AchieveIt tracks the plan.
Vindaris connects it to what happens.
AchieveIt gives executives a clean view of strategic plans and initiative status. That view is a reporting layer. The plans live in AchieveIt and the work lives elsewhere, and no amount of automated status collection closes the distance between them.
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Last reviewed July 2026
AchieveIt reports on strategy execution. It does not own it.
AchieveIt is good at three jobs: holding a structured plan and initiative hierarchy, automating the status requests so managers stop chasing updates, and rendering dashboards an executive team will accept in a board meeting. Those are real strengths, and teams that adopt it usually do stop chasing updates. They are the strengths of a reporting system.
The work that executes those plans still happens in project management tools, spreadsheets, CRMs and task boards that AchieveIt has no native connection to. Status flows upward from managers who interpret progress and type it into a form. The dashboard reflects that interpretation rather than the ground truth. When a strategic initiative shows 70 percent complete, nothing in the system can trace the number back to the tasks, people and projects that produced it.
Plans and delivery remain two systems. AchieveIt sits above the work and asks people to report on it, which is the same architecture that limits every goal tool. A tracking layer that depends on humans to bridge the gap gets a bridge that is late, filtered and incomplete.
A plan reporting layer vs. plan connected to proof.
AchieveIt and Vindaris both hold a strategic plan and both roll it up for leadership. The difference is where the rollup comes from. AchieveIt collects it from managers on a cadence. Vindaris derives it from the work your teams are already doing in their existing tools.
- Strategic plans live in AchieveIt. The delivery work lives in other tools.
- Status is reported by managers rather than traced from the work.
- Automated reminders reduce chasing without changing the data source.
- Executive dashboards show interpreted progress, not observed progress.
- A percent-complete figure cannot be decomposed into the tasks behind it.
- Initiative status is traced from tasks, not collected from managers.
- No update request cycle, because there is nothing waiting to be reported.
- A percent-complete figure decomposes into the work that produced it.
- Risk surfaces from stalled work rather than from a RAG colour someone chose.
- Any framework, so OKRs and Rocks sit beside the strategic plan.
AchieveIt models the reporting chain. Vindaris models the delivery.
AchieveIt's objects follow the reporting process: the plan, the initiative, the update, the owner who supplies it. The product is very good at making that process reliable. Every value in it originates as a human judgement typed into a form.
| Object | AchieveIt | Vindaris |
|---|---|---|
| Central object | The initiative and its scheduled update | The task and its edges up to the initiative |
| Progress source | A percentage the owner reports | Task state in the connected delivery tools |
| What 70 percent means | The owner's estimate at the last update | Fourteen tasks, nine closed, three stalled |
| Update cadence | Scheduled, with automated reminders | Continuous |
| Status colour | Set by the reporter | Derived from pace against plan |
AchieveIt's automated reminders solve the collection problem well, which is why teams stop chasing updates after they adopt it. What automation cannot change is the data source. An initiative reported at 70 percent is a claim, and the system holds no way to check it, so the dashboard is exactly as accurate as the most optimistic manager in the chain.
Vindaris is a single system of record for goals and work rather than a reporting layer above it. When an initiative shows risk, the Work Graph can name the tasks that stalled, the owner whose load makes the date unlikely, and the point at which the pace stopped matching the plan. That is the difference between a dashboard that summarises what people said and one that reads what happened.
From AchieveIt, keeping the plan hierarchy.
The plan and initiative structure imports directly. The reporting cycle is what stops.
AchieveIt exports the plan hierarchy with initiatives, owners, target dates and current status. The structure imports intact, so the plan modelling work is preserved rather than repeated.
Every AchieveIt initiative is delivered somewhere else: a project tool, a CRM, a task board, a spreadsheet. Connect those. This is the layer the update requests were describing second-hand.
Confirm the proposed mappings between synced projects and the initiatives they deliver. From that point the percentage on the dashboard is a count of what closed rather than an estimate of what feels done.
The scheduled reminder has nothing left to collect. Owners still write commentary where judgement is genuinely required, but the number underneath is no longer something they produce, which also removes the incentive to round it up.
A plan-reporting platform, or a system that reads the plan.
AchieveIt sells into strategy offices and PMOs with quoted pricing, so evaluation starts with a conversation about scope and seats.
| Plan | AchieveIt | Vindaris |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | No free tier. | Free forever. Up to 5 people, 2 integrations, all core features. |
| Entry paid plan | Not published. Quoted per organization. | Connect, EUR 10 per user per month. All integrations, unlimited sync. |
| Upper plan | Not published. Scoped by plan count and user count. | Pro, EUR 20 per user per month. Unlimited users in one organization. |
| Published pricing | No. Evaluation begins with a sales conversation. | Yes, on the website. No quote required to evaluate. |
| Minimum commitment | Annual contract. | None. No seat minimum, no annual term, no setup fee. |
Vindaris publishes every tier: free forever for up to 5 people with 2 integrations, EUR 10 per user per month for Connect, EUR 20 for Pro. You can model your plan and connect a tool before speaking to anyone. See full plan comparison.
The category as a whole is compared in the best strategy execution software guide, and the argument underneath it is set out in the strategy execution gap whitepaper.
Vindaris vs AchieveIt, feature by feature.
AchieveIt is a well-built reporting platform and the table below does not dispute the reporting. It compares where the numbers come from, which is the axis a strategy office should be evaluating on.
| Feature | Vindaris | AchieveIt |
|---|---|---|
| How progress is measured | Read from task-level work and Slack context in the tools your team already uses. | Reported by plan owners and managers on a scheduled update cadence. |
| Goal frameworks supported | Framework-agnostic: OKR, KPI, EOS Rocks, OGSM, SMART, Balanced Scorecard, or hybrid. | Strategic plans and initiatives. OKR, EOS and OGSM structures are workarounds. |
| Connection to real work | Native work layer with bidirectional sync to HubSpot, Planner, Google, Jira, Asana. | No native work layer. Delivery happens in PM tools, CRMs and spreadsheets. |
| Risk detection | Automatic execution-risk flags from task movement, focus and pace against plan. | RAG status set by the person reporting, not detected from task movement. |
| Status reporting | Live views and AI risk summaries pushed to Slack, Teams, and email. | Executive dashboards and board-ready initiative rollups. |
| Capacity and bandwidth | Built-in bandwidth and capacity planning. | Not covered. |
| Ownership model | Single-owner accountability enforced structurally. | Initiative owner, with progress rolled up through the reporting chain. |
| Free plan | Free forever, including 2 integrations and up to 5 people. | No free tier. Pricing on quote. |
| Best fit | Teams that need an initiative's status traced to the tasks and people behind it. | Organizations whose main problem is collecting plan updates on a reliable cadence. |
How AchieveIt is reviewed, and where teams outgrow it.
AchieveIt is reviewed well by strategy and PMO teams for the discipline it brings to plan tracking, and its automated reminders genuinely reduce the chasing. The limits show up in the data itself: every number on the dashboard was typed by a manager interpreting progress, so it can never be traced back to the work.
- Automated update requests that materially cut the chasing overhead.
- Clear plan and initiative hierarchy that survives a large portfolio.
- Dashboards that hold up in a board meeting without rework.
- Responsive onboarding and customer success support.
- Every figure on the dashboard is a manager's interpretation, not observed data.
- No native connection to the tools where initiatives are actually delivered.
- An initiative marked 70 percent complete cannot be traced to the work behind it.
- Reporting cadence sets how stale the picture is allowed to get.
AchieveIt fixes the problem of updates not arriving. It leaves untouched the problem of updates not being true, and the second one is what turns a green plan into a missed year.
Goals, KPIs, tasks, and strategy in one place
See every goal connected to the work moving it.
Drag-and-drop your alignment structure. Roll up work progress, KPIs, and goals without enforcing any framework syntax.
Everyone knows exactly what matters most.
A clear view of each person's goals, KPIs, projects, and tasks. Start every week focused on what's important and due.
Run reports the way your management needs them.
Build custom views to rank teams, spot risks, compare KPIs to work. AI summaries push updates to Slack, Teams, and email.
Spot risks while there's still time to fix them.
Run heatmaps across teams, goals, KPIs, and projects. Save views and get notified when risk levels change.
Combine tasks and projects across your systems.
Sync HubSpot, MS Planner, Google Tasks, Asana and more into one view. Bi-directional sync keeps everything current while teams stay in their own tools.
Common questions, answered
What is the difference between AchieveIt and Vindaris?
Does AchieveIt connect to project management tools?
Can Vindaris replace AchieveIt for strategic planning?
Can I migrate from AchieveIt to Vindaris?
Free forever, including two integrations
Start free with full strategy, goal, KPI, task, and project management. Pay only when you add more than 4 people, need more integrations, or more AI summaries.
Best for individual contributors, small teams or startups. No credit card required.
- All features (incl. Alignment Canvas, My Priorities, Heatmap, Data Studio & Task Board)
- Set up 2 integrations of your choice
- Invite up to 4 additional members
- 5 ad-hoc AI risk summaries per month
Best for teams, small agencies, or departmental and team management.
- All in Free
- All integrations, unlimited sync
- Unlimited AI risk summaries & alignment suggestions - ad-hoc and scheduled
- Up to 10 users within one organization
Best for multiple teams, exec teams, Chiefs of Staff, departmental leadership or full-org deployments.
- All in Connect
- Unlimited users within one organization
- Direct human support email, 24h response time
- Human-led onboarding support
AchieveIt shows the plan as reported.
Vindaris shows it as executed.
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