Building in public · MVP arriving Q3 2026

Approvals your stakeholders will actually click. PDFs your auditor will actually accept.

Your stakeholders don't get yet another login to yet another system, and every approval is still documented. You walk into the project audit with a signed PDF, not screenshots.

The problem

Every IT project changes mid-flight. The approval process hasn't.

Something always changes during an IT project. The client wants something different, a module can't be delivered on time, the technical reality catches up with the spec. A mid-sized project goes through 10–30 of these moments.

The approval process today is usually an Excel sheet and a handful of Outlook threads. The PM circulates the change. One stakeholder replies quickly, two reply a week later, the third writes "+1" on a reply-all. The PM tries to record all of this back into the Excel.

Six months later the auditor asks who approved change #14 — and nobody can find it.

OkMemo closes that loop with a single, specific workflow

How it works

Five steps. The whole product fits on one screen.

01step

You set up the project

A project has a name, a client, context, and your internal team. You add the stakeholders — the client-side decision makers — by name, email and role. They are contacts, not users. They never log in.

OkMemo project setup screen showing the Acme ERP rollout project with stakeholders and internal team tables.
02step

You record a decision

A title, a description of the current and proposed state, the rationale. You pick which stakeholders need to approve it and you set a deadline. That's the entire form.

OkMemo decision capture form with title, current vs proposed state, rationale, stakeholder toggles and a deadline.
03step

The AI drafts the approval email

From the decision context it writes a structured email: what changed, why it matters, what we're asking for. You read it, edit if you want, and send. The AI doesn't replace your judgement; it saves the typing.

OkMemo email composer with stakeholder chips, subject line and an AI-drafted body with What we are proposing, Why, and What we need from you sections.
04step

The stakeholder clicks. No registration.

Each approver gets a unique, signed link. One tap — Approve or Reject. A comment is optional. No password, no account, no app to install. They can do it from their phone on the train.

A mobile phone screen showing an approval email with a green APPROVE button being tapped and a REJECT outline button next to it.
05step

A signed PDF closes the loop

When every approver has responded, the Decision Record PDF generates automatically. Timestamps, IP addresses, response times, every comment — all of it. That's what you hand to the auditor or attach to the project closure email.

A printed Decision Record PDF DR-2026-014 with Decision, Rationale, Approvers table, Audit log, a SHA-256 hash and a green HASH VERIFIED round seal in the top-right corner.
What you get

Three concrete things. Not vision, not synergy.

DAYS BACK / PROJECT

Hours of PM time, returned

A mid-sized IT project runs 10–20 change approvals. If each one eats 1–2 hours of follow-ups and copy-paste, you're losing a working week per project. With OkMemo it's 10–15 minutes per decision, end to end.

ISO 9001 / 27001 READY

Audit-ready by design, not in retrospect

You don't assemble the documentation the night before the audit. It accumulates as you work. The ISO surveillance visit takes an hour of prep instead of half a day. Your client also sleeps better — they can see what they signed off on.

0 LOGINS REQUIRED

Stakeholders who don't hate you

A senior executive will not think twice about whether to create yet another account just to approve one paragraph. They tap a link on their phone, it takes two seconds. That trust is part of the workflow, not a side effect.

Auditability

Every event has a timestamp. Every PDF has a fingerprint.

This is the section your compliance officer reads twice. It's also the part that's hardest to fake after the fact — which is exactly the point.

Audit log · DR-2026-014live
  • Decision createdMay 17 · 16:08
    by PM (Krisztina F.) · 3 approvers selected
  • Emails sentMay 17 · 16:12
    3 recipients · Resend message-id: re_8f2…
  • Email opened — Dóra VargaMay 18 · 09:11
    iOS · Apple Mail · IP 81.183.x.x
  • Approval clicked — Dóra VargaMay 18 · 09:14
    Token verified · response time 3m 22s
  • Approval clicked — Mihály TóthMay 18 · 11:02
    macOS · Chrome · IP 213.111.x.x
  • Approval clicked — Anna KisMay 18 · 13:47
    w/ comment, 184 chars · IP 82.78.x.x
  • PDF generated & sealedMay 18 · 14:32
    SHA-256: 7a3f2c9b…d5e · stored in Vercel Blob
— 01

Every event is recorded.

When the stakeholder clicks Approve, we store which email it came from, when we sent it, when they opened it, when they clicked, the IP, the user agent. The auditor sees the full chain.

— 02

The PDF cannot be edited after the fact.

Every Decision Record gets a SHA-256 hash at the moment of issue. If a single character changes later, the hash no longer matches. The verifier is a public tool you can run anywhere.

— 03

Your data is yours. Always.

Export every decision in your account as PDF + CSV, any time. If you decide to leave, there is no lock-in to negotiate. Hand the archive to your client, archive it, plug it into your own systems.

— 04

GDPR-compliant by default.

Servers in the EU (Frankfurt). Stakeholder email addresses are kept only for the duration of the approval and can be deleted on request. DPA available from the Pro tier upwards.

Pricing

Simple pricing. Your stakeholders don't pay — only your team does.

No per-stakeholder fees, no "contact us" tier hidden behind a calendar. A typical consultancy lands on Pro.

 Free$0Starter$49 / monthPro$149 / monthBusiness$349 / month
Active projects15UnlimitedUnlimited
Decisions / month325100Unlimited
Team seats1310Unlimited
StakeholdersUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
PDF audit export
Custom sender domain
API + webhooks
SSO + DPA
eIDAS-grade signaturev2
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FAQ

The questions we get over and over.

What if the stakeholder never opens the email?

We send reminders at day 3, day 7, and 24 hours before the deadline. If someone genuinely doesn't respond, you see the status on the dashboard and you can chase them by phone. If they reply by phone, you can record the response on their behalf — that gets a distinct flag in the audit trail so nothing is ever silently attributed.

Does the approval carry legal weight?

The v1 magic-link system produces auditable evidence of when and from where a response arrived. Under eIDAS Article 25 this is "simple electronic signature" grade. Higher-assurance ("advanced") signatures need stronger identity verification — that's coming on the Business tier in v2.

Is it GDPR compliant?

Yes. Servers are in the EU (Frankfurt), the privacy policy is public, and a Data Processing Agreement is available from the Pro tier upwards. Stakeholder emails are kept only as long as the approval needs them.

What happens with our data and the AI?

The approval email draft is generated through the Vercel AI Gateway against Claude or GPT, picked per task. Neither the input (the decision text) nor the output (the draft) is used for training, and we don't retain it after the call returns.

Can a project be handed off if the PM leaves?

Yes. Project ownership transfers to another team member in a couple of clicks. The audit trail of past decisions is untouched.

Which languages do the stakeholder emails support?

v1 ships English and Hungarian email templates. Additional languages come in v2.

Why not just Notion / Asana / DocuSign?

Each of these can run an approval flow, but none are built specifically for project decisions. They either turn the stakeholder into a paid user (expensive, high-friction), or they don't produce audit-ready output, or they're scoped to whole contracts. OkMemo finishes one workflow well rather than half-finishing five.

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