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Introducing Togra — Project Planning Built on the Ullav Platform
Most planning tools have quietly shifted humans to the sidelines. Togra takes a different view — your team runs the projects, automation is there to help them do it better.
Most project management tools start simple and get complicated fast. Boards multiply. Integrations break. Access management becomes a separate job. Teams end up spending more time updating the tool than using it to plan actual work.
Togra is built to change that — a project management tool that is clean, integrated, and designed around one principle: your people run the project.
People in Charge
There is a growing school of thought that treats humans as gatekeepers of automation. AI agents do the work; a person occasionally checks and validates the outputs from automated agents. As complexity grows, it gets more difficult to know where the gatekeepers are needed in this model, so you end up with gatekeepers for the gatekeepers.
At ULLAV, we love automation, which is why we have extensive capabilities in our Advanced Workflow Engine for automation via Automated Tasks. We support automation via your AI Agents, your own server or python scripts and webhooks. But your domain experts and experienced personell are alwasy in charge and drive how automation is used to assist improve your processes.
So while automation is powerful — it is tooling, not leadership. Your project leaders shape the direction and your team members, together make the calls. Togra is built to support that reality: stories are owned by people, workflows are run by teams, and automation exists to remove friction and surface what needs attention — not to make decisions on behalf of the people doing the work.
This is what we mean by People in Charge. Not humans as a checkbox in an AI pipeline, but people as the drivers of every project, with the platform as the engine that keeps things moving.
From Ideas to Stories
The problem with most planning tools is that they make you start with a ticket. You need a title, a status, an assignee — even when the work is still just a thought.
Togra starts with an Ideas Board: a free-form visual canvas where early thinking lives before it becomes a commitment. Write a title, jot down what you need, attach a reference image. Connect ideas to each other. Build a picture of what you’re trying to do before it becomes a sprint item.
When an idea is ready, Togra promotes it to a Story in one step. The note content carries across. The story links back to the originating idea. You never lose the thread between the thinking and the tracked work.
Every Story Has a Workflow
Stories in Togra are not just cards with a status column. Each story carries a workflow — a directed graph of stages that models the real steps required to complete the work.
Workflows are built on Obair, the Ullav Advanced Workflow Engine. That means stages are fully configurable, each step is assigned to a role (Product Manager, Architect, Developer Backend, Developer Frontend, Tester), and the workflow renders as a live graph showing what is done, what is active, and what comes next.
A story moving through a typical software workflow passes through Write Up → Refine → Select for Work → Implement → Test → Deploy → Done. Every step is owned by a named role. Every transition is tracked. Nothing falls through the cracks.
The Sprint Board
Once work is planned, Togra’s Sprint Board organises it for execution. Tasks appear in swimlanes by team member, across five columns: TO DO, READY, IN PROGRESS, ON HOLD, and DONE.
Each person sees their own queue clearly. The project lead sees the whole team at once. Story points are tracked inline. The board reflects reality — not an idealised process map, but where things actually stand right now.
Story Notes
Every Story has a Notes panel — a structured workspace for requirements, decisions, research, and context. Notes are written in Markdown, organised into personal and shared folders, and always visible alongside the story’s workflow.
Requirements documents, meeting outputs, design decisions, open questions — this is where they live, attached to the work they belong to. Not in a separate wiki. Not in email. Here, next to the task.
Your DAM, Right Here
One of the most practical things about Togra is its direct connection to Comad, the Ullav Digital Asset Manager.
While writing a note or developing an idea, you can open the Media Library directly from the editor. Browse your full asset collection — by type, collection, date, or size — and insert an image or document with a single click. No tab-switching. No URL-copying. No context loss.
For teams that work with media alongside their project work — cultural institutions, research teams, content producers — this is the difference between a tool that fits how you work and one that quietly adds another silo.
No Integration Tax
Togra is not a standalone product. It is a planning layer built on top of a coherent platform:
- Obair provides the workflow engine — stages, roles, directed execution, and the automation that supports them.
- Comad provides the digital asset layer — available from anywhere in the planning interface.
- Ullav User Management provides authentication, SSO, and RBAC — one login, one permission model, across every service.
Traditional project management tooks often require significant tool integrations. Connect the DAM, onfigure the SSO provider, build the webhook to the workflow tool. Each integration is another thing to maintain, another thing to break.
Togra leverages the Ullav Platform, minimising the need for external integrations. Furthermore, using the Obair Advanced Workflow Engine, external tooling can be plugged into business critical workflows without the need for separately programmed modules or complex ETL pipelines.
Who It’s For
Togra is designed for teams at cultural institutions, research organisations, and specialist content producers who need a planning tool built for how they actually work.
If your projects involve digital assets, structured multi-role workflows, and distributed teams — and you want a planning tool where your people are in charge and the platform handles the plumbing — Togra is worth a look.
