Built for Agencies, Not General Project Management
Where Asana is a broad work-management tool used by teams of every kind, Teamwork.com's product decisions consistently point at one buyer: agencies, consultancies and other client-services teams who need to track billable time, profitability and client-facing collaboration alongside the usual tasks and boards.
What's In the Product
- Project management: Gantt, table, list and board views, with unlimited templates
- Time tracking: billable vs non-billable logging, timesheets
- Resource planning: team capacity, workload management, utilization tracking
- Financial tools: budgeting, expense tracking, invoicing, multi-currency support, the features that most separate it from generic PM tools
- Client collaboration: client access, file storage, real-time chat, Proofs for feedback
- Automation and reporting: 100 to 100,000 automations depending on plan, dashboards, burndown and profitability reports
- TeamworkAI: a set of built-in AI assistants (Scout, Flo, Remi, Kash) for planning and productivity
- 150+ integrations, including Salesforce, HubSpot, QuickBooks and Slack
Pricing
A Free plan covers up to 5 users and 5 projects. Basics is $9.99/user/month billed yearly (project views, time tracking, templates). Accelerate is $24.99/user/month billed yearly, adding automation, capacity planning and invoicing. Optimize and Enterprise are custom-quoted. All paid plans carry a 14-day free trial with no card required.
The Company, and Who Actually Controls It
Teamwork Crew Limited, incorporated in Ireland, registered number 313652, registered office Teamwork Campus 1, Park House, Blackpool Retail Park, Blackpool, Cork, T23 F902. Founded by Peter Coppinger and Daniel Mackey in 2007, it stayed bootstrapped and profitable for fourteen years before taking its first outside money.
That first investment, in 2021, was $70 million from Bregal Milestone, a growth-equity firm headquartered in London. London is a non-EU jurisdiction under this site's own convention: the UK holds an EU adequacy decision but is a third country under GDPR, and the same distinction that puts EmailOctopus and Dotdigital in the NON_EU bucket applies here to the controlling investor. Combined with the fact that Teamwork.com's own privacy notice confirms a Teamwork.com corporate entity exists in the United States ("our staff in the EU, EEA or UK share limited information with Teamwork.com in the United States"), this listing is rated EU_HQ_FOREIGN_PARENT: the operating company is genuinely Irish, but neither its controlling investor nor its full group structure is confined to the EU. Bregal Milestone's exact ownership stake, majority or minority, is not publicly disclosed.
Hosting Is Split Between the EU and the US, and Teamwork.com Says So Plainly
The privacy notice is unusually direct about this:
The Teamwork.com Data Processing Agreement includes the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) as the mechanism to transfer data from the EU to the US. Certain elements of our services are hosted in the United States and in the EU, and your data may be transferred to the United States... There is no adequacy decision in place in respect of the US.
That last sentence, naming the exact legal gap the SCCs are there to cover, is more candour than most vendors on this site offer. A full DPA including the annexed Standard Contractual Clauses is published at a stable URL. What isn't published is a named sub-processor list.
Where It Fits
Against Asana directly: Teamwork.com wins on billing, budgeting and client-facing features built specifically for services businesses, and loses on the breadth of use cases Asana covers outside that niche. The ownership and hosting picture here is genuinely mixed, Irish operating company, London investor, real US infrastructure, honestly disclosed, which makes it a fair rather than a clean sovereignty story. See also project management.
