| Asana / Basecamp | Vetta |
|---|---|
| Organized around tasks and projects | Organized around goals and a weekly rhythm — tasks serve the quarter |
| Goals features bolted on, famously unused | Goals & OKRs are the core object; progress rolls up from real work |
| No meeting concept — status lives in comment threads | The Weekly Review is the product: scorecard, goal check, issues, to-dos, live |
| Assignees on tasks; accountability diffuses upward | One named owner on every goal, metric, task, and issue — no exceptions |
| Measures activity: tasks completed, boards updated | Measures outcomes: goal progress, scorecard trends, done-rate on commitments |
| Per-seat pricing that scales with your headcount | Flat price per company — the whole team included |
Busy is not the same as on track
A task tool can be completely up to date while the quarter quietly dies. Lists grow, cards move, everyone's "slammed" — and nobody can answer the only question that matters: is the right work moving the goals? Vetta makes that question unavoidable: every task links to a goal, every goal has a weekly status call from its owner, and the scorecard's 13-week trail shows drift in week two instead of week twelve.
The missing organ: a meeting
Follow-through doesn't come from notifications — it comes from a room where commitments are reviewed out loud, on a rhythm. Task tools have no such room. Vetta's Weekly Review builds its own agenda from your real data, carries last week's to-dos forward until they're done, turns off-track numbers into owned issues, and ends with a recap that posts itself to Slack. The meeting is the accountability engine; the task list is just its fuel.
Replace it — or run above it
Vetta's tasks are deliberately simple: lists and boards the whole team adopts in minutes. For many companies that's the whole replacement. If your delivery teams live on dependencies, Gantt charts, and workload views, keep the PM tool for execution detail and run Vetta as the layer that decides what matters this quarter and whether it's actually happening — the two tools divide cleanly.
If your core need is deep project management — dependencies, Gantt timelines, resource workload, client portals — a dedicated PM tool is genuinely better at that, and Vetta happily runs above it. And if you specifically love Basecamp's calm, anti-goal philosophy, that's a worldview choice, not a feature gap; Vetta exists for teams that want goals at the center.
Common questions
Does Vetta replace Asana?
For many teams, yes — Vetta includes simple task lists and kanban boards where every task links to a goal. Teams with heavy project-management needs often keep their PM tool for delivery detail and use Vetta as the goals-and-rhythm layer above it.
Can tasks in Vetta link to our goals?
That's the whole point: every task can ladder to a goal, so boards answer "why is this being done," and goal progress reflects real work instead of typed-in percentages.
We already have a weekly meeting. What changes?
The meeting stops needing prep. Vetta builds the agenda from your live data — scorecard, goal statuses, carried-over commitments, prioritized issues — and drafts the recap when you're done. Same meeting, no gathering, no amnesia.
How is pricing different?
Task tools charge per seat, so a 100-person rollout is a real line item. Vetta is one flat price per company ($299–499/month), so inviting everyone — the only way accountability works — costs nothing extra.