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by LiquidPlanner, Inc. · www.liquidplanner.com

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LiquidPlanner at a glance

Vendor
LiquidPlanner, Inc.
Headquarters
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Data hosting
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Free plan
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates LiquidPlanner 2/5, the mean of 6 judges. Portfolio Manager (formerly LiquidPlanner), from LiquidPlanner, Inc., is project management and collaboration software positioned for large organizations managing multiple projects and large teams. how scores are made
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Vendor pages captured 20 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 21 Oct 2026. all sources

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The UX Purist

Weighted verdict

Measures time-to-first-value with a stopwatch. Optimizes for clarity, density and software that teaches itself. Rejects fourteen-step setups and empty screens that offer no way forward.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The UX Purist

Panel median The UX Purist This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The UX Purist
Collaboration depth 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Reporting 2 of 5 2 of 5
Integrations 1.5 of 5 1.5 of 5
Onboarding effort 1.5 of 5 1.5 of 5
European sovereignty 1.5 of 5 1.5 of 5
Support & documentation 2 of 5 2 of 5

Collaboration depth

How this is scored

How much real multi-person project work the tool carries: shared planning, assignments, dependencies, workload, comments, guest access.

0 — A personal task list; a second user has no defined place in it.

3 — Tasks can be shared and assigned, but planning stays per-person — no shared timeline, workload or dependency view.

5 — Solid shared projects with assignments, comments and at least one team-level planning view; gaps appear in cross-project or capacity planning.

8 — Team-level planning is first-class: cross-project views, workload/capacity, dependencies, guest or client access with sane permissions.

10 — Handles the full span from two freelancers to a structured department in one model — planning, capacity, permissions and client involvement all without workarounds.

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The UX Purist

Automatic workload levelling across multiple projects with dependencies, workload distribution views over 30/60/90/180 days, and real-time scenario modelling make planning team-first rather than per-person lists bolted together; task assignments, file sharing and real-time comments cover the daily loop. What I could not find is guest or client access or any permissions model beyond single sign-on, which caps the span between a small team and a structured department. 1

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Reporting

How this is scored

Whether the tool can answer questions about the work: progress, time, budgets, utilization — and export the answer.

0 — No reporting beyond looking at the board.

3 — Fixed per-project status views only; nothing aggregates across projects and nothing exports cleanly.

5 — Useful standard reports (progress, tracked time) with basic filters and CSV export, but limited customization and no budget/utilization depth.

8 — Configurable cross-project reporting incl. time, budgets and utilization, with dashboards and reliable exports.

10 — Reporting is a product in itself: custom report builder, scheduled delivery, API access to every metric the UI shows.

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The UX Purist

The analytics are real — Monte Carlo simulations across the portfolio produce finish dates at a stated 90% confidence, and early risk and capacity-overload detection answers questions a board never does. But we found no public information on exports, budgets, utilization reporting, custom report builders or scheduled delivery, so the answers stay on screen and cannot leave the building. 1

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Integrations

How this is scored

How well the tool connects to the rest of the stack: native integrations, calendar/comms hooks, API and webhooks, import/export paths.

0 — A closed box — no API, no integrations, CSV out if anything.

3 — A handful of marquee integrations, no public API or an API that covers a fraction of the product.

5 — The common set (calendar, Slack/Teams, file storage) plus a documented public API; automation platforms partially covered.

8 — Broad native catalogue, well-documented API and webhooks, first-class automation-platform support and real import paths from competitors.

10 — Ecosystem-grade: everything in 8 plus the tool is itself extensible (apps/plugins, AI/MCP surfaces) and exit via API export is complete.

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The UX Purist

Slack, Jira and single sign-on are the entire visible catalogue — a handful of marquee names. We found no public information on an API, webhooks, calendar or file-storage connections, automation platforms, or import paths from other tools, which is the minimum posture rather than a connected stack. 1

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Onboarding effort

How this is scored

Time and friction from signup to first real value for a small team, without paid services.

0 — No self-serve path — onboarding starts with a sales call and an implementation project.

3 — Self-serve exists but the first project requires configuration a newcomer cannot judge yet (workflows, custom fields, permissions) before anything works.

5 — A team gets a first project running within a day; trial requires payment details or key steps live behind docs.

8 — Signup to working project inside an hour: guided setup, sensible defaults, templates, trial without payment details.

10 — Minutes to value even for non-tool-people, importers pull existing work in, and the tool teaches its own advanced features as the team grows into them.

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The UX Purist

We found no public information on self-serve signup, a trial, templates or guided setup; the pitch targets large organizations and offers expert consultation services as the escalation path. The core mechanic also demands judgement before first value, since ranged estimates and priorities feed the simulation even though manual date entry is designed out. Guides and video tutorials exist, but nothing here evidences a signup-to-working-project path inside a day. 1

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where the company and the data actually sit: legal entity, ownership control, data residency, and subprocessor exposure to non-EU jurisdictions.

0 — Non-European vendor, data on US infrastructure under US law, no DPA worth the name.

3 — DPA and GDPR language present, but hosting defaults to the US or ownership sits outside Europe — compliance paperwork over substance.

5 — EU data residency is available and contractually fixed, but the vendor or its controlling owner is non-European, or core subprocessors put data within CLOUD Act reach.

8 — European company under European control with EU-resident data and a public DPA; remaining exposure is limited to identifiable subprocessors (e.g. a US hyperscaler's EU region) and is documented.

10 — European company, European control, EU-only data residency on European infrastructure, subprocessor list free of extraterritorial reach — verifiable, not asserted.

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The UX Purist

The compliance shelf is stocked — GDPR-compliant, ISO/IEC 27001 certified, SOC 2 Type II, with a trust centre — but we found no public information on data residency, a European legal entity, DPA terms, or subprocessor exposure, and the name on record is LiquidPlanner, Inc. with no European entity alongside it in the capture. Certificates describe practice, not jurisdiction. 1

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Support & documentation

How this is scored

Whether a stuck user gets unstuck: docs quality, support channels and their availability per plan, and the health of the learning surface.

0 — No docs beyond marketing pages; support is a contact form that may answer.

3 — Docs exist but are thin or stale; support on entry plans is effectively email-only with slow turnaround.

5 — Searchable help center covering the core product; chat or email support on all plans with reasonable response times.

8 — Deep, current docs incl. onboarding guides and templates; fast chat support not gated to top tiers; visible changelog.

10 — Docs, academy, community and support so good they are a reason to buy; SLAs published, support quality independent of plan.

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The UX Purist

New users are promised detailed guides, video tutorials, customer support teams, and expert consultation for heavier organizations — a named surface, well above a bare contact form. But we found no public information on support channels by plan, response times, searchability of the docs, a changelog, or SLAs, so I cannot time an answer I cannot see. 1

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

Can a buyer determine the real, payable cost of the tool for their team before talking to anyone?

0 — No public pricing at all — every number sits behind "contact sales".

3 — Some tiers are public, but a deciding factor (seat minimums, mandatory add-ons, billing-period surcharge, tax treatment) only surfaces at checkout or in fine print.

5 — Self-serve tiers are publicly priced and the billing-period difference is stated, but the headline number still needs qualifying — e.g. annual-only headline, taxes excluded without saying so, or an opaque enterprise tier doing real work.

8 — Every self-serve tier is fully priced with billing periods and tax treatment plain on the page; only genuinely custom enterprise work lacks a number.

10 — Every tier including enterprise has a public price or published price formula, and the headline number is the number on the invoice.

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The UX Purist

The capture contains no price, no tier, no billing period, nothing a buyer could multiply a team by — the real payable cost is unknowable from these pages without a conversation. Combined with the large-organization positioning and consultation services, this reads as sales-led end to end, and that is the definition of opaque. 1

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Questions about LiquidPlanner

Is LiquidPlanner European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where LiquidPlanner is based.

Where does LiquidPlanner store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026.

Does LiquidPlanner have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026.

What are the best alternatives to LiquidPlanner?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates awork (4/5), Kantree (4/5) and Teamwork.com (4/5) highest among the other 60 Project Management & Collaboration products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is awork (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: LiquidPlanner alternatives.

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