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Landing Platform vs Kantata: resourcing, margin and more
Kantata is professional services automation. Landing runs the same core, retainers, capacity, time and profit per client, and adds the CRM, marketing, HR, helpdesk and client portal that feed the work in the first place.
Landing suits you if
- You want retainers, capacity and margin in the same place as the deals
- You want timesheets that fill themselves from Outlook overnight
- You want a published price, not a pricing plan built in a call
Where the margin picture ends.
A PSA sees delivery clearly. It sees the rest of the business through integrations.
Sales lives next door
The pipeline and the client emails sit in a separate CRM, connected by integration rather than on the same record.
Timesheets still chased
Accurate margin depends on hours, and hours depend on people remembering to fill them in.
Quoted, not listed
There is no public price. Plans are tailored with an advisor, which makes budgeting for next year a conversation.
Landing Platform vs Kantata, line by line.
On delivery, resourcing and margin, Landing stands level. Around it, Landing runs the rest of the firm.
| Feature | Landing Platform |  Kantata |
|---|---|---|
| Projects and boards | Kanban, lists, Gantt with dependencies and milestones, a portfolio view and templates | Included |
| Retainers | Monthly hours with capped carryover, time banks and a utilisation report per retainer | Included |
| Capacity and workloads | Contracted, scheduled and free hours per person, twelve weeks ahead, with leave already counted | Resource management and forecasting |
| Timesheets | Timers, a week grid, and timesheets that fill from each person's Outlook calendar overnight | Time and cost tracking |
| Estimates and statements of work | Role lines at locked rates, signed in the browser, then pushed into the project as role budgets | Included |
| Invoicing | Invoices from logged hours, milestones or a monthly retainer, plus checkout | Included |
| Profit per client | Margin by client, project and person, costed at each person's real rate | Included |
| Company health | Revenue recognised on delivery, forecast, utilisation against target and projects at risk on one screen | Financial and resource forecasting |
| CRM and sales pipeline | Contacts, companies, deals and pipelines | Through integrations |
| Email marketing | Campaigns and flows with segments on the whole customer record | Not part of the product |
| HR | Records, leave, shift rota and the org chart | Not part of the product |
| Client portal | Projects, invoices, tickets and deliverables under your logo; clients are free | Included |
Kantata details reflect its publicly available plans as of 2026; check current details on its own site.
Switching is our job, not yours.
We move you over one tool a month, against success criteria we agree with you up front. You don't pay until we prove each one is ready.
We map your stack
Show us how you use Kantata and the tools around it. We agree what moves where, and what "ready" means for each tool, before you commit to anything.
We move Kantata across
We move your clients, projects, roles, rates and time history across as part of the switch, rebuild retainers with their carryover rules, and reconcile hours and margin with you before you switch off.
You sign it off
Billing starts only when we have shown it works against the criteria you set. Then we move the next tool, one a month.
But Kantata runs our delivery.
Fair. These are the questions services firms ask us most.
Can Landing handle resourcing across a whole firm?
Yes. Capacity shows contracted, scheduled and free hours per person and department up to twelve weeks ahead, with leave and working patterns already counted.
Where does profit per client come from?
From timesheets. Each hour is costed at the person's real rate and set against what the client pays, so margin updates as the hours come in. It is part of Growth.
Do consultants have to fill in timesheets by hand?
Rarely. Each night, meetings in their Outlook calendar become time against the right client, capped at what they owe. Anything they typed themselves is never touched.
How does a signed proposal become a project?
Estimates are built from role lines at locked rates and bundled into a statement of work. Once signed, they push into the project as role budgets.
Checking utilisation?
Use the free utilisation calculator to see billable time across the team.
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