About SpiralDeck
We're building the tracker that tells the truth.
Most project tools measure what people say they did. SpiralDeck pairs project management with a desktop work tracker that sees the real thing — and prices it so adding teammates never costs you more. We're pre-launch and building in the open.
Multi-tenant SaaS · secure by design · no committed launch date
Why we exist
Status reports shouldn't be fiction
Three things about the way teams track work have bothered us for years. SpiralDeck is the answer to all three.
The status problem
Reports are self-reported guesses
Stand-ups, status fields and timesheets all lean on people remembering and rounding. The picture your tools show is the picture someone typed — not the work that actually happened.
The pricing problem
Per-seat pricing taxes your team
Most tools charge per person, so growing the team or inviting a client quietly inflates the bill. You end up rationing seats instead of collaborating.
The trust problem
Security arrives as an afterthought
Isolation, audit trails and least-privilege get bolted on after launch — if at all. For something that holds your roadmap and your people data, that order is backwards.
Our answer
Two pillars, not ten features
We're not trying to out-feature Jira. We're betting that two things matter more than the rest — honest pricing and honest data — and building the whole product around them.
01 / Price
Flat pricing, not a per-seat tax
A real free tier for small teams, then Basecamp-style flat per-workspace pricing. Invite everyone — teammates, contractors, clients — without watching the bill climb. Price should never be the reason work happens off the tool.
02 / Observability
A tracker that sees real work
A first-class desktop app captures what actually happened — work logs, app and window context, anonymized activity — so status reflects reality instead of recollection. Opt-in, anonymized, and encrypted by design.
AI-assisted planning and search are coming too — but as a next-year surface, deliberately deferred until the core earns it.
How we build
Principles we don't trade away
These aren't aspirations on a careers page — each one is enforced in the product's architecture and the way we talk about it.
Secure by design, not by checklist
Tenant isolation in Postgres Row-Level Security, default-deny authorization and an untrusted-client model are in the architecture from day one — not retrofitted before an audit.
Candid about status
We don't frame logos for audits we haven't passed. Every compliance and capability claim on this site says exactly where it stands — done, available, or on the way.
Flat pricing, on principle
Per-workspace pricing isn't a launch promo — it's a stance. We won't build a business that profits from you adding one more person.
Anonymized capture, always
The work tracker records activity counts and window titles — never raw keystrokes, clipboard, file contents or URLs. There is no code path to read them.
One core for everyone
A solo founder and a 2,000-person org run the same product. Enterprise gets stronger controls — not a different, pricier codebase.
SaaS, done well
No self-host, no on-prem sprawl to dilute focus. We run one platform and make it fast, reliable and secure for everyone on it.
Where we're headed
Shipping when it's ready, not by a date
We'd rather earn trust than hit a launch date. Here's an honest read on where things stand — no roadmap theater.
Building the PM core and the desktop work tracker, hardening multi-tenant isolation, and running a private beta. The product is real — it isn't finished.
Completing an independent third-party security audit, broadening integrations, and opening access more widely as stability allows.
General availability when it's genuinely ready — there is no committed launch date. AI-assisted planning and search are a next-year surface, deferred until the core earns it.
Who's building it
A small team that ships
No org chart to show off yet — and we like it that way. SpiralDeck is built by a compact, senior team that would rather get the product right than get big.
Small and senior
A compact team of people who've built and operated production SaaS before. Fewer hand-offs, more ownership.
Product engineers
The people designing features build them. Decisions stay close to the code and to the customer.
Remote and async
Distributed by default — writing things down and optimizing for deep work over meetings. The way we'd want any team using SpiralDeck to run.
We're growing the team deliberately. If building this sounds like your kind of problem, we'd love to hear from you.
Get in touchBuild on something honest.
Project management and a desktop work tracker on one core — free to start, flat to scale, secure by design.