Project Management Software for Technology Startups in Reading
A startup founded along the M4 corridor is usually pitching enterprise and telecoms buyers from day one, on a team that's still just a handful of people.
Selling enterprise, staffed like a startup
Reading sits at the centre of the Thames Valley tech corridor, an area long known for hosting UK and European operations for enterprise software and telecoms companies. A startup founded here, sometimes by people who spun out of one of those larger operations, tends to be selling into that same world from very early on: procurement teams, SLA expectations, a buyer who assumes the vendor has more structure than a five-person company actually has.
That's a specific bind. An enterprise prospect wants to see single sign-on and a clean audit trail before it wants to hear about the roadmap, but the startup pitching them is still a founder, an engineer, and someone half-doing sales and marketing at once. Buying software built for that mismatch, credible enough for the buyer, cheap enough for the team, isn't easy to find.
ShipSprint's Free plan covers 5 users and 2 projects, permanently, and single sign-on is available on Business the moment a team actually needs it for a deal, rather than requiring a jump to an "enterprise" tier priced for a company ten times the size. One subscription runs engineering, hiring, marketing and operations together, so a small team pitching a big buyer isn't also juggling four vendors internally.
The founder still starts each day the same way a five-person team anywhere does: at "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 waits behind a procurement call.
What an early Reading startup actually needs
5 users and 2 projects, free permanently, not a countdown that ends right as the first enterprise pilot starts.
Engineering, hiring, marketing and operations each get their own board and vocabulary, so a small team pitching an enterprise buyer isn't running four separate systems behind the scenes.
There's no configuration project or onboarding call to schedule first. A board is usable the same day it's created, no IT ticket required.
Why a feature was scoped or a release timed a certain way sits next to the work, with page history, not in someone's memory alone.
Everyone opens to "my day": today's items, a five-second time log, and one tap to flag being blocked, pulling in whoever can help.
Structure without pretending to be bigger than you are
An enterprise buyer's checklist doesn't care how many people are on the other end of the pitch. It wants to know work is planned against real capacity, that admin actions are logged, that access can be locked down properly. A five-person team can genuinely offer all of that on ShipSprint without needing to fake a headcount or buy a tier built for a much larger company.
Every workspace is an isolated tenant, two-factor authentication is available to every user regardless of plan, and every admin action is written to an audit log automatically. That's true on Free as much as on Business, so a founder demonstrating the product to a Thames Valley procurement team isn't showing off borrowed structure.
ShipSprint is built by Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd., registered in India, and billed in rupees, a fact about the vendor rather than a claim of UK presence. Charges convert at your card provider's rate on the day, and there's no VAT charged or handled on our end, worth confirming with your finance team for procurement purposes.
That structure stops well short of surveillance, deliberately. Screenshots, keystroke logs and activity trackers have no place in the product, regardless of plan. What a person gets instead is a scorecard drawn from delivered work and hours they logged themselves, adjusted for leave, which happens to be exactly the kind of clean answer a procurement checklist tends to like.
Questions from Reading startups
No. SSO is available on Business regardless of team size, alongside two-factor authentication for every user on every plan. A five-person startup can offer the same access controls a much larger vendor would.
For a lot of early teams, yes. 5 users and 2 projects, free permanently, is enough to run the engineering side of a pilot alongside a small hiring or marketing push, with no expiry date pushing you to upgrade before you're ready.
No. There are no screenshots, no keystroke logging and no activity tracking. Only delivered work and self-logged hours, visible on each person's own scorecard.
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, and adds forecasts, scorecards, SSO, the owner command center, priority support and unlimited projects. Every paid plan starts with a 14-day full-access trial, no card required. Full pricing is on the pricing page.
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