KnownShift Platform
KnownShift Project OS
Turn project requirements into a delivery-ready plan.
Move from requirements and assumptions to backlog, estimation, delivery planning, commercials and client-ready project artifacts through one governed workflow.
Billed to one user
Currently unavailable for new purchases.
KnownShift Project OS converts project requirements into an approved backlog, defensible estimate, executable delivery plan, commercial model and professional project documentation.
The connected workflow
Each stage consumes the approved output of the one before it, which is what makes a commercial position traceable back to a requirement.
Requirements & Discovery
Understand what is being asked for, and what has not been said.
- Requirements capture and analysis
- Scope understanding
- Assumptions
- Clarification questions
- Requirement structuring
- Dependencies
Estimation
Size the work in the unit your organisation actually estimates in.
- Story Points
- Person-Days
- Assumptions
- Transparent estimation basis
- Estimation scenarios
Backlog
Structure the work so every item traces to an approved requirement.
- Epics
- Features
- User stories
- Acceptance criteria
- Dependency awareness
- Structured backlog
- Traceability
Execution Plan
Turn the sized backlog into a team, a sequence and a timeline.
- Team model
- Resource planning
- Timeline
- Milestones
- Phases
- Capacity
- Sequencing
- Delivery assumptions
Commercial Setup
Configure how the engagement is costed before anything is priced.
- Delivery model
- Locations
- Roles
- Rate cards
- Costing assumptions
- Commercial configuration
Commercials
Produce a client price you can defend line by line.
- Project cost
- Client price
- Time and Materials
- Fixed Price
- Margin
- Markup
- Contingency
- Commercial scenarios
Artifacts
Generate project documentation from approved data, not from a blank template.
- Proposal
- Kickoff deck
- Project initiation and governance documents
- Team structure and RACI
- Definition of Done
- Test strategy and approval records
How KnownShift uses AI
- 1KnownShift proposes.
- 2You review.
- 3You edit.
- 4You approve.
- 5Approved information becomes a governed project baseline.
What PM OS is not
KnownShift Project OS prepares and governs the project. Day-to-day execution can continue in Jira, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project or the organisation's preferred delivery platform.
- Issue-level execution tracking
- Source control
- Timesheet management
- Actual-cost accounting
- Earned-value tracking
- Benefits-realisation tracking
PM OS pricing
PM OS is currently sales-led. Choose a plan and we will set your organisation up directly.
PM OS Individual
For individual project managers, consultants and delivery professionals.
- 1 user
- Up to 3 active projects
- 120 included AI credits per month
- Full requirements to artifacts workflow
PM OS Professional
RecommendedFor small delivery teams running several engagements at once.
- Up to 3 users
- Up to 10 active projects
- 400 shared AI credits per month
- Full requirements to artifacts workflow
PM OS Team / Organisation
For larger teams that need configurable usage, onboarding and organisation-level support.
Quoted per organisation
- Larger teams
- Configurable usage
- Organisation-level onboarding
- Support
- Admin, security and integration options as they are released
PM OS is currently sales-led. There is no self-service checkout, so every plan starts with a conversation.
How AI Credits Work
An AI credit represents a unit of AI work, weighted by how much analysis the task actually requires. Structuring a short requirement list costs less than analysing a full requirement document and producing a backlog from it.
Credits are included with each plan and reset monthly. Deterministic work, such as recalculating a commercial model or regenerating a document from data you have already approved, does not consume credits.
Credits are a KnownShift measure of work, not a resale of any AI provider's tokens.
The KnownShift platform family
PM OS is the platform available today. Two further platforms are planned to extend the same approach to portfolios and to enterprise delivery governance.
From project execution to enterprise governance
PM OS works within a project. The planned platforms work across many of them, and across the way delivery itself is governed. Each serves a different management layer of the same delivery operating model.
- 1One project
KnownShift Project OS
This pageIs this project defined well enough to start executing?
- Requirements
- Backlog
- Estimation
- Execution Planning
- Commercial Baseline
- Delivery Artifacts
Takes one project from a raw requirement to an execution-ready baseline.
- 2Several interdependent projects
KnownShift Program OS
Do these initiatives hold together as one commitment we can approve?
- Program Objectives
- Constituent Projects
- Cross-Project Dependencies
- Integrated Roadmap
- Shared Resource Demand
- Program Commercials
Turns related initiatives into one sequenced, execution-ready program.
Explore KnownShift Program OS - 3Competing investments
KnownShift Portfolio OS
Are we funding the right initiatives, in the right order, within our capacity?
- Initiative Intake
- Prioritisation
- Investment Scenarios
- Demand versus Capacity
- Budget Allocation
- Portfolio Roadmap
Supports investment, prioritisation and capacity decisions across initiatives.
Explore KnownShift Portfolio OS - 4The organisation
KnownShift PMO OS
Do projects and programs here run to a consistent, governed standard?
- Lifecycle Standards
- Governance Framework
- Stage and Quality Gates
- Reporting Standards
- RAID and Estimating Standards
- PMO Operating Model
Defines how projects and programs are governed across the organisation.
Explore KnownShift PMO OS
Common principles
- Structured decisions
- Traceable assumptions
- Human oversight
- Professional outputs
- Explainable intelligence
See PM OS against your own project
The fastest way to judge PM OS is to run it against a project you already know. Tell us about one and we will walk it through with you.
Evaluating this for a team? Discuss team or enterprise use with the KnownShift team.