Part of Conocido ICT — software built in-house
Category VI · MSP & Hosting tooling

Avanance

From story to invoice — development your client can follow live.

BETA Since 2025 Laravel 13

What Avanance?

Avanance is a multi-tenant platform for tracking application development work — from a single story to a delivered invoice. Stories, story points, sprints, epics and a kanban board on the inside; a clean client portal on the outside where customers follow the read-only progress and deliveries of their own projects. One place where the build team and the client look at the same truth.

Clients submit requests and bugs themselves through an AI intake: an assistant asks the right follow-up questions and produces a structured ticket (type, severity, acceptance criteria, point estimate) that lands directly as a story on the right project. For feature stories Avanance optionally generates an interactive mockup the client can approve or reject — so scope is fixed before a line of code is written.

Avanance closes the whole loop: deployments run from the platform via a secured runner with rollback and automatic verification, and completed story points × rate roll through to per-delivery invoicing into HostFact. Conocido runs entirely on Avanance itself — it is our own dogfood platform before it reaches other agencies and MSPs.

What it does

Story tracking & board

Stories, story points, sprints, epics, subtasks and dependencies on a drag-and-drop kanban board with velocity insight.

Client portal

Read-only progress, deliveries and status updates per client — in client language, with € instead of points and soft deadlines.

AI ticket intake

The client describes a need; Claude asks follow-up questions and delivers a structured ticket that lands as a story on the right project.

AI mockups with approval

Generates an interactive mockup per feature story that the client can approve or reject before the build starts.

Deploys with verification

Deterministic deploys from the platform with a rollback anchor, smoke checks and automatic health/error verification.

Per-delivery invoicing

Completed points × point rate roll through to invoice lines into HostFact — transparent per epic/delivery.

Who it’s for

Software agencies

wanting per-client visibility into development work and to invoice on delivered value.

MSPs with custom dev

delivering development alongside managed services, with a client portal around it.

Clients of those teams

who want to follow what is being built, see deliveries and submit tickets without fuss.

Stack & integrations

Tech stack

Laravel 13 · Filament 5.5 · PHP 8.5 · MySQL

Integrations

HostFactGitHubMicrosoft 365 SSOClaude (AI intake/mockups)SendGrid

FAQ

Who is Avanance for?

For teams delivering software development to clients — agencies and MSPs with a custom-dev arm. The platform is multi-tenant, so each supplier runs in its own environment with its own clients.

Does the client see our story points and internal planning?

No. The client portal is deliberately stripped: the client sees progress, deliveries and — if a rate is set — delivered value in euros. Points and internal jargon stay on the staff side.

How does invoicing work?

You set a point rate per project, client or organisation. Completed story points × rate form invoice lines that go to HostFact — invoicing per delivery instead of a vague timesheet.

Does it work without the AI features?

Yes. AI intake, triage and mockups are optional and fall back gracefully when no API key is set. The core — stories, board, portal, deploys, invoicing — works on its own.

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Want to know more about Avanance?

Schedule a demo or request a quote. We’re happy to think along on the right fit.

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