Project planning
Phases, tasks and subtasks with a Gantt chart and dependencies. Assignments to employees and an hour model of estimated, planned and booked — so it becomes visible where plan and reality drift apart.
AI-assisted planning
Plan less by hand.
Let the AI draft it.
You collect the tasks — Plainova proposes the plan: phases, dependencies, effort estimates and assignments, matched to your team’s skills and time off. You review and decide.
No credit card required. Free plan stays free.
AI
The AI writes the draft. You make the decision.
Planning is mostly legwork: sorting tasks, fixing the order, estimating effort, assigning people. That is the part Plainova takes off your hands — not the responsibility for it.
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Put the tasks in
Existing, unsorted tasks — or simply a list of titles, the way it came out of the meeting.
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The AI proposes a plan
Placement into phases, dependencies, effort estimates, required skills and concrete assignments — taking your employees’ skills and absences into account.
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Review it as its own plan version
The proposal arrives as a complete, independent plan version. Your existing plan is left untouched — you compare them in the Gantt chart you already use.
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Activate or discard
If the draft fits, it goes live. If it does not, you delete it like any other version. Nothing happens that you cannot take back.
AI beyond scheduling
Ask instead of filter
Natural-language search translates your question into a real query against your model — not into a fuzzy full-text match.
Have the model built for you
Describe object types, attributes and relations in a dialogue instead of creating them by hand. Restricted to administrators.
Describe workflows
Describe an automation step in one sentence; Plainova compiles it into a configured, reviewable workflow action.
Edit objects in context
Create and change by instruction — in the context of the object type, with the rules and attributes that apply there.
One principle throughout: no AI result is saved silently. Proposals are shown before they take effect — you accept, adjust or discard them. AI consumption is visible at any time.
The approach behind it — why Plainova is more than a language model
Solutions
For specific planning problems, not “for everything”
Every solution runs on the same data model — and can be cut to your own terms instead of forcing you into someone else’s. Each one has its own page with the details.
Forecast
Time series from your own object data, forecast with nine methods — from naive and Holt-Winters through to Prophet. With backtesting, so you know which method to trust on your data.
Resource planning
Capacity, utilisation and conflicts across projects — who is booked how heavily and when, and where overbooking arises.
Process planning
Process steps, sequences and cycle times — for operations that cannot sensibly be modelled as a project with an end date.
The platform
One system, not four tools bolted together
Planning is the part you see first. Underneath it is a complete platform — your own data model, search, documents, automation and an API — which is why the plan is not an island.
Your own object model
Object types, typed attributes, relations and statuses — defined by you, versioned, so existing records keep the shape they were created with when the model moves on.
Lists that fit the work
Grid, rows or tiles per type, with the columns you choose and an edit dialog whose tabs and groups you lay out yourself.
Search that understands the model
Fuzzy full-text across every type, plus a question in plain language turned into a real query against your live schema — not a keyword guess. Saved searches re-run against current data.
Folders and boards
Folders group anything with anything, regardless of type. Boards turn a status dimension into columns and only allow the transitions your model permits.
Document repository
Tenders, concepts and briefs in folders you define. The assistant reads PDF and Word and turns what a document says — not what it is called — into planning tasks.
Workflows
React to a record being created, changed or moved through a status: set a value, add a tag, create a relation, send mail, or hand the record to the language model with an instruction.
Forecast
Nine methods on your own time series, backtested against history they were not shown, with MAE, RMSE and MAPE per run so the comparison is measured rather than argued.
Project planning
Phases, tasks, dependencies, skills and absences, with a solver that produces a schedule respecting all of them at once — and produces the same schedule from the same input, every time.
REST API and import
Everything the interface can do, the API can do. CSV import with a preview that shows what would be created before anything is.
Data model
Why it can adapt
Most planning tools decide up front what your world looks like: project, task, resource. Plainova does not. At its core sits a generic meta-model made of three building blocks:
- Object types — what exists in your world
- Attributes — what you want to know about it, typed
- Relations — how those things connect, with attributes of their own
A new field, a new object type, a new link: all configured at runtime. No schema migration project, no waiting for the next release — and if your most important entity is called neither “project” nor “ticket”, that is not a special case here, it is the normal one.
- Object types
- defined by you, versioned
- Attribute types
- text, number, date, yes/no, parameter lists
- Relations
- directed, with their own attributes
- Search
- exact, typo-tolerant, natural language
- Automation
- workflows on status and attribute changes
- Access
- user interface and REST API on the same model
Pricing
Three months free. Then priced to your size.
Prices per user and month, excl. VAT. The free plan stays free — including after the three months.
Free
€0
To try it out, and for small models.
- up to 1,000 objects
- all available solutions
- complete REST API
- no support
- your own AI key required
Most chosen
Team
€9.90/ user / month
For teams that work with it, not just test it.
- up to 100,000 objects
- all available solutions
- complete REST API
- support
- AI key through us, usage billed as consumed
Company
€49/ user / month
When AI spend needs to be predictable.
- up to 100,000 objects
- all available solutions
- complete REST API
- support
- €25 of AI usage per user and month included
On AI usage: Plainova uses language models for natural-language search, AI-assisted editing, plan proposals and workflow steps. On the free plan you supply your own provider key; on Team and Company it runs through us.
For developers
Anything the interface can do, the API can do
Plainova is API-first: the web interface uses the same REST API that is open to you. No reduced “integration API” bolted on as an afterthought.
- OpenAPI description — generate clients instead of writing them by hand
- API keys — for automation, separate from user logins
- Server-sent events — for changes in real time
- Import and export — for bulk data
# Sign in and take the token
curl -s -X POST https://your-tenant.plainova.com/api/auth/login \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"email":"...","password":"..."}'
# Read objects
curl -s https://your-tenant.plainova.com/api/objects \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"Operations
Run for you, in Europe
Plainova is delivered as a service. There is nothing to install and nothing to patch: you open a browser, and the version you see is the current one.
It runs on AWS in Frankfurt. Your data does not leave the EU region, and each customer gets their own subdomain and their own separated data — not a shared table with a filter over it.
- Encrypted in transit — HTTPS throughout, with the origin unreachable except through it
- No public database — databases and background services sit in private networks with no public address
- Filtered at the edge — a web application firewall with rate limits, tightest on sign-in
- Backed up — automatic backups with fourteen days of point-in-time recovery, on a database replicated across availability zones
- Secrets in a vault — keys and credentials are stored in a managed secret store, never in configuration files
- Watched — alarms on error rate, response time and database health reach us before they reach you
- Region
- AWS eu-central-1, Frankfurt
- Delivery
- browser only — nothing to install
- Isolation
- own subdomain and separated data per customer
- Backups
- automatic, 14 days point-in-time
- Database
- PostgreSQL 17, replicated across availability zones
- Documents
- versioned object storage, reachable only through signed, expiring links
- AI
- optional — without a key configured, the AI features simply stay off
Before you ask
The questions we get
Can Plainova hold our data model, or do we have to work the way it wants?
Yours. Object types, attributes, relations and statuses are defined per installation, and there is no industry hard-wired into the product. That is the reason the same system plans film productions and product launches.
Where is our data?
On AWS in Frankfurt, in the EU region, and it stays there. Databases have no public address; documents live in versioned object storage that can only be reached through signed links that expire.
What do we have to install?
Nothing. Plainova runs in the browser, under your own subdomain. Updates are ours to deploy; there is no client to roll out.
Can we get our data out again?
Yes, and without asking us. The export on the data page and the REST API both reach everything the interface can. Getting your data out is not a feature we hold back.
Do we have to use the AI?
No. Without an API key configured, the AI features stay off and the rest of the platform works exactly as it does with them. They are a way to skip legwork, not a dependency.
What gets sent to the AI provider?
Only what the request needs, and only when you use an AI feature — the object you have open, the document you asked about, the plan you want drafted. The provider and the key are configured per installation, so you know which service that is.
Does the AI change things behind our back?
No. Where a single sentence could mean many changes — a plan, a data model — the assistant proposes and you confirm. A plan proposal even arrives as its own version, so your existing plan is untouched until you activate it.
We already have systems. Does this have to replace them?
No. The REST API and CSV import exist so Plainova can sit alongside what you have. Most installations start with one area — usually planning — and grow from there.
Something not answered here? Ask us — a short answer is cheaper for both of us than a long demo.
Does Plainova fit your planning problem?
The fastest way to find out is a conversation — with your model, not with a demo database.
info@createctrl.com +49 89 55 27 77-0
Plainova is a product of CreateCtrl AG, Munich.