Project Management Software for Technology Startups in Liverpool
A startup founded around the Baltic Triangle usually starts as three people in a shared desk, well before it looks anything like a studio.
Before the studio, there's just a founding team
The Baltic Triangle has become home to a genuinely fast-growing cluster of design studios, software teams and creative agencies, built out of a warehouse district that didn't have much of a tech presence a decade ago. What gets less attention is the stage before any of that: three people, a product idea, and a shared desk, deciding day to day whether the next hour goes toward the build, the first candidate call, or getting a landing page live.
That team doesn't have a studio's overhead or its client roster yet. It has a founder covering engineering, hiring and marketing more or less simultaneously, on a budget that has to cover rent and salaries before it covers software. A tool bought at this stage has to earn its place immediately, not eventually.
ShipSprint's Free plan covers 5 users and 2 projects, permanently, enough for a founding team to run its entire first product cycle without a software line item. Past that, one subscription runs engineering, hiring, marketing and operations together, so the move from three people to fifteen doesn't mean a new tool for every function that comes online.
Nobody in a three-person studio has a spare hour to read a whole project before deciding what to do next, so the workspace opens straight to "my day": today's items, a five-second time log, and one tap to say "I'm blocked", pulling in whoever can actually help rather than a message that sits unread.
What an early Liverpool founding team actually needs
5 users and 2 projects, free permanently. Nothing that quietly stops working the moment the product's actually shipping.
Engineering, hiring, marketing and operations each keep their own board and vocabulary, so a studio taking on a client-services function or a first marketing hire doesn't need a new subscription for it.
No onboarding call, no configuration project. A board is usable within a minute of signing up.
Early calls get made and revisited fast. The wiki keeps the reasoning next to the work, with history, so it doesn't just live in the founder's head.
Everyone opens to "my day": today's items, a five-second time log, and one tap to flag being blocked, pulling in the right person with context.
Free that's actually meant to be used
A lot of software marketed at early founders offers a trial dressed up as generosity: full access for a couple of weeks, then a paywall right when the team's finally getting somewhere. That model is built for a company that's already decided what it's buying, not for three people in the Baltic Triangle still working out whether the product has legs.
ShipSprint's Free plan doesn't run out. Five users and two projects stay free for as long as the team's that size, with the same boards, time logging and wiki a paying team gets, not a stripped-down preview. When the team grows, Team is priced per seat with everything included, so the next bill is predictable rather than a stack of add-ons discovered after the fact.
ShipSprint is built by Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd. in India, and billed in rupees, a fact about invoicing rather than a claim to a Liverpool office. Charges convert at your card provider's rate on the day, and there's no VAT charged or handled on our end.
Pitching a bigger agency for the same client doesn't mean adopting a bigger agency's habits either. There's no screenshot capture, no keystroke logging and no activity tracking, at any size of team. What each person gets is a scorecard built from delivered work and their own logged hours, adjusted for leave, kept for them rather than for whoever's running the studio.
Questions from Liverpool startups
It stays free, permanently, for up to 5 users and 2 projects, with no expiry date. A lot of very early Liverpool teams run their entire first year on it.
No. Set up the board you need right now, usually engineering first, and add hiring or marketing boards once those roles exist. They're already in the same subscription, so there's nothing new to buy later.
No. There are no screenshots, no keystroke logging and no activity tracking. Time logging is entirely self-reported, and everyone sees their own scorecard whenever they want.
Team is ₹299 per user per month, or ₹2,899 per user per year, up to 40 users. Business is ₹599 per user per month, or ₹6,499 per year, adding forecasts, scorecards, the owner command center, priority support, unlimited projects and SSO. Every paid plan opens with a 14-day full-access trial, no card required. See the pricing page for full detail.
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