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Plan multi-project workloads, track team capacity, and collaborate with clients and freelancers. Built specifically for agencies with integrated AI for scheduling and reporting.
European project management & productivity alternative based in Germany.
awork is the project management platform agencies love, built to keep clients happy and projects profitable through capacity planning, time tracking, and AI-powered automation. Over 10,000 teams run their billable work on awork, replacing the scattered mix of project boards, spreadsheets, and timesheets that typically slows service businesses down.
The platform unifies projects, resources, internal and external collaboration, docs, and time tracking in one place. awork Connect brings clients and freelancers into the workspace at no extra cost, awork Docs centralizes knowledge, and awork AI automates reports, rescheduling, documentation, and effort estimation so account managers spend more time on client work and less on admin.
Key benefits:
- Capacity planning based on real availability across teams and freelancers
- Time tracking tied to projects and tasks to maximize billable utilization
- awork Connect for free collaboration with clients and external contributors
- awork AI for automated reports, estimates, and project rescheduling
- Native integrations with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Calendar, and more
awork GmbH is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and was founded in 2019. All customer data is hosted exclusively on certified servers inside Germany, the platform is ISO 27001-certified and fully GDPR-compliant, and awork guarantees more than 99.99% uptime, making it a genuinely sovereign German alternative to Asana and Monday.
Trusted by Viva con Agua, Looksfilm, Ströer, thjnk, EnBW, and ETH Zurich, with more than 10,000 agency and in-house teams using awork every day.
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