Retain Cloud vs. Dayshape

The Only Platform Built to Unify Resource Planning for Professional Services — Now with AI and Enhanced Skills Taxonomy Established in 1992, Retain is the world’s first platform built to give professional services firms and complex, multi-entity organisations one place to plan, schedule, and forecast across every department. No more spreadsheets. No more disconnected tools. Just a single, intuitive system that brings clarity and control to resourcing. With AI-powered insights, a governed skills taxonomy, and behavioural profiling, Retain goes beyond availability.

Dayshape delivers leading resource management software designed to help organizations achieve extraordinary results. Trusted by Big Four and many other top professional services firms globally, Dayshape is the only solution that combines advanced AI, real-time project financials, and firm-wide insights enabling customers to elevate resource management into a strategic function. With far-reaching connectivity, Dayshape fits into existing ecosystems and stands out as the only resource management vendor with a Workday packaged solution—built to handle complexity and grow with your firm.