What Is planCoo?
LinkedIn Meets Microsoft Project — for Everyone
By planCoo · May 2026
Easiest way to explain planCoo? Picture LinkedIn and Microsoft Project having a baby — except this one is built for teams that span several organisations, not just one. Your profile, your company, your projects and your network all live in the same place, and for once they actually talk to each other.
Why That Comparison Works
LinkedIn nails professional identity and networking. Microsoft Project nails planning and task tracking. Neither one, though, solves the problem most of us actually run into: getting people from different organisations to work on the same project together.
Great for profiles and connections, but the actual work stays invisible. You can write "worked on X" in your profile — nobody can see what you actually did.
Microsoft Project
A genuinely strong planning tool, but it's locked inside one organisation. One file, no social layer, no easy way to bring in students or partner companies.
planCoo sits in that gap. You get the social layer of LinkedIn and the structure of a proper project tool, in one place any company, university, or student can join and start working in.
The Five Building Blocks
👤 User Profiles — Your Live CV
Every person on planCoo gets a public profile that builds itself from the projects they're actually part of. Finish tasks, hit milestones, team up with other organisations — your profile grows right along with it. Roles, timelines, collaborators, and outcomes get logged automatically. We call it your Live CV, because it's verified by what you did, not by what you typed in.
🏢 Company Profiles — Your Organisation's Public Face
Companies get their own page too — logo, description, a news feed, and a live view of whatever projects are currently running. Think of it as a cross between a LinkedIn company page and a project portfolio. Businesses, startups, universities, and research groups all use the same format, so it's easy to browse and find the right partner.
🌍 Public Pages — Built-In Dissemination and No Read-Only Fees
Every company, project, and user profile on planCoo automatically gets a public page that anyone can view, no account needed. That comes with two nice side effects:
For EU-funded projects (Erasmus+, Horizon Europe): the public project page doubles as your dissemination channel. Activity, partners, milestones, and team composition are all out in the open and easy to verify — which happens to be exactly what final reporting and quality assurance ask for.
For companies: the public page basically works as a living project website — it shows what you're running, who you're working with, and what your team is up to right now. No web developer, no CMS, nothing to maintain.
No read-only user fees: because it's all public, stakeholders, clients, board members, and outside partners can follow along without ever creating an account. You don't pay a cent for people who are just watching.
🔗 Groups & Networks — Structured Collaboration
Groups let companies, universities, and individuals set up closed or open collaboration spaces — somewhere several organisations can work on related projects together. It's a bit like a professional community, except there's real project infrastructure behind it: its own feed, its own member list, and the ability to host projects across organisations.
🗺️ Collaboration Map — See Who's Working with Whom
The Collaboration Map shows, visually, who's working with whom across planCoo — which companies are teaming up, which universities have student teams active right now, and how different sectors connect through shared projects. It turns a vague idea like "professional network" into something you can actually look at and click through.
Where You Belong vs. What You Actually Do
Most companies have an organisation chart. Almost none of them have a shared answer to the question that actually slows work down: who owns this delivery, who can approve it, and who's already stretched thin across three other projects?
An org chart tells you where someone sits — department, manager, reporting line. It doesn't tell you that the engineer in one business unit is technical lead on a project owned by a completely different unit, or that a department manager is sponsor on one project, steering-group member on another, and subject-matter expert on a third. Those roles are real, they drive decisions and accountability, and they usually live nowhere except spreadsheets, meeting invites, and people's heads.
The org chart
Shows where you belong — title, department, manager. It stays the same no matter how many projects you're actually juggling.
planCoo
Shows what you do — project owner here, reviewer there, sponsor on a third one — right alongside the formal structure it's layered on top of.
That gap bites hardest in matrix organisations, where one person can report to one manager, sit in one department, and still answer to three different project owners at once. Without a shared view, decision rights get murky, a key specialist ends up double-booked on two critical roles without anyone noticing, and dependencies stay invisible until a delivery quietly stalls.
planCoo doesn't replace the org chart — it sits next to it. Your formal structure (companies, departments, teams, managers) stays exactly as it is; project roles, authority, and workload get layered on top of it and stay current as initiatives start, end, and shift. Add the Collaboration Map on top of that, and leaders, project owners, and colleagues can finally see the organisation as it actually works — not just as it's drawn on a slide. The org chart shows where people belong. planCoo shows who does what. Read the deep dive on making roles, authority, and capacity visible across projects →
Built for Cross-Sector Collaboration
Most project tools assume everyone on the team works for the same organisation. That's rarely true anymore. planCoo was built around the reality that modern projects mix companies, universities, freelancers, and students — each with different roles, different access levels, and different needs.
A typical project on planCoo might have a company as the owner, two university research groups as partners, and a handful of students contributing under academic supervision — all on the same Gantt chart, each with their own role and feed, and a project leader who can pull together an AI-generated report in minutes.
Try that in a single-organisation project tool and it falls apart. Try it on a social network and none of the actual work shows up. planCoo is where it works — and where you can actually see it working.
You don't need a large network to get started
planCoo is built around the partners you already have, not some global marketplace you depend on. You get full value from it with just your own team, your own projects, and your own collaborators — it works just as well for one company with two university partners as it does for a hub of fifty organisations. If a partner hasn't joined planCoo yet, just share a licence with them so they can jump straight into your projects. There's no minimum network size required.
One Platform, Three Types of Users
Businesses
Run projects, manage your team, find university partners or student talent, publish a company profile, and keep track of cross-organisation deliverables — all from one place.
Universities
Host research collaborations, Erasmus+ projects, and thesis partnerships. Student activity gets documented automatically — roles, timelines, and contributions are all recorded and easy to verify.
Students
Join real-world projects, build a verified project portfolio alongside your degree, and graduate with a Live CV that shows employers exactly what you've actually done.
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About planCoo
Cross-organizational project management and collaboration
planCoo combines Gantt chart project management with a professional social network — built for businesses, universities, students, and freelancers who collaborate across organizational boundaries. Every project participation automatically builds your Live CV. AI generates structured project reports from live Gantt data. Available in Microsoft Teams and on the web.
For businesses
Run projects across companies, universities, and partners in one platform.
For universities
Manage Erasmus+, research, and industry collaborations with built-in reporting.
For students
Build a verified project portfolio and Live CV alongside your degree.