Kantree Celebrates 10 Years: retrospective, innovations, and future vision

TL;DR

Kantree, developed by the cooperative Digicoop, is celebrating 10 years of innovation in the field of collaborative work management tools. This milestone marks a decade of development focused on flexibility, transparency, and team autonomy. Here are the key points of this journey:

• A cooperative adventure: Digicoop, a SaaS startup in the form of a cooperative, has successfully combined agility and democratic values.
• 10 years of innovation: From the card as a mini-doc to advanced automation, Kantree has continuously evolved to meet the needs of modern teams.
• AI at the service of users: Integration of AI to simplify workflows, automate tasks, and improve productivity.
• A promising future: With features like integrated meetings, collaborative documents, and advanced workload management, Kantree is preparing to further revolutionize teamwork.

Table of Contents

1. The cooperative adventure of Digicoop
2. 10 Years of innovation with Kantree
   • The Beginnings of Kantree
   • Major Innovations
3. The Kantree philosophy: autonomy, transparency, and asynchronous
4. What can you do with Kantree currently?
5. Kantree as a business application
6. The integration of AI in Kantree
   • The AI Assistant: Your Daily Companion
   • Concrete Use Cases of AI
7. Resource planning
8. Kantree V11: a revolution in preparation
9. Conclusion: onward to the future!

The cooperative adventure of Digicoop

Kantree is the result of a human and collective adventure: that of Digicoop, a cooperative that chose a bold model for a SaaS tool. Unlike traditional companies, Digicoop opted for democratic governance where each member has a voice.

A unique model

• 70% of associates: The team of 10 people produces like a team of 100, thanks to an optimized organization and strong involvement from each member.
• A committed choice: This model reflects a vision of work where trust and empowerment are at the heart of processes.

The challenges of a cooperative in the SaaS world

• A foot in two worlds: Combining the agility of a startup and cooperative values has not always been easy, but it is what makes Digicoop strong.
• Anchored philosophy: Radical transparency and team autonomy are pillars that guide every decision.

10 years of innovation with Kantree

The Beginnings of Kantree

Since 2014, Kantree has stood out for its flexibility and clear vision of a work management platform adapted to the 21st century. Unlike its competitors, Kantree focused on a modular and customizable approach, allowing teams to appropriate the tool according to their needs.

Major innovations

The Kantree philosophy: autonomy, transparency, and asynchronous

Kantree embodies a work philosophy based on 5 major principles. These 5 major principles, we apply them to ourselves first, but we believe they constitute a good foundation for building a more horizontal way of working in each team. Let’s look at each point:

1. Empowerment and autonomy: Teams control their processes.
2. Processes dictate execution flow: No unnecessary rigidity, but a clear structure.
3. Radical transparency: Everything is visible and accessible to foster collaboration.
4. Asynchronous first: Work does not depend on meetings but on individual contributions.
5. Working meetings, not status meetings: Meetings are reserved for value creation.

This philosophy is reflected in every feature of Kantree, with open permissions by default and shared workspaces.

What can you do with Kantree currently?

Presentation of a Use Case with a Workflow for 3 Teams

In Kantree, you will find many features to deploy simple or complex processes. Through an industrial maintenance case, we used a range of available features such as automations, formulas through KQL, the Kanban board, to-do lists, forms, etc.

Kantree as a business application

Kantree is evolving to become a custom business application, capable of meeting the specific needs of organizations. Here are the main advancements:

Advanced automations

• Positioning of action buttons: In the toolbar of the view or the card.
• Visibility conditions: Adapted according to roles and needs.

Customizable views

• Visibility and locking: Allowing processes to be secured while offering flexibility.
• Creation of shared views: For optimized collaboration.

Illustrated use cases

In the following video, you will see in action the following elements:

• Automation from the Card: Triggering actions based on roles.
• Workspace Locking: To secure sensitive data.

The integration of AI in Kantree

AI is at the heart of the next revolution in Kantree. Here’s how it is integrated:

AI specific to Kantree

• Natural interface: Use of natural language to interact with the tool.
• Dedicated features: Optimization of workflows without duplication with existing tools.

The AI assistant: your daily companion

• Universal activation: Accessible from anywhere in your workspace.
• Natural understanding: Executes actions by understanding your requests in plain language.
• Personal guide: Accompanies you with personalized advice to optimize your use of Kantree.

Concrete use cases of AI

In the following video, you will see in action the following use cases:

1. Augmented technological watch: Scraping information via SERPAPI and automated summary of results.
2. Reading PDF documents: Extracting relevant information to fill cards.
3. Daily information retrieval: Assistance in repetitive tasks and processing large amounts of data.

Workload Management

During our 10-year celebration, we shared what Kantree will offer in terms of a new “workload” view, or more commonly known as “resource planning,” for optimized resource management. This feature is being co-developed with our clients and will be available in 2026:

• Automatic Calculation: Based on card data and member planning.
• Global Vision: Available at the portfolio and organization levels.
• Needs Management: Creation of “virtual members” to plan needs without assigning real people.

Facilitating collaborator placement

• Member Search: Identification of available people to meet needs.
• Internal Announcements: Posting needs at the organization level for better resource allocation.

Kantree V11: a revolution in preparation

Kantree is preparing to integrate meetings, collaborative documents, and chat directly into the platform:

• Planning and Conducting Meetings: With a unique system linking actions to ongoing meetings.
• Integration with Google Workspace and Microsoft Teams: For maximum compatibility.
• Integrated Video Conferencing: Allowing the decision chain to be preserved end-to-end.
• Instant Chat: Enabling instant discussions within Kantree, as well as instant conversations in the context of cards.
• Collaborative Documents: For real real-time collaboration on a document editable by multiple users. This will concern a new view in its own right, as well as text fields editable in real-time collectively.

Conclusion: onward to the future!

The 10 years of Kantree mark an important milestone, but it’s only the beginning. With constant innovations, a human-centered philosophy, and a clear vision of the future of collaborative work, Kantree is ready to accompany teams towards new horizons.

Thank you for these 10 wonderful years, and onward to the future!