Avanqi

Avanqi is a cloud-based change management platform connecting impact assessments, stakeholders, readiness, communications, approvals, evidence, and executive reporting. Its portfolio view brings together initiatives, programs, delivery posture, risks, and change load. Teams can map stakeholder influence and readiness, plan engagement actions, and score complexity, change saturation, and operational impact. Versioned documents, approvals, and delivery evidence stay linked to change records, with document lineage and approval history. A permission-scoped AI assistant can summarize visible work, suggest next actions, cite source pages, and prepare drafts for review. AI is disabled by default for each organization; an administrator must accept its terms to enable it, and drafts require confirmation before records change. The Free plan includes one active change project and one active member. Team costs $49 a month, with five seats included and yearly billing listed at $490. Business costs $149 a month, with 20 seats and yearly billing listed at $1,490. Outcomes Control Tower is a pilot feature available only to approved organizations.

Avanqi brings change planning, governance records, and portfolio visibility into a cloud platform. Review its plan limits, AI controls, and assurance status when assessing fit for your organization.

Avanqi is aimed at change managers, transformation offices, PMO teams, governance owners, and business change leaders managing enterprise or regulated change delivery. Its Free plan may suit evaluation within the listed one-project, one-member limits.

Avanqi is a cloud platform for managing organizational change across projects and portfolios. It is best suited to change managers, PMOs, and governance teams coordinating complex delivery. Its central advantage is keeping planning, approvals, and evidence connected; its one-project Free plan is too constrained for most working teams.

Overview

Avanqi links impact assessments, stakeholder readiness and communications, approvals, evidence, and executive reporting in a governed workflow. Portfolio views bring initiatives, delivery posture, risks, and change load together, which helps transformation teams see pressures across concurrent work instead of treating each project in isolation. That breadth will be useful where consistent oversight matters, but is likely more structure than a small team needs for informal change coordination.

Key features

• Portfolio visibility: Teams can track initiatives and programs alongside delivery posture, risks, and change load. This makes Avanqi a stronger fit for PMO and transformation work spanning multiple initiatives than for a single, loosely managed project.
• Stakeholder and impact planning: Stakeholder influence, readiness, and engagement actions can be mapped, while structured scoring covers complexity, saturation, and operational impact. This supports a repeatable assessment process, although teams must be prepared to maintain that process.
• Governance records: Versioned documents, approvals, and delivery evidence stay linked to change records, with document lineage and approval history. That connection is valuable for governance owners who need a traceable record of decisions and delivery.
• Permission-scoped AI: The assistant summarizes work a user can see, suggests next actions, cites source pages, and prepares drafts. AI is off by default for each organization; an administrator must accept the terms to enable it, and drafts require confirmation before changing business records. Those controls make AI an optional aid rather than an automatic record editor.
• Access and assurance: Avanqi describes organization and project permissions, authenticator apps, passkeys, configurable single sign-on, and role-restricted audit history. It encrypts information in transit using HTTPS, but is not currently ISO 27001 certified and has no SOC 2 report. Organizations with those assurance requirements should weigh that gap before adopting it. Service providers may process information in Australia or other countries where they operate; Avanqi says it does not store full card numbers.

Pricing

The Free plan costs nothing and is billed Free for evaluation. It includes one active change project, one active member, core portfolio, stakeholder, and document workspaces, plus community support. It is useful for evaluation, but the one-member, one-project cap makes it a poor fit for collaborative delivery.

Team costs $49 a month, billed $490 billed yearly. It includes five seats and 25 active change projects, with extra seats at $5.99/user monthly or $59.90/user yearly. Approval workflows and audit history make this the entry point for teams that need governed collaboration rather than the limited Free workspace.

Business costs $149 a month, billed $1,490 billed yearly. It includes 20 seats, unlimited active change projects, Business SSO, Jira connector controls, and priority onboarding support. Extra seats cost $6.99/user monthly or $69.90/user yearly. This is the clearest fit for larger portfolios or teams needing the listed SSO and Jira controls.

Enterprise has custom pricing through a manual agreement. It includes everything in Business, plus a manual enterprise license override and custom onboarding, support, and procurement terms. Organizations needing those terms should consider it; teams that do not need them can compare against the fixed Business plan.

Platforms

Avanqi is a cloud product available on the web. Email at [email protected] is its primary support channel; Free includes community support, while Business includes priority onboarding support. Outcomes Control Tower evidence ingestion is limited to pilot organizations explicitly approved by Avanqi, using governed CSV and API workflows, so it should not be treated as a standard capability for every customer.

Who it's for

Avanqi is aimed at change managers, transformation offices, PMO teams, governance owners, and business change leaders running enterprise or regulated change delivery. It makes the most sense when those teams need portfolio visibility alongside documented approvals and evidence. A small team wanting a simple, low-cap process should look for a less constrained workflow.

Pros and cons

• Pro: Portfolio, stakeholder, impact, and governance work connect in one platform, giving oversight teams a joined-up view of change delivery.
• Pro: Version history, approval records, and linked evidence support traceable governance.
• Pro: AI is disabled by default and drafts need confirmation before records change, giving administrators control over whether it is enabled and how drafts are applied.
• Con: Free is capped at one active project and one member, so it is primarily an evaluation plan rather than a team workspace.
• Con: Avanqi has no ISO 27001 certification or SOC 2 report, which may be a barrier for organizations that require either assurance credential.
• Con: Outcomes Control Tower is restricted to approved pilot organizations, limiting its relevance as a generally available evidence-ingestion option.

Alternatives

Cohentis is worth comparing if Android or iOS access or self-hosting matters; it also has a free plan. Its maker says it is built by Geert Barandat, who has led IT programs, portfolios, and change in Belgian organizations for more than twenty years.

Giva ChangeManager is a paid alternative with a free trial and Android, iOS, API, and web platforms. Its Professional plan costs $76 a year and covers up to 10 agents, 1,500 end users or customers, three service desks, and three email inboxes, with a five-agent minimum.

ChangeFolio is another web-based freemium option with a free trial. Its Free Forever plan costs nothing and includes one user, one active company, and 1,000 active stakeholders; consider it if those stated free-plan limits suit your needs.

ChangeAble offers 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. It is an option for readers comparing those stated AI tools and pricing.

OCM Solution has a free plan and trial, with a Guest License (View only) at $5 a month per guest and an OCM Library plan at $10 a month.

Aspen is a paid web alternative.

ChangeVU is a web alternative with a free trial; its Enterprise application costs $99 a year, and single-use applications can be trialed free.

Roadmap Pro offers paid web project licenses with 12-month initial terms for its full-functionality license and six-month initial terms for its focused license; renewals are in six- or 12-month terms, with optional certification costs extra.

For more options, see Change Management Software.

Verdict

Avanqi is a strong fit for change managers, PMOs, and governance owners who need portfolio oversight tied to approvals and evidence. Choose it for that connected, governed workflow, especially on Team or Business when multiple people need to collaborate. Look elsewhere if your organization requires ISO 27001 or SOC 2 assurance, or if the Free plan's one-member, one-project ceiling is too restrictive.