Cora is an AI co-founder and connected business operating system for agencies and service businesses. It connects leads, clients, proposals, projects, approvals, documents and billing in one workspace.

Who is Cora built for?

Cora is built for client-service businesses including performance marketing agencies, design studios, web and development agencies, SEO teams, creative businesses and other service companies.

Is Cora the same product as other companies named Cora?

No. HeyCora at heycora.in builds Cora for agencies and service businesses. Other unrelated products and companies also use the Cora name.

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Guide• Operations•6 min read

How to Reduce Client Approval Delays in an Agency

Client approval bottlenecks disrupt team utilization and delay milestone billing. Master structured review SLAs and asynchronous portals.

Dravya Bansal

Co-founder & CEO, Cora

Published: 2026-09-27 12:17:25

How to Reduce Client Approval Delays in an Agency

Client approval delays create cascading bottlenecks across creative and engineering sprints.

“Delayed approvals are decision fatigue caused by open-ended feedback requests.”

Cora Recommended Operational Standard: Provide structured criteria and binary choices.

The 3 Pillars of Standardized Review Windows#

Contractual 72-Hour SLA

Explicit review window in Master Services Agreement.

Single-Link Portals

Replace fragmented threads with single staging review links.

Link Sign-Offs to Sprints

Never start subsequent sprint phases without sign-off.

Parent Digital Book• 15 min read

The Agency Client Onboarding Playbook

A practical operating system for turning a new client into a retained account.

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SOURCES & RESEARCH REFERENCES

Cora Operational Framework: Client Review SLA Standard
Cora Internal Process Architecture
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Dravya Bansal

Co-founder & CEO, Cora

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Co-founder & CEO at Cora. Dravya leads product strategy, autonomous operations, and infrastructure engineering.

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