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 "id": "pdware",
 "name": "PDWare",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "pdware.com",
 "category": "Operations & Workflow",
 "task": "Projects, planning & team workflow",
 "summary": "Resource and capacity planning for project teams. Plan who works on what, balance workloads and forecast capacity in real time so projects don't stall on people bottlenecks.",
 "best_for": "enterprise PMOs that plan portfolios around named-resource capacity and need feasibility answers before committing to projects",
 "skip_if": "your team is under ~50 people (modern PM tools with workload views suffice), or your organization has no working PMO cadence",
 "honest_knock": "This is genuine enterprise software with enterprise buying: opaque pricing, demo-first sales and implementation effort — appropriate for portfolio offices planning hundreds of resources, overkill below that. The honest pre-purchase question is organizational: resource-first planning only works if your PMO will actually maintain forecasts; the tool formalizes discipline, it can't create it.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "quote_only",
  "entry_price": null,
  "entry_price_terms": null,
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "Quote-only, re-confirmed 25 September 2026: pdware.com has no pricing page (/pricing returns 404) and every route ends in a 'Request pricing' form or a guided demo, with no amount anywhere on the homepage. What the site does publish, in a Pricing & licensing section on its FAQ page that carries no numbers, is the shape of the quote: licensing is based on the size of the planning group and on the types of users on the system, and packages exist for workgroups of 50 users, 100 users, and enterprise-level deployments, with multi-team and enterprise licensing handled by an account executive at sales@pdware.com. There is no self-serve trial, but there is a pilot: the FAQ says many organisations start with one, validating the software on their own data before committing to a long-term subscription. The same picture holds off-site — the ResourceFirst Workgroup Package is listed on Microsoft's commercial marketplace by Portfolio Decisionware Inc. with no price at all and a contact-me action, its offer identifier carrying the band 10-50.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-25",
  "source_url": "https://pdware.com/faqs-about-pdware-for-resource-management/"
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "quote_only",
   "label": "Quote-only pricing",
   "evidence": "No published price: /pricing 404s and every route ends in a quote request or guided demo (read 25 Sep 2026)",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-25",
   "source_url": "https://pdware.com/faqs-about-pdware-for-resource-management/"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Planview or Smartsheet",
  "why": "the portfolio-management field — Planview is the giant, Smartsheet the accessible middle; PDWare's edge is resource-first methodology depth"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/pdware.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/pdware-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/pdware/",
  "vendor_site": "https://pdware.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://try.pdware.com/m3yqr8camu6y",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Pricing status is 'quote_only': no single public entry price.",
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "pdware:public_price",
   "key": "public_price",
   "question": "Can you publish a price, or a starting price, for the plans that are quote-only?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "pdware:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "pdware:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "pdware:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "pdware:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}