Linear alternative

A Linear alternative that keeps the spec

Issues on a board, plus the spec they come from and an audit of what happened to every requirement. And the rest of the company, from chat to hiring, in the same workspace.

Free plan · no card · two seats included

atrix.dev/dashboard/pages

Why teams look around

Why teams look beyond Linear

Linear is a focused tool that engineers enjoy. These are the common reasons small companies look for something broader.

  • The rest of the company is elsewhere

    Sales, scheduling, hiring and chat happen in other tools, so the non-engineers never see the board.

  • The spec lives apart from the issues

    Requirements are written in one tool and tracked in another, and they drift.

  • One more per-seat bill

    A small team paying per user in several tools pays for the same people again and again.

A closer look

Pages

The spec lives with the issues

Requirements and architecture are pages in the same project as the board, and a Develop run can write the first draft for you.

  • Requirements and architecture as pages
  • Whiteboards for diagrams
  • Issues planned from the spec
atrix.dev/dashboard/pages

Launch plan

☐ Press list · ☑ Pricing

IdeaShip

Whiteboard · 13 templates

MCP

Keep your AI tools

Atrix is an MCP server. Claude Code, Claude and ChatGPT can read pages, plan work and file issues with the scopes you grant.

  • OAuth sign-in in the browser; no key to paste
  • Scoped tokens, revocable per device
  • Every call audited, never the contents
claude code

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$ claude mcp add --transport http atrix https://atrix.dev/api/mcp

atrix

Be honest about it

When to keep Linear

Atrix AI covers more ground with less depth in issue tracking. You may want to keep Linear for:

  • Cycles and sprint planning.
  • Triage of incoming requests at scale.
  • A large engineering organisation with many teams.
  • Workflows your engineers have tuned over years.

How to move

Moving from Linear

Start with the product where the spec matters most.

  1. 01

    Create the project

    Open a free workspace and a project for one product.

  2. 02

    Write the spec

    Run Develop on your brief to get requirements, an architecture and planned issues.

  3. 03

    Freeze the baseline

    Once the requirements are agreed, freeze them and track each one through to done.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Is Atrix AI a good Linear alternative for startups?

If you want issues, the spec, a requirements audit and the rest of the company in one workspace, yes. If you only need a dedicated engineering tracker, Linear is excellent at that.

Does Atrix AI have cycles?

No. Work has assignees, due dates, a board and a list, but no cycles.

Does Atrix AI check our code?

No. It does not run static analysis or security scans. The requirements audit tracks agreed requirements against the work on the board.

Does it work with Claude Code?

Yes. Atrix is an MCP server, so Claude Code and other MCP clients can work in your workspace.

Run the whole company from one place.

Start on the free plan. Bring your team, your calendar and your code when you are ready.