The difference is scope. Productive handles service delivery. VOGSY also manages the entire services business — including the ledger, the entities, and the currencies. In one agentic ERP from lead to cash.
Consider either VOGSY or Productive if the business is a single entity and wants a platform for projects, resources, time, budgets, billing, and reporting.
Choose VOGSY if the business operates across entities, countries, and currencies and needs project accounting, WIP, revenue recognition, intercompany billing, coexistence with local finance systems, and consolidated reporting in a single system.
The business is a single entity.
Local finance complexity is limited.
Intercompany work is not material.
Consolidated group reporting is not a major requirement.
The need is a PSA workflow rather than an ERP architecture.
You have multiple entities, countries, or currencies
Local accounting systems that should stay in place, consolidated centrally.
Intercompany delivery and billing are required
Project accounting: WIP, revenue recognition, margin, P&L
For consolidated reporting across the group
You need AI agents that act on live financial and project data under formal governance
VOGSY is the first project-based ERP certified to ISO 42001 and runs five named agents on live ERP data:
Sales Assistant: drafts the SOW and resource plan
Velocity: chases stalled work
Capacity: staffing and rebalancing
Invoicing: verifies every draft invoice
Monthly Close: keeps the month reconciled
Productive offers an AI assistant, agents, skills, an MCP server, and connectors on its higher licensing plans.
| Area | Productive | VOGSY |
|---|---|---|
| Product category | PSA platform for agency management | Agentic ERP for services businesses |
| Project management, resourcing, time, and billing | Supported | Supported |
| Native general ledger and project P&L | No — ledger accounting sits in an integrated tool | Yes — project P&L in local and base currency |
| WIP treatment | Not a core capability | WIP monitoring, carry-forward or write-off, and valuation |
| Revenue recognition | Yes — fixed-price and custom models | Yes — with WIP valuation, AR/payment reconciliation and P&L |
| Billing models | Fixed, time and materials, non-billable, percentage | T&M, fixed price, retainer, subscription and mixed |
| Multi-entity operation | Multiple subsidiaries require the top pricing plan | Multi-company, multi-country, multi-currency, with consolidated HQ reporting |
| Multi-currency and consolidation | Multiple currencies; report-level conversion | Base-currency consolidation with automated FX updates |
| Local finance systems | Accounting integration into one system | Concurrent local integrations — each entity keeps its own ledger, consolidated centrally, both A/R and A/P |
| Intercompany work | Not a core capability | Native intercompany rates, intercompany invoicing, and revenue sharing |
| Resource planning | Bookings, utilization, placeholders | Placeholders, opportunity bookings, hard bookings, tied to cost rates, sales rates, intercompany rates, across entities |
| AI | AI assistant, agents, MCP server | Agents and assistant that answer and act on live ERP data, ISO 42001-governed, MCP server |
| Business Intelligence | Reports and dashboards | Embedded Looker dashboards plus direct BigQuery datasets |
| Governance | SOC 2, audit log, permission builder | ISO 27001, ISO 42001, SOC 1, ISAE 3402, GDPR |
| Pricing model | Plan tiers; feature depth gated by tier | Role-based licensing; contractors and time trackers on a reduced role |
VOGSY runs a multi-company, multi-country, multi-currency structure on one platform. Projects execute in local currencies; HQ reports in one base currency with automated FX updates. It handles VAT, GST, and sales tax across regions, and holds a single resource pool across all companies, with each person carrying cost and intercompany rates in the relevant currencies.
Productive supports multiple currencies and multiple subsidiaries only in its top-tier licensing plan. It does not offer base-currency consolidation across entities as a core capability.
When someone in one entity works on a project owned by another, VOGSY calculates the internal cost from pre-set intercompany rates, invoices between the entities, and shares revenue on projects run by multiple companies. This is native to the platform.
Intercompany rates, intercompany invoicing, and intercompany revenue sharing are not part of Productive's operating model.
VOGSY connects as many local accounting systems as a firm needs — Xero in one country, Sage in another, NetSuite at the group level — each entity on its own ledger, with finance data consolidated in the base currency. New countries connect in any currency.
Productive offers accounting integrations. It connects to one accounting reality rather than consolidating several concurrently.
VOGSY carries a native general ledger and project P&L: WIP monitoring with carry-forward or write-off, revenue recognition including WIP valuation, AR and payment reconciliation, revenue and margin forecasting, and P&L reporting in local and base currency.
Productive handles budgets, profitability, invoicing, expenses, and revenue recognition, with ledger accounting in the integrated tool.
Gemini Enterprise, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, or any MCP client — connect to VOGSY and query or act on live VOGSY data under the existing permissions and the same confirm-before-act controls.
Productive lists an MCP server among its AI capabilities.
VOGSY Dashboards are embedded and powered by Google Cloud Looker, shown in local and consolidated base currency. Firms can also connect their own BI tools directly to VOGSY's BigQuery datasets.
Productive provides in-app reports and dashboards, with data available externally through its API.
Productive is an agency platform for managing service delivery. VOGSY is an agentic ERP that adds project accounting, multi-entity operations, coexistence with local finance systems, consolidated reporting, and governed AI to those same workflows.
Yes — for services firms that need more than PSA workflow, particularly those with international operations, multiple entities or currencies, intercompany work, WIP, revenue recognition, or consolidated reporting requirements.
VOGSY runs five named agents across the lead-to-cash flow: Sales Assistant (drafts SOW, project structure, and resource plan when a deal turns serious), Velocity Agent (chases stalled work and pre-checks approvals), Capacity Agent (staffing and rebalancing), Invoicing Agent (verifies every draft invoice before it leaves), and Monthly Close Agent (keeps the month continuously reconciled).
VOGSY is built for multi-country, multi-company, multi-currency operation with local finance coexistence, intercompany work, base-currency consolidation, and consolidated reporting. Productive supports subsidiaries and multiple currencies, but is not built around an international ERP architecture.
Yes — multi-entity operation, project accounting, WIP, revenue recognition, invoicing, margin forecasting, and reporting in local and base currency.
No. VOGSY connects to local finance systems rather than forcing every entity into a single package. Entities keep their tools while VOGSY centralizes project operations, invoicing, project accounting, and consolidated reporting.
VOGSY AI runs within the ERP and works only on the firm's own VOGSY data—not the open internet. It keeps every action human-authorized, respects existing permissions, and never uses the data to train public models. It is governed by ISO 42001. The VOGSY MCP server allows external AI tools, such as Gemini Enterprise, Claude, or Microsoft Copilot, to act on VOGSY data under the same stringent controls.
When it needs a project-based ERP rather than a delivery workflow alone, typically triggered by international growth, multiple entities, different local finance systems, intercompany billing, WIP, revenue recognition, consolidated reporting, or AI grounded in live financial data.