Most teams end up with three good tools — one for files, one for conversation, one for tasks — and a fourth unpaid job nobody applied for: keeping the three of them agreeing.
The reconciliation tax
Every handoff between tools is a chance for them to disagree. The task says review is done; the thread says there were notes; the drive has a newer file than either knows about. Somebody spends their morning being the integration layer.
Consolidation is not the same as fewer tools
The goal is not one tool. It is one answer to each question.
You do not need to abandon your editor or your chat. You need it to be unambiguous where the current version lives, where feedback about it lives, and what state it is in — and for those three answers to come from the same place.
A test for whether you have it
Ask two people at random what the current version of a given shot is, and where the last round of notes went. If they check different places, or give different answers, the reconciliation tax is being paid by somebody — you just have not measured it.
