MacroDream is where I build software the way modern teams actually work — open at the core, honest about what's commercial, and priced for value actually delivered.
Bloated platforms. Opaque pricing. Vendors who treat on-premise like a second-class deployment.
I started MacroDream to do it differently. The mission isn't tied to any single category. Wherever incumbents have grown complacent, extractive, or hostile to the way modern teams actually work, there's room to build something better.
The first projects set the tone — a Kanban platform built for the audit trails of customer-facing work, and a project portfolio platform built for the regulated, air-gapped environments the legacy P3M vendors quietly abandoned.
More is coming across infrastructure, delivery, and the connective tissue in between.
Apache 2.0 community tier with full feature parity for the core workflow — genuinely useful, not a nag-screen funnel.
Pricing pages with prices on them. The paid tier is for things teams actually pay for — SSO, audit, support — not artificial gatekeeping.
Air-gapped, regulated, sovereign. Where the incumbents quietly retreated, I treat as the primary deployment, not the exception.
Usage-based where it makes sense. Per-seat where it makes sense. Never a $40-a-seat tax to access the feature you already had.
Swimlanes, real-time collaboration, dwell-time analytics, and a full audit trail of every card movement. The first MacroDream project to ship — and the source of the governance system now used across the portfolio.
Built for support, success & ops teams running customer-facing workFor the project managers and program managers who've outgrown the legacy P3M stack. Scheduling-first, not agile-first — critical path, float, and Monte Carlo risk bands are computed by a real engine, not guessed by a chatbot — but not agile-hostile either: Kanban, sprints, velocity, and retros layer on top of the schedule, not beside it. MS Project import/export means switching costs an afternoon, not a quarter.
The Apache 2.0 community tier is a complete P3M practice for a self-hosted team: the full CPM engine, Monte Carlo simulation, projects grouped into programs with their own backlogs, offline-first sync, real-time collaboration, time tracking, baselines, and a production Helm chart for Kubernetes.
The 0.4 beta adds what makes it a first-class citizen of an AI-assisted stack: a read-only MCP server, so an agent can read those computed schedules as first-class facts rather than guessing at them; single sign-on against your own identity provider; and a read-only mirror of a contributor's own assigned items from an external issue tracker into one view.
When an organization outgrows a single team, the Enterprise tier adds the governance layer on top: portfolio dashboards, cross-program resource leveling, org identity governance (SAML, SCIM, directory sync), and approval workflows.
Next: the first beta (0.4) targets late July 2026, after multiple rounds of hardening. It lands the read-only MCP server — including a non-mutating what-if: an agent proposes a scenario, the engine recomputes it, and the answer comes back computed, not guessed, with the real plan untouched.
Built for PMs & program managers who've outgrown the legacy P3M stackTruePPM's scheduling core, extracted as a standalone Apache 2.0 Python library — all four dependency types, calendar-aware lag, cycle detection, critical path, float, and Monte Carlo risk. No server, no database, just the math the platform runs on. Versioned in lockstep with TruePPM for now.
Built for anyone who needs real CPM in PythonStack-agnostic project governance template for teams using GitLab and Claude Code. CI pipeline scaffolding, git hooks, changelog workflow, Claude Code agents and commands, and MR conventions — without opinionating on your programming language or framework.
Built for teams using GitLab and Claude Code
I've spent a career inside enterprise software — shipping products, navigating acquisitions, watching the cycle of incumbent capture repeat itself. MacroDream is the studio where I build the alternatives, on my own terms.
Open-source by default. Audit trail as feature, not afterthought. Pricing pages with prices on them. And a quiet bet that small inputs and deliberate focus can still produce outsized outcomes.
Partnership, pilot deployments, regulated-environment requirements, or simply a thesis worth comparing notes on — the inbox is open.