Boards
Flexible kanban boards
Drag a card from Backlog to Shipped and watch dependencies, owners, and due dates update across every connected view. Boards adapt to your workflow, not the other way around.
Project management for product teams
The workspace where plans turn into shipped work.
Tess gives your team one calm place to plan sprints, track delivery, and stay aligned — kanban boards, timelines, and automations that quietly do the busywork so people can focus on the build.
- ✓Free for up to 5 people
- ✓No credit card to start
- ✓Set up in under 3 minutes
Trusted by teams that ship on a cadence
Halcyon LabsBrightwellNorthpeakCorewiseMeridian StudioLoomstack
Features
One workspace for the whole sprint.
Plan, track, and ship without juggling six tabs. Tess keeps boards, timelines, and analytics in lockstep so the plan and the work never drift apart.
Timelines
Timelines that stay honest
Plan a quarter on a Gantt-style timeline, then let Tess flag the slip the moment a dependency moves. No more roadmaps that quietly drift away from reality.
Automation
Automations without scripts
When a PR merges, move the card, notify the channel, and close the loop on the linked issue. Build rules in plain language — no YAML, no brittle webhooks to babysit.
Collaboration
Real-time collaboration
Comment, mention, and assign in the same second your teammate does. Cursors, threads, and presence keep everyone on the same card without a single refresh.
Insights
Sprint analytics built in
Velocity, cycle time, and burndown render the moment a card moves — no spreadsheet export, no analyst required. Spot the bottleneck while you can still fix it.
Marketplace
Integrations marketplace
Connect GitHub, Slack, Figma, and 90+ tools in two clicks, or ship your own connector with a typed SDK. Your stack talks to Tess; Tess keeps everything in sync.
11k+
Teams planning their week in Tess
34%
Average drop in cycle time after 90 days
90+
Apps in the integrations marketplace
4.9/5
Average rating across review sites
Pricing
Simple per-seat pricing.
Start free, upgrade when your team grows. Every plan is billed per active seat — pay only for people who actually log in.
Starter
$0free forever
For small teams getting their first process in place.
- ✓Up to 5 members
- ✓Unlimited boards & timelines
- ✓3 active automations
- ✓Community support
Most popular
Team
$11per active seat / month
For growing teams that ship on a cadence.
- ✓Unlimited members
- ✓Unlimited automations
- ✓Sprint analytics & insights
- ✓Full integrations marketplace
- ✓Priority email support
Scale
$24per active seat / month
For organizations with security and admin needs.
- ✓SAML SSO & SCIM provisioning
- ✓Advanced roles & audit log
- ✓Custom workflows & fields
- ✓Guaranteed 99.9% uptime SLA
- ✓Dedicated success manager
An active seat is any member who logs in during a billing month. Invite the whole company — you are only charged for the people who show up.
Customers
Teams that stopped chasing status.
From small studios to scaling platforms, here is what changes once the plan lives in one place.
“We moved three teams off a tangle of spreadsheets and a chat channel called planning-final. Tess gave us one board everyone actually trusts.”
Elena Marsh
Head of Product, Brightwell
“The automations alone gave each engineer back about half a day a week. Cards move themselves now, and nobody is chasing status in standup.”
Tomás Vega
Engineering Manager, Northpeak
“Per-seat billing that only counts active logins meant I could invite the whole org without a budget conversation. Adoption took care of itself.”
Priya Anand
Operations Lead, Corewise
Plan the work. Ship the plan.
Bring your next sprint into focus.
Spin up a workspace in minutes, invite your team, and watch the first board come together. Free for up to five people, forever.
The Cadence
A short note on shipping, every other week.
Practical writing on planning, team rituals, and the craft of getting work out the door. No fluff, unsubscribe anytime.