Ofivio Manage, explained: projects with a fee, not a board
There is no shortage of project management software. There is a shortage of project management software that knows a project costs money, employs people and ends in a handover.
Ofivio Manage is the project product with no trade attached. It carries stages, deliverables, staff with a cost, and client approvals, without assuming you are an architect or a contractor. It exists because the same shape of business — sell a fee, staff it, deliver it, collect it — turns up in consultancies, agencies and advisory firms that have no bill of quantities and no drawing register.
Where a task board stops being enough
A board works while a project fits in your head. It stops the moment someone asks a question the board cannot answer: what did this project earn, who was on it, what did we promise the client in writing, and was it profitable. Those are not reporting features. They are consequences of modelling the project properly to begin with.
What is in the box
Manager, HR, Finance.
The utilisation trap
Most firms measure utilisation because it is easy to measure. It says whether people are busy, not whether the work was worth doing — and a fully utilised team delivering an under-priced engagement is a firm losing money efficiently. Cost against fee, per engagement, is the number that matters, and it requires staff to carry a cost rather than only a name.
When one of the others is the better buy
| If your projects involve | Buy this instead |
|---|---|
| Drawing sets, revisions and design stages | Ofivio Architecture |
| A bill of quantities, a site and certificates | Ofivio Build |
| Technical review and discipline coordination | Ofivio Engineering |
| Measurement, rate build-ups and valuations | Ofivio Planning & QS |
What it does not do
- No sprints, issues or releases — a software team is a different shape and a dedicated tool is better
- No critical-path scheduling with resource levelling
- No minute-by-minute time tracking for hourly billing
- Nothing for projects with no client, no fee and no acceptance step; a general tool is cheaper and enough
Set up one engagement with a fee and two people on it, and look at the margin.
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