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Free & Open Source Desktop App · For Project Managers, PMOs & Resource Leaders

Sophisticated resource capacity and portfolio planning. Made simple.

Stop fighting broken spreadsheets and heavyweight enterprise tools. Capture your people, projects, and budgets in one place to plan capacity, balance workloads, and answer “Can we deliver this on time?” with absolute certainty.

Free & Open Source desktop app for macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) & Windows

Free & Open Source Forever 100% Offline & Private (Zero Telemetry) Single Portable .rdeck File
resourcedeck Executive Split Workspace showing portfolio timeline and synchronized capacity vs demand charts with Overrun Red detection
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Executive Split Workspace: Tactile Gantt timeline synchronized with real-time monthly human capacity and budget charts. Apex Global Fintech FY26 Portfolio Plan
Purpose-Built for Leaders

The questions Project Managers and PMOs answer every week

Spreadsheets break when formulas get complex. Enterprise tools take months to configure. resourcedeck provides immediate, deterministic answers.

Demand Feasibility

“Can we take on this new initiative in Q3?”

Stage candidate projects in your deck and drag them onto the timeline. Instant capacity charts reveal whether your team can absorb the hours without overtime.

Burnout Prevention

“Who is overloaded, and who has available bench?”

The People × Months utilization matrix flags bottlenecks above 100% in red and highlights available bandwidth so you balance workload fairly.

Trade-off Analysis

“What if we delay Project A by 6 weeks?”

Branch a What-If scenario in one click. Dashed Baseline Ghost Bars show previous dates, while the diff drawer quantifies exact cost and hour changes.

Executive Confidence

“Are our project costs aligned with monthly budgets?”

Step into executive steering committees with synchronized spend charts that highlight cost overruns the moment dates or allocations move.

Unified Portfolio Model

Capture your People, Projects, and Budgets in one place

The foundation of sound resource management is keeping supply, demand, and financials aligned. resourcedeck unites all three seamlessly.

Your People (Supply)

Model your real organizational capacity. Define roles, departments, skill tags, hourly cost rates, and daily working hours.

  • ✓ TBD Hiring Placeholders: Plan future headcount with start dates.
  • ✓ Holidays & PTO: Automatically deducts company shutdown weeks and personal time off.
  • ✓ Flexible Allocations: Assign by Total Hours, Hours/Day, or % Capacity.

Your Projects (Demand)

Stage scheduled initiatives alongside candidate backlog ideas. Prioritize by strategic ROI value score and track milestones.

  • ✓ Projects on Deck: Backlog staging area for unscheduled pipeline candidates.
  • ✓ Milestones & Dependencies: Diamond target markers and cross-project links.
  • ✓ Confirmed vs. Tentative: Visual certainty tracking across your pipeline.

Your Budgets (Financials)

Set monthly budget limits and watch projected costs update instantly. Highlight budget overruns in red before leadership reviews.

  • ✓ Automatic Overrun Red: Instant alerts whenever demand or spend exceeds limits.
  • ✓ Lump-Sum or Hourly Costing: Fixed project budgets or calculated from labor rates.
  • ✓ Forecast Burn Rates: Automated monthly spend projections and variance tracking.
Decision-Making Safety

Test roadmap changes safely against your approved baseline

Never overwrite an approved baseline plan just to test a trade-off. Fork a What-If scenario branch in one click to experiment freely with project timing, staffing reallocations, or scope shifts.

Baseline Ghost Bars

Dashed outlines remain visible on the Gantt timeline, showing exactly where projects lived in the approved plan while you drag new dates.

Δ Scenario Diff Drawer

Inspect date shifts, net hours variance, and dollar delta changes across your entire portfolio in a clean slide-out drawer.

↗ 1-Click Promotion to Baseline

When the executive steering committee approves your scenario, promote the branch to become the new official Baseline with one click.

resourcedeck What-If Scenario Diff Drawer and Baseline Ghost Bars on timeline
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What-If Scenario Diff Drawer: Resolving 2 overrun months down to 0 with ghost bars showing the 55-day project shift.
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Team Utilization Matrix: Color-coded by load percentage with instant drill-down into individual project contributions.
Workload Visibility

Spot team burnout and available bench capacity instantly

The Team & Role Utilization Heatmap organizes your resources across months into an intuitive, color-coded matrix. View by individual person, grouped by Department, or aggregated by Role.

< 70%
Available Bench
Capacity to absorb new work
70 – 100%
Optimal Load
Healthy, productive delivery
> 100%
Over-Allocated
Burnout and delivery risk

Click any cell to open an instant breakdown of exactly which projects are driving that person’s hours for the month.

Presentation Ready

Designed for live Zoom reviews and boardroom steering committees

No awkward formula recalculation during executive presentations. resourcedeck is tuned for clarity, speed, and numerical legibility.

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Smart Staffing & Skills Matcher

When assigning staff to a project, click “Suggest Available Staff”. The engine scans your organization and ranks team members by required skill match and open bandwidth in that exact date window.

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Distraction-Free Presentation Mode (Cmd+P)

Press Cmd+P to collapse sidebars and toolbars. Surfaces high-level Executive KPI cards (Spend vs. Budget, Overrun Count, Active Portfolio) with high-contrast themes and tabular typography.

Operational Precision

Realistic availability math that accounts for holidays and PTO

Human capacity isn’t 160 hours every month. resourcedeck accounts for real business calendars: company-wide federal holidays, year-end shutdowns, and personal PTO.

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AI-Ready Data Layer

1-Click AI Data Bridge for ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini

Need an executive briefing written or an AI risk assessment? Tap Cmd+Shift+A to generate a structured Markdown context pack with pre-computed monthly rollups ready to paste into any LLM.

resourcedeck 1-Click AI Data Bridge for ChatGPT and Claude
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MIT Licensed · Zero Telemetry · 100% Free Forever

Why resourcedeck is free and open source forever

Enterprise resource planning tools charge $50 to $100 per user per month while locking your strategic plans inside proprietary clouds. We believe project managers and resource leaders deserve a fast, reliable desktop workbench that respects their privacy, runs 100% offline, and costs nothing.

No Per-Seat Licenses

Share plans with your PMO, coordinators, and directors without worrying about seat fees or license tiers.

You Own Your Data Forever

Every plan is stored locally in an open SQLite (.rdeck) file. No vendor lock-in, ever.

Absolute Privacy

Zero telemetry. Your staffing rates, project budgets, and employee names never touch a cloud server.

Compare Tools

Spreadsheets vs. Heavyweight PPMs vs. resourcedeck

Why project and resource managers choose resourcedeck over fragile spreadsheets and complex enterprise software.

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Capability resourcedeck Excel / Google Sheets Enterprise Cloud PPM
Cost & Licensing Free & Open Source Forever Part of Office / Workspace $50–$100+ / user / month
Tactile Drag-and-Drop Timeline Native, dynamic Gantt Rigid cell date formulas Slow, rigid web canvas
What-If Scenario Modeling 1-Click Branch, Ghost Bars & Diff Fragile copy-pasted tabs Complex administrator setup
Live Overrun Red Alerts Instant Capacity & Budget Red Manual conditional formatting Delayed batch syncs
Setup & Onboarding Time < 2 minutes (Zero setup) Weeks of formula building 3 to 6 months implementation
Privacy & Data Security 100% Offline · Local SQLite File Cloud shared drives Vendor cloud database lock-in

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions from project managers, PMOs, and resource directors.

Is resourcedeck really 100% free forever?

Yes. resourcedeck is published under the open source MIT License. There are no user limits, no trial periods, no hidden features locked behind a credit card, and no subscription fees. You can use it freely across your entire organization.

What operating systems are supported?

resourcedeck is available as a standalone desktop application for macOS (both Apple Silicon and Intel) and Windows (64-bit). Simply download the installer, open it, and begin planning immediately—no complex installation or developer tools required.

First-time launch on macOS or Windows: What should I know?

Because resourcedeck is a community-driven, 100% free open-source project without a paid corporate certificate, your operating system may ask for a quick one-time confirmation on first launch:

  • macOS: When downloaded from a browser, macOS Gatekeeper may show a prompt saying “resourcedeck is damaged and can’t be opened”. Move resourcedeck.app into /Applications and run this one-line command in Terminal to clear the download quarantine:
    xattr -cr /Applications/resourcedeck.app
  • Windows: If Windows SmartScreen displays a blue prompt, simply click “More info” followed by “Run anyway”.

How does resourcedeck calculate capacity and working days?

resourcedeck uses a pure deterministic calculation engine based on actual working weekdays (skipping weekends). It automatically deducts corporate holidays, shutdown windows, and individual PTO to calculate exact net working hours and cost distribution month-by-month.

Where is my data stored? Does anything get sent to the cloud?

resourcedeck is 100% local-first and offline. Your entire plan is stored in a single .rdeck file (standard SQLite) on your local hard drive or shared company folder. There is zero telemetry, zero analytics tracking, and no cloud server.

Can I share my .rdeck files with colleagues?

Yes. A .rdeck file is a single self-contained file. You can email it, commit it to a repository, or put it in Google Drive, OneDrive, or Box for your PMO team to open.

How do I submit feedback, request features, or report issues?

We value your insights! You can submit ideas, feedback, or issues directly through our Feedback Form or open an issue on our GitHub repository.

Ready to take control of your capacity and portfolio?

Download resourcedeck today. Zero onboarding, zero credit cards, zero telemetry. Start balancing your team and projects in minutes.