kordiam.io

What It Is

Kordiam is a cloud-based editorial planning and content workflow coordination tool, formerly known as Desk-Net. It primarily serves newsrooms, magazine publishers, corporate communications teams, and broadcasters. It is not a CMS; rather, it sits between story ideation, planning, collaboration, and pre-publication workflows as a “content operations hub,” helping teams manage story lists, publishing channels, owners, statuses, and schedules.

Core Capabilities

At its core is the Story List, which gives teams a centralized view of dozens to hundreds of stories per day, including publishing platforms, workflow status, publication time, owner, and delays. The product also supports custom fields for editorial metadata such as audience and user needs; multi-day and multi-issue short-term planning; a monthly content calendar; unified management of scheduled and unscheduled stories; and filtering by platform, status, and other dimensions. For high-frequency newsroom scenarios, the material emphasizes the ability to move stories to another date or time slot with one click, and to edit data directly within the list.

Integrations, Collaboration, and Security

Kordiam has strong integration capabilities. Out of the box, it supports CMS platforms such as WordPress, Drupal, Livingdocs, WoodWing, Purple, CUE, Aptoma, and Glide, as well as Slack, Zapier, Okta, Active Directory FS, Microsoft Entra ID, calendar export, email import, wire feeds, FTP export, and more. It also provides an API and XML export for custom connections. On the team side, it supports shared accounts across departments, grouped workspaces, restricted access for freelancers, role-based permissions, and SSO. In terms of security, the material states that Kordiam complies with German and EU data protection laws, stores data in EU data centers, uses SSL for transmission, and has a technical team certified to ISO 9001/27001 standards.

Pricing

Pricing is subscription-based by team size rather than per seat: from €218/month for up to 5 people, from €490/month for 6–20 people, from €762/month for 21–40 people, from €1034/month for 41–60 people, and custom pricing for more than 60 people. Monthly and annual billing are available, with a 10% discount for annual payment, and payment can be made by credit card or invoice. The 30-day free trial is a clear advantage. The Support & Security Package costs an additional 30% and includes phone support, extra training, the possibility of custom integrations, and enhanced security settings.

Pros, Cons, and Best Fit

Its strengths are a clearly defined vertical use case, making it well suited to complex, multi-channel, high-frequency editorial workflows. Its integrations, permissions, and security features are also relatively mature. The drawbacks are that it is not inexpensive, and its feature set is built around media and communications scenarios, so ordinary project management teams may not need its specialized capabilities. Kordiam is better suited to news organizations, publishers, and corporate content centers looking to replace Excel, email, and general-purpose task tools.

Access from China

The crawled material does not mention China-region nodes, a Chinese interface, or RMB payment, so access conditions are unknown. For domestic Chinese teams with higher requirements around network access, payment, or localization, alternatives worth evaluating include Feishu Base, Tencent Docs, Teambition, and Worktile, or lightweight setups built with Airtable, Notion, Asana, and similar tools.