AlignHQ

What AlignHQ is

AlignHQ is a cloud platform for planning, communicating, and measuring organizational change. Its dashboard brings change initiatives, progress, budgets, and timelines together. Teams can map stakeholders by influence and impact, and follow engagement among champions, sponsors, and resistors. Readiness assessments use shareable surveys, automated scoring, and department-level analytics. Communications and training tools support scheduling messages, tracking engagement, managing training modules, and following completion rates.

For planning, AlignHQ includes Gantt timelines, milestone tracking, Excel task import, process mapping, and impact analysis. Its methodology is organized around people, process, and technology, with assess, align, and sustain stages. The platform is offered for web use, and the maker describes it for individual change practitioners, change teams, consulting firms, and large organizations managing change at scale.

Starter costs $30 per user per month and Professional costs $49 per user per month. Enterprise pricing is custom. All plans include a five-day trial with full feature access, preloaded demo data, and no credit card required. Starter includes email support, Professional priority support, and Enterprise a dedicated account manager. AlignHQ says it uses Google Cloud and Firebase, encryption at rest and in transit, role-based access controls, and organizational data isolation.

Who it suits

AlignHQ suits individual change practitioners and change management teams planning initiatives, assessing readiness, and coordinating communications and training. Consulting firms and large organizations can consider it for managing change across projects or at scale.

Limits

Starter allows up to three active projects and stakeholder mapping for up to 50 people. Its listed features include readiness assessments, communication planning and templates, training module management, and email support. The five-day trial provides full feature access; the free plan is unavailable.

Getting started

1. Open the AlignHQ website.
2. Start the five-day trial; no credit card is required.
3. Use the preloaded demo data and full feature access during the trial.
4. Choose Starter, Professional, or contact the maker about custom Enterprise pricing.

Verdict

Choose AlignHQ if you need a web platform that combines change planning, stakeholder mapping, readiness assessments, communications, and training. Starter is priced at $30 per user per month, with Professional at $49 per user per month. Look elsewhere if you need a free plan or a platform beyond web.