By team · Operations and PMO

The work, the people on it and the money it earns, in one place.

Operations is where a plan meets a timesheet meets an invoice, and in most companies those three live in three products that do not speak. WorkBOS runs projects, portfolios, workload, time and the general ledger in one workspace, so the question "is this project actually profitable" has an answer without an export.

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What usually goes wrong

01

Your project tool knows the plan, your finance tool knows the money, and nobody knows the margin until someone rebuilds it in a spreadsheet.

02

Status reporting is a weekly tax: chasing updates, then retyping them for whoever asked.

03

Every new client or programme means configuring the same setup again from scratch.

What you get, by name

Every capability below is enforced on the server, not a demo screenshot. Anything that needs a paid plan says so on the card rather than leaving you to find out at checkout.

Projects, boards, lists and timelines
Plan the work the way the team already thinks about it, with project templates and recurring work so a repeat engagement starts configured.
Portfolios and companiesPro and up
Roll many projects into a programme, and many companies into a group, with the rollups reading from the same records rather than a second system.
Teams and workload
See open and overdue work per person and the hours logged against it, alongside shared calendars, attendance and leave. It is a workload view, not a capacity or allocation planner.
Time tracking that stays in the workspace
Timers and reporting sit next to the tasks they belong to, so a week of work is not reconstructed from memory on Friday.
Real double-entry accountingPro and up
A general ledger, chart of accounts, trial balance and P&L, with per-company reporting if you run more than one entity.
Approve-first AI agents
An approve-first AI Chief of Staff that proposes the work and waits for a person to say yes. Every action it takes runs through the same permission checks a human would hit, is recorded against the person who approved it, and can be rolled back in one click. The full append-only audit log you can read back and export is an Enterprise capability.

Your first week

  1. 1

    Import your active projects, tasks and contacts by CSV, or let the Business Architect lay out the workspace from a short conversation.

  2. 2

    Set up one project the way you want every project to look, then save it as a template.

  3. 3

    Turn on a Work agent and let it draft status briefs and flag deadline risk for you to approve.

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What you are probably weighing this against

Each comparison opens by saying where the other product is the better choice, because that is the half of a comparison worth reading.

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Questions operations teams ask

Can I see whether a project made money?

Yes. Invoices, bills and expense claims post to a real general ledger, and both can be tagged to a company, so the P&L is produced from the books rather than assembled by hand. Time tracking lives in the same workspace as the tasks it belongs to.

Do tasks support dependencies?

Not today. Tasks carry assignees, priorities, statuses, subtasks and custom fields, and projects carry templates, timelines and approvals, but there is no dependency graph between tasks. If your plan depends on one, say so on the call rather than finding out later.

What does the AI actually do here?

It proposes. Scaffold a project from a brief, break it into tasks, flag a deadline or capacity risk, draft a status brief. You approve, edit or reject, and anything it did can be rolled back. It never executes with more access than the person who sent it.

Set it up the way operations teams actually work.

Start free for up to five seats, or let the Business Architect lay out the whole workspace from a short conversation and show you the blueprint before anything is created.

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