Shortcut with Korey

Shortcut is project management software for product and engineering teams, with an AI agent named Korey and coordination for human and AI work. It combines issues, Kanban boards, iterations, roadmaps, docs, objectives, backlogs, reporting, automations, APIs, and MCP. Its positioning is narrower than a general suite: Shortcut focuses on software delivery from planning through release, while Korey helps turn product and engineering context into tracked work.

Free costs $0 per user monthly and includes Kanban, roadmaps, reports, iterations, docs, and GitHub, Slack, and Figma integrations. Team costs $8.50 per user monthly on yearly billing and adds more reports, work-in-progress limits, up to five custom workflows, automation, and all integrations. Business costs $12 per user monthly yearly and adds unlimited teams and workflows, advanced fields and reports, and multiple workspaces. Enterprise has custom pricing with discounts, premier support, SLAs, SSO and SCIM, custom terms, dedicated Slack, and onboarding. Pricing includes 14 days of full access without a card and advertises up to 25% annual savings.

Korey targets product-engineering workflows, while Agent Coordination supports AI teammates. MCP exposes approved workspace data to compatible development tools, reducing context switching between tracking and coding agents. A developer can inspect assigned work from an AI coding environment, while a product manager can use Korey to organize issues and objectives. Compare Cursor and Notion AI, and pair project context with Windsurf. The AI coding agents comparison explains the broader landscape.

Advantages include engineering focus, useful planning primitives, a functional Free plan, and low published Team and Business prices. Gaps include Enterprise-only identity controls, limited complex portfolio governance, and the risk AI-created issues are noisy or misprioritized. The FAQ says Shortcut does not provide prorated refunds, which matters for annual commitments.

Pilot one delivery team for a full iteration. Import active work, define issue conventions, connect GitHub, and test whether Korey or MCP reduces duplicate updates. Measure cycle time, stale issues, planning time, and corrections to AI-created work. Restrict permissions and review priority, ownership, and roadmap changes. Shortcut is strong for software teams wanting fast tracking with agent connectivity, but value depends on issue hygiene and ownership—not simply adding AI to an untidy backlog.

Migration quality deserves the same attention as AI features. Test how existing epics, comments, attachments, labels, custom fields, and historical links import from the current tracker. Define which system remains authoritative for release status and whether agent-created stories need a standard label or review queue. Teams should also verify MCP access with a least-privilege test account and inspect exactly which workspace data the coding client can read or change. These controls keep convenience from turning into silent backlog churn and make cycle-time comparisons across the pilot meaningful.