Avanqi

Avanqi brings portfolio oversight, stakeholder work, approvals, evidence, and reporting together for organizations coordinating change across programs. It is aimed at change managers, PMOs, transformation offices, and governance owners whose work needs a consistent record. Its breadth is a strong fit for governed delivery, but small teams may find the entry plan too constrained.

Overview

The platform links impact assessments and stakeholder readiness with communications, approvals, delivery evidence, and executive reporting. A portfolio view adds delivery posture, risks, and change load across initiatives. That joined-up approach can help teams manage change as a portfolio rather than a collection of disconnected projects; it is less compelling for informal, one-off change efforts.

Key features

• Portfolio oversight: View initiatives and programs alongside delivery posture, risks, and change load. This is useful to PMO and transformation teams monitoring several concurrent efforts, though portfolio oversight depends on having enough active work to justify a dedicated platform.
• Stakeholder and impact assessment: Map influence, readiness, and engagement actions, and score complexity, saturation, and operational impact. Structured scoring supports a more consistent assessment process across initiatives, but may be heavier than a small team needs.
• Governance and evidence: Versioned documents, approvals, delivery evidence, lineage, and approval history are linked to change records. This gives governance owners a traceable record of decisions and supporting material.
• AI assistant: The permission-scoped assistant can summarize visible work, suggest next steps, cite source pages, and prepare drafts. It is off by default for each organization, requires an administrator to accept the AI terms, and cannot change business records without explicit confirmation. Those controls keep human review in the process, while the opt-in requirement means teams must deliberately enable it.
• Security and integrations: Avanqi describes organization and project permissions, authenticator apps, passkeys, configurable single sign-on, and role-restricted audit history. Business adds Jira connector controls. HTTPS protects information in transit, but Avanqi is not currently ISO 27001 certified and has no SOC 2 report, so buyers requiring either assurance should look elsewhere. Service providers may process information in Australia or other countries where they operate; full card numbers are not stored.
• Outcomes Control Tower: Approved pilot organizations can ingest evidence through governed CSV and API workflows. This is a limited pilot capability, not a general integration promise.

Pricing

The Free plan costs nothing and is for evaluation: one active change project, one active member, core portfolio, stakeholder, and document workspaces, and community support. That cap makes it difficult to use as a working team plan.

Team costs $49 a month, billed $490 billed yearly, and includes five seats, 25 active change projects, approval workflows, and audit history. Extra seats cost $5.99/user monthly or $59.90/user yearly. It suits teams needing governed workflows across a bounded portfolio, but project growth beyond 25 or the need for Business SSO and Jira controls may call for an upgrade.

Business costs $149 a month, billed $1,490 billed yearly, with 20 seats and unlimited active change projects. Extra seats cost $6.99/user monthly or $69.90/user yearly. Business SSO, Jira connector controls, and priority onboarding support make it the clearer choice for larger or more integration-dependent teams.

Enterprise has custom pricing under a manual agreement and includes everything in Business, plus a manual enterprise license override and custom onboarding, support, and procurement terms. It is suited to organizations needing individually arranged commercial and rollout terms. The Free plan is the only explicitly free evaluation option; paid plans state monthly and yearly billing terms as above.

Platforms

Avanqi is a cloud service accessed on the web. Email is the primary support channel at [email protected]; Free includes community support, while Business includes priority onboarding support.

Who it's for

Avanqi is best suited to change managers, transformation offices, PMO teams, governance owners, and business change leaders coordinating enterprise or regulated delivery. Its connected assessments, portfolio view, and governance records are most relevant where multiple stakeholders and initiatives need oversight. A solo user or a team managing one simple project is likely to hit the Free plan's limits quickly, while organizations requiring ISO 27001 certification or a SOC 2 report should not treat Avanqi as a fit.

Pros and cons

• Pro: Portfolio, stakeholder, impact, approval, and evidence work sit in one governed workflow, which supports oversight across concurrent change initiatives.
• Pro: Version history, document lineage, approvals, and audit history provide a connected record for governance work.
• Pro: The AI assistant is permission-scoped and requires confirmation before records change, with organization-level opt-in.
• Con: Free is capped at one active project and one active member, limiting it to evaluation rather than team delivery.
• Con: Business features such as SSO and Jira connector controls are not included in Team.
• Con: The lack of ISO 27001 certification and a SOC 2 report may disqualify it under some assurance requirements.

Alternatives

Browse change management software if you want to compare tools across the category.

• Cohentis is another freemium option with a Free plan and Android, iOS, self-hosted, and web platforms; choose it if those deployment or mobile options matter, or if its maker's stated experience leading Belgian IT programs and change is relevant to your selection.
• ChangeAble has a free tier with limited access to AI Change Impact Assessment and AI Benefits Tracker plus usage credits, and a Pro Tier at £49.99 a month billed monthly in advance. Consider it if that AI-focused free tier or its stated paid option better fits your budget and feature needs.
• ChangeFolio offers a free-forever plan for one user, one active company, and 1,000 active stakeholders, as well as a free trial. It may suit a solo user who needs stakeholder capacity more than Avanqi's one-project team evaluation.
• OCM Solution offers a $5 a month view-only guest license per guest and a $10 a month OCM Library plan, along with a free plan and free trial. Choose it if those guest or library options match the need.
• AmpleLogic Audit Management is a web-based paid product with custom pricing; consider it if an audit-management product is the better match.
• Aspen is a paid web option.
• ChangeGate is a paid web option.
• ChangeVU offers free trials for single-use applications and an Enterprise application at $99 a year for an unlimited use license. Consider it if a single-use trial or annual unlimited-use license suits the intended use.

Verdict

Choose Avanqi when change delivery needs connected portfolio oversight, structured stakeholder and impact work, and a traceable governance record across initiatives. The main trade-off is that its Free plan is only an evaluation foothold, while organizations with mandatory ISO 27001 certification or a SOC 2 report should choose another platform.