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RationalPlan

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by Stand By Soft SRL · www.rationalplan.com

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RationalPlan at a glance

Vendor
Stand By Soft SRL
Headquarters
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026
Data hosting
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Free plan
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates RationalPlan 2.5/5, the mean of 6 judges. RationalPlan is a project management suite from Stand By Soft, a Romanian company founded in 1997, sold in Single Project, Multi Project, Project Viewer and Project Server editions. how scores are made
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Vendor pages captured 3 Nov 2026; evaluated by the panel 3 Nov 2026. all sources

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The Data Protection Officer

Weighted verdict

Reads the DPA before the feature list. Optimizes for GDPR posture: EU hosting, subprocessor exposure, deletion guarantees. Rejects anything that cannot answer where the data lives.

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

Scored by The Data Protection Officer

Panel median The Data Protection Officer 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 Data Protection Officer
Collaboration depth 3 of 5 3.5 of 5
Reporting 3 of 5 2.5 of 5
Integrations 2 of 5 2 of 5
Onboarding effort 2 of 5 2 of 5
European sovereignty 2 of 5 2.5 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 Data Protection Officer

The captured pages document real multi-person work: comments on tasks with automatic email notifications, concurrent multi-user access through a centralized server, a Multi Project edition linking projects through shared dependencies and common resources, and a free view-only product for stakeholders. Guest-level editing permissions and live workload views are not documented, so it sits below the top tier but comfortably above basic shared task lists. 1 5 7 9

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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 Data Protection Officer

Resource distribution reports covering assigned, actual, remaining and overtime work and cost reports by resource category are documented, with exports to spreadsheet and.xls formats. We found no public information on configurable dashboards, budget tracking as a live view, or scheduled report delivery, so this reads as solid standard reporting rather than a reporting product. 5 7 9

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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 Data Protection Officer

Documented connections are Google Drive and Dropbox for opening and saving project files, Microsoft Project.mpp import with export to MS Project.xml and.xls, and assignment emails in.ics calendar format. We found no public information on a documented public API, webhooks, or Slack/Teams connections, which keeps this at a handful of practical file-format bridges. 5 7 9

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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 Data Protection Officer

The Single Project edition is positioned for novice or accidental project managers, Microsoft Project import can pull existing work in, a free viewer exists, and project management template pages appear among the captures. We found no public information on trial terms, payment requirements, or guided setup, so the signup-to-first-project path cannot be verified. 7 9 10 11

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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 Data Protection Officer

A Romanian company with a Craiova address, GDPR language stating that Stand By Soft as Controller uses processors that also implement GDPR requirements, and a genuine on-premises server option give real substance; an on-premises deployment answers the residency question completely. But the cloud service runs on AWS with no documented region, the privacy statement dates to May 2018, and we found no public information on a data-processing agreement or deletion guarantees, so where cloud project data lives cannot be verified from the captured pages. 2 5 7

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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 Data Protection Officer

A live chat solution described as offering online first-level support is documented, on-premises installation documentation appears among the captures, and blog news articles serve as a visible changelog. We found no public information on a searchable help center, response-time commitments, or support levels per plan. 2 3 7

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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 Data Protection Officer not rated — no public information

We found no public information on pricing for any edition in the captured pages; the only related fact is that online purchases are handled through the e-commerce provider Avangate. This criterion is reported for the buyer's awareness but does not count toward my verdict. 1 2

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 6 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

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Questions about RationalPlan

Is RationalPlan European?

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

Where does RationalPlan store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026.

Does RationalPlan have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026.

What are the best alternatives to RationalPlan?

As of 3 Nov 2026, the panel rates awork (4/5), InLoox (4/5) and Kantree (4/5) highest among the other 64 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: RationalPlan alternatives.

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Sources (11)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor page www.rationalplan.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Privacy policy — found from the homepage www.rationalplan.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Self-hosting / on-premises installation docs — found from the homepage www.rationalplan.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Collaboration depth — found from sitemap www.rationalplan.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Collaboration depth — found from sitemap www.rationalplan.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Reporting — found from sitemap www.rationalplan.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Reporting — found from sitemap www.rationalplan.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Integrations — found from sitemap www.rationalplan.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Integrations — found from sitemap www.rationalplan.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Onboarding effort — found from sitemap www.rationalplan.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Onboarding effort — found from sitemap www.rationalplan.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →