The idea that became Clients & Profits was first suggested by the owner of Los Angeles-based advertising agency who was frusrated with the lack of job tracking software for his then-new Mac Plus. The shop had been struggling with Great Plains, a generic accounting program, and it just wasn't working. On a piece of note paper, he sketched what he wanted in an electronic job jacket. That sketch later become the "job ticket" and the foundation of Clients & Profits.