PRODUCT 03 / PLANNING FOR MIXED TEAMS

One plan for the whole team.
Agents included.

Chartroom is project management for small teams where some people write code, some do not, and some of the work now gets done by AI agents. Tasks and docs live together, GitHub activity reads as plain sentences, and an agent takes its work from the same board as everyone else.

Private beta

Chartroom is in a private beta. You cannot sign up yet, but you can join the waiting list.

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One task, all the way through

Watch one card. Nobody typed its status.

A shop wants gift card balances at checkout. Four people touch that task below, and nobody has to ask anybody where it stands.

Gift cards / Run 7 / boardReal screens
  1. TodoDana and MayaFiled in a sentence, then given three acceptance criteria.
  2. In ProgressTheoA branch with the task key in its name is pushed, and the task moves on its own.
  3. In ReviewTheoA pull request goes up for review, and the task moves on its own.
  4. DonePriya and MayaMerged, and the task moves to Done on its own. A person ticks the criteria.
The product is real. The team is made up.Four captures, one task
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Who it is for

Teams of 2 to 25 who are tired of splitting into two tools.

  • Founder

    Answers "where is the release?" from the board, without opening GitHub or asking an engineer.

  • Designer

    Writes the spec once. The task sits beside it, and each links to the other.

  • Engineer

    Pushes branches and opens pull requests as usual. The task follows the work.

  • Marketer

    Files a request in one sentence, with no project to pick and no fields to fill.

  • Agent

    Takes the next task that is ready, and signs its work with the name of the person it acts for.

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GitHub, in sentences

Know what shipped without opening GitHub.

Put the task's key in a branch or a pull request and the activity lands on the task as a sentence. No hashes, no branch names. And a person always wins: move a card by hand and GitHub will not quietly move it back.

What GitHub sends, and what your team reads

  1. theo-brandt created a branch, which moved this task to In Progress

  2. theo-brandt opened a pull request, which moved this task to In Review

  3. priya-nair merged the pull request, which moved this task to Done

Grey: a drawing of the raw event. White: the product's own wording.
GIFT-14 / activityReal screen
The Chartroom task panel for Gift card balance shows at checkout, with its activity timeline written as plain sentences.
The product is real. The team is made up.Chartroom 1.42
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Tasks and docs together

The spec and the task are the same conversation.

Docs are part of Chartroom, not a second product beside it. Open a task from a page and it docks next to the spec, so you can read one while you change the other, and each one links back to the other.

Gift cards at checkout / specReal screen
A Chartroom doc page, Gift cards at checkout, with the linked task docked in a column beside the text.
The product is real. The team is made up.Chartroom 1.42
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Agents, in the open

An agent is a worker on the board, not a feature in a menu.

Your agent connects to Chartroom over MCP and works from the same tasks you do. It reads the acceptance criteria you wrote, and what it did stays on the record under a person's name.

An agent asks for the next taskOne request
  1. GIFT-19Send the launch email to the full listBlocked by GIFT-14
  2. GIFT-18Gift card FAQ pageAssigned to Sam
  3. GIFT-23Tidy the gift card admin pageNo acceptance criteria
  4. GIFT-21Balance email lands in spam for some addressesReady

Claimed for Theo Brandt, through an agent

A drawing, not a screen. The rule is the product's.Same order as the Manifest

  • It takes what is ready, and nothing else.

    An agent asking for work skips anything blocked, anything already assigned to a person, and anything with no acceptance criteria. Assigning a task to yourself is how you keep it.

  • Its work carries a mark.

    Task history names the person it acts for first, then the agent. Page edits and live cursors read "(via an agent)".

  • It reads by default.

    A connected app can look and not touch. Changing anything needs a tick when you connect it, and your workspace has its own switches on top of that.

  • You hand it work from where you are.

    A task, a saga, a Run, a page or a whole project each have "Give this to your agent", which writes the prompt for you.

Give this to your agentReal screen
The Give this to your agent dialog on a Chartroom task, with a prompt ready to copy.
The product is real. The team is made up.Chartroom 1.42
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What it will not do

Three things to know before you ask to join.

  • There is no AI inside it.

    No model runs in Chartroom. Your agent connects from outside, so you choose it and you pay for it.

  • It will not grow to fit a large company.

    It is built for teams of 2 to 25. There are no custom fields and no permission matrix, and that is the point.

  • There is no phone app.

    The web app works at phone width, but it is a desktop tool first.

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Where it really is

We run our own work on it.

TasksBoards, Runs, the Manifest, sagas, Triage and the Star Chart.In daily use
DocsPages with live editing, links to tasks, version history and share links.In daily use
GitHubBranches, commits and pull requests, read as sentences on the task.In daily use
AgentsA connector for agents that speak MCP. We plan Chartroom itself this way.In daily use
BetaNot open to everyone yet. Teams can ask to join.Private beta
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Waiting list

Put your team on the list.

Chartroom is in a private beta. You cannot sign up yet, but you can join the waiting list. A person reads every sign-up.

Waiting listprivate beta

How many people are on your team?

One more thing to judge

This page was a task.

We planned it in Chartroom, as CHR-208, under a saga called "People can find Chartroom and ask to join". These are its five acceptance criteria, word for word. Hold the page above to the last two.

  1. /products/chartroom is live on the Cloud City website.
  2. The Products page and the footer link to it.
  3. The page says plainly that Chartroom is in a private beta.
  4. Every claim on the page is true of the current release.
  5. Screens on the page are real product screens with made-up data.

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