Shortcut AI

Shortcut is a project tracker for software teams from the company that started in 2014 as Clubhouse and kept its vocabulary: Stories, Epics, Iterations, Roadmaps, Objectives and Docs. Its AI is not a chat window bolted beside the board but an agent the vendor calls Korey, aimed at product engineering workflows, along with coordination for working alongside AI teammates and an MCP connection so external coding assistants can reach the same objects. That is the honest shape of its strength: whatever your team already writes down — story descriptions, sprint context, goals — is where the assistant has something to work from, and no migration is required.

Where it loses is outside those walls. The agent is fluent in Shortcut's own objects and silent about the rest of your stack, the integration and template ecosystem is smaller than Linear's or Jira's, and a tracker's AI still will not decide your next release. Three checks before you buy. Pricing is per seat, with a free tier and paid tiers above it, so confirm on the live pricing page whether the agent ships with the seat you are buying or sits in a higher plan, and how many people the free line covers. Read the data rules for what the assistant may see in private projects. And test the way out: the marketing page names importers from Jira, Trello and Pivotal Tracker far more confidently than any bulk export route, and that asymmetry is the lock-in question. If Shortcut is home, turn it on. If Linear is home, stay.