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Nishi vs the Field
Project Management and Team Coordination — mechanically measured, liar-killed, sovereign.
Nishi vs Microsoft Project and Leantime and Asana and OpenProject
How this is scored. Every Nishi cell is measured: the generator reads the real organ source on disk and requires the implementing symbol to exist (no self-grading). Competitor cells record documented capability presence. Best=leads this axis, Yes=present, Part=partial, No=absent. This is capability presence, not depth or scale: the majors lead on index size and neural ranking. Nishi's genuine exceeds are the sovereignty / neutrality / determinism axes.
Feature matrix
| Capability | Nishi | Microsoft Project | Leantime | Asana | OpenProject | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Task management + status workflow | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | READY/BLOCKED/DONE derived from dependency state with loud cycle detection |
| Dependency scheduling + critical path | Yes | Best | Part | Part | Part | Topo-DP longest-effort chain; MS Project is the schedule-engine gold standard |
| Kanban / priority board | Yes | Part | Yes | Yes | Yes | Eisenhower urgency x importance bands, data-driven |
| Milestones + progress percent | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Milestone pct from task completion |
| Calendar time-blocking of ready tasks | Yes | Part | No | No | No | First-fit by priority into REAL calendar free windows |
| Group find-a-time + scheduling polls | Yes | No | No | No | No | Free/busy intersection across member calendars plus vote tally |
| Portfolio multi-project registry + live board | Yes | Part | Part | Part | Yes | 1265-stream WMS registry with live HTML board; rivals tier-gate portfolio |
| Calendar interop RFC5545 export + import | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Round-trip .ics incl YEARLY recurrence |
| Reminders + once-only notification ledger | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Lead-day matching, sent-once ledger, on-site feed + email digest |
| Versioned document management | Yes | Part | Part | Part | Yes | Additive CID versions, old bytes never destroyed |
| Coordination-to-document generation | Yes | No | No | No | No | Plan/venue fields emit a real .docx, filed versioned |
| Team + contractor relationship graph | Yes | Part | Yes | Part | Part | One multi-tenant graph for staff and contractors; Leantime has first-class clients |
| Bulk personalized multi-channel comms | Yes | No | No | No | No | Segment to personalized email/letter/card merge |
| RACI accountable-owner routing | Yes | Part | No | Part | Part | Every activity routes to its RACI-accountable role by construction |
| API + MCP agent tools | Yes | Yes | Part | Yes | Yes | 11 coordination tools fork-exec over /mcp; Asana ships MCP too |
| Gantt / timeline schedule view | Yes | Best | Yes | Yes | Yes | Latest-safe effort windows vs due on the portal page; MS Project gantt deepest |
| Time tracking / timesheets | Yes | Yes | Best | Part | Yes | Additive LOG records + per-person timesheet; Leantime timesheet-first still deepest |
| Budget / cost / earned value | Yes | Best | Part | Part | Yes | Integer EV/CPI permil from BUDGET/COST records; MS Project EVM deepest |
| Risk register + delay prediction | Yes | Part | No | No | Part | Overdue + slack vs critical-chain, WCONF work-day as data; rivals track status not risk |
| Resource workload allocation + leveling | Yes | Best | No | Part | Part | Closed-loop: suggest AND apply as durable ASSIGN records; MS Project auto-leveling deepest |
| Project templates / blueprints | Yes | Yes | Part | Yes | Yes | Blueprint rows + a start date emit a dated task file the planner loads |
| Task comments / discussion threads | Yes | Part | Yes | Best | Yes | Additive NOTE records, task-visibility-scoped on the portal; Asana threads deepest |
| Contractor portal with scoped access | Yes | Part | Yes | Yes | Yes | LIVE: OPAQUE login, per-person picker, cross-project 403, supervised self-healing daemon |
| Sovereign own-stack zero per-seat cost | Best | No | Part | No | Part | Own language compiler TLS store on your hardware; PHP/Ruby self-hosts still ride third-party stacks |
| Concurrent-durable additive store measured vs git | Best | Part | Part | Yes | Yes | 144/144 concurrent writes zero lost vs live git 104 refused; reflog crash-repair gated |
| Work liveness heartbeats ALIVE/STALLED | Best | No | No | Part | No | Liveness recomputed from real beats vs the clock, not self-reported status |
| Autonomous dispatch runs + completes work | Best | No | No | Part | Part | Machine leases a stream, runs its gate, marks DONE only on GREEN; rival rules move tasks but do not run work |
| Effective-owner reassignment (latest-wins history) | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ASSIGN records override task owner, latest date wins, history preserved; rivals reassign destructively |
| Critical-chain slack + delay forecast | Yes | Best | No | No | No | Open critical-chain minutes to finish, converted to slack days vs due; MS Project chain engine deepest |
| Scheduling poll vote tally | Yes | No | No | Part | No | Latest-vote-per-member wins with lexicographic tie-break; Doodle-style, in-stack |
| Path-guarded store security (deny-by-default) | Best | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Store writes confined to a namespace and dot-dot refused by construction; rivals trust the app layer |
| Recurring tasks (native repeat) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Native task recurrence; ours is calendar-event recurrence only |
| Custom fields per task | No | Yes | Yes | Best | Yes | User-defined task attributes; Asana custom fields deepest |
| Task tags / labels / saved filters | No | Yes | Yes | Best | Yes | Tagging plus saved views; a core Asana and Leantime feature we lack |
| Saved baseline + schedule variance | Yes | Best | No | Yes | Yes | Snapshot BASE records then due-slip + effort-delta variance per task; MS Project baselines still deepest |
| Lead / lag + dependency types (FS/SS/FF) | No | Best | No | Yes | Yes | Only finish-to-start today; MS Project has the full dependency algebra |
| Multi-mode resource-constrained scheduling | No | Best | No | No | Yes | The RCPSP frontier, the top 2025/26 research axis; MS Project leveling closest |
| Multi-skill resource matching | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Assign by skill and availability; we match capacity only |
| Burndown / velocity / cumulative-flow charts | Yes | Yes | Part | Yes | Part | Remaining-effort-over-time series from DONE + effort records; visual chart rendering is the next rung |
| Custom dashboards / report builder | No | Best | Yes | Yes | Yes | Configurable reporting; every incumbent has one |
| Approval / sign-off workflow | No | Yes | Yes | Best | Yes | Formal approvals and stage gates; Asana rules and MS Project gates |
| File attachments on tasks | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Attach files to a task; our doc store is project-level, not task-attached |
| Native mobile app | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Part | Responsive web only; the majors ship native iOS and Android apps |
| CSV / MS Project import | No | Best | Yes | Yes | Part | Import an existing plan; we author fresh only |
| LLM / AI planning assistant | No | Part | No | Part | No | Natural-language plan generation; gated on the sovereign LLM engine |
| Real-time collaborative editing | No | Yes | Yes | Best | Yes | Simultaneous multi-user edit; a core cloud-PM feature we lack |
coverage 717/1000EXCEEDS 5PRESENT 28ABSENT 13
Evidence for every claim. This is not an opinion matrix: each capability we mark present is grounded in real source and proven by a live-forked gate. See the autonomously-generated evidence page → (per-axis source lines + executed self-test verdicts) or the machine-readable evidence.json.
Honest verdict. Nishi has broad, sovereign search-engine presence — a real organ behind every core ranking and crawl axis, built bits-up in one language. It is not yet a scale or neural-ranking rival: the majors lead on index size (billions to trillions vs a Common-Crawl-seeded slice) and trained rerankers. Nishi's genuine exceeds are structural — owning the whole stack, neutrality by construction, and a zero-JS integer-deterministic result page. The climb is a bigger index and a trained reranker.
Generated by nx_swcompare_matrix (sovereign NishiLang organ) from knowledge/compare/projectmgmt.matrix — every Nishi cell verified against real organ source on disk. Zero JS, zero trackers.