Monday.com alternative: Gladys, project management built for steering
Monday.com is a highly customisable work platform. If your priority is steering projects and portfolios, here is what Gladys does differently.
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Monday.com is one of the best-known collaborative work tools. Its strength: highly customisable boards, plenty of automations and a large catalogue of integrations. It is an excellent Swiss army knife for organising almost any process.
But when the goal is to steer projects and portfolios (schedules, team workload, budget, reporting to management), many organisations look for a ready-to-use tool rather than a platform to configure.
Two different philosophies
Monday.com
A generic work platform: you build your boards, columns and automations for each use case (projects, CRM, recruitment…).
Gladys
A tool dedicated to project and portfolio management: Gantt, portfolios, workload, budget and reports are ready from day one.
Quick comparison
| Criterion | Monday.com | Gladys |
|---|---|---|
| Positioning | Versatile work platform | Project and portfolio management |
| Setup | Very flexible, to configure to your needs | Ready-to-use steering views and indicators |
| Planning | Table, Kanban, timeline and Gantt views | Gantt with dependencies and reference milestones, Kanban, list, calendar, mind map |
| Steering | Dashboards to build | Portfolios, multi-project Gantt, workload, budget |
| Vendor and hosting | International vendor | French vendor, hosted in France |
Where Gladys makes the difference
- Steering is built in. Portfolios, progress, reference milestones, workload per person and budget (envelope, expenses, revenue, daily rates) are native, with no assembly of columns or add-ons.
- Reports ready to present. Generate a PowerPoint report from your own templates, with up-to-date project figures.
- A sovereign solution. Gladys is built and hosted in France.
- AI with safeguards. The MCP connector lets Claude, ChatGPT, Le Chat or Gemini query your projects, with your permissions, tool by tool.
When to choose one or the other
Monday.com if…
You want a single tool for many very different processes, and you have time to configure it.
Gladys if…
Your priority is to plan, track and report on your projects and portfolios quickly, in a French solution.
Frequently asked questions
Can we import our projects from Monday.com?
Yes: export your boards to Excel, then use the Gladys project import (one sheet for projects, one for tasks).
Does Gladys offer automations?
Gladys automates what matters for steering: progress calculated from subtasks, dates recalculated through dependencies, overdue tasks flagged automatically. More advanced actions can go through your connected AI assistant.
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