Portfolio clarity.
Without the overhead.
Status, milestones, risks and capacity for every initiative, in one shared view your teams can adopt in days.
From project chaos to portfolio clarity.
Slate mirrors how your PMO already runs projects. Status, risks and capacity consolidate into one view, without a heavy rollout.
Portfolio Cockpit
A consolidated pilot view built for scale. Some clients run 7 500+ projects in it. Advanced filters by department, category, health and timeline.
- Filters by department, health and timeline
- Scales past 7 500 projects
- One shared source of truth
Risks & Issues
Centralized tracking with easy add, child-project roll-up, and a one-click filter to show only active items during governance meetings.
- Child project roll up
- Active items in one click
- Built for governance meetings
Status Updates
Monthly reports with the classic Time / Cost / Scope indicators, plus automatic reminders when a PM's update is overdue.
- Time, cost and scope indicators
- Automatic overdue reminders
- Monthly reporting without slide decks
Everything your PMO needs.
Where Slate earns its keep.
PMOs adopt Slate when spreadsheets stop scaling and heavyweight suites ask more than they give. These are the most common starting points.
- Monthly governance. One cockpit with status, risks and milestones for every steering meeting.
- Replacing spreadsheet reporting. PMs update once, the portfolio view consolidates itself.
- Program roll ups. Child projects aggregate into a single program cockpit.
- Capacity planning. See who is overloaded before you commit the next project.
- Escalating risks early. Active risks surface in one click during governance meetings.
- Pair it with Shale to keep project documents owned and up to date.
Fits the environment you already own.
Slate slots into your existing tools as the control tower, not another silo.
- Microsoft 365 sign in, documents and sharing your teams already use.
- Teams notifications and update reminders where PMs already work.
- Power BI reporting on top of clean, consolidated project data.
- Excel import and export for the planning habits that stay.
- Project cost and resource data can flow into the Basalt BASIN for company wide reporting.
Is Slate right for your PMO?
Slate is for organizations that want portfolio clarity in days, not a transformation program. You will recognize yourself here.
- You run dozens to thousands of projects and still report by hand.
- Heavyweight PPM suites feel like more governance than your teams can absorb.
- Management wants one portfolio view with status, risks and capacity.
- You want PMs updating in minutes, not maintaining slide decks.
- You need a rollout in days on the stack you already own.
Questions PMOs ask about SLATE
Common questions from project managers and PMO leads evaluating SLATE.
What is SLATE?
SLATE is a pragmatic PMO platform that gives project and program managers a clear, shared view of every initiative across the organization: status, milestones, risks, budgets, capacity. Portfolio visibility without the heavyweight rollout.
Who is SLATE for?
Project managers running individual projects, program managers rolling up dependencies, and PMO leads who need organization-wide visibility, capacity planning and governance reporting.
How is SLATE different from MS Project, Jira or Asana?
SLATE is portfolio-first, not task-first. It mirrors how your PMO already runs projects, with the same roles, permissions and governance, and surfaces the cross-project view (risks, capacity, status, budget) those tools were never designed to provide.
How long does a SLATE rollout take?
Days, not months. SLATE is designed to mirror existing processes, so PMs can start logging status, risks and milestones from day one. No migration project, no parallel run, no onboarding marathon.
Does SLATE work alongside Microsoft tools?
Yes. SLATE is built to complement the Microsoft ecosystem most enterprises already own (Teams, SharePoint, Project), so it becomes the control tower over your existing stack, not another silo.
Ready to take control of your portfolio?
See how SLATE can give your PMO clear portfolio visibility in days, using the Microsoft tools you already own.