Firm-wide matter, task, and workload visibility that runs on top of Smokeball — so leaders see where everything is up to, at a glance.

Name: Hivelight
Author: Hivelight

Smokeball runs your documents, time, and matters. Hivelight adds the layer above: one live view for partners and practice managers of where every matter is up to, who's overloaded, and what's slipping — plus flexible workflows that deploy work, train staff as they do it, and automates progress reporting (get started for free!).

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Smokeball is where your team executes the work — documents, time, the matter record — and it's built to do that well. Seeing across all those matters at once is a different job: a live, firm-wide view of where every matter is up to, who has capacity, and what's about to slip. Most firms still assemble that by hand (spreadsheets, email chains, meetings).

Hivelight adds that view. It sits on top of Smokeball as the coordination layer, so your team keeps working the way they already do while leadership gets three things that live above any single matter:

Visibility — a colour-coded matter list and dashboards showing exactly where each matter and task stands, against its deadlines.
Workload control — capacity across the whole team in one view, so you allocate work to the right person and plan hiring and leave against real demand.
Accountability — manage by exception, with an audit trail of who's doing what, so the reporting is a by-product of the work instead of an end-of-month scramble.

And because Hivelight's workflows are flexible checklists broken into stages — adaptable per matter, not one rigid template — they actually get used, which is what makes the visibility real.