Project management for firms whose projects have to be delivered, not just tracked
There is no shortage of project management software. There is a shortage of project management software that knows a project costs money, employs people, owes deliverables to a client, and ends in something being handed over. Most tools model the middle — the tasks — and leave the two ends, the fee and the handover, to spreadsheets.
What separates a delivery tool from a task board
- 01A project that carries its fee, not just its tasks
- 02Stages with deliverables that someone has to accept
- 03Staff assigned with a cost, so utilisation is a number and not a feeling
- 04A client-facing record of what was submitted and approved
- 05Progress that means work completed, not cards moved
- 06A close-out that produces a handover rather than an archived board
Why a task board stops being enough
A board works while the project is small enough to hold in your head. It stops working the moment somebody 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 is it profitable. Those are not reporting features — they are consequences of modelling the project properly in the first place.
Trade-neutral, on purpose
Ofivio Manage is the project product with no trade attached. It carries stages, deliverables, staff, cost and client approvals without assuming you are an architect or a contractor. If your work is design or construction, the specialised products know your vocabulary and are the better fit — Ofivio Architecture for practices, Ofivio Build for contractors, Ofivio Engineering for consultancies.
The honest case for staying on what you have
If your projects are internal, have no external client approval step and no fee, a general tool is genuinely fine and probably cheaper. We wrote Excel vs project management software from that side of the argument, because the answer is often that the spreadsheet is not the problem.
Who this is not for
If you are on this list, Ofivio is the wrong purchase and we would rather you know now than in month three.
- Software teams — sprints, issues and releases are a different shape and a dedicated tool is better
- Marketing or content calendars, where the deliverable has no cost and no acceptance
- Personal task management; this is a business system with people and money in it
- Anyone who needs resource-levelled CPM scheduling
The products behind this
Questions people actually ask
How is Ofivio Manage different from the industry products?
Can I start on Manage and move to a trade product later?
Does it do Gantt charts?
Keep reading
- Project management software for architects: why generic tools lose to the workComparisons
- Excel vs project management software — an honest accounting from people who love ExcelComparisons
- Ofivio vs Odoo, ClickUp, monday.com, Asana and MonographComparisons
- Ofivio Manage, explained: projects with a fee, not a boardProducts
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