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ProjectManager.co — one system for the whole delivery chain, priced on people and modules.
ProjectManager.co runs the whole delivery chain in one application, portfolio down to task, with AI agents handling the administrative layer that normally consumes a project manager’s week. It is the project delivery module of the erp.io suite, and on Enterprise it deploys into your own infrastructure — so the delivery record can stay inside a boundary you already control.
A HOLD.co company
Built for the kind of business HOLD.co actually buys.
ProjectManager.co is a HOLD.co technology company, sitting alongside DEV.co, ERP.io, LLM.co, Automatic.co, RMA.ai, Search.co, RFP.co, Manufacturing.co and Phony.ai in our technology segment. It is the project delivery module of the erp.io suite, with its own front door for teams that need only that.
The product is aimed squarely at the middle market, which is the same place our acquisition mandate points. These are firms running real portfolios — a construction company with drawings against every job, an engineering group managing programs across clients, a sponsor tracking diligence workstreams — and they are chronically served by tools built either for a five-person startup or for an enterprise PMO with a full-time administrator.
Two decisions define the product, and both come from operating those businesses. Nothing inside it is gated by plan, because an evaluation run against a deliberately worse version of the software tells the buyer very little. And self-hosting is a first-class path rather than an afterthought, because the firms with the most to gain are frequently the ones least able to put their delivery history in someone else’s cloud.
The problem
Projects keep failing despite better tools.
The category has not been short of software for twenty years. What it has been short of is a system the whole team is allowed into, that produces the reporting instead of demanding it, and that a regulated firm is permitted to use at all.
The tools are priced for a different company
The category builds either for a five-person startup or for an enterprise PMO with a full-time administrator. A middle-market firm buys the first, outgrows it inside two years, and then cannot justify the second — so it ends up running the portfolio out of spreadsheets between the two.
Status reporting eats the week
Project managers spend the back half of every week assembling updates by hand. By the time leadership reads them, the report describes a project that has already moved — which is a poor return on the most expensive hours in the function.
The delivery record leaves the building
Contracts, drawings, budgets and client commitments end up in a vendor's cloud under terms the customer did not write. For firms working under HIPAA, CMMC, ITAR or client data-location clauses, that is not a preference — it is the reason the tool gets rejected.
Governance lives in a document nobody opens
Stage gates, decision rights and escalation paths are written down and then not enforced anywhere the work actually happens. Scope drifts, dates slip, and the checkpoint that would have caught it was a policy PDF.
The platform
One system for strategy, delivery and reporting.
Seven pillars in a single application rather than a suite of connected products. The point of keeping them together is that governance, schedule and document all describe the same object, so the roll-up does not need a person to reconcile it.
Portfolio and program management
Every project, program and portfolio in one hierarchy, with roll-up status that maintains itself rather than being rebuilt each cycle.
Planning and scheduling
Scope, schedule architecture, dependencies and resource plans — with AI-assisted replanning when a date moves and everything downstream has to move with it.
Governance and stage gates
Decision rights, gate criteria and escalation paths enforced in the system, at the point the work passes through them.
AI agents
Status reports, meeting notes, documentation and risk detection produced from live project data — the administrative layer, handled.
Executive reporting
Portfolio dashboards and status cadences that surface risk and performance without a person aggregating anything by hand.
Documents and knowledge
Charters, drawings, contracts and decisions stored against the project they belong to, and searchable across the whole portfolio.
Your infrastructure
Deploy to your own VPC, data centre or an air-gapped network, with model keys you supply so inference runs on your terms too.
AI agents
The admin work, handled — inside the system that holds the data.
Every agent reads live project data and writes back into the same application. There is no copy-paste between a chat window and a tracker, and no separate AI subscription to buy on top of the software.
Status report agent
Structured weekly status written from live project data, in minutes rather than a Thursday.
Meeting agent
Captures and distributes meeting notes, with action items assigned back into the project they came from.
Documentation agent
Charters, scope documents and SOPs produced from your own templates and the project's real context.
Risk agent
Surfaces emerging risks and dependency conflicts out of project data, before they arrive as issues.
Planning agent
Drafts schedules, allocates resource against capacity, and replans when the dates change.
Portfolio reporting
Live portfolio visibility for leadership without a manual aggregation step in front of it.
Self-hosted
Your projects, your servers, your model keys.
Most project software asks a firm to hand over its delivery history, its client contracts and its commercial terms in exchange for a login. Deployed into your own environment, nothing crosses your boundary — including inference, which runs against a key you supply.
Docker and Kubernetes
A documented compose file and a Helm chart. Up in an afternoon rather than a quarter.
Bring your own model
Point the AI features at Anthropic, OpenAI, Azure or a local model, billed at cost by your own provider.
No phone home
No telemetry, no licence server and no seat audit. The deployment works with egress blocked.
Air-gap capable
Runs fully offline against a local model, for regulated and classified environments.
Your backups
Standard Postgres and object storage, backed up with the tooling you already run.
Portable either way
Move between self-hosted and our hosting whenever you want — same application, same data format.
For a regulated buyer this changes the shape of the security review rather than the length of it. A hosted project tool creates a third-party processor to assess, contract and reassess every year; a self-hosted deployment is one more application on infrastructure you already govern, covered by the access reviews, change management and audit evidence you already produce.
What it costs
A seat on the suite, not a second subscription.
ProjectManager.co is the Projects module of the erp.io suite, so it is priced the way every other module is: $20 per user per month on Starter, $99 a month for Growth, $399 a month for Scale, and a quote at enterprise. Every plan comes with a 30-day trial and no card.
A plan decides two things — how many people sign in and how many modules they sign in to — and nothing else. Every AI agent, the full framework and template library, role-based access, the audit log, data export and API access are on Starter exactly as they are on Scale. Seats above an included block are charged rather than blocked, so adding a colleague never becomes a billing negotiation.
The brand published free-for-unlimited-users with a storage meter until September 2026 and no longer does. The suite bills seats and modules and has no concept of provisioned storage, which made every number on that page one the platform could not actually charge.
Who it serves
Middle-market firms running real portfolios.
The common thread is a delivery function large enough to need governance and too small to fund an enterprise PMO — usually with files, drawings and a long archive attached to every project.
Alongside the software the brand publishes an open library the same buyers use before they ever open an account: framework guides across agile, waterfall, hybrid, stage gates and PMO design, industry playbooks, free templates, planning calculators, and maturity and AI-readiness assessments.
Where it doesn’t fit
Three things it is honest about not being.
It is a delivery system, not a general ledger. Project cost lives here; the books, the invoices and the close belong in accounting, and the rest of the erp.io suite is where that work sits.
We publish no certification badge for the hosted service. Ask for the current attestation status and you get the present position in writing rather than a logo on a marketing page — and on a self-hosted deployment the question largely dissolves, because the application is running inside a boundary you already certify.
Self-hosting is an Enterprise deployment option, not a free tier. There is still no licence server, no telemetry and no seat audit inside the deployment, and the air-gapped configuration is real — but it is quoted rather than downloaded, and a buyer expecting a no-cost on-premise edition should hear that before an evaluation rather than during one.
Our thesis
Most project software sells governance as the upgrade — the reporting, the gates and the audit trail arrive on the tier above the one a middle-market firm budgeted for. Put every capability on every plan and let the price follow headcount, and the product has to win on whether the work actually gets delivered.
Put the whole team in it and see what the reporting looks like.
Nothing is held back by plan, so a trial is the real product rather than a cut-down version of it. Start a 30-day trial without a card, or talk to us about running it inside your own infrastructure.
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