Task Management Software

The task list problem isn't engineering's alone

Engineering usually gets proper task management: a board, sprints, a backlog someone grooms. Everyone else gets what's left over: a checklist in a shared doc for onboarding, a spreadsheet for the marketing calendar, a running thread of "can someone also" requests for operations. Each works passably in isolation and produces nothing anyone else in the company can see.

The cost shows up sideways. A new hire's onboarding tasks live in a doc HR maintains by hand. A campaign launch depends on three teams whose task lists don't talk to each other, so the coordination happens in a meeting instead of on a board. Nobody who isn't the specific owner of a list can tell what's actually on it.

It also shows up as a specific kind of task that falls through: the recurring one. A vendor contract that needs renewing every quarter, a compliance check that runs monthly, a report someone owes on the first of every month, these don't fit neatly into a sprint board or a one-off checklist, so they live in someone's calendar reminders until that person is on leave and the task simply doesn't happen. Run through ShipSprint, that same renewal becomes a recurring task with an actual owner, not a promise someone made to themselves back in March.

ShipSprint runs one task engine underneath all of it, with each department working in its own vocabulary on top.

Accountability that doesn't require watching anyone

Task management often slides into a proxy argument about who's doing their job. ShipSprint takes no screenshots, logs no keystrokes and tracks no activity. Accountability comes from tasks completed and hours logged by the person who logged them, not from evidence of being at a desk.

Every person can see their own scorecard, and it's adjusted for leave, so a week of approved time off doesn't read as a dip in output. A missing day's hours prompts a reminder to the individual, not a note to their manager. The system chases the gap so a manager doesn't have to.

That distinction matters more once tasks span departments that don't share a manager. A marketing task assigned to someone in operations doesn't need a marketing manager peering over an ops person's shoulder to confirm it's happening. The task's own status, and the hours logged against it, are the record, visible to the person who did the work as much as to anyone assigning it.

A record of who did what, without a manager asking

Every workspace is an isolated tenant, two-factor authentication is available to every user, and every admin action is written to an audit log, which for task management means there's an actual record of who reassigned a task, changed a deadline, or closed something out, rather than a claim someone has to take on faith weeks later.

The whole workspace exports as JSON at any time, so a department's task history (everything HR ran through onboarding this year, every recurring process operations owns) isn't stuck inside a tool nobody outside that department ever opens.

Tasks from a conversation, not a form

ShipSprint connects to Claude and ChatGPT, so tasks can be created and updated in plain language: "add a task for the vendor contract renewal, due next Friday, assign to Priya", rather than through a multi-field form built for people who create tasks all day.

That matters most for the departments that don't live in a task tool by default. An HR or ops person who'd never open a sprint board will use a task manager that meets them in a conversation.

The same applies in reverse. A manager checking in at the end of the week can ask "what did the onboarding checklist for this month's hires still need" instead of opening four different task lists to piece the answer together themselves.

What it costs to give everyone a task list

One subscription covers every department's tasks. There's no per-team add-on.

• Free covers up to 5 users and 2 projects, permanently, enough for a small team to run one department's tasks properly.
• Team is ₹299/user/month (₹2,899/year), up to 40 users, with every department's templates included.
• Business is ₹599/user/month (₹6,499/year) and adds forecasts, scorecards, the owner command center and unlimited projects.
• Every paid plan starts with a 14-day full-access trial on Business, with a sample project preloaded and no card required.

Full breakdown on pricing.