Consilium

Project management and organizational software is a complicated domain and already a well-saturated and competitive market.
Due to the various levels of technical affinity, user-friendliness is a key aspect for software, trying to gain a foothold in this sector.
Especially for smaller ventures, and freelancers, project management and administrative tasks are often not their main activities, but something keeping them from spending more time doing what they really want.
On top of that, project management, creating offers and invoices are often only seen as a means to an end and not something to be enjoyed.
Therefore, project management software should make the lives of their users easier, by reducing the overhead to a minimum.
Tools in this domain should offer broad functionality while not getting overly complicated to use.

This thesis identifies smaller ventures and freelancers as the perfect market segment to target with software tailor-made for their needs through a market analysis.
Consilium addresses their needs by uniting different tasks, previously divided across multiple tools into one end-to-end software solution.
While multiple freelancers and small ventures have previously been creating their offers with Word, tracking their efforts with Excel and making their notes in a text editor, they can now just use Consilium.
Consilium identified the synergies that can be used between those various administrative tasks to make them simpler.
By introducing innovative concepts, Consilium managed to become a well-rounded administrative tool, that can learn with the users, offering functionality from creating offers to creating invoices, while maintaining sufficient depth to model even complex workflows.
Consilium is integrated into the AWS cloud and offers uncomplicated login functionality allowing potential users to sign up in seconds, using social logins.
While primarily targeting freelancers, Workspaces are implemented, allowing users to collaborate.
On top of all the functionality offered, Consilium maintains a high level of customizability, allowing for custom branding on exported documents and content to be added using a Rich text editor, which is then translated and exported into a PDF.
Consilium manages to reduce the administrative overhead significantly by building smart workflows, through clever reuse of data.
Early user tests show, Consilium is already in a state, which helps freelancers improve their productivity, by streamlining processes, showing significant improvements, compared to their previous processes.

Consilium has the potential to become even more.
By introducing a customer-view Consilium could become a marketplace, where users could tender projects and freelancers could offer their work.
Here, a match-making algorithm could achieve groundbreaking results for freelancers and make finding someone to implement your project extremely easy.
Another interesting lane to go down would be to add the feature where customers could approach freelancers with a potential project description which through conversational artificial intelligence could be translated into an offer draft for the service provider.