Roles, not guest accounts
Each person belongs to an organisation. The project maps those organisations, not a flat list of emails.
Cross-company collaboration
planCoo is for work that does not stay inside one organisation — and for matrix work that does not stay inside one unit or discipline. Companies, universities, partners, and networks share roles, timelines, and progress in one workspace.
Across organizations
Matrix & levels
Partners
Networks
Collaboration across organizations
The job is the same whether people sit in two companies or in two units of one group: they need a project of record that is not trapped in one Microsoft tenant, one Slack workspace, or one department’s file share.
planCoo gives that work a shared structure — organisations, levels, disciplines, roles, and a timeline everyone can open. That includes matrix organisations with many layers, partner networks, universities, students, and clusters.
We call this a Collaborative Ecosystem Platform: software that makes collaboration visible across organisations, units, and partners.
Digital collaboration across companies
Shared folders and chat are not collaboration across companies. They hide ownership. planCoo makes partner work visible: who is in, which unit or discipline they belong to, who owns the deliverable, and what outsiders may see. It is not an internal task list for one team.
Partner collaboration without a shared IT stack
One timeline
Gantt and boards that partners can actually open, instead of a file the lead company forwards.
Visibility you can control
Public pages for what should be seen. Internal feed and tasks for the rest. See project visibility.
Stakeholders without full access
Keep funders and boards informed without giving them the working file. See stakeholder management.
FAQ
Is this only for large companies?
No. It includes matrix organisations (many levels and disciplines), student groups, university–industry projects, NGOs, small partners, and clusters.
What if the project is a funded partnership?
Same workspace. Coordinators who need work packages and partner reporting can continue on consortium management or Erasmus+.