Full studio OS vs. sourcing-only
Gather is a focused, well-designed product sourcing tool. Workroom is a full studio operating system — sourcing, procurement, invoicing, QuickBooks accounting, and project management in one place. The question is what happens after you find the product. Sourcing tells you what you specified. It doesn't tell you what the job earned, or whether the fee you agreed in January still holds — and that is not an answer you should be waiting on someone else to deliver.
What Gather does — and where it stops
What Gather does well
Product discovery and sourcing, purpose-built: a solid clipper, a clean product library, and visual boards that are genuinely core features, not afterthoughts.
Where it stops
At the handoff. No purchase orders, no invoicing, no QuickBooks, no margin tracking, no project management. The sourced product leaves Gather and enters… your spreadsheet.
Why the gaps cost money
Each gap is a place where data gets lost, time gets wasted, and margin leaks out. Workroom's clipper feeds sourcing directly into procurement, POs, and accounting — one record, end to end.
Trusted by the studios doing the work
| Capability | Workroom | Gather |
|---|---|---|
| Web clipper / product import | ✓ Built-in, any URL | ✓ Core feature |
| Product library | ✓ Included, firm-wide | ✓ Core feature |
| Mood boards / visual boards | ✓ Built in | ✓ Core feature |
| Client product sharing | ✓ Via branded client portal | ✓ Available |
| Purchase order management | ✓ Full PO & delivery tracking | ✗ Not available |
| Invoicing | ✓ Native invoicing suite | ✗ Not available |
| QuickBooks integration | ✓ Live, full sync | ✗ Not available |
| Profit margin tracking | ✓ Per-project, real-time | ✗ Not available |
| Project management | ✓ Full suite | ✗ Not available |
| Client portal | ✓ Branded, full-featured | ◐ Product sharing only |
| FF&E schedules | ✓ Included | ✗ Not available |
| Resource Vault | ✓ Templates & tools included | ✗ Not available |
Based on publicly available information and what switching customers tell us. Products evolve — verify details against current versions. Gather genuinely wins on native mood boards — if that's your whole workflow, it's a fine tool.
“The sourced product is the beginning of the workflow, not the end. In Workroom, the same clipped record becomes the spec, the proposal, the PO, the invoice, and the ledger entry.”
Up to 20 hours a week back to designing
Sourcing that flows straight into procurement and accounting means nobody re-enters anything, ever. Join the 6,000+ designers running their whole studio on one system.