From a fuzzy goal to a working backlog in 90 seconds. KanAssist writes a real plan from a brief you already have, drops every task on a Kanban board, and re-plans itself when reality drifts — so you skip the day-one configuration tax other tools charge.
No credit card. No setup. Free for everyone during the open beta.
Built with feedback from early teams
Every team we talked to had already tried to make something else fit. Tell us if this sounds familiar.
You typed a brief into a chat assistant. It gave you a decent outline. Now it lives in a scroll-back you'll lose — no dates, no owners, no board. By Wednesday, nobody remembers what was decided.
KanAssist: the plan becomes real tasks on a real board. Same AI quality, none of the "where did I put that?"
Every new project starts the same: hand-type 30 cards before anyone can move. Whatever AI ships with it is a bolt-on. You still do all the thinking — the tool just stores it.
KanAssist: the board is generated from a brief you already have. Skip the 30 cards. Start with a plan everyone can see.
Enterprise-grade for enterprise-sized teams. Your 4-person crew spends more time setting up custom fields than shipping. By the time the workflow is right, the deadline moved.
KanAssist: Kanban basics that work on day one. AI planning when you want it. Nothing else.
The little leaps that turn "another Kanban tool" into "the one we keep."
Migrate a workshop, a sticky-note wall, or a screenshot from the tool you're leaving. Vision AI reads the columns and cards and rebuilds them in seconds — up to 24 columns and 400 cards, atomic transaction.
Stuck staring at a blank textarea? Write a rough sentence and one click gives you 2–3 outcome-oriented rewrites. Pick the one that fits — and the rest of the plan flows from a sharper starting point.
When tasks slip, get added off-plan, or sprints overrun, a banner offers a one-click re-plan that uses the *current* state as the starting point — not the version you wished into a doc three weeks ago.
A skeptical executive, a senior engineer, and an end user each tear into your plan. Plus a missing-items check that flags things plans like yours usually include — comms schedule, QA gate, rollback plan. One click adds them as tasks.
Board for execution. Backlog for prioritization. Sprints for rhythm. Timeline for dependencies. Same tasks — just the lens that fits the moment.
Drop on empty columns just works. Cards land where you let go — even on a column with nothing in it. Inline-edit titles wrap to multiple lines so you can see what you're typing. Big tap targets for "complete." Five-level priority chevrons in tasteful colors. (You'd be surprised how many tools get the small things wrong.)
Spreadsheet-fast. Inline-edit every cell. Title, ID, points, priority, assignee, labels, dates, column. Press Enter to save and start the next row. Stack four filters at once. Bulk-assign 30 tasks to a sprint in two clicks. 80 tasks in 4 minutes — try that on a card-only board.
Sprints without the configuration tax. Activate, complete, and cancel with single clicks. Closing a sprint asks where incomplete tasks should go (next sprint, backlog, unassigned) and remembers the answer. Capacity, committed, and completed points are tracked automatically — no plug-in, no admin role, no scheme.
A real Gantt, drawn for free. Auto-rendered the moment you add dates. Sticky title column, sticky date header, today marker, weekend tint. Drag the bar's center to slide; drag an edge to resize; drag rows to reorder — and the order persists. No add-on. No upgrade tier.
A focused set of Kanban essentials — done well, with the small details other tools either skip, charge for, or bury behind a marketplace add-on.
Columns, drag-and-drop, and keyboard-speed edits. Choose a Standard layout or start empty. No fields to configure, no admin to email.
→ Day-one productive instead of week-one.
A spreadsheet-grade backlog. Inline-edit every column, stack four filters, bulk-assign to sprints. Press Enter to save and immediately start the next row.
→ The 80-task workday other tools can't match.
Auto-Gantt the moment you add dates. Drag bars to slide, edges to resize, rows to reorder. Today marker and weekend tint included.
→ Free. Not an add-on. Not a paid tier.
Every task carries an avatar, on the board and in every list. Click to assign in two clicks. Per-user accent colors stay consistent across the app.
→ End the "who's doing X?" Friday Slack.
A project-wide palette of eight professional-grade colors. Change a color once — every task using it updates. Create labels inline from the picker. AI labels you didn't define get an "Add to palette" button.
→ Not the same 10 hardcoded colors per board.
Cover images on cards. Full-bleed board backgrounds with built-in Unsplash search. Paste a screenshot from your clipboard onto a card — it becomes the cover.
→ Personality, with proper photographer attribution.
Migrate from another tool with a screenshot — vision AI reads the columns and cards and rebuilds them. Up to 24 columns, 400 cards, atomic transaction.
→ Hours of manual entry, gone.
Activate, complete, and cancel sprints in single clicks. Carryover handled — closing a sprint asks where leftover tasks go. Capacity, committed, and completed points tracked automatically.
→ Sprint hygiene without the admin role.
Every task gets a clean key (BILL-12 style) that survives replans and refinements. Reference a task in a Slack thread or PR — the link still works tomorrow.
→ Devs and ops people scan for this. We have it.
Other tools added an AI tab last quarter. We started with the AI as the planning surface. Answer five short questions; the AI asks a few sharp ones back; it writes a real narrative plan, drops every task on your board, and critiques itself before you ship.
The polish layer that signals "the team building this actually uses it." Not headline features — but you'll feel them every day.
No setup. No field configuration. No 30-card hand-typing marathon.
Upload a PDF or paste a pitch deck. KanAssist parses it and waits for your go.
Outcome, audience, constraints, non-goals, success signals. Five minutes, tops.
A narrative plan, section by section, with tasks extracted and dropped into Backlog.
Open the board, assign, drag, ship. Re-plan whenever reality drifts.
KanAssist adapts to how you work — not the other way around. Pick the vignette that sounds like your week.
Pulled from open-beta feedback. Names changed when requested.
The moment the plan landed on the board with tasks already slotted in, I stopped pretending we didn't need this.
It feels familiar from minute one — but I don't have to hand-type a backlog every time a brief lands in my inbox. That's like an hour I get back per project.
The "what's missing" check caught a rollback step the night before launch. That's the feature I tell other PMs about.
No retroactive paywalls, no lock-in tactics, no "premium" tier hiding the basics.
Other free tiers gate Gantt, labels, or board count. Ours doesn't.
$5 / user / month. Flat per-seat. No token-usage surprises. No "premium / enterprise / platinum" upsell ladder.
Free for everyone during the open beta. After that, small teams stay free forever.
For small teams, side projects, and "just me" plans. Up to 3 collaborators.
No credit card. Ever.
Everyone gets everything. No feature gates, no card, no clock.
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