Resource Guru vs Workfront

Resource Guru ships small, frequent changes to its scheduling surface rather than large releases. The recent product updates cluster on two fronts: custom fields graduating from stored metadata into a way of organizing the Schedule and Projects views, and a widening set of intake integrations, with Trello and ClickUp both landing in the last six weeks. On July 30 it added an MCP server that lets AI tools query account data in plain English. The same feed carries SEO articles on capacity planning and software reviews, which are marketing output rather than product movement.

The custom-field work is compounding: colour-coding bookings by field value and choosing and reordering Projects columns are the same idea applied to two different views, which points to custom fields becoming the primary axis teams slice schedules by. Integrations are being treated as intake pipes rather than parity features, converting Trello cards and ClickUp tasks into bookings and positioning Resource Guru as the scheduling layer underneath other teams' task tools instead of a replacement for them. The MCP server extends that posture from writing data in to reading it back out, moving the account data outside the product's own interface.

The most likely next step is MCP moving from querying to acting, letting an assistant create or amend bookings rather than only report on them, alongside custom fields reaching the remaining views and reporting. The entries describe the server only in terms of getting insights out, so whether write access is planned is not visible here.