Retain Cloud vs. Kytes

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.

Kytes is an AI-enabled Professional Services Automation (PSA) and Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) platform that digitises the entire project lifecycle on a single data foundation - from opportunity to cash, and from idea to launch. Rather than a point tool for timesheets or task boards, Kytes unifies project management, resource management, project financials, estimation and proposals, timesheets and leave, workflow automation and analytics in one system. Enterprises run it as their system of record for delivery, utilisation and margin.