Creative approval software for agencies.
yeses is creative approval software for agencies, where you set the chain of sign-off once and nobody has to remember whose turn it is.
- Free plan, no time limit
- No credit card
- Reviewers don't need an account
“I thought you were waiting on legal.”
Most creative work needs more than one yes, and in a fixed order. Which makes somebody the human router: noticing stage one finished, remembering who is next, and going to poke them. That job is invisible, nobody is assigned to it, and the whole creative approval process stops the week they are on holiday.
How it works
Set the chain once. Reuse it forever.
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Set the chain once
Name the stages and who signs off on each. Save it as a flow you reuse.
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Attach it to the work
Point a project at the flow. Nobody rebuilds the chain per campaign.
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Send it
Only the first stage is asked. Nobody is handed a link they cannot act on yet.
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It moves on its own
A stage passes when everyone in it approves, and the next one opens.
Features
Design approval software, and the record it leaves behind.
Getting the yes is half of it. The other half is being able to prove, months later, exactly who agreed to what.
Decisions
Two answers, both on the record.
Every reviewer approves or requests changes, and both are stored against their name, the time, and the version they were looking at. There is no third option to reinterpret later, and a decision can never be edited or deleted.
Versions
An approval knows which version it was for.
Each send is a numbered round that freezes the files it covered. When new work lands, an earlier approval is shown as standing against the older version rather than silently carrying forward. A design approval system that lets a yes drift is worse than none.
Follow-ups
Nobody has to be reminded by a human.
Reviewers who have not responded get a nudge every two business days, up to three times, counted from the moment their stage opened. After that yeses stops and flags the review as stuck, rather than nagging someone forever.
Outside reviewers
The person who has to approve rarely has your tools.
Clients, executives and outside agencies are the people a creative approval hangs on, and the least likely to make an account.
In yeses they get a link, and the link is the credential. They open it, see the work at full size, and approve or request changes from that page. No sign-up screen, no password, nothing to install.
Because the link was issued to them specifically, the approval is recorded against them by name. That is the part a client approval software has to get right, and most get it wrong by making the client an account anyway. You get the convenience of a shared link with the accountability of a named signature.
None of those people costs you a seat, and neither does the account manager, the designer or the copywriter. yeses is priced on how many projects are in review at once, not on headcount, so putting the whole team in is a decision about the work rather than about the bill.
Questions
Creative approval, answered.
Do reviewers need a yeses account?
No. Each reviewer gets their own link and approves straight from it. No sign-up, no password. The link is what identifies them, so the decision is still recorded against a specific person.
Can one approval chain be reused across projects?
That is what a flow is. Build the stages and reviewers once, then attach the same flow to every project that needs the same sign-off. Editing the flow later does not disturb reviews already running on it.
What happens when a reviewer requests changes?
The stage stays open and the other reviewers still decide, so one objection does not stall everyone else. A comment is required with the request, so it always arrives with a reason.
Does an approval survive a new version of the work?
It stays on the record and is marked stale, showing the version it was given against. Passed stages stay passed and nobody is re-asked, but a yes on v1 never quietly counts as a yes on v3.
Who can send work for approval?
Any member of the project. The person who sent each version is named in the record, so the flexibility does not cost you accountability.
How long do our review rounds actually spend waiting?
Longer than most teams guess, and the waiting is the part nobody plans for — the days between sending the work out and the last person replying. Put your own numbers in and see it per project. Try the revision cost calculator.
What does it cost?
There is a free plan, and it runs a whole review from start to finish: one project at a time, unlimited reviewers, the full decision record. Paid plans start at $63 a month billed annually, or $79 monthly, and buy volume rather than the basics. Every account opens with a 30-day trial of Business, takes no card, and never turns into a payment by itself. See the plans.
Stop being the one who chases the yes.
Set the creative approval workflow up once and let it run, with a record of every decision at the end of it.