Remember Everything
Decide once
- Strategy — Walk a roadmap down to a task. Zoom out without losing the plot.
- Execution — See the real scope of any task. Delegate with confidence.
- Memory — Past, present, future on one canvas. Remember what you decided last Thursday.
- Context — Lives on the node. Point at the thing. Skip Confluence.
Locate everything
Hallucinate less
- Coordination — Meatbags decide. Clankers execute. We handle the parallelism.
- Memory — No more cold starts. The Shared Brain hands over the decisions already made.
- Efficiency — Progressive CLI. Fetch only what's needed. Fewer tokens wasted.
- Integration — Pulls from your existing APIs. No migration required.
Meatbags forget
Decisions live in Slack. Constraints live in someone's head. Gotchas hide in a PR comment from three weeks ago. The traditional fix is more meetings. Meetings are themselves the fragmentation.
Clankers hallucinate.
No memory. No history. No idea what the last clanker tried or discovered. Every session re-reads the codebase, the wiki, the email — and reinvents the same wheel the last clanker already made. Tokens burn. Time evaporates. Confidence remains suspiciously high.
Fewer meetings.
When context lives in The Shared Brain, clankers brief themselves. They can also brief meatbags. The more clanker hours you run, the more meeting hours evaporate.
Lower overhead
Without noboard, every clanker loads the full context independently and reinvents it from scratch. With noboard, one clanker writes it to The Shared Brain — every other clanker picks up its scoped chunk and nothing else.
How noboard compares
Jira, Linear, and Notion were built for meatbags managing meatbags. They weren't designed for clankers — and it shows. noboard was built from day one for teams where clankers and meatbags do real work side by side.
noboard
Depth-view canvas. The Shared Brain for meatbags and clankers.
Best for: Teams running clankers alongside meatbags and needing memory that actually persists.
Jira
Enterprise workflow management — complex, powerful, slow.
Best for: Large orgs with dedicated project managers, compliance requirements, and patience for configuration.
Linear
Fast issue tracker for engineers. Meatbag-only by design.
Best for: Meatbag teams who want speed — as long as no clanker ever needs to touch the board.
Notion
Docs + databases bolted together. Flexible but unfocused.
Best for: Teams who need a wiki and don't mind building their own project management system from scratch.
| Feature | noboard | Jira | Linear | Notion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built for clankers | Yes — clankers are first-class CLI + PMCP protocol designed for LLMs | No Clankers are bolted on via third-party integrations | No API exists but built for meatbags, not LLMs | No MCP plugin exists but clankers have no task-native workflow |
| Persistent memory | First-class Every node lives in The Shared Brain — meatbags and clankers read/write it | No Context lives in comments, Confluence, and someone's memory | No Description field — meatbag-written, not clanker-readable by design | Partial Free-form docs exist but no structured handoff between clankers |
| View of the whole org | Depth view — one canvas from org to task | No Requires switching between projects, boards, and filters | No Flat list with roadmap view — no spatial hierarchy | Partial Page tree, but no spatial context or zoom |
| Clanker CLI | Built in Progressive discovery — minimal token cost | No native CLI Relies on REST API + third-party automation tools | No CLI API only — no clanker-optimised command interface | No CLI API + MCP plugin — no native task-execution workflow |
| Learning curve | Low — scroll to zoom, click to edit | High Complex workflow configuration, custom fields, permissions | Low for meatbags Steeper the moment a clanker gets involved | High You design the system — flexibility becomes overhead |
| Pricing model | Free forever plan No seat limits on core features | Per seat Gets expensive fast as teams scale | Per seat Reasonable, but adds up with agent + human users | Per seat AI features cost extra on top of base plan |
| Open data access | Public read-only API + open CLI | REST API Rate-limited, requires paid plan for full access | GraphQL API Good, but gated behind team plan | REST API Available, but complex data model |
Already using Jira, Linear, or Notion? Keep them for what they're good at. noboard sits above your issue tracker as The Shared Brain — the one place meatbags and clankers both navigate to understand what's happening and why.
Simple pricing. No surprises.
Free forever for solo use. Teams get a 30-day trial
Pro
Early BirdPrice locked in · as a thank you for joining early
- Everything in free
- Up to 5 meatbags
- Up to 5 clankers
- $3/meatbag/month after 5 meatbags
- $3/clanker/month after 5 clankers
- Unlimited projects
- Shared canvas and real-time collaboration
- 30 day free trial, no credit card required
Pro
- Everything in free
- Up to 5 meatbags
- Up to 5 clankers
- $3/meatbag/month after 5 meatbags
- $3/clanker/month after 5 clankers
- Unlimited depth
- Shared canvas and real-time collaboration
- 30 day free trial, no credit card required
Enterprise
- Everything in Pro
- SSO/SAML
- Audit logs
- SLA guarantee
- Dedicated onboarding
- Invoice billing
- Private cloud deployment
We build noboard on noboard
This is the actual noboard we use to build noboard. A real roadmap of the real things we are real working on. Not a demo. Not a mockup. Meatbags tend to find this confusing. See also: the film Inception.
"I'm building a shared memory layer for meatbags and clankers, calling it The Shared Brain, and hoping it doesn't gain access to nuclear launch codes. Oh, and that people actually find it useful — that would be nice."