ProjectMatch

Inspiration

We were inspired by a simple problem: organizations often have far more knowledge, experience, and talent than they are actually able to use. Valuable expertise is buried in old project folders, theses, slide decks, resumes, Slack threads, and forgotten drives. As a result, people reinvent the wheel, miss strong internal collaborators, and lose access to lessons already learned.

We wanted to build a system that makes hidden knowledge visible. Instead of letting experience stay scattered across tools and departments, ProjectMatch turns it into something searchable, reusable, and useful for everyone in an organization.

What it does

ProjectMatch is an internal knowledge and collaboration hub for companies and universities. It helps people showcase their project experience, competencies, and past work, while also making it easy for others to find relevant people, projects, and skills.

Users can upload project material such as reports, presentations, portfolios, and other documents. The platform then organizes this into searchable profiles and project entries. When someone searches, they do not just get documents back. They get relevant people, related projects, and matching skills, all in one place.

This makes it easier to find expertise, start new collaborations, onboard new employees, and reuse knowledge that would otherwise be lost.

How we built it

We built ProjectMatch with Lovable as a modern web platform focused on simplicity, discoverability, and collaboration. The core idea was to combine structured user profiles with project-based knowledge sharing in one system.

Our approach was to let users contribute existing material instead of forcing them to manually rebuild their experience from scratch. From there, the platform organizes projects, competencies, timelines, and statuses into a more useful and searchable format.

We also designed the concept so it can be personalized for different organizations, whether that is a university, a consultancy, or a larger company with multiple teams and departments.

Challenges we ran into

One of the biggest challenges was deciding how to structure a messy real-world experience. Projects are not always documented in the same way, and competencies are often spread across many sources and formats.

Another challenge was balancing flexibility with simplicity. We wanted the platform to feel powerful enough to capture real expertise, but still easy enough that people would actually use it. Search relevance was also a key challenge, because useful results should connect people, projects, and skills rather than only matching keywords.

Finally, we had to think carefully about trust and adoption. A platform like this only becomes valuable if people feel that it represents their experience well and helps them find meaningful connections.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of turning an abstract problem about hidden organizational knowledge into a clear, practical product concept. ProjectMatch is not just a document repository. It is a system designed to connect experience, people, and projects in a way that creates real value.

We are also proud of the breadth of the concept. It can help with collaboration, onboarding, internal staffing, knowledge reuse, and even identifying organizational skill gaps. The idea is flexible enough to work in both companies and universities, while still being specific enough to solve a real day-to-day problem.

Most of all, we are proud that the platform focuses on making existing knowledge actually usable.

What we learned

We learned that knowledge sharing is not only a technical problem. It is also a design problem and a people problem. Information has to be easy to contribute, easy to trust, and easy to find, or it will not be used.

We also learned that projects and competencies should not live separately. People often want to find both the work and the person behind it. Connecting those two creates much more value than storing them in isolated systems.

Another key lesson was that organizations do not necessarily lack talent or knowledge. Often, they simply lack visibility.

What's next for ProjectMatch

The next step for ProjectMatch is to make the platform even more integrated and intelligent. We want to expand how experience is added, including features like richer document understanding and smoother imports from existing tools.

We also see strong potential for integrations with platforms like Slack or Microsoft Teams, so users can discover expertise directly within the tools they already use. Beyond that, we want to improve matching, collaboration features, and dashboards that help organizations understand their strengths and knowledge gaps.

Long term, we see ProjectMatch becoming the internal layer that helps organizations understand what they know, who knows it, and how that knowledge can be used better.

For testing purposes, you can use these login credentials:

Work email: testuser@itu.dk Password: Password123