Supervisible vs Runn: A Runn Alternative Without the 20-Seat Minimum

Runn is a serious resource planning tool. Its forecasting is good, its integration list is long, and it's built for firms that plan months ahead. But it starts at 20 seats, and a lot of its financial reporting assumes someone is tracking time.

If you run a smaller agency, those two details decide the comparison. Here's the full picture, including where Runn wins.

Supervisible vs Runn at a glance

Runn details from Runn's pricing, features and integrations pages, checked October 9, 2026.

What's the core difference between Supervisible and Runn?

Runn is built for forecasting: modeling future demand, tentative projects, budgets and revenue across months, with timesheets to close the loop. Supervisible is built for the weekly plan: who works on what this week and next, who's free, who's overbooked, and what that plan means for each project's margin.

Both answer "do we have the people?". Runn goes deeper on "what will the next two quarters look like?". Supervisible goes faster on "can we take this project on Monday, and will it make money?"

Who should pick Runn?

Runn is the better choice if:

• You have 20 or more people to plan. Below that, you're paying for seats you don't use.
• Long-range forecasting is the job. Runn's forecasting, tentative projects and budget-by-phase are more developed than anything Supervisible offers.
• Your people data lives in an HR system. Runn syncs people, contracts and time off from BambooHR, HiBob, Gusto, Workday, ADP and more.
• You use Jira, Harvest or Clockify. Runn integrates with all three (Harvest and Clockify on the Advanced plan, on request).
• Your team already logs time. Runn's Standard plan includes timesheets that know the plan and flag missing time.
• You want to try it today. Runn has a 30-day free trial with no credit card. Supervisible is demo-only right now.

Who should pick Supervisible?

Supervisible is the better choice if you run a 10-50 person agency and:

• You're under 20 people, or just over. No seat minimum, no per-seat fees. $129 a month covers everyone.
• You want margins without timesheets. Supervisible projects margin from planned hours times cost rates. If people log actuals, great. If they don't, the margin view still works.
• You think in weeks. Staffing is planned as weekly hours per person per project, which is how most agencies already talk about capacity.
• You live in Slack. Approve time off and project-hour requests from Slack, get a Monday digest DM, and post OOO updates to a channel.
• You want leave to update capacity on its own. Approved time off reduces that person's available hours for those weeks, and full-day leave appears as an out-of-office event in their Google Calendar.
• You want answers from an AI assistant. Supervisible's MCP server lets authorized users ask Claude "who's free next week?" with their own permissions.

At Meaningful, we tried running capacity in one tool and margins in a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet always lost. Supervisible is what we built so we'd stop doing that.

How much do Supervisible and Runn cost for a 15- and 30-person agency?

Supervisible costs $129 a month or $1,188 a year, whatever your headcount. Runn charges per resource seat with a 20-seat minimum, so a 15-person agency pays for 20.

Runn prices from runn.io/pricing, checked October 9, 2026. Runn bills per resource (person in the planner), not per login.

Look at the 15-person row. The minimum means a 15-person agency pays Runn for five empty seats, and the Standard plan (where timesheets and integrations live) costs more than twice Supervisible's annual price. At 30 people, Runn Standard costs $3,960 a year against $1,188.

Does Supervisible need timesheets to show margins?

No. Supervisible calculates projected project margin from planned weekly hours multiplied by each person's cost rate, against project revenue. Recording actual hours is optional and only used to compare against the plan.

Runn shows project financials from the plan too, but its timesheets (on Standard) are what tell you whether the plan held. That's the right design if your team tracks time. If they don't, you're paying for a feature that stays empty.

What can't Supervisible do that Runn can?

Supervisible doesn't do long-range scenario modeling, doesn't sync with HR systems, doesn't integrate with Jira, Harvest or Clockify, and doesn't plan by the day. It has no programs or portfolios above projects, and no self-serve trial. If those matter more than price and simplicity, Runn is the better fit.

Is Supervisible a good Runn alternative for agencies?

Yes, if you're a 10-50 person agency that wants weekly capacity and margin without timesheets and doesn't want to pay for a 20-seat minimum. No, if forecasting quarters ahead and HR integrations are the main job. For a three-way view that adds Float, read Supervisible vs Float vs Runn, or see Runn vs Float head to head.

Related reading: agency capacity planning, capacity planning vs resource planning, and what a good utilization rate looks like.

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See your team's capacity and margin in one view. Supervisible is built by agency operators at Meaningful. We use it to plan our own team and see project margins without timesheets. One flat price for the whole agency. Request a demo →

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