Scaling creativity — how Chromatools unified design and engineering in one flow
Chromatools is a fast-growing SaaS company building creative tools for modern designers. By switching to Nestly, they eliminated tool overload and gave teams one centralized space to align, plan, and ship faster.
About Lightspeed
Chromatools builds high-performance creative tools for designers, developers, and hybrid teams. With a customer base of over 80,000 users worldwide, their internal team of 150+ operates across product, engineering, design, and customer success.
Founded in 2019 in Berlin, Chromatools quickly grew from a design plugin to a full-suite platform for creative workflows.
The Challenge
Rapid growth led to fragmentation. Designers were using one system, engineers another, and project managers tracked work in spreadsheets. Collaboration slowed down. Revisions got lost. Meetings multiplied. And deadlines were slipping.
“We were using 6 different tools to track one feature,” said Alice Zimmer, VP of Product at Chromatools. “We needed a clean slate.”
The Solution
Nestly gave Chromatools a single operating system for work — one that felt fast, flexible, and designed for how creative teams really think. Workspace templates helped them standardize project setup, smart scheduling cleared up noisy calendars, and shared notes replaced long Slack threads. After a fast rollout, 14 teams were onboarded in just 3 weeks.
The Results
75% faster project handoffs
60+ cross-functional contributors onboarded
90% of status updates now async
2+ hours saved per teammate per week
“Nestly gave us clarity without sacrificing our creativity. It just works.”
— Alice Zimmer, VP of Product, Chromatools