NetSuite OpenAir became NetSuite SuiteProjects Pro in early 2025 — the same complete professional services automation suite: Project Center visibility into status, resource demand, and budgets vs. actuals; capacity planning by skills, experience, and planned PTO; project accounting that automates invoicing with advanced billing rules; revenue recognition; and mobile timesheets that staff draft and submit for approval. Keito deliberately is not a PSA. It is the reviewed time layer: AI drafts the hours from the work that actually happened, the person who did the work confirms them, AI tool costs sit on the same client record, and approved invoice evidence feeds whichever PSA, ERP, or accounting stack the firm keeps.
Illustrative review queue
Illustrative billing period
Hours evidenced
Entries confirmed
163
AI tool costs
$412
Clients billed
12
Engagement hours tied to client and project
Client, project, and billable status confirmed on entry
Model and tool costs beside the hours
Approved AI costs on the same client and engagement
Evidence behind the invoices the firm raises
Approved records back whichever system sends the bill
NetSuite publishes SuiteProjects Pro — the product formerly named OpenAir — as a complete PSA for project-based services organisations: Project Center for status, resource demand, and budgets vs. actuals; capacity planning by skill set, experience, and planned PTO; project accounting that automates invoicing with advanced billing rules; preconfigured approval workflows and revenue recognition rules; and mobile timesheets staff draft and submit for approval. Keito answers a narrower question — where do reviewed, client-ready hours and AI costs come from — and leaves the PSA decision alone.
Set up clients, projects, rates, reviewers, and billing periods in Keito in days — while SuiteProjects Pro, NetSuite, spreadsheets, or whatever runs project delivery keeps doing exactly that.
Keito drafts time entries from the work that actually happened alongside typed, timed, API, CLI, and agent-sourced records, so consultants and delivery staff confirm and correct instead of reconstructing the week before a timesheet deadline.
Reviewers settle billable status, rate questions, and write-downs, attach approved AI tool and model costs to the same client and project, and pass approved invoice evidence to whichever system turns the firm’s work into bills.
A PSA program vs a reviewed time layer
SuiteProjects Pro is published as a complete professional services automation solution — everything a project-based services organisation needs to run its business across the project delivery lifecycle: Project Center visibility into project status, resource demand, risks, and budgets vs. actuals; capacity planning that allocates people by skill set, experience, work preferences, and planned PTO; project accounting that measures profitability and automates invoicing with advanced billing rules; preconfigured approval workflows and revenue recognition rules; project reporting; a mobile app for drafting and submitting time and expenses and approving timesheets; and published AI-powered capabilities aimed at monitoring project health and staffing. The name changed — Oracle NetSuite renamed OpenAir to SuiteProjects Pro from early 2025, stating there were no feature or functionality changes — but the shape of the decision did not: it is NetSuite’s PSA, positioned as expanding on the project management capabilities embedded in NetSuite ERP, and adopting or leaving it moves resource plans, project accounting, revenue recognition, and invoicing together. None of that should be read as missing capability. But every one of those modules runs on the same input: the timesheet a person drafts, submits, and gets approved. Keito’s argument is that most of what sends a firm looking for a NetSuite OpenAir alternative is narrower than the PSA decision — hours that never made it onto a submitted timesheet, billable work reconstructed from memory at the deadline, AI tool spend invisible to the invoice. That is an evidence problem, not a program problem. Keito flips who drafts: AI drafts time entries from the work that actually happened — alongside typed, timed, API, CLI, and agent-sourced records — the person who did the work confirms them, and reviewers approve every hour and AI cost before it becomes invoice evidence for whatever PSA, ERP, or accounting stack the firm keeps. The boundary is deliberate: Keito is not a PSA — it has no resource planning, project accounting, revenue recognition, or invoice generation — and it claims no native SuiteProjects Pro or OpenAir integration, automatic import, or synchronisation.
Choose SuiteProjects Pro when the organisation wants one PSA program running delivery: Project Center, capacity planning, project accounting with advanced billing rules, revenue recognition, and timesheet approvals in one suite
Choose Keito when the problem is the evidence behind the hours — capture, review, and AI delivery costs — and the PSA or ERP should stay where it is
Prove it in one billing cycle: Keito runs alongside whatever the firm uses today
Workflow fit
Keito keeps NetSuite OpenAir alternative connected to client, project, billable status, approval, and invoice context before the work reaches finance.
Choose SuiteProjects Pro when the organisation wants one PSA program running delivery: Project Center, capacity planning, project accounting with advanced billing rules, revenue recognition, and timesheet approvals in one suite
Choose Keito when the problem is the evidence behind the hours — capture, review, and AI delivery costs — and the PSA or ERP should stay where it is
Prove it in one billing cycle: Keito runs alongside whatever the firm uses today
Keito drafts entries from the work that happened; consultants, engineers, and delivery leads confirm and correct rather than reconstructing the week at the timesheet deadline.
Coding agents, research assistants, and model runs are part of services delivery now. Keito records approved AI tool and model costs against the same client and project as the team’s hours, so invoices reflect the real cost of the work.
Reviewers settle billable status, rate context, and write-down decisions before the period closes, then hand approved invoice evidence to the firm’s billing process — whether invoices keep coming from SuiteProjects Pro’s project accounting, from NetSuite, or from the accounting package behind them — through exports or API handoffs the team designs and tests itself.
The difference is not just recording time. It is whether the record can support billing, project decisions, and client conversations.
Product shape
A standalone workspace for reviewed billable time, AI tool and agent costs, billing decisions, and invoice evidence.
NetSuite publishes SuiteProjects Pro (formerly OpenAir) as a complete professional services automation solution — project management, resource management, project accounting, timesheets, expenses, and reporting across the project delivery lifecycle.
How hours are captured
AI drafts entries from the work that happened; the person who did the work confirms them, and reviewers approve before invoicing.
SuiteProjects Pro publishes a timesheet workflow where staff draft and submit time and expenses — including from its mobile app — and managers approve timesheets from any connected device.
Where invoices come from
Wherever they come from today — Keito is not an invoicing system and hands reviewed evidence to whichever system raises the bill.
SuiteProjects Pro publishes project accounting that automates invoicing with advanced billing rules, plus preconfigured billing and revenue recognition rules on project templates.
AI capabilities
AI drafts the time entries themselves from real work signals, with mandatory human review before anything is billed.
SuiteProjects Pro publishes AI-powered capabilities aimed at monitoring project health, anticipating and mitigating issues, and enhancing staffing tools.
Pricing and adoption
Published flat team pricing and a setup measured in days, run alongside the current stack.
NetSuite publishes no dollar pricing for SuiteProjects Pro; evaluation runs through a product tour and sales conversation rather than published tiers.
Data movement
Team-designed, tested exports and API handoffs moved in deliberate stages.
No native SuiteProjects Pro or OpenAir import, automatic synchronisation, or automatic reconciliation is assumed in either direction; the suite’s published NetSuite-family and other integrations belong to its own stack.
It is software a services organisation adopts instead of — or alongside — NetSuite’s PSA, which has carried the name SuiteProjects Pro since early 2025. Because the suite spans project management, resource management, project accounting, timesheets, expenses, and reporting, an alternative rarely replaces all of it at once. Keito is the alternative for the time side specifically: AI-drafted hours confirmed by the people who did the work, approved AI tool costs on the same client record, and reviewed invoice evidence handed to whichever PSA, ERP, or accounting stack the firm keeps.
Yes. Oracle NetSuite renamed OpenAir to NetSuite SuiteProjects Pro, a change announced at SuiteWorld 2024 and rolled out in early 2025, with openair.com service URLs redirecting to the netsuitesuiteprojectspro.com domain. Oracle’s own documentation states there were no feature or functionality changes as part of the rebrand — so reviews and comparisons that mention OpenAir describe the same PSA that now carries the SuiteProjects Pro name.
Who drafts the timesheet is the difference. SuiteProjects Pro publishes a submit-and-approve workflow: staff draft and submit time and expenses, including from its mobile app, and managers approve them — and the rest of the suite runs on that submitted input. Keito starts from the other end: AI drafts entries from real work signals — typed, timed, API, CLI, and agent-sourced — the person who did the work confirms them, and reviewers approve with AI tool and model costs attached before anything becomes invoice evidence. Work that never made it onto a submitted timesheet still shows up as a drafted entry for review.
Choose SuiteProjects Pro when the organisation wants one PSA running the full project delivery lifecycle: Project Center visibility into status, resource demand, and budgets vs. actuals; capacity planning by skill set, experience, and planned PTO; project accounting that automates invoicing with advanced billing rules; revenue recognition; and timesheet and expense approvals in one suite. Keito does not reproduce any of that program: no resource planning, project accounting, revenue recognition, or invoice generation. It is the wrong choice if the immediate goal is a new PSA.
Each reviewed record keeps the client, project, contributor, duration, description, billable status, rate context, reviewer, approval state, write-down decision, and billing period, with approved AI tool and model costs attributed to the same client and project as the hours. That package backs the invoices the firm raises — whether they are generated by SuiteProjects Pro’s project accounting, by NetSuite, or somewhere else entirely — and gives engagement leads a reviewed answer when a client questions a line.
No. Keito claims no native SuiteProjects Pro or OpenAir integration, automatic import, activity ingestion, or two-way synchronisation — the suite’s own published integrations belong to its stack, not Keito’s. Capture in Keito is its own workflow: AI-drafted, typed, timed, API, CLI, and agent-sourced entries that pass review before becoming invoice evidence. A firm can keep SuiteProjects Pro as its PSA and run Keito alongside as the reviewed time layer, with any transfer between them designed and tested by the team.
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