Your whole operation, running as one machine.

Plan the work, map it out, measure it and write it down in one online workspace. Every part is connected, so a change in one place moves everything else. No more switching tools to follow one piece of work.

Opening to early teams first: ask for access and we will set your team up. Free for up to 2 people, no card needed.

One place for the whole jobBoards, canvas, dashboards, documentation
Your team sees changes in secondsNo refresh, no re-keying
One flat price per teamNot a bill per person
Leave whenever you likeEverything exports, on every plan
The name

Mechanesmos: many parts, moving as one

From the Greek μηχανή (mechane), an ingenious device, the word that gave the world the "machine", and μηχανισμός (mechanismos), a mechanism: separate parts built to move together.

That is the whole idea. Your plans, sketches, numbers and documents stop being loose parts and become gears in one machine. Turn one, and the rest turn with it.

The problem

The work is not the hard part. The tab-switching is.

You plan in one tool, sketch in another, report from a third and write it up somewhere else again. Each one is good at its job. The time, and the truth, get lost in between them.

Attention lost at every switch

Each change of tool means finding your place again. Across a day that is a lot of small restarts.

The same thing typed again and again

A task in the tracker, pasted on the whiteboard, re-keyed for the report, described again in the document. The copies drift apart.

A stack of bills that grows with every hire

Each tool charges per person, per month. Adding a colleague means adding a seat on every one of them.

What you get

One machine. Every view you need.

A task is stored once. The table row, the kanban card, the whiteboard card, the chart and the link inside a document are all the same record. Change it in one place and it is changed in all of them, for everyone on the team.

Instead of a tracker

Boards

Tables and kanban with groups, custom columns, owners, dates and status labels.

Instead of a whiteboard

Canvas

Notes, shapes and connectors, plus live cards showing the real status of real tasks.

Instead of a reporting tool

Analytics

Import data, clean and reshape it in steps, then chart it 19 ways. Click any bar to filter every other chart.

Instead of a doc portal

Knowledge hub

Folders, pages and files. Pages link to tasks and embed live boards and charts.

Built for a team

Invite colleagues by email. Owners manage people, editors change things, viewers look without changing.

Everyday extras

Calendar, daily journal, instant search, an activity log of who changed what, and undo.

Keeps going if the connection drops

Your browser holds a working copy. Carry on, and your changes are sent when you are back online.

For the skeptical buyer

You do not have to switch. Run it next to what you have.

New software from a name you have not heard of should earn its place. So do not move anything. Put a copy of one real project in Mechanesmos, use both for a week, and judge it on your own work. If it proves itself, make the switch.

Create a free account

Name, email, password. No card. You start in an example workspace so you can click around straight away.

2 minutes

Bring one real board

Export a board from your current tracker as a spreadsheet (CSV) file and import it. Your original stays exactly where it is, untouched.

5 minutes

Invite a colleague for a week

The free plan is for 2 people: you and one colleague. See whether one shared place saves you both time. If it does not, export or delete your data and walk away.

Your own pace
What trying it commits you to: nothing. No card is taken, nothing is installed, your existing tools and data are not changed, and you can export or delete everything you put in.
Your data

Plain answers about where your work lives.

You are being asked to trust a new company with your project data. Here is exactly what happens to it, and how to check.

It is yours and it exports

A full backup, every board as a spreadsheet file, every page as plain text. Free on every plan, including after you cancel.

Check it: Workspace and data, then "All tasks (.csv)". Open the file in Excel.

Only your team can see it

Each workspace is private to the people its owner invites. Roles are enforced by the server, not just hidden in the screen.

Check it: invite a colleague as a viewer and ask them to try to change something.

We do not sell or mine it

No advertising, no tracking scripts, no use of your content to train anything. We are paid by subscriptions and nothing else.

Check it: press F12, open the Network tab: every request goes to this site only.
The question behind the question

"What if it does not work out?"

A fair thing to ask of any new vendor. These are the commitments, in writing.

What you may be used toMechanesmos
Adding a colleagueOne more seat on every toolNo extra charge within your plan's team size
Getting your data outDepends on the plan and the toolOne click, every plan: backup file, spreadsheet files, plain text
If you cancelAccess often ends with the billing periodYou can still sign in to export your data
If prices changeApplied at renewalNever within a period you have paid for; at least 90 days' notice
If we ever had to closeVariesAdvance notice and a complete export for every customer
Changing your mindVaries30-day refund

The middle column describes common practice across subscription software in general, not any particular company. Check the terms of the tools you use.

Is it right for you

Who makes the switch, and what changes.

Teams of 2 to about 30 people who run projects across several tools get the most from Mechanesmos. If one of these sounds like your week, it was built for you.

Today

The tracker, the whiteboard and the report never agree

In Mechanesmos they are the same record. Move a card and the board, the canvas and the chart all change with it.

Today

You rebuild the same report every week

Save the cleaning steps once. Bring in the new export and every chart on the dashboard updates.

Today

Every hire adds a seat on every tool

One flat price for the team. Adding a colleague within your plan costs nothing extra.

Today

Status updates are meetings and emails

Give clients or managers a viewer seat and a live dashboard. They see the real state of the work without asking.

Today

Knowledge lives in folders nobody opens

Pages sit next to the work, link to the tasks they describe and show live boards and charts inside them.

Today

Leaving a tool feels impossible

Everything exports on every plan, as a backup file, spreadsheets and plain text. You stay because it works, not because you are stuck.

What it does not do yet: there is no app-store app (it works in a phone's browser and can be added to the home screen); you do not see a colleague's cursor move as they type (their text arrives within a few seconds); it does not connect to other business systems or databases; files are limited to 400 KB each and data tables to 50,000 rows.
Pricing

One flat price for the team.

Free for up to 2 people. Team is €59 a month for up to 10 people, not per person. Work out what your current tools cost and compare.

Questions

Straight answers.

Do I have to move everything over to try it?

No. Import a copy of one board and leave your current tools exactly as they are. Nothing in them is changed.

How quickly do colleagues see my changes?

Within a few seconds, with no refresh. Changes from different people are combined, so two of you can work on the same board, whiteboard, dashboard or page at once. When you both write in the same page, each person's text appears for the other within a few seconds and neither cursor jumps. You do not see each other's cursors, and if you both rewrite the very same words, both versions are kept side by side for you to tidy.

What happens if my internet drops?

You can keep working. Your browser holds a working copy and sends your changes when the connection returns.

Where is my data stored?

On our server, in a private workspace only the people you invite can open, with a working copy in your own browser. The server is in Germany, in the European Union, and is backed up every night. The security page has the details.

How far do the analytics go?

You can bring in a CSV or Excel file, paste from a spreadsheet, or use any board as live data. Then add steps to filter, calculate new columns with formulas, group, pivot, unpivot, merge and append tables, and chart the result as columns, lines, pies, scatter, heat maps, tree maps, funnels, waterfalls, histograms, box plots, gauges and pivot tables, with saved measures and filters, including date ranges, that apply across a dashboard. It covers everyday reporting. It does not have a formula language as deep as a dedicated BI tool, direct database connections, or capacity for very large data.

Can I get everything out again?

Yes, at any time and on every plan: a full backup file, every board as a spreadsheet file and every page as plain text.

How much can a workspace hold?

Thousands of tasks and pages. It is not a file server: uploads are limited to 400 KB each.

Why is it so much cheaper than a stack of separate tools?

It is one application instead of several, and we price per team instead of per person.

See it with your own project before you decide anything.

A free account, an example workspace, and your current tools left exactly as they are.