Insighty + OpenProject:
structured project delivery, plus the financial layer
OpenProject handles open-source project management with Gantt, sprints, and issue tracking. Insighty handles the agency financial intelligence that open-source PM tools leave to spreadsheets.
OpenProject
Open-source project management
Insighty
Client management, contracts & financial ops
OpenProject
Open-source project management
A full-featured, open-source project management platform with Gantt charts, agile boards, time tracking, and cost reporting. OpenProject gives organisations a self-hostable alternative to enterprise PM tools.
Best for
- Gantt-based project planning and delivery
- Agile and hybrid project methodologies
- Self-hosted, data-sovereign deployments
- Teams needing budgets and cost tracking per project
Insighty
Agency Intelligence Platform
The financial and operational intelligence layer agencies need alongside their PM tools. Connects clients, contracts, retainers, hosting, domains, invoices, and pipeline into one unified revenue view.
Best for
- Agency owners and operations managers
- Revenue planning and invoice tracking
- Retainer and contract management
- Financial forecasting and pipeline
OpenProject is exceptional at structured project delivery
This is not a "switch away from OpenProject" argument. OpenProject is a strong, full-featured PM platform. Teams choose it for its depth of planning tools and self-hosting flexibility.
Full-featured Gantt charts and timelines
Interactive Gantt charts with dependencies, baselines, and critical path analysis for detailed project planning.
Agile boards and sprint management
Scrum and Kanban boards with sprint planning, backlog management, and velocity tracking.
Wiki and meeting management
Built-in wiki for project documentation and structured meeting management to keep teams aligned.
Time tracking and cost reporting
Log time against tasks with cost reporting to compare estimated versus actual effort and spend.
Budgets per project
Define project budgets, track labour and material costs, and monitor budget consumption over time.
Self-hostable, open-source
Fully open-source with on-premises hosting options, giving organisations complete data ownership.
The questions OpenProject cannot answer for agency owners
OpenProject knows everything about project delivery. It knows nothing about the revenue flowing from that delivery.
"Which client retainers are due for renewal this month?"
OpenProject manages project budgets but not recurring contract renewal cycles or billing alerts.
"What is the probability-weighted pipeline value for next quarter?"
OpenProject has no sales pipeline or revenue forecast model.
"Are hosting costs and domain renewals being invoiced to the right clients?"
Infrastructure cost recovery and automated renewal tracking are not part of OpenProject's model.
"Which clients are consuming more than their retainer allows?"
OpenProject tracks project budgets but not the scope ceiling and billing status of maintenance contracts.
What each tool handles
Different tools, different jobs. The overlap is minimal by design.
Capability
OpenProject
Insighty
Project management & Gantt
✓
—
Agile boards & sprints
✓
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Time tracking & cost reports
✓
✓
Project budgets
✓
✓
Maintenance contract billing
—
✓
Revenue planning (multi-stream)
—
✓
"This Month" invoice view
—
✓
Hosting & domain renewal tracking
—
✓
Sales pipeline & probability forecast
—
✓
Client financial summary
—
✓
Invoice automation (recurring)
—
✓
Resource utilisation & billability
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✓
Keep OpenProject for delivery structure. Add Insighty for financial intelligence.
OpenProject is a strong open-source PM platform. Insighty adds the revenue layer — multi-stream contracts, hosting renewals, pipeline forecasting — that project budgets alone don't provide.