Kineo vs Teamwork.com
Kineo and Teamwork.com both handle projects and time, and both run MCP servers that Claude Code and other assistants can use. Teamwork.com is strong on client projects, workload planning, and invoicing from logged time, and it publishes its own Claude Code setup guide. 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.
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- Kineo and Teamwork.com
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- Checked October 2026
Which one fits your firm
Choose Teamwork.com if you want
- Workload and capacity planning across client projects, with resource planning by role or skill on Optimize
- Client invoicing from logged time, with QuickBooks and HubSpot integrations on Accelerate
- An MCP server, hosted or run locally, with OAuth or token sign-in, an option that limits it to reading, and tool profiles by role
- A published Claude Code guide, with assistant tools for projects, tasks, milestones, allocations, time, and files
- Teamwork Desk for help desk tickets, with Spaces and Chat, as separate products from the same company
- A free plan for up to five users
Choose Kineo if you want
- Contracts with phases and fee lines, change orders from an effective date, and retainage
- Phase invoices from the contract with retainage and a G703-style continuation sheet, synced with QuickBooks Online
- 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
- An assistant and an MCP server that work on contracts, change orders, and billing drafts as well as tasks and time
- Drawing reviews against your firm's checklists, with each markup filed under the item it answers and outside reviewers by link
Kineo and Teamwork.com side by side
Each product described in its own terms, from its website and documentation.
| Job | Kineo | Teamwork.com |
|---|---|---|
| Outside assistants | ||
| Connecting an outside assistant | An MCP server with sign-in, so Claude, ChatGPT, and Claude Code work on Kineo records with each person's permissions. | A hosted MCP server, or one you run locally, with OAuth or bearer-token sign-in. |
| Claude Code | Add the server with claude mcp add --transport http and Kineo's server address, then sign in from /mcp. | A published guide that adds the hosted server over HTTP and signs in through the browser or with a bearer token, with profiles that narrow the tools by role. |
| 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, tasks, milestones, allocations, time logs, comments, and files, with workload and budget lookups. The servers it ships leave out delete tools, and separate tools cover Desk, Spaces, and Chat. |
| Projects and time | ||
| Projects and tasks | Clients, projects, phases, drawing sets, and documents with tasks, reviews, files, and history, and a board by document stage. | Client projects with tasks, milestones, comments, and files. |
| Time | Weekly timesheets with approval. The assistant can enter a week of time from a description. | Time logged to projects and tasks, which a connected assistant can create and update. |
| Billing | ||
| 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. | Client invoicing from logged time on Accelerate, with quotes on Optimize. |
| Accounting | QuickBooks Online stays the ledger. Customers, invoices, credit memos, and payments sync, and payments recorded in QuickBooks update Kineo. | A QuickBooks integration on Accelerate, and a NetSuite integration on Optimize. |
| Buying | ||
| Price | $29, $49, or $79 per seat per month, with every feature on every plan. | $9.99 per user per month on Basics and $24.99 on Accelerate, billed annually. Optimize and Enterprise are priced by quote. |
| 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. | Teamwork AI is included in paid plans for an introductory period, and its pricing page says usage-based AI credits will follow. |
| Getting started | A 14-day free trial you start yourself, or a demo with the founder. | A 14-day free trial. |
Outside assistants
Connecting an outside assistant
- Kineo
- An MCP server with sign-in, so Claude, ChatGPT, and Claude Code work on Kineo records with each person's permissions.
- Teamwork.com
- A hosted MCP server, or one you run locally, with OAuth or bearer-token sign-in.
Claude Code
- Kineo
- Add the server with claude mcp add --transport http and Kineo's server address, then sign in from /mcp.
- Teamwork.com
- A published guide that adds the hosted server over HTTP and signs in through the browser or with a bearer token, with profiles that narrow the tools by role.
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.
- Teamwork.com
- Projects, tasks, milestones, allocations, time logs, comments, and files, with workload and budget lookups. The servers it ships leave out delete tools, and separate tools cover Desk, Spaces, and Chat.
Projects and time
Projects and tasks
- Kineo
- Clients, projects, phases, drawing sets, and documents with tasks, reviews, files, and history, and a board by document stage.
- Teamwork.com
- Client projects with tasks, milestones, comments, and files.
Time
- Kineo
- Weekly timesheets with approval. The assistant can enter a week of time from a description.
- Teamwork.com
- Time logged to projects and tasks, which a connected assistant can create and update.
Billing
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.
- Teamwork.com
- Client invoicing from logged time on Accelerate, with quotes on Optimize.
Accounting
- Kineo
- QuickBooks Online stays the ledger. Customers, invoices, credit memos, and payments sync, and payments recorded in QuickBooks update Kineo.
- Teamwork.com
- A QuickBooks integration on Accelerate, and a NetSuite integration on Optimize.
Buying
Price
- Kineo
- $29, $49, or $79 per seat per month, with every feature on every plan.
- Teamwork.com
- $9.99 per user per month on Basics and $24.99 on Accelerate, billed annually. Optimize and Enterprise are priced by quote.
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.
- Teamwork.com
- Teamwork AI is included in paid plans for an introductory period, and its pricing page says usage-based AI credits will follow.
Getting started
- Kineo
- A 14-day free trial you start yourself, or a demo with the founder.
- Teamwork.com
- A 14-day free trial.
Give every project, client, and contact its own email address
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.
Ask Kineo's assistant to work on your project records
Open Kineo's assistant beside any screen and ask in plain language. It reads projects, contracts, time, and email. It can set up phases and tasks, enter a week of time, record a payment, or draft the proposal, change order, or invoice that follows from what it read, with the permissions of the person asking.
Work on Kineo from Claude, ChatGPT, or Claude Code
Teamwork.com runs an MCP server as well and publishes its own guide for Claude Code.
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
Teamwork.com
- Free: up to five users
- Basics: $9.99 per user per month, billed annually, for at least three users
- Accelerate: $24.99 per user per month, billed annually, for at least five users
- Optimize and Enterprise: priced by quote
- Monthly billing, or annual billing paid up front, which its pricing page says saves 29 percent
- Teamwork AI included in paid plans for an introductory period, with usage-based AI credits to follow
- Teamwork Desk, its help desk, has its own plans and pricing
- A 14-day free trial
Teamwork.com's prices are the dollar figures its pricing page shows in the US, checked October 2026. The page gives two different months for when AI credits begin, so ask about AI terms. Optimize and Enterprise prices come from its sales team. Kineo's prices are in US dollars.
Try Kineo on one project while you keep Teamwork.com
Run one current project in Kineo for a billing cycle, with Teamwork.com 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.
- 4
Review the next drawing set
Route it through your checklist, with an outside reviewer if the project has one.
- 5
Bill the month
Draft the invoice and have your billing lead compare it with the one Teamwork.com produces.
Questions about Kineo and Teamwork.com
Sources
Teamwork.com's details come from its own website and documentation, checked October 2026. Products change, so confirm anything that matters to your decision with Teamwork.com.
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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.