In most teams the work lives in one tool and the steering in another: tasks on one side, a goals spreadsheet and a forgotten org chart on the other. Cosmo brings the two together, without imposing a six-month rollout.
The scenario is almost always the same. Everybody manages their own tasks in their own corner: a personal app, a notebook, a list in the messaging tool. The team, meanwhile, has a project-management tool where people record what has to be shared. The result: nobody has their full day on one screen, and the manager reconstructs the state of play by asking five people.
The cost of that double entry does not show up in a budget, but it is paid every day: tasks forgotten because they were in the other tool, a weekly meeting spent collecting information rather than deciding, and quarterly goals living in a slide reviewed twice a year.
In most tools the org chart is a picture: nice on the intranet, with no effect on the actual work. Here it is the central mechanism. Attaching somebody to a manager gives that manager what they need to support them (the person's load, their overdue tasks, their schedule) and nothing else. A middle manager sees their own scope, never their neighbour's, without a single permission being configured by hand.
Alongside that reporting line, cross-functional teams group people by project or by area, independently of who reports to whom. That is what lets a project lead run a piece of work with people who are not in their team, without duplicating the organisation or creating one workspace per department.
"Are you free on Thursday?" is still one of the most expensive questions of a working week, especially remotely. A manager reaches their team's calendar directly and places what needs placing, with no back and forth. The content of events marked as personal stays private, only the slot appears. That limit is not a detail: a tool experienced as surveillance gets filled in as little as possible, and very quickly stops being reliable.
A guided walkthrough goes back over the past week (what moved, what slipped, who is overloaded) and ends with decisions to take rather than a table to interpret. Three minutes alone in front of the screen replace a good part of the half hour spent collecting information in the meeting. The time recovered does not vanish: it goes back to the conversation that justified the meeting in the first place.
For goals the principle is the same as for tasks: they only survive if they are visible in the same place as the daily work. If the method is new to your team, the article OKRs vs SMART vs KPIs clarifies what each framework can do, and the free OKR template gives you a base to adapt.
The separation between what is shared and what stays private is built into the product, not left to everybody's goodwill. Projects attached to a team stay invisible to the others, the content of personal calendars never surfaces, and every person joining an organisation sees, before confirming, what it will be able to observe of their work. The separation is enforced at the level of the data itself: it is not the display that hides things, it is the access that is refused.
A team of fewer than five people uses company mode for free, with no crippled features and no trial period to watch: the org chart, projects, OKRs and statistics are all included. That is enough for a founding team, a department or a first pilot project to judge on the evidence before bringing the rest of the company on board.
The demo can be tried without creating an account: a fictional organisation of six people, with its projects, goals and org chart already filled in, so you can form a view in two minutes. If you are the only manager for now, the for managers page describes the same product from an individual point of view.
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