After implementing Profit.co, our employee participation in goal setting jumped from 60% to 80%, and review cycles became much faster.
Profit.co vs ServiceNow
The ServiceNow alternative for teams that need earned value and strategy, not just intake and workflow. Profit.co runs portfolios, costs, OKRs, and scorecards in one platform.
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Trusted by 1,500+ Organizations worldwide
Profit.co vs ServiceNow
Projects that connect to everything
ServiceNow SPM handles demand intake, resource planning, and workflow with real depth. Profit.co adds the financial and strategy layer: earned value, cost-benefit analysis, OKRs, and Balanced Scorecards.
Portfolio Management
Create, track, and optimize portfolios with nested projects, roadmaps, and scenario planning.
| Capability | Profit.co | ServiceNow |
|---|---|---|
| Create portfolios with nested sub-portfolios and projects, built from templates. | ||
| View portfolio progress on a Gantt timeline and a cross-portfolio roadmap. | ||
| Track portfolio health by stage, priority, compliance, and risk in one panel. | ||
| Run scenario planning to model which projects to include or exclude. | ||
| Align portfolios to OKRs on a visual strategy tree. | ||
| Export portfolio stage and tollgate tracking as ready-to-present slide reports. | ||
| Aggregate risks across all child projects into a single portfolio risk register. |
Project Planning & Execution
Build project plans with milestones, Gantt timelines, tollgates, and closure workflows.
| Capability | Profit.co | ServiceNow |
|---|---|---|
| Plan projects with milestones and a combined milestone and task Gantt. | ||
| Manage tasks in Kanban, List, and Gantt views with subtasks and dependencies. | ||
| Map cross-project dependencies showing blocking and waiting-on relationships by criticality. | ||
| Track project baseline and measure start, finish, and budget variance. | ||
| Run phase-gate tollgate workflows with stage-by-stage approvals and checklists. | ||
| Score and prioritize projects on a value and complexity quadrant. | ||
| Close projects with a structured closure workflow including lessons learned. |
Financial Management & Cost Control
Track budgets, expenses, earned value, timesheets, and cost-benefit analysis per project.
| Capability | Profit.co | ServiceNow |
|---|---|---|
| Track budget, spend, and remaining amount at project and milestone level. | ||
| Run Earned Value metrics (CPI, SPI, EAC, VAC) automatically per project and portfolio. | ||
| Log expenses by category and run variance reports against the allocated budget. | ||
| Run cost-benefit analysis with hurdle rate, capitalization rate, and amortization schedule. | ||
| Record time against tasks through timesheets with multi-level approval workflows. | ||
| Separate billable from non-billable hours and manage billing type per milestone. | ||
| Manage bill of quantities with line items, deduction types, and unit-of-measure tracking. |
Resource & Capacity Planning
Allocate and track team capacity, skills, and logged effort across projects.
| Capability | Profit.co | ServiceNow |
|---|---|---|
| View team capacity and utilization in an allocation heatmap across active projects. | ||
| Allocate resources from a pool organized by employee and by resource type. | ||
| Assign cost rates per resource type for automatic financial rollup. | ||
| Match resources to projects based on skill sets and available hours. | ||
| Detect resource over-allocation automatically and apply configurable over-assignment prevention rules. | ||
| Track planned allocated hours against logged effort per person and project. |
Demand Management & Prioritization
Capture, score, and prioritize project requests from intake through to approval.
| Capability | Profit.co | ServiceNow |
|---|---|---|
| Capture project requests through a structured intake form with benefit and complexity scoring. | ||
| Prioritize the request pipeline on a benefit-index versus complexity-index quadrant. | ||
| Run optimization scenarios to model which requests to approve within resource constraints. | ||
| Route requests through configurable stage-by-stage approval workflows with checklists. | ||
| Convert approved requests into fully configured live projects with a single action. | ||
| Track all requests in a stage-funnel view from intake through to conversion. |
Governance, Risk & Reporting
Manage risks, run approvals, and report on portfolio performance from one place.
| Capability | Profit.co | ServiceNow |
|---|---|---|
| Maintain a risk register with probability-impact scoring, a 5×5 heatmap, and mitigation plans. | ||
| Track issues by type (error report, RFI, change request) with resolution workflows. | ||
| Build custom executive dashboards with 20+ widget types in a shared cockpit. | ||
| View EVM gauges and CPI x SPI quadrant charts at portfolio and project level. | ||
| Keep an org-wide lessons library with approval workflows, categories, and export. | ||
| Maintain a full audit log of all changes across portfolios and projects. | ||
| Run structured project approvals for tollgates, CBA, and closure from one queue. |
OKRs
Run OKRs as their own discipline, drafted with AI, weighted, checked in, and cascaded across every level.
| Capability | Profit.co | ServiceNow |
|---|---|---|
| An AI agent drafts and scores objectives before the cycle. | ||
| Weight key results so the objective score reflects priorities. | ||
| Measure key results by percent, milestone, increase, decrease, project, or task. | ||
| Start from 100+ prebuilt OKR templates. | ||
| Align and cascade objectives across every level. | ||
| Run regular OKR check-ins with progress updates. | ||
| Build OKR dashboards and reports, with PowerPoint export. |
Balanced Scorecard
Track strategy across all four perspectives: financial, customer, process, and learning.
| Capability | Profit.co | ServiceNow |
|---|---|---|
| Map objectives across four BSC perspectives. | ||
| Build strategy maps linking each perspective. | ||
| Run Hoshin Kanri policy deployment. | ||
| Plan strategic initiatives per perspective. | ||
| Weight perspectives and objectives. | ||
| Track scorecard health on dashboards. | ||
| Cascade the scorecard across the organization. |
Performance Management
Run reviews, 360 feedback, and one-on-ones tied to the goals people own.
| Capability | Profit.co | ServiceNow |
|---|---|---|
| Run structured performance review cycles. | ||
| Collect 360-degree feedback from peers and managers. | ||
| Hold one-on-ones with shared agendas and notes. | ||
| Tie appraisals to real objective and KPI results. | ||
| Track competencies and development plans. | ||
| Run self-assessments and manager reviews. | ||
| Use custom review templates. |
Employee Engagement
Track morale with pulse surveys, eNPS, and peer recognition.
| Capability | Profit.co | ServiceNow |
|---|---|---|
| Run pulse surveys on a regular cadence. | ||
| Track eNPS and sentiment trends. | ||
| Recognize good work with peer recognition. | ||
| Act on results with follow-up plans. | ||
| Run anonymous surveys. | ||
| Connect engagement to goals and performance. |
Collaboration
Keep teams aligned with shared task views, comments, mentions, and activity feeds across every project.
| Capability | Profit.co | ServiceNow |
|---|---|---|
| Comment on tasks and objectives with @mentions and threaded replies. | ||
| Share real-time activity feeds across portfolios and projects. | ||
| Attach files and links directly to tasks, milestones, and objectives. | ||
| Share cross-functional dashboards with view-only access for stakeholders. | ||
| Send automated in-app and email notifications on status changes. | ||
| Build shared team workspaces with configurable access controls. |
Platform & Security
SOC 2 certified, with single sign-on and 100+ integrations.
| Capability | Profit.co | ServiceNow |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 Type II certified. | ||
| ISO 27001 certified. | ||
| GDPR compliant. | ||
| HIPAA compliant. | ||
| 99.9% uptime SLA. | ||
| 100+ integrations with third-party tools. | ||
| Single sign-on and role-based access control. |
Support
Get 24/7 support, guided onboarding, and OKR coaching from real people.
| Capability | Profit.co | ServiceNow |
|---|---|---|
| 24/7 live support. | ||
| Guided onboarding. | ||
| Dedicated customer success manager. | ||
| Help center and documentation. | ||
| OKR coaching from experts. | ||
| OKR certification program. |
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Profit.co is more than OKRs. See the full platform compared, module by module.
Easy Setup & Adoption
Get started in 3 steps
- 1
Connect & Configure
Integrate your existing tools. Map your org structure, roles, and reporting hierarchy.
- 2
Align & Cascade
Set company OKRs and cascade them to every team, so every level stays connected and traceable.
- 3
Execute & Measure
Track progress on live dashboards. Let AI flag gaps before targets are missed.
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Rated 4.7/5 by 500+ Leaders
One of the significant benefits we found was reduced time spent on reviews — 75% reduction of time spent in reviews for executives.
Profit.co gave our teams a shared language for strategy — priorities stay visible, and execution finally matches the plan.
We accomplished nearly 90% of our high-level objectives that we set out at the beginning of the year.
With Profit.co, strategy reviews stopped being slide decks — we see live progress and act on risks in the same week.
OKRs in Profit.co helped us connect product delivery to company outcomes — everyone knows what winning looks like.
After implementing Profit.co, our employee participation in goal setting jumped from 60% to 80%, and review cycles became much faster.
One of the significant benefits we found was reduced time spent on reviews — 75% reduction of time spent in reviews for executives.
Profit.co gave our teams a shared language for strategy — priorities stay visible, and execution finally matches the plan.
We accomplished nearly 90% of our high-level objectives that we set out at the beginning of the year.
With Profit.co, strategy reviews stopped being slide decks — we see live progress and act on risks in the same week.
OKRs in Profit.co helped us connect product delivery to company outcomes — everyone knows what winning looks like.
We finally have one place where goals, projects, and performance stay aligned — no more chasing updates across tools.
Profit.co made cross-team priorities transparent — we ship what matters and drop the noise with confidence.
Just in the last year, tracking work in Profit.co made it easy to prove ROI and scale OKRs across the company.
Weekly check-ins in Profit.co keep every squad honest about progress — blockers surface early, not at quarter end.
Leaders now have clear, real-time visibility into progress — strategy stopped living in disconnected spreadsheets.
Profit.co helped us turn annual plans into weekly execution — teams know the score and move with clarity.
We finally have one place where goals, projects, and performance stay aligned — no more chasing updates across tools.
Profit.co made cross-team priorities transparent — we ship what matters and drop the noise with confidence.
Just in the last year, tracking work in Profit.co made it easy to prove ROI and scale OKRs across the company.
Weekly check-ins in Profit.co keep every squad honest about progress — blockers surface early, not at quarter end.
Leaders now have clear, real-time visibility into progress — strategy stopped living in disconnected spreadsheets.
Profit.co helped us turn annual plans into weekly execution — teams know the score and move with clarity.
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Profit.co is a ServiceNow alternative built for enterprise project and portfolio management. ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management is strong on demand intake, resource planning, and workflow automation. Profit.co covers those areas and adds earned value metrics, cost-benefit analysis, OKRs with 400+ preloaded KPIs, Balanced Scorecards, and 16 AI agents in one platform. Rated 4.7/5 by 500+ Strategy Leaders on G2, Profit.co serves 1,500+ organizations across 70+ countries.
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