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Adaptavist sells the work that comes after the software
Buying Jira is the easy part. Adaptavist has built a business around the migrations, integrations and human habits that determine whether enterprise software earns its keep.
Asana Wants to Put Your AI Coworkers on the Same To-Do List
The company that tried to kill the status meeting now has a harder assignment: make humans and AI agents share context, handoffs, and blame without creating another layer of busywork.
The 55-Year-Old Tampa Software Company Teaching Project Managers to See Trouble Coming
BST Global spent five decades helping architects and engineers record what happened. Its newer bet is harder and more useful: predict the project that is about to miss its margin while there is still time to fix it.
NimbleWork Spent 24 Years Turning the Messy Middle of Project Management Into a Product
The company formerly known as Digite is betting that the next project-management winner will not force every team into one doctrine. Its pitch is more practical: make the work visible, connect strategy to delivery, and let AI handle the blank-page chores.
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.
Motion
Motion is an AI-native work management platform that started as an automatic calendar and task scheduler and has grown into an 'agentic work suite' for small and mid-sized businesses. It bundles projects, tasks, calendar, docs, notes, SOPs, sheets, reports, search and chat into one system, then layers AI 'Employees' on top that actually execute work - drafting proposals, prepping meetings, updating projects and answering clients. Founded in 2019 and backed by Y Combinator, Motion raised $60M in 2025 at a $550M valuation.
Wrike
Wrike is an enterprise work management platform that helps teams plan, coordinate, and execute complex projects in one place. Founded in 2006, it combines Gantt charts, Kanban boards, custom workflows, automation, and AI agents to give large organizations visibility and accountability across thousands of users. After passing through several owners - Vista, Citrix, and now Symphony Technology Group - Wrike serves more than two million users across over 18,000 organizations.