Kineo vs Scoro
Kineo and Scoro both run projects and billing, and each has an assistant that works on your records and an MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT. Scoro serves many kinds of service firms, engineering and architecture firms among them, with resource planning and financial reporting alongside projects, and its ELI assistant drafts quotes from client emails. Kineo is built around engineering and architecture projects, with phase billing and retainage on the contract, an email address for every project, and drawing reviews against your firm's checklists.
Free for 14 days, with every feature included.
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- Kineo and Scoro
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- Checked October 2026
Which one fits your firm
Choose Scoro if you want
- Resource bookings across the firm, with ELI finding who's available and balancing each month's workload
- Quotes that ELI drafts from client emails, briefs, or past projects, matched to your products and price lists
- Phase fees and consultant costs planned with each project, and financial reporting across the firm
- Apps you combine to suit the firm, from time billing alone to an end-to-end setup
- Accounting and CRM connections, including QuickBooks, Xero, Sage Intacct, Salesforce, and HubSpot
Choose Kineo if you want
- Contracts with phases and fee lines, change orders from an effective date, and retainage
- A G703-style continuation sheet on phase invoices, with QuickBooks Online as the ledger
- An email address for each project, client, and contact, with imported mail feeding suggestions and automations
- Automations you describe in plain language, like drafting a change order when a client asks for extra work
- Drawing reviews against your firm's checklists, with each markup filed under the item it answers and outside reviewers by link
- Published per-seat pricing with every feature on every plan, and a free trial you can start today
A client asks for extra work by email
A client on a civil site project emails to ask for a second stormwater outfall. Here's how that request becomes approved, billable work in each product.
In Scoro
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The project manager opens ELI in Scoro and pastes in the client's email, or attaches it as a file.
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ELI drafts a quote for the extra work, matching line items to the firm's products and price lists, and asks the project manager to confirm before it creates the quote.
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The project manager reviews the quote, adjusts the fee, and sends it to the client.
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Once the client agrees, the project manager asks ELI to book people for the new work, and ELI looks up who's available.
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Someone on the team bills the extra work on a Scoro invoice.
In Kineo
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The project manager forwards the client's email to the project's own address in Kineo, or the client copies that address.
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Someone on the team checks the sender and imports the message. Kineo reads the email and its attachments and files it under the project.
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An automation watching the project's inbox recognizes a request for work outside the contract. It drafts a change order on the contract and creates a task for the project manager to review it.
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The project manager checks the draft, sets the fee, and approves it. The contract's fee lines update from the change order's effective date.
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The project's next invoice drafts from the updated contract, and someone on the team reviews and issues it.
Kineo and Scoro side by side
Each product described in its own terms, from its website and documentation.
| Job | Kineo | Scoro |
|---|---|---|
| Assistants and automations | ||
| Assistant | A chat beside any screen that reads and edits projects, tasks, time, contracts, and billing drafts with the permissions of the person asking. | ELI, a chat that works from the page you have open and the files you attach. It creates tasks, schedules meetings, logs time, books resources, and drafts quotes within your permissions, and asks you to confirm before it acts. |
| Working from a client's email | An address for each project, client, and contact, from any email provider. Someone on the team checks the sender and imports each message, and Kineo reads it, links it to the project, and suggests tasks and comments. Automations watching the inbox can draft change orders and proposals. | ELI drafts a quote from a client email, brief, or meeting transcript that you paste or attach in its chat. |
| Claude, ChatGPT, and other assistants | An MCP server with sign-in, so Claude, ChatGPT, and Claude Code work on Kineo records with each person's permissions. | An MCP server that administrators turn on, with view or manage access on top of each user's permissions, and setup steps for Claude and ChatGPT. Its help center says the server has no separate fee. |
| What a connected assistant can change | Clients, contacts, projects, phases, tasks, documents, time, expenses, proposals, contracts, change orders, draft invoices, and credit notes. People with permission can approve a change order or record a payment. | Projects, phases, tasks, time, calendar events, bookings, contacts, quotes and invoices with their lines, payments, expenses, and files. Deletion is limited to records created through MCP. |
| Automations | Rules you describe in plain language. They run when email is imported, when something happens in Kineo, on hourly workday checks, or by hand, and they draft documents, create tasks, and email your team. | Triggers and actions rules, which can hand a step to ELI. For example, when a project goes on hold, ELI sets its open tasks to on hold and notifies the people assigned to them. |
| Projects and time | ||
| Quotes and proposals | An accepted proposal creates the client, the project, and its contract from the proposal's fee lines. | Quotes with line items from your products and price lists. ELI can draft one from a client email or a past project. |
| Time | Weekly timesheets with approval. The assistant can enter a week of time from a description. | Time tracking in its Track app. ELI can log time and request or change time off. |
| Billing | ||
| Fees and invoices | Drafted by phase from percent complete and approved time and expenses, with retainage and a G703-style continuation sheet. Someone on the team issues and sends each one. | Its offer for architecture firms connects phase fees, consultant costs, time, and billing on each project, with invoices from its Invoice app. |
| Accounting | QuickBooks Online stays the ledger. Customers, invoices, credit memos, and payments sync, and payments recorded in QuickBooks update Kineo. | Integrations with QuickBooks and other accounting tools. Its pricing page says some integrations cost extra. |
| Buying | ||
| Price | $29, $49, or $79 per seat per month, with every feature on every plan. | From €15 per user per month for time billing to €52 for the end-to-end set of apps, with at least five users. |
| AI usage | Each seat adds to the workspace's included assistant usage, which resets monthly. Team Plus and Team Pro include more, and top-ups run from $10 to $500. | 80 ELI credits per user each month on the Standard platform and 120 on Enterprise, pooled across the site, with more sold as add-ons. |
| Getting started | A 14-day free trial you start yourself, or a demo with the founder. | A 14-day free trial. Self-onboarding is free for up to 15 people, with assisted and professional onboarding for larger teams. |
Assistants and automations
Assistant
- Kineo
- A chat beside any screen that reads and edits projects, tasks, time, contracts, and billing drafts with the permissions of the person asking.
- Scoro
- ELI, a chat that works from the page you have open and the files you attach. It creates tasks, schedules meetings, logs time, books resources, and drafts quotes within your permissions, and asks you to confirm before it acts.
Working from a client's email
- Kineo
- An address for each project, client, and contact, from any email provider. Someone on the team checks the sender and imports each message, and Kineo reads it, links it to the project, and suggests tasks and comments. Automations watching the inbox can draft change orders and proposals.
- Scoro
- ELI drafts a quote from a client email, brief, or meeting transcript that you paste or attach in its chat.
Claude, ChatGPT, and other assistants
- Kineo
- An MCP server with sign-in, so Claude, ChatGPT, and Claude Code work on Kineo records with each person's permissions.
- Scoro
- An MCP server that administrators turn on, with view or manage access on top of each user's permissions, and setup steps for Claude and ChatGPT. Its help center says the server has no separate fee.
What a connected assistant can change
- Kineo
- Clients, contacts, projects, phases, tasks, documents, time, expenses, proposals, contracts, change orders, draft invoices, and credit notes. People with permission can approve a change order or record a payment.
- Scoro
- Projects, phases, tasks, time, calendar events, bookings, contacts, quotes and invoices with their lines, payments, expenses, and files. Deletion is limited to records created through MCP.
Automations
- Kineo
- Rules you describe in plain language. They run when email is imported, when something happens in Kineo, on hourly workday checks, or by hand, and they draft documents, create tasks, and email your team.
- Scoro
- Triggers and actions rules, which can hand a step to ELI. For example, when a project goes on hold, ELI sets its open tasks to on hold and notifies the people assigned to them.
Projects and time
Quotes and proposals
- Kineo
- An accepted proposal creates the client, the project, and its contract from the proposal's fee lines.
- Scoro
- Quotes with line items from your products and price lists. ELI can draft one from a client email or a past project.
Time
- Kineo
- Weekly timesheets with approval. The assistant can enter a week of time from a description.
- Scoro
- Time tracking in its Track app. ELI can log time and request or change time off.
Billing
Fees and invoices
- Kineo
- Drafted by phase from percent complete and approved time and expenses, with retainage and a G703-style continuation sheet. Someone on the team issues and sends each one.
- Scoro
- Its offer for architecture firms connects phase fees, consultant costs, time, and billing on each project, with invoices from its Invoice app.
Accounting
- Kineo
- QuickBooks Online stays the ledger. Customers, invoices, credit memos, and payments sync, and payments recorded in QuickBooks update Kineo.
- Scoro
- Integrations with QuickBooks and other accounting tools. Its pricing page says some integrations cost extra.
Buying
Price
- Kineo
- $29, $49, or $79 per seat per month, with every feature on every plan.
- Scoro
- From €15 per user per month for time billing to €52 for the end-to-end set of apps, with at least five users.
AI usage
- Kineo
- Each seat adds to the workspace's included assistant usage, which resets monthly. Team Plus and Team Pro include more, and top-ups run from $10 to $500.
- Scoro
- 80 ELI credits per user each month on the Standard platform and 120 on Enterprise, pooled across the site, with more sold as add-ons.
Getting started
- Kineo
- A 14-day free trial you start yourself, or a demo with the founder.
- Scoro
- A 14-day free trial. Self-onboarding is free for up to 15 people, with assisted and professional onboarding for larger teams.
Give every project, client, and contact its own email address
ELI drafts a quote from a client email you paste or attach in its chat.
Forward or copy mail to a project's, client's, or contact's own address from any email account, so each message comes in addressed to the work it's about.
When someone on your team imports a message, Kineo reads it and its attachments, files it under the project, and, where suggestions are turned on, suggests the tasks and comments it asks for. Automations watching the inbox can draft the change order or proposal a client asks for and create a task for the project manager to check it. Every imported message also lands in one inbox for the whole firm.
Describe an automation in plain language and see each step before it runs
Pick what to watch, such as a project's inbox, an invoice, or a phase, then write when to act and what to do. Kineo lays out the steps as you type. Automations start when an email is imported, when something happens in Kineo, on an hourly check during the workday, or when you run them by hand.
They draft proposals, contracts, change orders, invoices, and credit notes, create tasks, and email the people on your team you choose. Drafts wait for someone with permission to review them, and if a step fails, the steps that succeeded are kept so you can retry the rest.
Work on Kineo from Claude, ChatGPT, or Claude Code
Scoro runs an MCP server as well, with setup steps for Claude and ChatGPT.
If you're evaluating both, connect each one to the same assistant, give them the same request, and compare what the assistant can read and change.
Kineo runs an MCP server. MCP is the open standard assistants use to connect to other software. Each person signs in with their Kineo account, and the assistant gets the same tools as Kineo's own, within that person's permissions. It can read a project's email, check the phases and fee lines on its contract, draft a change order or the month's invoice, record a payment, and enter a week of time.
In Claude Code, run claude mcp add --transport http kineo https://app.gokineo.com/mcp, then sign in from /mcp.
Review drawings against your firm's checklists, with outside reviewers by link
Kineo's drawing reviews run against your firm's own checklists. Each markup is filed under the checklist item it answers, and each item gets a decision. Review workflows route each set to its reviewers, with reminders, and a markup can become a task for the person revising the sheet. Clients, agencies, and consultants review through an emailed link with the same drawings, markup tools, and checklist as your team, without an account or a seat.
Bill each phase from the contract, with retainage and QuickBooks Online
When a client accepts a proposal, its fee lines become the contract. Kineo drafts each invoice by phase from percent complete and approved time and expenses, withholds retainage where the contract calls for it, and adds a G703-style continuation sheet to the PDF. Customers, invoices, credit memos, and payments sync with QuickBooks Online, which stays your ledger.
When extra work is agreed, an approved change order adjusts the contract's fee lines or phase budgets from its effective date, and the next invoice drafts from the updated contract.
What each costs
Kineo
- Team: $29 per seat per month, or $290 per seat per year
- Team Plus: $49 per seat per month, or $490 per seat per year
- Team Pro: $79 per seat per month, or $790 per seat per year
- Every feature on every plan, with more assistant usage and storage on Team Plus and Team Pro
- Outside reviewers and client portal contacts free, without a seat
- A 14-day free trial, then monthly or annual billing
Scoro
- Time-billing (Track and Invoice): €15 per user per month
- Projects & Resources (Do, Deliver, Track, and Resource): €25 per user per month
- Quote to Cash (Estimate, Deliver, Track, and Invoice): €25 per user per month
- End-to-end (all eight apps, with Advanced Work and Advanced Financials): €52 per user per month
- At least five users
- 80 ELI credits per user per month on the Standard platform and 120 on Enterprise, with more credits sold as add-ons
- Extras such as the customer portal are paid add-ons, and some integrations are charged separately
- A 14-day free trial, and free self-onboarding for up to 15 people
Scoro's prices are the euro figures on its pricing page, checked October 2026. The page also lists prices in US dollars, pounds, and other currencies, so confirm the currency and billing terms in your quote. Its help center says the MCP server has no separate fee. Kineo's prices are in US dollars.
Try Kineo on one project while you keep Scoro
Run one current project in Kineo for a billing cycle, with Scoro still running the rest of the firm, and compare the results with the people who'll use it.
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Set up one project
Add a current project with its client, contract, and phases, and invite the people working on it.
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Send it real email
Turn on the project's email address and forward it the next client request.
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Write one automation
Describe one routine job, such as drafting a change order when a client asks for extra work.
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Review the next drawing set
Route it through your checklist, with an outside reviewer if the project has one.
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Bill the month
Draft the invoice and have your billing lead compare it with the one Scoro produces.
Questions about Kineo and Scoro
Sources
Scoro's details come from its own website and documentation, checked October 2026. Products change, so confirm anything that matters to your decision with Scoro.
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Try Kineo on a project you're working on now
Set up a project with its contract and phases, invite your team, and give the assistant some of the routine work. Your first 14 days are free, with every feature included.