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Moovila Schedules Projects. Your Techs Still Need a Board They'll Actually Use Every Day

Moovila schedules project portfolios. TopLeft gives technicians a board they work from daily, synced to ConnectWise, Autotask or HaloPSA. See which fits.

Moovila is built for project portfolio scheduling. Moovila's RPAX scheduling engine handles critical path scheduling on its own, throws up flags when a project's at risk, and works out your resource needs ahead of time. Good at that, no argument. What it won't do is help the tech who's staring at a queue at 2pm wondering what to grab next. There's no board your techs work from every day. No real-time capacity view your service manager can act on without checking three places first. And onboarding? It flips the tool on. It doesn't change the way the team actually works.

Run it next to ConnectWise, Autotask, or HaloPSA and you'll bump into a few problems pretty fast. No board for the techs means the service desk is still living inside the PSA queue. Smart Schedule can see the tickets, sure. But it won't let your techs actually work them. With that AI layer, your team sits around waiting for the system to announce what's next, when they could just be looking at it themselves.

That friction stalls adoption. When your team doesn't trust the logic driving the schedule, people drift back to the PSA. You've heard this before. "Nobody was using it."

TopLeft is built for MSPs, by an MSP. Wim Kerkhoff has run MSPs for 18 years, and both of his companies use TopLeft daily. Here's what you get: Kanban boards that pull everything together and sync to your PSA, capacity planning that shows you in real time when the next project can actually start, and onboarding that comes as coaching, sized to your team and the way you work.

How TopLeft and Moovila compare

Where they differ

Service Ticket + Project Visibility

TopLeft

One Kanban board showing every service ticket and project task your team works from each day

Moovila

Smart Schedule pulls ticket data in for scheduling, but techs get no daily board to work those tickets from

Onboarding as Coaching

TopLeft

Programs matched to where your team actually is: Launch (under 10), Optimize (10+), Accelerator peer coaching, and the Project Delivery Assessment led by Wim

Moovila

Customer Success-led onboarding, not split out by team size or how you work

Client Portal

TopLeft

Native portal where clients see ticket and project status without PSA access

Moovila

Not included

Drag-and-Drop Workflow

TopLeft

Drag tickets between technicians, statuses, and priorities with instant PSA sync

Moovila

No daily Kanban board, no Dispatch View, no work-in-progress (WIP) limits

Implementation

TopLeft

Launch runs a focused few weeks with coaching from a dedicated onboarding lead. Optimize runs longer with per-team working sessions and 30/90-day check-ins

Moovila

Onboarding led by Customer Success, not segmented by team size

Target User

TopLeft

MSP technicians, coordinators, project managers, and service managers running client work end to end

Moovila

PMOs and project planners running multi-phase portfolios with heavy dependency mapping

What both do

PSA Integration

TopLeft

Two-way sync with ConnectWise, Autotask, and HaloPSA for both service tickets and projects

Moovila

Two-way, project-focused, with Smart Schedule layering ticket and calendar data on top

Capacity Planning

TopLeft

Real-time heatmaps stack each engineer's assigned hours against available hours, with drag-to-test scheduling before anything commits to the PSA

Moovila

Resource management dashboard plus Smart Schedule with AI-driven critical path automation

Time Entry

TopLeft

Log time right from a Kanban card, syncs straight to your PSA for billing

Moovila

Time entry built into work tickets via PSA integration

Pricing Model

TopLeft

Per-user pricing with MSP features included, free two-week proof of concept

Moovila

Paid pilot available

Which one fits your situation

When TopLeft is the right fit

TopLeft is the right fit when your problem is daily operational visibility.

Your technicians are spread across service tickets and project tasks. Nobody can see who's working on what. One senior engineer is buried while two others wait for assignments, and tickets are going unlogged because the PSA queue is hard to read. You've probably got jobs a tech started four or five days ago that haven't moved since.

With TopLeft, every ticket and every project task lands on one board, and it syncs both directions with ConnectWise, Autotask, or HaloPSA. Techs grab their next priority themselves. No waiting for someone to hand it over. And a service manager catches an overload in seconds, instead of finding out the hard way when an SLA slips.

TopLeft is the right fit when you need real capacity planning, not guesswork.

Picture a client asking you right now when their project can kick off. If your honest answer is "not sure, let me check a few places," well, that's your capacity planning problem right there. You wind up committing to work before you know who's even free, because getting the answer means doing mental math across three different tools. One owner told us he had 12 projects open when one or two was the right number.

The capacity view lines up each engineer's committed hours against what's actually available, week by week and as far out as your projects run, with vacation and training weeks set per person. Drag projects around to test a schedule before anything commits to the PSA. And since onboarding is coaching built around your team size and how you work, the methodology actually sticks instead of falling apart by week three.

When Moovila is the right fit

Moovila is the right fit when you have a dedicated PMO running complex project portfolios.

Say your project management office (PMO) owns multi-phase deployments, the kind with heavy dependency mapping. You want AI-driven critical path automation, risk monitoring around the clock, and a way to model "what if we land this deal" against the sales pipeline. Your service desk runs on its own separate tool, and that's perfectly fine.

Moovila brings real scheduling smarts and deep resource forecasting to the table when your big headache is the project portfolio itself, not the daily mix of service and project work.

Moovila is the right fit when algorithmic scheduling matches how your team works.

Your people are fine handing it over to the AI: letting it flag conflicts, suggest fixes, and reforecast timelines on its own. RPAX hums along in the background and you trust what it's telling you.

Wiring Moovila into your daily service desk still calls for a separate Kanban or workflow tool, so the double-entry headache sticks around. It just moves. Moovila was built for the planner and the PMO, not the engineer in the thick of their day.

Questions MSPs ask

Worried it's not worth it for a small team?
Fair question. The Launch program was made for teams under 10, and the math holds up just fine down there. No more nightly ritual of staring at the service desk board, trying to work out why nothing's moving. No dispatcher exporting to Excel. Just your handful of techs pulling the right work in the right order. Fifty people isn't the threshold for the visibility to pay for itself.

What MSPs see after switching

Steve's team at TEBA put every project on a TopLeft board, capped work in progress at five, and took projects from 30% over budget to 28% under in six months. It's what you get when work stops sitting unseen between people.

Scott at Allixo moved his techs to pulling work from the board, then disbanded the dispatch department. When he told the story at our Agile MSP Bootcamp, Allixo had 15 open tickets and had not lost a client in two years.

Chase at Appalachian moved SLA compliance from 60% to over 90%. Seitel Systems had a lot of tickets more than 90 days old; Judi Baker, its Service Desk Manager, says tickets no longer slip through the cracks the way they did. These are MSPs that already had a PSA. What they didn't have was a board the whole team could work from.

See it in action

Get a personal tour of how PSA-integrated Kanban boards, week-by-week capacity planning, and hands-on onboarding give your team a shared view of all their work. See how the Dispatch View stops the constant interruptions.

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