Workelo ships ten modules that match the Zoho One workflows a typical consulting practice uses — CRM, Books, Projects, Bookings, Support Desk, Subscriptions, Recruit, Surveys, Inventory, Social. All inside Cognielo, on your phone, encrypted under keys we structurally cannot read. $8.99 per month for one practitioner.
A solo consulting practice on Zoho One pays roughly $540 per year per seat. Cognielo Pro is $107.88 per year (Workelo standalone) and replaces the modules that practice actually uses. The Pro Everything bundle at $29.99/month covers all 20 apps ($359.88/yr — still well under one Zoho One seat). Founders Lifetime is a one-time $599.99 for Pro Everything for life (1,000-seat hard cap). Pick whichever shape fits.
What you give up: server-side multi-user collaboration on a shared ledger. What you gain: data that's literally unreadable to the vendor, no telemetry, no ads ever, no price hikes baked into the renewal email.
Leads, contacts, deals, pipeline stages, weighted forecast, win-rate math, activity log. One-tap promote a closed-won deal into a project.
Customers, vendors, invoices, estimates, expenses, bills, payments, chart of accounts, taxes. P&L by date range. Aging buckets. Auto invoice numbering.
Projects with milestones + tasks + priority queueing. Hour-budget vs logged-hours math. "Due this week" + overdue surfacing.
Booking types with default duration + location. Per-customer history. One-swipe mirror to your iPhone Calendar with cleanup on cancel.
Tickets with priority + status + SLA-breach surfacing. Reply thread per ticket. Solo-consultant scope today; multi-assignee on the Teams plan.
Recurring invoices on weekly / monthly / quarterly / annual cadences. Auto-tick on launch generates the next invoice the moment it's due. MRR math built in.
Job openings, candidate Kanban by stage, interviews, advance/reject workflow. ATS-shaped pipeline for when you hire.
Multi-question survey builder with rating / NPS / free-text / multi-select. Local-only response collection today; public submission via the imports Worker.
SKU + stock count + reorder points + movement history. Low-stock surfacing. For practices that ship physical goods alongside services.
Compose + schedule posts across LinkedIn, X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads. Local scheduling ledger; per-platform OAuth wiring on the connector roadmap.
Zoho Assist's headline feature — clicking another user's screen — isn't here. iOS sandbox forbids it on iOS, and a privacy-first product cannot ship a remote-keyboard channel even on Mac without changing the threat model. If you need that, keep Zoho Assist or TeamViewer alongside.
What we do ship: same-network screen sharing via MultipeerConnectivity (no server) and async capture-bundle handoff via the existing share Worker. Most consulting-support flows fit there.
Cognielo never executes ACH transfers, charges credit cards, or routes payroll. Bookkeeping tracks what's owed and owing; you pay through your bank. It's a top-level safety rule, not a feature gap — moving money inside the encrypted substrate would change the architecture of trust.
Zoho's product family includes SalesIQ + PageSense — visitor tracking + heatmaps for your public marketing site. We don't ship those. Marketing analytics live on your marketing site, not in Workelo. Architectural separation.
Pages / Numbers / Keynote already exist. iCloud Drive already exists. FaceTime already exists. We don't rebuild them inside Cognielo just to have a checkbox feature next to Zoho Writer / Sheet / Show / Meeting. Discipline matters.
Every Workelo module persists state under per-app HKDF-derived AES-256-GCM keys. Customer email, vendor contact, invoice line items, candidate resumes, ticket replies — all encrypted at rest with keys Cognielo's servers cannot read. The architecture is patent-pending and audited by an independent cryptographer.
For most one- to five-person practices, Cognielo Pro on iOS satisfies the same security review you'd run against Zoho's SOC 2 attestation — but with a stronger structural posture: there is no server-side data store to breach.
Cognielo's "Single Source of Activity" principle means every record — every closed-won deal, paid invoice, scheduled booking, resolved ticket — accumulates in your encrypted substrate. After ninety days of normal use, switching back to Zoho means a week of CSV exports and re-imports. That's the retention argument, and it's structural rather than rhetorical.
For the first month, dual-run. Decide for yourself.
The Zoho-replacement story above is true on its own — Workelo replaces the ten Zoho One modules a typical consulting practice uses for a fraction of the cost. But it understates the architectural picture. Workelo is one of eight life-domain apps inside Cognielo, and the same encrypted substrate that stores your client ledger also absorbs 500 other data sources spanning money, health, work, media, social, home, learning, and the long tail.
What this means for a Zoho buyer: the practitioner who switches to Workelo for the bookkeeping and CRM also gets one encrypted store for ~110 money lanes (Plaid + 9 direct banks + 10 brokerages + tax surfaces + commerce + mortgage), ~60 health surfaces (wearables, EHR portals, women's-health), ~70 work surfaces (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, LinkedIn pro side, password managers, 14 PM tools), ~90 media, ~20 social via the new Socielo app (TikTok, IG, FB, X, Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon, plus messaging archives), and ~60 long-tail vendors (travel, food delivery, smart home, government records). Every one of them encrypted under per-app HKDF-derived keys we structurally cannot read. Patent pending.
Frame it this way: every other personal-data product collects about ten sources from you and sells them on. Cognielo collects five hundred and cannot read any of them. The Zoho stack is one corner of the surface this product replaces.