Plan projects the way
you play
Civilization
Plan projects
the way you play
Civilization
For people who'd rather see their project than scroll a backlog. Tasks are nodes on a tree. Finish one, the next tier lights up. That's the whole interface.
Existing tools treat your project like
a list.
Your brain treats it like
a strategy game.
You don't think in tickets and sprints. You think in tech trees. What unlocks what. Which branch commits you. Which prerequisite you forgot is about to cost you a week.
Linear is for ants
Beautiful, opinionated, built for teams who've already decided what they're doing. You haven't.
Plane is for dashboarders
Filter, views, dropdowns. All the time. We respect the optionality. We just wanted to see the forest for the trees.
Notion is for novelists
Your roadmap shouldn't read like a Wikipedia article whose maintainer abandoned it in 2023.
Every project is a tech tree.
Tasks unlock when the work they depend on is finished. Everything else stays greyed out. The path forward is always literally the path forward.
Build the Tree
Drop in your goals, set their details, drag between them to mark prerequisites. The shape of the project becomes the shape of the tree.
Invite your team
Add collaborators with the right level of access: shape the tree, work the tree, or watch it grow.
Start unlocking
Finish a node and the next tier unlocks. Available work surfaces automatically. The tree fills in as you go.
Four mechanics. Borrowed shamelessly
from games we already love.
Real dependencies
Tasks unlock other tasks, and locked work stays out of your queue until what's feeding it is done. No labels to forget. No status to update by hand.
Branch comparison
Stage two competing paths side-by-side, see their downstream cost in time and scope, then commit. Or don't.
Fog of war (optional)
Hide far-future tiers so you're not staring at six months of unstarted nodes. The next tier is always visible; fog applies further down the tree.
Keyboard-first
Built for people who alt-tab. Every action has a shortcut. Mouse is for ceremony, not for work.
We've been building software a long time. We've also put an embarrassing number of hours into Civ V, Stellaris, and eight different Total War games we won't name here.
At some point it stopped being a coincidence that the tools we chose to use for fun were better at modeling complex decisions than the tools we had to use for work.
Tree is the tool we wished existed. It won't replace your Jira instance. Your Jira instance is load-bearing for an entire compliance department; we know better than to fight that.
We just want the part of your week where you're actually thinking, to feel like the part of your week you actually enjoy.