The kanban board for startup founders
Pre-product-market-fit, process is overhead. Kanboard is the lightest board that still keeps a tiny team — human and AI — pointed at the same priorities, without a project manager to run it.
Sound familiar?
Enterprise tools for a three-person team
Epics, initiatives, custom workflows — configuration your startup doesn't need, slowing down the two people who actually build.
The roadmap lives in five places
Pitch deck says one thing, docs say another, the codebase says a third. Nobody can point at what's next.
Headcount is your scarcest resource
Every well-scoped task an AI agent could handle is an hour your engineers spend anyway — because there's no clean way to hand it off.
How Kanboard fits
Zero-setup board
Sign in, create a project, add tasks. The whole team is looking at the same priorities in minutes, not after a rollout.
MCP server
Well-scoped tickets go to Claude Code or Codex instead of interrupting an engineer — agents are the cheapest hire you'll make.
Flat, predictable pricing
$12/month for Pro with unlimited projects and tasks — your PM tooling shouldn't scale with headcount before revenue does.
Keyboard speed
Founders triage the board in minutes with shortcuts and ⌘K — planning stays a daily habit instead of a weekly meeting.
A week on the board
- 1
Keep one board for the product: To Do is the roadmap, ordered top to bottom by what moves the needle.
- 2
Write tasks small enough that any engineer — or an agent — can finish one in a day.
- 3
Route mechanical tasks (migrations, test coverage, refactors) to agents over MCP; humans take ambiguous product work.
- 4
Weekly: archive Done, reorder To Do, kill anything that no longer earns its slot.
FAQ
Can my whole team use one Kanboard project?+
Each account manages its own projects today — small teams typically run the product board under one account and connect everyone's agents with API keys. Multi-user collaboration is on the roadmap.
How do AI agents actually help a startup?+
They turn well-written tickets into shipped code without occupying an engineer. Kanboard's MCP server means the ticket queue itself is agent-readable — no copy-pasting context.
What does Kanboard cost as we grow?+
Pro is $12/month flat with unlimited projects and tasks: no per-seat math.
Is it fast enough for daily triage?+
That's the point — keyboard-first navigation, N to create, drag or arrow-move between columns, and a command palette for everything else.
A board for you, an API for your agents
One flat price for you and every agent you connect.
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