Project Management Software for Technology Startups in London
A six-person team in Shoreditch or Canary Wharf doesn't have a dedicated ops function yet. It has a founder doing three jobs before lunch.
Six people, and every function still needs covering
London's tech economy runs from Canary Wharf's fintech towers down to the agencies and product studios clustered around Shoreditch, and somewhere in between sits a much smaller, much scrappier group: the six or eight-person startup that hasn't raised enough to hire a dedicated ops or HR person, and probably won't for another year. Someone there is writing code in the morning, screening a candidate at lunch, and trying to remember whether last week's marketing push actually got scheduled.
That team's real constraint isn't ambition, it's headcount stretched across too many jobs at once, in one of the most expensive cities in the world to be doing it. Every tool bought on top of payroll and office costs has to earn its place, and a lot of project software quietly assumes a company with separate budgets for engineering, HR and marketing tooling. A founder juggling all three from one laptop doesn't have that luxury.
ShipSprint's free tier covers 5 users and 2 projects, permanently, not a 14-day countdown disguised as generosity. Past that, one subscription runs engineering, HR, marketing and operations, each with its own board and vocabulary, so a team that's already stretched thin isn't also managing four separate logins and four separate bills.
The same crunch shows up in how a London founder starts each day. There's rarely a moment to sit down and read a whole project end to end before deciding what matters, so the workspace opens straight to "my day": today's items, a five-second time log, and one tap to say "I'm blocked", which pulls in whoever can actually help rather than a message that sits unread in a busy inbox until someone happens to notice it.
What a founding team actually needs
5 users and 2 projects, free permanently. It's meant to run a founding team's whole first year, not tease a feature set that vanishes on day 15.
Engineering, HR, marketing and operations each get their own board and vocabulary, so a six-person team runs the whole company without five separate tools and five separate invoices.
A board is ready in under a minute, with a sample project preloaded on the trial, so a founder isn't losing a working afternoon to configuration.
Early-stage decisions get revisited constantly. The built-in wiki keeps the reasoning next to the work, with history, so it doesn't just live in one person's head.
Everyone opens to "my day": today's items, a five-second time log, and one tap to flag being blocked, which pulls in the right person with context already attached.
The difference between free and "free for now"
A lot of software marketed at early-stage teams is a trial with a generous label. Fourteen days, thirty days, a feature cap that only bites once you're relying on the thing, and then a sales call. That model works fine for a company that's already decided what it's buying. It works badly for a founding team in London still working out whether it needs a proper board at all, on top of rent and salaries that don't leave much room for guessing wrong.
ShipSprint's Free plan has no clock running. Five users and two projects stay free for as long as the team stays that size, with the same boards, time logging and wiki a paying team gets, not a stripped demo version. When the team outgrows it, Team is priced per seat with nothing metered separately, so time tracking and the wiki aren't a second bill discovered after the fact.
ShipSprint bills in rupees, since Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd., the company behind it, is based in India. That's a fact about invoicing, not a claim to a London office. A card charges in INR and converts at your bank's rate on the day, the same as any other overseas subscription, and there's no VAT added or handled on our end.
What a founder sees day to day is a board, not a dashboard built to watch anyone. Screenshots, keystroke logs and activity trackers simply don't exist in the product, on any plan. Instead, each person's scorecard reflects delivered work and logged hours, adjusted for leave, and it's theirs to look at, not something compiled behind their back for a Monday meeting.
Questions from London startups
It's permanent. Up to 5 users and 2 projects, no time limit, no forced upgrade, and no feature cut compared to what a paying team gets on that same scope. A lot of early London teams run their whole first year on it.
No, that's the point. The same subscription that runs engineering sprints also runs a candidate pipeline and a content calendar, so whoever's covering that role for now has a proper board instead of a shared document, without a second tool to learn.
No. There are no screenshots, no keystroke logging and no activity tracking. Time logging takes about five seconds and is entirely self-reported, and everyone sees their own scorecard, adjusted for approved leave.
Team is ₹299 per user per month, or ₹2,899 per user per year, for up to 40 users. Business is ₹599 per user per month, or ₹6,499 per year, and adds forecasts, scorecards, the owner command center, priority support, unlimited projects and SSO. Every paid plan starts with a 14-day full-access Business trial, no card required. Full detail is on the pricing page.
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