Cinode Reviews & Product Details

Cinode is the AI-powered operating platform for consulting firms — the single system that connects skills, sales, and resource planning to supercharge growth. Founded in 2010, Cinode was built specifically for the consulting industry to solve its most fundamental questions: Who knows what? Who’s available? What can we sell? and How do we win more business — faster and smarter? From first client contact to staffing, delivery, and long-term growth, Cinode gives consultancy leaders real-time insights that drive better decisions and measurable results. With intuitive skills management, instant CV creation, advanced utilization planning, and AI-driven matching — all in one platform — teams work with clarity, speed, and confidence. A Platform Built for the Future of Consulting Cinode brings together the core building blocks of a modern consultancy: • Skills & Competence Management – Map every skill, identify gaps, and unlock the full value of your collective expertise. • Professional CV & Profiles – Create tailored, high-quality consultant profiles in seconds to win more deals. • Resource Planning & Matching – Maximize utilization with intelligent planning and precision matching. • Sales & Delivery Integration – Connect pipeline and delivery to shorten sales cycles and reduce friction. • Partners & Subcontractors – Scale delivery through collaboration with external consultants and partners. • AI-Driven Automation – Automate intake, matching, insights, and actions with AI, including MCP Server and AI chat directly on your Cinode data. A Growing Global Network Cinode is not just a platform — it’s an ecosystem. Today, Cinode connects a network of over 9,000 consulting firms, enabling collaboration, partner sourcing, and access to a broader pool of skills when demand peaks. Why Cinode Consulting firms use Cinode to: • respond to client requests in minutes instead of days, • improve utilization and profitability, • engage consultants with better matching and transparency, and • scale their business with data-driven confidence. Headquartered in Stockholm, Cinode is trusted by consulting firms across Europe and beyond — helping tens of thousands of consultants match the right skills to the right assignments, every day.

Product Website

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Cinode

Discussions

Cinode Community

Languages Supported

English, Finnish, French, Dutch, Swedish

Overview by

Mattias Loxi (https://cinode.com/en/)

Pricing

Pricing provided by Cinode.

Free

Per Month

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Cinode Integrations

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Cinode Media

Let everyone show their skills, experience, and ambition. Enable transparency, participation, and personal growth in your company.

Cinode Demo - Visualize your business opportunities

Work with customers, activities, projects, and staffing in one / a single flow: a common process for sales and delivery of expertise.

Cinode Demo - Continually updated resource planning

A common overview of resource planning and accessibility for individuals, teams, and organizations. Make your future challenges and opportunities visible.

Create professional CVs. Present individuals' knowledge professionally and accurately in your designed templates.

An overview of all your employees, navigate to profiles and create CVs, growth plans and get to know their dream assignments.

With the Skill sets report, you can analyze the internal skill supply and get a clear overview of the skill levels of your employees and subcontractors. With this data, check that you have the right combination of skills based on your assignments, customers, and needs.

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Henrik B.

Sales Director & Cofounder

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/28/2023

"Great how Cinode combines resource allocations with Sales data"

5/5

What do you like best about Cinode?

By using the resource allocation and resource forecasting modules you get sales statistics like revenue forecast and utilization forecast out of the box, this has proven to be very powerful for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cinode?

A simple rich text editor when adding / editing an assignment in the CV module would be useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Lisa Larsson of Cinode

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Hi Henrik, thanks for your review, glad to hear! Regarding your request about the text editor when adding an assignment is added to our product board, thanks for your insights that help us improve.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/28/2023

"Product with a lot of potentials"

5/5

What do you like best about Cinode?

It will help us map skills in our company which will give us more data about what can we offer to our customers and of course match skills with the right task Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cinode?

I would like the product to be more customizable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Lisa Larsson of Cinode

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Thanks, we're happy to hear this! Regarding your feedback, can you please give us more details on what you would like to be more customizable? Feel free to reach out to your Customer Success Manager or our support, interested to learn more about this. Thanks again!

Verified User in Management Consulting

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/15/2023

"Excellent!"

5/5

What do you like best about Cinode?

Easy to use and easy to navigate. Provides a good overview of competencies throughout the company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cinode?

Challenges with the maximum number of letters for headings and description of consultant or assignment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Lisa Larsson of Cinode

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Big thanks, glad to hear!

Jakob R.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/22/2023

"Good software but with a lot of possibilities"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Cinode?

Everything is in one place. Easy to add new clients, contacts, and stuff. Adding a CV works most of the time well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cinode?

Partner networks could work much better. Just a marketplace like everyone else.

Loading times are sometimes not acceptable.

Many ways to do things make it also a little bit harder on the usability side.

A better CV template. Easier to use CSS-coding.

Would like to have my contractor in one view with their availability. (like your own stuff)

A sorting mode on all your tasks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Lisa Larsson of Cinode

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Hi Jakob, thanks for your review. Regarding your feedback about the Partner network, please specify what type of load time you refer to. We want to learn as much as possible so if you have more information to add to this, we would really appreciate it. Just reach out to your Customer Success contact or our support.

We will release a new version of our CV templates that will be more dynamic, I hope you will like it!

Victoria N.

Head of Talent Acquisition

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/16/2023

"Smooth, simple, and quick action from those responsible at Cinode"

5/5

What do you like best about Cinode?

First and foremost, I want to highlight that Rania has been very attentive and has taken note if we had any concerns, which she then followed up with us at the next meeting! Regarding Cinode as a whole, it is a good tool where you can extract a lot of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cinode?

When uploading a CV, it is crucial that it must be in Swedish if you have selected Swedish as the "language." Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Lisa Larsson of Cinode

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Thank you dear Victoria, we are so happy to have you as a customer and Rania is truly a star. Regarding CV and language, we are working on improving the CV import for each version, thank you for your feedback, it is valuable to us!

Verified User in Consulting

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/27/2023

"Easy to use with the essential features"

4/5

What do you like best about Cinode?

Easy to use and have the essential features needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cinode?

An update dialog comes more or less every day. A bit annoying, but not a problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Lisa Larsson of Cinode

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Happy to hear and thanks for using our platform!

Verified User in Consulting

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/11/2023

"Excellent onboarding"

4/5

What do you like best about Cinode?

An integrated tool/system for consultant management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cinode?

A system that has grown and can be a bit messy at times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Lisa Larsson of Cinode

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Great to hear about your positive experience regarding our onboarding, our Customer Success team is the best!

Börje B.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/27/2023

"Support & customer focus"

5/5

What do you like best about Cinode?

Everything about our consultants is gathered in one place, both CV, Project and "profitability". And Cinode staff are always helpful when we need help!

...The most important thing is that our contact person is a Manchester United fan😉! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cinode?

As I understand it, it is more or less also a CRM support which can make it a bit too complex. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Lisa Larsson of Cinode

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Thank you Börje, glad to hear this!

Anders F.

Senior Partner

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/16/2022

"Cinode helps XLENT be make faster and better business"

5/5

What do you like best about Cinode?

We chose Cinode many years ago due to our need for a standard tool regarding branding, keeping track and displaying our competencies. Cinode had and still has a user-friendly user interface that is easy for us to use, which gives us the best tool to make faster and better business. By using Cinode we, XLENT, can live up to our internal strategies and meet our customer's demands regarding speed and business precision. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cinode?

There is no special that I dislike, but I would be happy for more and better reports and that the Cinode community would adapt better and faster to the business opportunities that the Cinode network can provide. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Mattias Loxi of Cinode

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Thanks a lot, Anders - and we have really appreciated all the feedback over the years. And it's been an exciting time to see XLENT grow so fast!

Peter T.

CEO, Founder

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/11/2022

"Optimal solution for (IT) consultants"

5/5

What do you like best about Cinode?

With the latest additions of functions for competence development, it's become a one-stop shop with all we need regarding CRM, recruitment and competence development. Also, the customer success managers supporting us are very dedicated to that we get max value from the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cinode?

As with any solution with many functions, it takes some time/effort to get to know it well. The CV vs profile solution was tricky for our consultants to maintain but has recently been simplified. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Lisa Larsson of Cinode

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Happy to hear this, thank you Peter! We are excited to develop our skills management offer even more and the feedback from our customers is crucial for our improvement. We're on this journey together!