BVB Project is the product we built to run our own company. We made it for ourselves first, leaned on it every day, and only opened it up to you once it had proven itself.
It does exactly what running real projects demands: no bloat, none of the hundred features you’d never open.
Why we built it
We used Atlassian Jira since 2008, more than 18 years. We genuinely loved it for years: it was the first tool that let us streamline every custom-development request into one clear flow. But our clients found it far too complex. It’s an enterprise product built for enterprise problems, and most of that weight just gets in the way.
So last year we moved to ClickUp. Our clients liked it more, but for us it was bloated and slow, and new features shipped so fast they kept introducing new bugs.
Here’s the deeper problem with one-size-fits-all project tools: they’re built to satisfy everyone, which means they satisfy no one perfectly. You pay every month for a hundred features you never touch, you bend your workflow around someone else’s assumptions, and you end up renting access to your own process.
Eighteen years of living inside those tools taught us exactly what a great workflow needs, and what it doesn’t. To build software the right way, we plan the right way. So we built our own.
What it does
The essentials for running real projects, and nothing that gets in the way.
Boards that feel alive. Kanban boards with drag-and-drop and real-time updates: move a card and everyone sees it instantly, no refresh.
Time tracking that just happens. The timer starts when you pick up a task and stops when you complete it. No stopwatch to remember, no week-end guesswork reconstructing where the hours went.
The right access for everyone. Five clear roles, from admin to a read-only client view, so you can safely invite a client into their own project without exposing anything else.
Reports that answer the real questions. A manager dashboard with an activity log and weekly timesheets, and a personal “my activity” view for every team member: who did what, how long it took, what’s billable.
Submissions without an account. A public link anyone can use to send work your way. Our bookkeeper, Monique, used to route every request through chat. Now she gets a link, submits directly, and is emailed the moment it’s done. Software shaped around a real person, not a generic role.
Built to be lived in. File attachments, a full audit trail of every change, and a tool that fades into the background so the work stays in front.
Sell it under your own brand
If you serve a market that needs project management, BVB Project can carry your brand instead of ours. You sell it to your customers and support them day to day. We keep building and improving underneath, and handle the deep technical support behind you.
Your customers get a proven tool. You get a product to offer without building one, with the full source held safe so you’re never stuck. That’s the partner model in a single product: you own the customer, we’re the engine. Want to see how that works? It’s on the partners page.
What it delivers for you
For you as a founder it comes down to one thing: you stop renting and start owning.
BVB Project isn’t a tool that stays someone else’s. It’s a system that’s yours. The full source code and documentation come with it, so you keep everything in hand and need no one’s permission to grow. It sits on your side of the balance sheet: you build something instead of renting forever.
Because of that, your software cost doesn’t climb as you grow. No per-seat price that rises when you hire someone or add a client. You pay for a system that’s yours, not for access you buy back every month.
And because it’s yours, you decide what happens to it. No one can take away a feature you depend on, change the terms on you, or pull the plug after an acquisition. What works today keeps working: built to outlast, the tool included.
Your business data stays yours and inside the EU: your clients, your hours, your way of working, what you bill. Not on a third party’s servers. The same assurance you get, you pass on to your own clients.
This isn’t a promise on paper. We lean on it ourselves every day. Every improvement we make for ourselves reaches you too, because our interests run with yours.
Built for us. Now ready for you.
This is the products-first idea in one piece of software: build it for ourselves, prove it by depending on it, then offer it already battle-tested.
We ran the full loop in front of our own eyes. It started as the tool we needed, became the system we run the whole company on, and now it’s the product a partner can put their name on and a client can safely log into. Finished, in daily use, and ready to carry someone else’s brand.
We built it for ourselves first. Then we knew it worked.
See if BVB Project fits your team
If you’re tired of paying for bloat and bending your work around someone else’s tool, let’s talk. You’ll get a clear, direct answer about whether it’s a fit, even if it’s no.