Insighty + Plane:
modern issue tracking, plus the financial layer
Plane handles open-source project and issue management. Insighty handles the financial intelligence layer on top — revenue, contracts, retainer billing, and the ops visibility Plane was never designed to cover.
Plane
Open-source project management
Insighty
Client management, contracts & financial ops
Plane
Open-source project management
A modern, open-source project management tool with Jira-like issue tracking, sprints (Cycles), and multiple views. Plane gives development and product teams a self-hostable, cost-effective way to manage projects and issues.
Best for
- Issue tracking and sprint management
- Open-source and self-hosted deployments
- Development team project organisation
- Teams migrating from Jira
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
Plane is exceptional at open-source project and issue management
This is not a "switch away from Plane" argument. Plane is a modern, capable open-source PM tool. Teams love its flexibility and self-hosting options.
Open-source and self-hostable
Fully open-source with self-hosting options, giving teams full control over their data and infrastructure.
Jira-like issue tracking and sprints
Familiar issue tracking model with sprint management, making migration from Jira straightforward.
Cycles (sprints) and modules for organisation
Cycles map to sprints and modules group related issues, providing flexible project organisation.
Multiple views: board, list, spreadsheet, Gantt
Rich variety of views lets teams work the way they prefer — from Kanban boards to Gantt timelines.
GitHub and Slack integrations
Native integrations with GitHub for issue linking and Slack for team notifications.
Free for most use cases
Generous free tier makes it accessible for small teams and open-source projects without budget constraints.
The questions Plane cannot answer for agency owners
Plane knows everything about issues and delivery. It knows nothing about whether you are getting paid for it.
"Which client contracts are generating revenue this month?"
Plane tracks issues and sprints. It has no concept of client billing, contract value, or revenue.
"Which retainer clients need invoicing and which are at scope ceiling?"
Maintenance contracts and recurring billing cycles don't exist in Plane's model.
"Are hosting and domain costs being recovered in client invoices?"
Infrastructure cost recovery and renewal tracking are outside Plane's scope.
"What is the financial forecast for the next quarter?"
Plane has no pipeline, probability weighting, or revenue forecasting.
What each tool handles
Different tools, different jobs. The overlap is minimal by design.
Capability
Plane
Insighty
Issue tracking & sprints
✓
—
Kanban & Gantt views
✓
—
Time tracking
~
✓
Maintenance contract billing
—
✓
Revenue planning (multi-stream)
—
✓
"This Month" invoice view
—
✓
Hosting & domain renewal tracking
—
✓
Sales pipeline & forecast
—
✓
Client financial summary
—
✓
Invoice automation (recurring)
—
✓
Resource capacity & utilisation
—
✓
Change request value tracking
—
✓
Keep Plane for issue tracking. Add Insighty for financial ops.
Plane is a modern, open-source project management tool. Insighty is not a project tool — it is the revenue and operations intelligence layer that goes on top of it.