The Company

Surface Magazine is a prominent American magazine covering design, architecture, fashion, culture, and travel. Along with the magazine’s in-depth printed content they regularly produce stories, videos, and other online content.

Challenge

While Surface is on the cutting edge of contemporary design, their internal tools for managing hundreds of freelancers had been manual, disorganized and time-intensive. This lack of organization was contributing to the time that editors, finance, and freelancers themselves spent on administrative tasks rather than actual content production.

Solution

By moving the freelance management process at Surface onto the Kalo Plattform they have been able to reduce their administrative time spent on freelancer management by as much as 38% and see a 93% faster delivery of freelancer payments. The simplicity of keeping all important documents in one place and the inviting, user-friendly design made for an easy transition but a dramatic improvement of Day-to-day operations.