Visible work without ceremony.
Small teams deserve to see what's happening without standups, status meetings, or backlog grooming. Paperwork is a team coordination tool that makes work visible — and lets everything else expire.
Your team has a ceremony problem, not a coordination problem.
You know how to build. The tooling is what's slowing you down. Standups have become status theater. Jira tickets nobody updates. Backlog grooming nobody believes in. Your team doesn't need more process — it needs less.
Standups are status theater
Fifteen minutes where everyone recites what they plan to do, while nobody listens. The meeting exists because the tool can't show you.
Tickets nobody updates
Your project board is a fiction. Half the tickets are stale. The other half were written by someone who left. The real work lives in Slack threads.
Backlog grooming nobody believes in
An hour-long meeting to re-prioritize 200 items that will never get done. Story points assigned to work you'll forget about by next sprint.
We think there's a better operating model.
The Math
Your standup costs more than you think.
A 15-minute standup with 6 engineers is not 15 minutes. It's 3.8 hours of collective time per day — including the 23-minute context-switch tax each person pays on both sides.
Open the full calculatorhours/year
annual cost
features lost
Four ideas. Zero complexity.
Read our manifesto for the full picture. Here's what it looks like in practice.
The Feed
Everyone's work in one real-time stream. You open it, you see what shipped. No board to decipher, no tickets to click through. Just work, described by the people who did it.
Refactored auth middleware for v2
Three States
Active, Done, or Expired. That's it. No backlog grooming, no Kanban gymnastics, no status meetings about statuses. Items that don't get finished expire on purpose — because not everything needs to live forever.
Personal Task Overlay
Pin what matters to you. Your pinned items float above the team feed as your personal task list. Everything else flows by. Tags let you filter down to what's relevant right now.
Deploy checklist for v2.3 release
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Daily Triage
Start each morning by deciding what matters. Keep it, remind yourself later, or let it go. Three choices, zero meetings. Triage replaces grooming — and takes about 30 seconds.
Performance Insights
See team velocity and output without micromanaging anyone. The data comes from the work itself — no extra reporting step.
Built for teams of 3–20 who tried simple and found it still too much.
If you've outgrown sticky notes but refuse to adopt a tool that needs a certification course, you're who we built this for.
For Makers
Type what you did and get back to building. No forms, no ticket numbers, no ceremony.
Learn moreFor Managers
See what your team accomplished today in 30 seconds. No status meetings, no chasing updates.
Learn moreFor Teams
One feed, whole team, zero overhead. Everyone shares what they shipped in real-time.
Learn moreLinear Defectors
You loved the speed, but it was still too much tool. Paperwork is what comes after you strip away the project graph.
Async-first by designWhat Paperwork replaces (and what it doesn't try to be).
Paperwork is not a PM tool. Not a standup bot. Not another Slack integration. It's a better operating model for teams that want to see what's happening without managing a tool to do it.
Replaces your daily standup
Everyone shares what they shipped in their own time. You see the full picture in 30 seconds, not 15 minutes.
Replaces your status updates
The feed is the status update. No more "what are you working on?" messages in Slack. Open the feed and see.
Replaces backlog grooming
Morning triage takes 30 seconds. Keep, remind, or let go. No hour-long meetings to re-sort a list nobody trusts.
Not a project planner
No Gantt charts, no dependencies, no critical path. If you need to plan a multi-quarter roadmap, use something else.
Not a bug tracker
No ticket workflows, no severity fields, no SLA tracking. Paperwork is about shipping, not triaging inbound.
Not a Slack bot
Paperwork is its own surface. Your team's work deserves better than a sidebar in someone else's chat app.
How Paperwork is different
Teams are shipping more with less overhead
"We replaced our daily standup with Paperwork. Everyone shares what they did in their own time, and I can see the full picture in 30 seconds."
Jamie K.
Engineering Lead
"The expiration concept is genius. Our backlog used to be 200+ items of guilt. Now we only focus on what matters today."
Riley M.
Product Manager
"I just type what I did and move on. No ticket numbers, no story points, no ceremony. It's refreshing."
Dana L.
Senior Developer
Start focusing on what matters.
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