What Shortcut does
Shortcut is a project management platform for software teams, designed for teams that work alongside AI agents as well as people. It serves engineering, product, design and leadership teams at startups, small businesses and enterprises. Features include Kanban boards, roadmaps, docs, sprints, backlogs, objectives and reporting, plus automations that update work through GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket. Korey is an AI agent that moves product work from idea to spec to pull request, and the Shortcut MCP Server connects Shortcut to tools such as Cursor and Claude Code. A free plan covers up to 10 users, with Team and Business plans at $8.50 and $12 per user per month and custom Enterprise pricing.
How Shortcut compares with its closest alternatives
4 of the 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Shortcut does. Among the 4 that list a starting price, the cheapest is Jira at $8 a month and the median is $16.50. Shortcut starts at $8 a month, below that median. All 5 offer an API, as Shortcut does. Shortcut offers a web app and a mobile app. Of the alternatives, all 5 offer a web app and 2 offer a mobile app. Shortcut was founded in 2017; the alternatives were founded between 2002 and 2021, 2 of them earlier. Shortcut is based in San Francisco, United States; 4 of its 5 alternatives are in the United States too, and the others in Australia.