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Microsoft Planner
Instead of managing tasks inside one ecosystem, In Parallel adds execution intelligence across your entire tool stack.
Where Planner organises work into boards, In Parallel turns meetings into a record of decisions, owners and risks.
In short
Microsoft Planner suits a single team standardised on Microsoft 365 that needs simple kanban boards included with its existing Microsoft licence. Planner has no meeting capture and works inside Microsoft 365, so multi-tool organisations should choose In Parallel, which captures decisions, owners and risks from meetings, Teams included, and serves them to any AI tool over MCP.
Updated
In Parallel isn't another meeting or project tool — it's the AI context layer: it gives the AI you already use your team's decisions, with the source behind every answer. Choosing an AI context layer →
What are the key differences?
Task boards vs coordination intelligence
Ecosystem lock-in vs tool freedom
Microsoft Planner only works inside Microsoft 365. If your engineering team uses Jira, your design team uses Linear, or your partners use something else entirely, Planner can't connect the dots. In Parallel works across all your tools, giving every team one shared execution picture regardless of what they use day-to-day.
Manual task boards vs pages that update after meetings
Planner gives you boards, lists, and charts, but someone has to update them after every meeting. In Parallel listens to your meetings, records decisions, owners and risks, and appends what changed to the workspace pages the meeting touched. Every edit lands in version history, so you can see what changed and why.
Task-level tracking vs execution visibility
Planner excels at individual task management -- assigning work, setting due dates, tracking progress on a board. In Parallel focuses on the execution picture that managers and leaders need: are we on track? What changed? What decisions were made? This is the layer between strategy and task-level work that Planner doesn't address.
No meeting intelligence vs meetings that feed the record
Planner has no meeting capture or intelligence. You meet in Teams, then manually create tasks in Planner afterwards. In Parallel captures what was decided in meetings and keeps them as a record with an owner, a status and a link back to the meeting -- closing the gap between conversation and execution.
When to choose Microsoft Planner
- Your entire organization is standardised on Microsoft 365
- You need simple kanban boards for a single team's task management
- You want a free tool included with your existing Microsoft licence
- Cross-team coordination and meeting capture are not priorities
When to choose In Parallel
- Your teams use different tools and you need a layer that connects them
- Meeting decisions need to be captured without someone writing them up
- Managers spend hours on status updates and tool reconciliation
- You need execution visibility at the organisational level, not just the task level
Frequently asked questions
Does In Parallel replace Microsoft Planner?
No. In Parallel is not a task management tool -- it is a coordination layer. It works alongside your existing PM tools (including Planner, Jira, Linear, and Asana) by keeping a record of what meetings decided and who owns it. You keep Planner for task boards; In Parallel keeps the decisions behind them.
We already use Microsoft 365 heavily. Why add another tool?
In Parallel is not competing with your Microsoft stack -- it fills the gap Microsoft doesn't cover. Planner manages tasks, Teams hosts meetings, but nothing keeps what was decided in a meeting as a record your team and its AI tools can find. In Parallel is that connection layer, and it works with Teams as a meeting source.
Can In Parallel sync with Microsoft Planner?
In Parallel captures decisions from your Teams meetings and keeps them as a shared record that Copilot and other AI tools can read over MCP. The Business plan includes up to five app integrations; ask us about Planner specifically.
Our teams use Planner, Jira, and other tools. Can In Parallel handle that?
This is exactly where In Parallel shines. Unlike Planner, which only manages tasks within Microsoft 365, In Parallel connects across all your tools. Engineering in Jira, product in Planner, leadership in spreadsheets -- In Parallel gives everyone one execution picture regardless of where the work lives.
Price the knowledge, not the people.
41% of the work week goes to coordination. In Parallel gives it back.
Plans
Professional
€29
per user / month
120 Knowledge Units per user a day. For teams under 50 users: meeting notes, chat, pages and workspaces.
Business
€69
per user / month
250 Knowledge Units per user a day. Adds sharing: give people access to a workspace, with set access rights for what they can see. Up to 5 app integrations. Automations when released.
Enterprise
Custom
One annual price, invoiced in advance. From 50 users, everyone in the company on one contract: unlimited app integrations, SSO and a named contact.
Talk to sales →On request
Custom
Dedicated EU cloud, on-premises and professional services
Shared EU cloud is standard and included. Onboarding, trainings and the named contact are always included.
Talk to sales →- Billed monthly at list price, cancel any month — or prepay a year and save 20%.
- One plan for the whole company: moving up moves everyone. Every user who signs in has a seat, including clients added to a workspace; AI agents need none.
- Reads from your own AI tools over MCP are free within fair use. When the pool runs out, 1,000 KU top-ups for €250 are added automatically, up to a cap your admin sets.
Add intelligence to your execution.
See how In Parallel turns your meetings into a shared record of decisions and owners. 30-minute demo.