Aria works straight out of the box. Having worked for SaaS vendors for many years now, many have embedded various AI features into their offering. Aria is unique in the way this is executed, as I found AI prompts guiding my thought process in the right direction and encouraging me to think more strategically about refining project goals, timelines & scope, rather than handing off to an AI assistant to think & complete complex tasks for me. For somebody with less experience of using project delivery tools, the UX and workflow took me minutes to understand and work with. Pricing is also very flexible, which is ideal for startups / scale-ups with leaner teams.

Having everything in one place. As a PM, I’m usually jumping between project plans, budgets, reports, resources and client information. With Aria, I can see my projects and what needs my attention from one dashboard. The AI assistant is a huge plus too, being able to generate reports and SoWs in a few clicks takes a lot of the admin out of project management.

The end to end connection and flow between customer requirements and billing, with delivery discipline in the middle. No other tool does this and usually that means juggling between multiple tools at once. The outcome is of course errors, lost context and most likely an unhappy customer and a burnt out delivery team, cracking their heads to find out when and why customer requirements changed and how cost has drifted so far from the baseline.