Projects & Tasks Module

Cloud Project Management Software for Consulting Firms

A cloud based project management platform that knows what the work costs. Budgets, phases, milestones, dependencies and a Gantt timeline, with real cost per hour, live margin and Forecast at Completion attached to the same project rather than living in a spreadsheet somewhere else.

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Task boards do not tell you whether a project is worth running

The general project management market is enormous and well served. Asana, Monday, Trello, ClickUp and Jira all run a task board better than most specialist tools, and if that is the job you have, one of them will do it.

A consulting or engineering firm has a second job those tools cannot do. Every project is a commercial commitment: named people, for a number of weeks, at a cost that depends on their salary, their holiday and how utilized they already are. Whether the project is going well is not a question about task completion. It is a question about whether the hours consumed so far, priced honestly, still leave a margin at the end.

That is the gap this fills. The same project that holds the phases and the Gantt also holds the cost of every hour logged against it, so the plan and the economics cannot drift apart. When the estimate moves, it moves because hours moved, not because someone updated a status.

Planning and delivery in one platform

Browser-based, nothing to install, and every module on the same plan.

Phases and milestones

Structure a project the way you actually deliver it, with budgets held at phase level so variance shows up in the phase that caused it rather than only in the total.

Gantt timeline

A timeline view across projects and tasks, so overlapping commitments and the shape of the next quarter are visible rather than inferred.

Tasks and dependencies

Assignments, dependencies, checklists, recurring tasks, notes and mentions, in Kanban or Gantt view. Task documents stay in sync with the project.

Budget tracking

Budget against actual as hours land, with progress measured in hours consumed rather than a completion percentage typed into a field.

Risk registry

Risks tracked on the project with scoring, categories, owners and mitigation plans that become tasks, rather than a register nobody opens after kickoff.

Team and external resources

Team management on the project alongside external services, subcontractors and materials, so the full cost of delivery sits in one place.

General work management versus a project platform for services firms

Written honestly, including where the general tools are the better answer.

CapabilityGeneral PM toolsSUNAGO Matrix
Task boards, views and integrationsDeeper. This is their core market and they invest in itKanban and Gantt views, dependencies, checklists, recurring tasks
Critical path schedulingSome go deeper here than we doGantt timeline with dependencies; not critical-path driven
Cost per hour of the people assignedNot heldDerived from salary, capacity, holiday, utilization and overhead
Live project marginNot heldReal-time profit and loss on every project
Forecast at CompletionNot heldFAC named on every project, updating from logged hours
Capacity of the people you are assigningNot heldResource allocation with overallocation warnings, vacation netted out
Pipeline of work still to be wonNot heldCRM and pipeline in the same workspace

Weighing specialist products instead? There are side-by-side comparisons with published prices for Kantata, BigTime and Productive, plus a guide to choosing project management software as a consultancy.

Connected to the rest of the firm

Resource Planning

See who is free before you assign them, with vacation and absence already taken out.

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Timesheets

Logged hours drive progress and cost, so the plan and the actuals cannot disagree.

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Project Cost Tracking

Margin and Forecast at Completion built on a cost rate that reflects real utilization.

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Cloud project management software: common questions

How this differs from general work management tools, and what it costs.

What makes this cloud project management software rather than a project management tool?
Nothing is installed and nothing is hosted by you: the workspace runs in the browser, your team signs in from anywhere, and there is no server, no VPN and no version to upgrade. The distinction that matters more, though, is what the platform holds. A cloud project management tool tracks tasks and dates. This holds the project's economics in the same place, so the plan and what the plan costs are never two separate systems.
How does this compare to Asana, Monday or ClickUp?
Those are excellent general work-management tools and they are built for a broad market. They will run your task board better than most. What they do not hold is what an hour of your team costs, what margin a project is running at, or whether the people you have assigned are already committed elsewhere. For a consulting or engineering firm those are the questions that decide whether a project was worth doing. If you need a task board, use a task board. If you need to know whether the work is profitable while it is still running, you need the project economics attached.
Does it support Gantt charts and dependencies?
There is a Gantt timeline view on both projects and tasks, and tasks support dependencies, checklists, assignments and recurring schedules. Being straight about a limitation: if dependency-driven critical path scheduling is the centre of how you run delivery, some tools in the category go deeper on it than we do. Our depth is on the financial side.
How is project progress measured?
By hours logged against the plan, not by a completion percentage someone selects from a dropdown. Progress tracking reads from timesheets, which means the reported state of a project and its consumed budget cannot disagree with each other. This is also what makes Estimate at Completion meaningful rather than decorative.
Can we run projects with phases and milestones?
Yes. Projects carry phases and milestones with budgets attached at that level, team assignments, a risk registry, external services and materials, and a Gantt timeline over the whole thing. Budget tracking is per phase rather than only per project, which is what makes variance visible early enough to act on.
What does it cost for a small consulting team?
EUR 3 per seat per month billed yearly, on one plan with every module included, from a single seat. There is no seat minimum and no upgrade required to reach budgeting or reporting. Onboarding, data transfer and team setup are included.

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