a focused request page with no account to create and no login to remember. That sounds minor until you've watched a client give up on a shared-drive permission prompt and email you a 40 MB attachment instead. Removing the login is the whole trick here, and it's the reason a tool like this beats asking clients to live inside your project board.

The second is the Needs Attention view, alongside dedicated Requests and Approvals views and a dashboard that splits your work into waiting, overdue, ready-to-approve and completed. Instead of scrolling a Slack thread to remember whether the brand guidelines ever arrived, you look at one list. Large files aren't forced through ChasePad either: clients can drop links from Google Drive, Dropbox, WeTransfer or Frame.io, which matters when the entry plan's storage is 5 GB with a 250 MB per-file cap.

How it fits in your stack

The vendor pitches ChasePad as a companion to Notion rather than a replacement for your whole project setup. If your team already runs projects in Notion, you can sync request statuses there and embed a live ChasePad widget on your Notion dashboard. If you don't use Notion at all, nothing changes: ChasePad works fully standalone. My take is that the standalone mode is the more interesting one. Plenty of small studios collect assets through a messy mix of email, WeTransfer links and shared folders, and they'd get more out of one dedicated intake page than from yet another sync.

Who it's built for

ChasePad fits teams whose projects routinely wait on client input. If "just following up on those files" is a sentence you type every week, you're the audience. It makes the most sense for:

• Creative, marketing, web and digital agencies
• Design and branding studios
• Consultants and freelancers juggling several client projects at once
• Small B2B and service-based teams that need assets, feedback or approvals before they can deliver

It's less useful if your clients hand everything over in a single kickoff call and never need chasing. Then a shared folder is probably enough.

How you actually use it

• Create a request listing every file, piece of copy, link, approval and piece of feedback you need.
• Send the client one polished request page that needs no login.
• Watch the dashboard for anything missing or overdue and send reminders from ChasePad.
• Optionally connect Notion to sync statuses and add the live widget to your workspace.

The deal

The lifetime deal starts at $129 for Plan A (regular price $990), which covers 1 workspace, 3 internal team seats, 25 new client request workflows per month and unlimited clients and external reviewers. Plan B at $249 steps up to 3 workspaces and 10 team seats. If client chasing eats a few hours of your week, the entry plan is where to start.