It's always a challenge when deciding how to rate an AppSumo deal; do you rate the app on how it is now, or on how you expect it to be in the future? The most logical approach would be to rate the deal based on how the app is now, but I've spent enough time mingling with sumolings to know that the most legendary deals did not reveal themselves to be legendary until several months down the line, once the roadmap began turning into reality.

Based on that preamble, I rated the deal based on how I expect it to be down the line. Right now it is an excellent project management tool with a clean interface. Worth $49 (much less the $147 I paid for lifetime updates)? Definitely not. Based just on the lack of integrations and bulk import options it is not a great deal.

But then you look at the roadmap. It's beautiful and exciting. If Plutio became even half of what is on that roadmap it will be a steal of a deal at one payment of $147.

But then again, it's really easy to draw up a roadmap that gets people salivating. How can you make a decision based on promises that could easily be broken?

The answer, dear sumolings, is Leo Bassam. I've been following him since Plutio launched on GetWorm, and he is the real deal. It might be passion, it might be meth, but it's probably ADHD--whatever it is, it gives Leo superpowers to deliver on things that would exhaust anyone else. He's like the Elon Musk of business management apps.

The point is that I believe in Leo and his team, so I consider my $147 an investment in them. It feels like a safe bet with a massive upside and a relatively small downside. Worst-case scenario, I get to continue following Leo to find out what he does if Plutio somehow ends up not working out. Best-case scenario, in a year I'll be one of those smug sumolings gloating about how I bought Plutio back when it was on AppSumo, and people will be begging me to trade them for their Invanto account.