What Is planCoo?
LinkedIn Meets Microsoft Project — for Everyone
By planCoo · May 2026
The shortest way to describe planCoo: imagine LinkedIn and Microsoft Project had a child — one that was designed for collaboration across organisations, not just within them. The result is a platform where your professional identity, your company, your projects, and your network all live in the same place and actually connect to each other.
Why That Comparison Works
LinkedIn is excellent at professional identity and networking. Microsoft Project is excellent at planning and task management. But neither of them solves the problem of cross-organisation project collaboration:
Great for profiles and connections. But projects are invisible — you can list "worked on X" but the actual work never shows up.
Microsoft Project
Powerful planning tool. But it's siloed — one organisation, one file, no social layer, no student access, no cross-company teams.
planCoo fills the gap. It gives you the social layer of LinkedIn and the project structure of a proper management tool — in a single platform that any company, university, or student can join and collaborate on.
The Five Building Blocks
👤 User Profiles — Your Live CV
Every person on planCoo has a public profile that is built automatically from the projects they participate in. As you work — on tasks, milestones, with other organisations — your profile grows. Roles, timelines, collaborators, and outcomes are recorded in real time. This is your Live CV: verified, not self-reported, and always up to date.
🏢 Company Profiles — Your Organisation's Public Face
Companies get a dedicated profile page: logo, description, news feed, and a live view of their active projects. It works as a mini company page — part LinkedIn company page, part project portfolio. Businesses, startups, universities, and research groups all use the same format, making it easy to find and connect with partners.
🌍 Public Pages — Built-In Dissemination and No Read-Only Fees
Every company, project, and user profile in planCoo automatically gets a public page — free to view by anyone, no account required. This has two powerful consequences:
For EU-funded projects (Erasmus+, Horizon Europe): the public project page serves as built-in dissemination. Activity, partners, milestones, and team composition are visible and verifiable — exactly what final reporting and quality assurance require.
For companies: the public company page works as a live project website — showing which projects you're running, which organisations you collaborate with, and what your team is working on. No web developer, no separate CMS, no maintenance.
No read-only user fees: because all public content is openly accessible, stakeholders, clients, board members, and external partners can follow project progress without needing a planCoo account. You never pay for passive observers.
🔗 Groups & Networks — Structured Collaboration
Groups allow companies, universities, and individuals to form closed or open collaboration networks — a shared space for multiple organisations working on related projects. Think of it as a professional community with actual project infrastructure behind it. Groups have their own feed, member list, and can host projects across organisations.
🗺️ Collaboration Map — See Who's Working with Whom
The Collaboration Map visualises the connections between people and organisations across planCoo. You can see which companies are collaborating, which universities have active student teams, and how different sectors are connected through shared projects. It turns an abstract professional network into something you can actually see and navigate.
Built for Cross-Sector Collaboration
Most project tools assume everyone on the team works for the same organisation. planCoo was designed from the start for the reality that modern projects involve companies, universities, freelancers, and students — all with different roles, different access levels, and different needs.
A typical planCoo project might have a company as the project owner, two university research groups as partners, and a team of students contributing under academic supervision — all working on the same Gantt chart, with their own roles and feeds, with AI-generated reports their project leader can share in minutes.
That kind of collaboration is impossible in a single-organisation project tool. It's also invisible on a social network. planCoo makes it possible and visible.
You don't need a large network to get started
planCoo is built around your own circle of partners — not a global marketplace you depend on. An organisation can get full value from planCoo with just its own team, its own projects, and its own collaborators. The platform works for a single company with two university partners just as well as it works for a hub of fifty organisations. If a partner isn't on planCoo yet, you can simply share a licence so they can contribute to your projects directly. There is no minimum ecosystem required.
One Platform, Three Types of Users
Businesses
Run projects, manage teams, find university partners and student talent, publish a company profile, and track cross-organisation deliverables — all in one place.
Universities
Host research collaborations, Erasmus+ projects, and thesis partnerships. Student activity is automatically documented — roles, timelines, and contributions are recorded and verifiable.
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.