# Why Kanera - Familiar Boards, One Clear View Across Projects > Kanera combines familiar boards with a complete system for planning, reporting, automation, collaboration, and visibility across every project. Canonical page: https://www.kanera.app/about/why-kanera Kanera # Familiar project boards. One clear view across every project. Built for teams who love the clarity of visual boards and need cross-project rollups, reporting, and boards that stay fast. 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We already had boards, tasks, and project processes. As clients and projects multiplied, the clear picture disappeared. Managers still opened multiple boards, chased status updates, and prepared reports by hand. Team members had work scattered across projects and still needed to ask what came next. Feedback requests could be missed, completed work was difficult to review across the team, and important context lived in too many places. Our project tools stored the work, but we were still wasting time manually coordinating, explaining, and reporting on it. The problem ## Fragmented visibility created more work. The problem was not a lack of tools. It was fragmented visibility across projects. The operational consequence was constant manual coordination: opening boards, chasing people, explaining priorities, checking feedback, and rebuilding reports. The business consequence was slower, less reliable delivery. When the overview depended on people reconstructing status, time spent coordinating could not be spent moving work forward. We wanted the speed and clarity of boards together with the visibility, reporting, automation, collaboration, and control required for complete project operations. So we built Kanera: one fast, connected workspace for coordinating people, priorities, progress, and context across real delivery work. What we believe ## The principles behind every decision. ### Speed matters. A work tool is something your team touches all day. Every pause, slow transition, heavy screen, and clunky interaction adds up. Kanera is built with performance as a product principle, not a finishing touch. Opening cards, switching views, moving work, checking updates, and navigating busy boards should feel smooth and immediate. Fast is not a bonus feature. It is part of the foundation. ### Clarity beats complexity. Teams need structure, but they do not need unnecessary ceremony. Kanera gives teams a complete set of tools to manage real work: a focused Home, visual boards, editable tables, Global Work, custom fields, automations, notes, permissions, and integrations. Teams can shape that full system around how they work. The goal is simple: make it easier to see what matters, who owns it, where it stands, and what changed. ### Context should stay with the work. Work is more than a card title. Every project has decisions, references, discussions, files, checklists, owners, due dates, and small follow-ups. When that context gets scattered, teams lose time and alignment. Kanera keeps the work and its context close together, so teams can move faster without losing the details. ### Teams should have control. The tools teams rely on should not feel like black boxes. Kanera Pro gives teams the complete product without infrastructure work. The source is available under Elastic License 2.0, so the codebase is inspectable and self-hosting stays open when policy or deployment requirements call for it, running the same feature set with no Kanera per-seat fee. Your data leaves in Excel or JSON whenever you want it. What makes it different ## Everything project work needs. Built to work together. Kanera gives teams visual planning through boards, structured tracking and reporting through Table view, deadline planning through Calendar, personal focus through Home and My Cards, and daily progress visibility through Work Done. It keeps documentation close with notes. It keeps workflows consistent with automations. It keeps collaborators aligned with guests and permissions. It keeps client and internal work aligned with one-way board syncing. It keeps teams connected through API access, webhooks, and MCP support. Visual boards Board syncing Daily Home Table view Calendar Global Work Work Done Notes Automations Permissions Custom fields Global search Excel export REST API Webhooks MCP support Installable PWA Source available Kanera is a complete, modern project workspace built for real team use. It centres connected project execution rather than Gantt planning, dependency maps, timers, or intake forms. [View all features](https://www.kanera.app/features)[See who Kanera fits](https://www.kanera.app/who-its-for) Who it's for ## For teams that manage moving work. Product teams, operations teams, agencies, service teams, support teams, internal teams, founders, and builders can all use Kanera to bring more clarity to their workflow. Product teams Operations teams Agencies Service teams Support teams Internal teams Founders Builders [Explore roles, team sizes, and tradeoffs](https://www.kanera.app/who-its-for) Manage work across multiple boards or projects Need clear ownership and follow-up tracking Want to understand what actually got done Work with clients, partners, or external collaborators Need notes and project context close to tasks Care about performance and polish Want API access, webhooks, or AI-agent connectivity Value transparency and long-term product trust The team behind Kanera ## Built by professionals, for professionals. [Happen Software Visit happen.software](https://www.happen.software) 15+ years building enterprise software Kanera is built by Happen Software, a team of developers who have delivered enterprise applications across multiple industries. Get started ## Give your team a workspace that keeps up. Plan work, track progress, document context, automate updates, and keep everyone aligned in one fast, polished workspace. [Start free](https://board.kanera.app/signup)[View pricing](https://www.kanera.app/pricing) No card required · 30-day Pro trial · Free plan available ## Machine-readable resources - [Kanera AI index](https://www.kanera.app/llms.txt) - [Kanera documentation index](https://www.kanera.app/docs/llms.txt) - [Agent discovery guidance](https://www.kanera.app/agents.md)