# Shortcut

> Shortcut is a New York-based software company that builds a fast, lightweight project management and issue-tracking platform for software teams. Founded in 2014 as Clubhouse, it sits between the simplicity of Linear and the depth of Jira, offering sprints, boards, roadmaps, milestones, and automations. In 2025 it launched Korey, an AI agent that turns ideas into build-ready plans and orchestrates work across humans and AI agents. The platform has powered 21 million-plus completed stories across 50,000-plus organizations.

- **Founded:** 2014
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Kurt Schrader (Co-Founder & CEO), Andrew Childs (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** Approximately 70 employees
- **Products:** Shortcut (platform), Korey, Shortcut for Agents, Integrations & API
- **Notable:** Grew to 50,000+ active organizations and 21 million+ completed stories, Raised ~$40.8M across seed, Series A, and Series B rounds, Series B led by Sarah Guo at Greylock, backed by CEOs of Datadog, MongoDB, Pendo, and Flatiron Health

## Products & services

- **Shortcut (platform)** — Project management and issue tracking for software teams - stories, sprints (iterations), kanban boards, epics, milestones, roadmaps, custom workflows, automations, and reporting (burndown, velocity, cycle time).
- **Korey** — An AI product-management agent that turns ideas into structured, build-ready plans - writing specs with acceptance criteria, breaking work into tasks, tracking dependencies, and summarizing status.
- **Shortcut for Agents** — Agent coordination capabilities that let teams delegate and orchestrate work across developers, designers, and AI coding agents on a shared board.
- **Integrations & API** — Native integrations with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Slack, and more, plus a REST API for custom automation.

## Achievements

- Grew to 50,000+ active organizations and 21 million+ completed stories
- Raised ~$40.8M across seed, Series A, and Series B rounds
- Series B led by Sarah Guo at Greylock, backed by CEOs of Datadog, MongoDB, Pendo, and Flatiron Health
- Launched Korey (2025), positioned as the first AI product manager built for engineering workflows
- Successfully rebranded from Clubhouse to Shortcut in 2021 without losing its core user base

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Launched Korey, an AI product-management agent that plans, specs, and coordinates software projects.
- **2026-06** — Sharpened positioning to 'AI orchestration agent for software teams'; Slack, GitHub, and Cursor connectors went live across all plans.
- **2021-09** — Officially rebranded from Clubhouse to Shortcut.

## Links

- Website: https://shortcut.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shortcutsoftware
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/shortcut
- GitHub: https://github.com/useshortcut
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@shortcut
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/clubhousesoftware

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Last updated: 2026-07-18