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What is Cinode
Cinode is a professional services automation platform focused on skills-based resource management for consulting and services organizations. It combines a skills/competency database with CV management, staffing and availability planning, and sales pipeline support to help teams match people to projects and track utilization. The product is typically used by consulting firms and other project-based businesses that need structured skills data for delivery and bidding. It emphasizes maintaining up-to-date employee profiles and reusable CVs alongside project and assignment planning.
CV and profile management
Cinode includes tooling to maintain consultant profiles and generate or tailor CVs from a central skills and experience repository. This is useful for responding to RFPs and proposals where consistent, current CV content is required. Centralized CV content can reduce version sprawl across documents and shared drives. It also supports keeping delivery credentials aligned with what sales teams present to prospects.
Skills-based staffing workflows
Cinode centers staffing and resourcing on structured skills, roles, and experience data rather than only job titles or free-text notes. This supports searching and matching consultants to project needs and assembling bid teams from a skills inventory. For services firms, this can reduce manual effort compared with general-purpose sales CRMs that do not maintain detailed competency profiles. It also helps standardize how skills are captured across the organization.
PSA-oriented planning and utilization
The platform supports assignment planning, availability tracking, and utilization-focused views that align with project-based delivery operations. These capabilities fit organizations that need to balance pipeline demand with consultant capacity. Compared with sales-focused CRM products, this provides more delivery-centric resourcing constructs out of the box. It can help connect sales opportunities to staffing feasibility earlier in the cycle.
Not a full sales CRM
While Cinode includes sales pipeline and opportunity-related features, it is not primarily designed as a broad CRM for complex account hierarchies, advanced forecasting, or extensive sales automation. Organizations with mature sales operations may still require a dedicated CRM for lead management, marketing handoffs, and deep reporting. This can introduce integration and data-governance work to keep customer and opportunity data consistent. Buyers should validate which CRM functions are native versus dependent on integrations.
Limited core HR coverage
Cinode focuses on skills, staffing, and consulting operations rather than end-to-end HRIS functions such as payroll, benefits administration, time-off compliance, and statutory reporting. Companies seeking a single system of record for employee lifecycle management may need a separate core HR platform. This can create duplicate employee data and additional administration. Fit is strongest when Cinode complements, rather than replaces, core HR.
Implementation depends on data quality
Value from skills matching and CV generation depends on maintaining accurate, current skills and project history for each person. Establishing a consistent skills taxonomy and governance can require significant internal effort, especially in larger firms. Without strong adoption, search and matching results can degrade and reduce trust in the system. Buyers should plan for ongoing content ownership and update processes.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free for up to 10 users | Kickstart package; basic Skills/CV management (listed on Cinode pricing page). |
| Skills | Contact Cinode / Custom pricing | Skills management (competency tracking, CVs). Price not listed on public pricing page; requires selecting users and payment option in the app or contacting sales. |
| Business | Contact Cinode / Custom pricing | Resource planner & matching, Sales & Delivery features; add-ons (calendar/email sync, Recruit, API/SSO) available. Price not listed publicly. |
| Partner | Contact Cinode / Custom pricing | Partner & subcontractor network features; enhanced network visibility and sourcing; requires paid plan for full Partner Network capabilities. |
Notes: Cinode’s public pricing page lists a Free package (up to ten users) and names paid plans (Skills, Business, Partner) but does not display per-user or per-month pricing figures on the public site. Several paid add-ons are referenced as paid (e.g., Calendar Sync, Email Sync) and may require Business/Partner/Recruit accounts.
Seller details
Cinode AB
Stockholm, Sweden
2011
Private
https://cinode.com/
https://x.com/cinode
https://www.linkedin.com/company/cinode/
