About PM Vault
Calm tools for real projects — nothing hidden.
PM Vault builds simple tools to run real projects: one place to see your money, your schedule, and what's at risk — in plain language, on your own computer, bought once and yours to keep. Every number shows its working, so you can always see how it was worked out.
Why we build this way
Most tools ask for faith. They hand you a date, a percentage, a RAG status, and trust that nobody asks how it was calculated. In a steering committee, that is exactly the question that ends the meeting: so what is the real status?
PM Vault answers it differently. Every figure an instrument reports can be opened, traced to its inputs, and reproduced. Schedules are measured against a baseline; flow is measured as flow; a hybrid is reconciled, never silently averaged. The method is on the page next to the number. This is how every system we build works — not only the project-management line.
The four principles
These hold for every system PM Vault builds — not only the project-management instruments.
Nothing leaves your machine
Client-side software. No account, no telemetry, no server. Disconnect the network and every instrument still works. Your portfolio is not someone else's cloud.
Every number shows its sources
Open any figure to its inputs and its method. The simulations publish their seed; the same inputs give the same answer, every time.
The right method, honestly applied
Predictive measured against baseline, adaptive measured as flow, hybrid reconciled. Mixing them quietly is how tools become generic. We refuse.
Standards cited, never faked
Where our instruments reference a standard, they cite it as authority and never reproduce it. What we claim, we can point to. See the sources →
What's in build — the next two systems
The architecture that runs the project-management line is being applied beyond it. Two management systems are in build now, both offline, glass-box, and yours outright. Founding members get early access and founding pricing on each.
Founder OS In build
The system for the operational side of running a business — drafting, approvals, records, decisions. Every step documented, defensible, and run entirely on your machine. The management layer that lives around your projects, not inside them.
Command Center In build
One view across the whole operation — portfolio health, operational status, team, money — with the same glass-box arithmetic underneath. Built for the person who needs the complete picture, not a curated selection of it.
Independent by design
PM Vault is an independent publisher. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI), AXELOS/PeopleCert, or Scrum.org. We align to recognised concepts — PMBOK® 8th Edition, Earned Schedule, flow metrics, schedule-quality checks — and we cite them as authority. We do not reproduce the standards, and we do not claim their endorsement.
What's here, and what's honest about it
The site shows exactly what is built today: which instruments are live to fly, which are in build, and which products are documents you can preview. Founder OS and Command Center are the next two systems — both in build, both announced before they ship, because that is how the founding list works. Where something is not yet shipped, we say so. Where a price is not yet set, we do not invent one. The whole brand rests on one promise — that nothing here is faked — so we hold the marketing to the same rule as the software.