Retain Cloud vs. Productive

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.

Productive is the all-in-one professional services automation platform built for agencies, consultancies, and service businesses. Manage projects, resources, and finances in one place — with real-time visibility and advanced AI and agentic features. AI Experience a modern way of working with Productive’s AI features: an integrated AI Assistant that you can ask anything, Skills that make your processes shareable and standardize AI output, and fully autonomous, custom Agents that run work for you.