Project management for people who hate managing projects.
Drag a timeline. Bring in your updates. Keel drafts the weekly report, keeps the register, forecasts the finish and chases the people who owe you something.
This is the real thing. Drag a phase.
Friday, before and after.
Before
- Five update emails, read twice each.
- A register spreadsheet nobody has opened since kickoff.
- A status deck rebuilt from last week's.
- Chasing three people on Slack for Tuesday's answer.
After
- Updates arrive from your CRM, email and contributors.
- Read what Keel proposes for the register and the plan.
- Accept what is right, correct what is not.
- Send the polished report. The chasing already went out.
How it works
Explore the productFinish-to-start dependencies · one-step undo
A timeline you can grab.
Drag a phase to move it, drag its edges to resize it, drag it downward to run work in parallel. Dependencies are real edges on the canvas, so everything downstream follows. There is nothing to configure and no Save button.
Proposed from the design meeting
Updates in, register out.
Bring in plain-text updates — a transcript, a client email, your own notes. Keel proposes risks, issues, actions, decisions and plan changes. Nothing changes until you accept it.
Maya Chen
Personal private link
2 assigned phases
Your work this week
Approve accessibility copy
Confirm test accounts
Still on it · add a note
Contributors without logins.
Each person gets a private link, not an account. They see only their work, update deliverables and check in, and every submission goes on the record.
Project sources
Weekly report
Design meeting
Decisions
Ask Keel
What is holding up launch?
Content approval is the main constraint. UAT remains on course for 18 November.
2 sources
Ask Keel. Get the source, not a guess.
Ask questions about the plan, people, decisions or delivery history. Answers cite the project sources behind them.
Summary
People
Plan
Decisions
Project brief
Harbour Health is replacing its legacy patient intake with one accessible portal.
Objective: fewer incomplete referrals and a single view of approval status.
Confirmed project description · 14 sources
A brief that stays current.
The living project brief and plain-English description keep scope, objectives, benefits, people and decisions readable as the project moves.
Why later? Content approval +4 days · planned leave +2 days
See the likely finish, not just the plan.
Compare the likely-finish range with the baseline. “Why later?” separates overruns, pace, absences and shutdowns. Switch Plan / Forecast, then re-baseline explicitly.
WEEKLY REPORT
Patient portal rollout
Harbour Health
On track
On track
On track
UAT preparation is complete. Content approval is next.
Gantt
Friday’s report, already assembled.
Suggested RAG, team check-ins, client and internal versions, and a polished PDF with the real Gantt chart — reviewed and sent from Keel.
PDD
HLD
UAT plan
Go-live
UAT plan · draft
Scenario 04 · incomplete referral
Expected: the portal explains which fields are missing.
[Needs input: who approves clinical content?]
Delivery documents without the blank page.
Draft PDDs, HLDs, UAT plans, go-live checklists and more from what the project knows into your own Word templates. Missing facts become visible gaps, never inventions.
Relevant inbox
UAT walkthrough
Meeting · KithCRM
Re: content approval
Email · KithCRM
Weekly delivery call
Meeting · KithCRM
Consent and relevance
Only linked project threads are offered. You choose what to import.
Transcripts stay internal.
Relevant meetings and email, with consent.
Bring relevant threads and meetings in from your CRM — KithCRM today — with consent on both sides. You choose what enters the project; transcripts stay internal.
Effort vs progress
WorkflowMax · via KithCRM186:30
Recorded
240:00
Estimated
68%
Progress
Hours next to actual progress.
See timesheet hours against delivery progress, including burn-up and unattributed time. WorkflowMax is supported today via KithCRM.
Start from a template.
AI and automation in T-shirt sizes, consulting, software, marketing, platform implementation and support. Make the plan yours on the same timeline.
Software delivery
Discovery through release for a software product or feature set. ~12 weeks.
Automation & AI engagement
Assess, design, build and tune an automation or AI solution with a hypercare tail. ~10 weeks.
Consulting engagement
Discover, analyse, recommend and hand over. ~8 weeks.
Marketing campaign / launch
Plan, produce, launch and measure a campaign or product launch. ~8 weeks.
What your client sees.
A polished, audience-safe report with the story, status and real Gantt chart — not another slide deck.
Fictional client, project and people. Generated with Keel's real weekly-report renderer.
Download sample report (PDF)Pricing
All prices are A$, ex GST. Annual billing gives two months free.
Contributors, viewers and clients are unlimited and free on every tier.
Solo
A$39/month
A$390/year
1 project manager · up to 3 active projects
- Unlimited contributors, viewers and client links
- All built-in templates
- AI weekly reports, register proposals and Ask Keel
- Standard monthly AI allowance
Team
A$59/month
A$590/year
Includes 2 project managers · extra PMs A$25/month each
- Unlimited projects and everything in Solo
- Shared organisation library: templates, project types and artefacts
- Artefact drafting into your Word templates
- Higher monthly AI allowance and priority support
Practice
From A$1,499/month
Annual billing: two months free
Up to 15 project managers · more than 15? Talk to us
- Everything in Team, with your artefact library and Word templates set up with you
- Custom project types and templates
- PM onboarding and training, then quarterly reviews
- Highest monthly AI allowance, named contact and priority support
- Data-processing agreement
On request
Microsoft sign-in (SSO), CRM or timesheet integrations, full data export and uptime SLA.
Team price calculator
A$59/month · A$590/year
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We use Keel on our own client projects.
Questions
›What is Keel?
Keel is a delivery timeline you can drag, a register that stays current from project updates, sourced answers about your project, forecasts and polished weekly reports. It also drafts project artefacts into your own Word templates. You review proposals before anything changes.
›Who is it for?
Consultants, delivery leads and internal project managers who run phase-based client projects and spend too much time reporting on them. Keel is for plans, milestones, dependencies, reporting and delivery artefacts — not sprint boards or backlogs.
›How is Keel different from Monday, Asana or Jira?
Those tools organise tasks for teams that log in every day. Keel organises a delivery plan and the reporting around it: a business-day timeline, a register, sourced project knowledge, client-ready reporting and contributors who do not need accounts.
›Who needs a login?
Organisation admins, project managers and viewers sign in. Delivery contributors and clients use personal private links instead. Contributors, viewers and clients are unlimited and free on every tier.
›What does the AI do, and can it change my plan without me?
AI proposes register entries and schedule changes, answers questions with sources, drafts briefs, reports, emails and artefacts, and flags missing information rather than inventing it. It never changes your plan on its own. You get three version slots for curated AI outputs, and AI-written content is marked until you review it.
›Where is my data stored?
In Sydney, Australia, in an Australian-region database. AI runs only when you trigger it or on scheduled drafts you enable. Every AI call is logged and subject to a monthly cap. Customer content is not used to train AI models.
›Can I export my data?
Weekly reports export to PDF. Artefacts export to Word or Excel, and diagrams can be exported as SVG or PNG. Full data export is available on request.
›Does Keel work for non-software projects?
Yes. Built-in templates cover AI and automation in T-shirt sizes, consulting, software delivery, marketing, platform implementation and support. Team and Practice can also maintain a shared organisation library.
›What does it cost?
Solo is A$39/month for one project manager and up to three active projects. Team is A$59/month including two project managers, with additional project managers at A$25/month each and unlimited projects. Practice starts at A$1,499/month for up to 15 project managers. Prices are A$ and exclude GST. Annual billing gives two months free. Keel is in early access; plans start when early access ends.
›Can Keel use our meetings, email and timesheets?
Yes. Keel can bring relevant meetings and email threads in from KithCRM with consent on both sides; transcripts stay internal. Effort and hours can come from WorkflowMax timesheets via KithCRM. Other CRM or timesheet integrations are available on request with Practice.