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Startups don't have time for months of development cycles. With Taskade AI, your business ideas become working applications instantly. No coding. No technical team. No permission required.
What used to take months now takes minutes. Describe your MVP, watch it build itself, and start testing with real users immediately.
Startups need tools to track the progress of their projects effectively and to help them manage teams who are working together whether in one geographical location or all over the world remotely.
All this while sourcing for funding to continue their operations while they are still making a name for themselves in the industry.
The best way to convince venture capitalists and others to invest in your startup is to show how you are organizing your resources to be able to develop great products while collaborating with a talented team.
What is Taskade?
Taskade is an online productivity and collaboration tool that can be used by startups. Founded by John Xie, Dionis Loire, and Stan Chang in 2017, Taskade aims to help remote teams and individuals get work done faster and smarter.
Taskade is a versatile and simple tool that can improve your productivity while also encouraging communication and collaboration. Taskade can be used as a simple collaborative to-do list or a solution for managing teams and complex projects.
With Taskade, you can organize tasks, take detailed notes, automate repetitive workflows, collaborate via free and unlimited built-in video chat with your team, and more, through an all-in-one unified workspace.
Taskade is the best free project management software for startups. The free-forever plan is loaded with features that can be used to help you get work done with, and for your startup.
Use Taskade to save you time and money so that you can continue to develop great projects, build better teams, and carve a name for your startup in the market.
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How Can Taskade Help With Your Startup?
Manage Projects and Task Lists
Taskade helps you stay on top of your different projects and tasks. Any successful startup should have ways of managing different projects and tasks to make sure that everything is on schedule and within budget.
The best project management tools, like Taskade, help boost productivity and minimize delays in figuring out what’s going on. You can update your projects in real time and use Taskade across all devices.
Some features you can use when managing projects and tasks are:
Creating workspaces and adding specific tasks
Toggling multiple views
Managing due dates
Collaborate as a Team
Taskade is a great tool for teamwork and can help you collaborate effectively with your remote teams. Many startups have team members working from all over the world so productivity can be a challenge. Luckily, technology has made managing remote teams not only possible but also profitable.
Some features you can use when collaborating as a team are:
Adding team members to specific workspaces
Communicating via project chat and messaging
Starting video calls and meetings
Adding comments for asynchronous collaboration
Plan Events
Taskade helps you organize events that matter by providing helpful checklists and templates to make sure you prepare everything you need for a successful event. With Taskade, you can put together what you need before, during, and after an event.
Some features you can use when planning your events are:
Creating a project for your event
Using templates to kickstart your project
Viewing the roadmap to see your tasks on a timeline
Syncing your calendar
Create SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures)
Taskade supports you as you establish your standard operating procedures (SOPs). Startups usually struggle to find their bearings when they are still drafting the procedures they need. It takes time to come up with these SOPs but they are essential to any successful business.
As you continue to manage your projects with Taskade, you will be able to document best practices that can become the standard for your team.
To help you on your startup journey, here are some of our favourite templates to help your startup stay on track!
Share Project Progress with Stakeholders
Taskade keeps your stakeholders in the loop on your project's progress. Sharing updates with your clients and investors build their confidence in your startup and helps convince them to keep investing.
With Taskade, you can invite guests to view specific project workspaces without having them register on the platform. You can control what they can see and show them only the most relevant information. They can choose multiple views to understand your work better and they can enjoy real-time updates on how your projects are progressing.
📚 Resources & Getting Started
🚀 Get Started
- Taskade Genesis — Build AI-powered startup tools
- Create Your First App — Step-by-step tutorial
- Community Templates — Browse startup templates
🧬 Understand the DNA
- How Genesis Works: Workspace DNA — Your workspace becomes your backend
- 🤖 Custom AI Agents — The Intelligence Pillar
- ⚡ Automations & Workflows — The Execution Pillar
📖 Related Articles
The Seed-Stage Problem Is Not Focus, It Is Seat Math
An early team does not lose money on any single tool. It loses money on eight tools that each look cheap per seat and are billed per seat, at exactly the moment headcount is the number that moves fastest. Then the ops that matter — the investor update, the runway model, the design-partner list — end up in spreadsheets anyway, because none of the eight tools does that specific job.
Taskade Genesis inverts that. You describe the operating artifact you need and get a running app, on flat pricing, in a workspace where your agents and automations already live.
The prompt that builds your investor update
Build me an investor update app. Monthly entries with: revenue, cash
in bank, months of runway, headcount, top 3 wins, top 3 risks, and
one ask. Add an agent that reads the previous three months and drafts
the narrative section, flagging any metric that moved more than 20%.
Publish a link my investors can open without an account, and remind
me on the 1st.
Back comes a Investor Update project with the metric columns, an agent that writes the narrative from your own history, a published read-only page you send once and never resend, and a reminder automation. Your investors bookmark a link instead of digging for an email attachment.
Five Startup Artifacts Worth Building in Week One
A runway tracker with a trigger. Cash, burn, and months remaining, plus an automation that pings you when runway crosses a threshold you set today, while you are still rational about it.
A design-partner and customer-interview repository. Every call transcript, tagged by the problem it revealed, with an agent that surfaces the theme repeating across interviews. Founders lose more insight to unsearchable notes than to a shortage of calls.
A waitlist that does something. Not a form to a spreadsheet — a capture page with an agent that qualifies each signup and an automation that sends the right onboarding sequence to the right segment.
A hiring pipeline you can actually run. Candidates, stage, interviewer, and scorecard in one board, with automated nudges so nobody sits three days without a reply. Speed is most of a small company's hiring advantage.
A single company operating doc. Goals, owners, and this quarter's bets in one project that your agents read as context, so anything they draft already knows what the company is trying to do.
Flat Versus Per Seat, Honestly
Per-seat pricing is not a scam — it is a fair model for tools where each seat gets full value. It just compounds badly at the exact stage when you are adding people fastest. These are vendor-published rates read from each vendor's own pricing page:
| Tool | Entry paid tier | How it bills |
|---|---|---|
| Notion | Plus, $10/member/mo month-to-month | Per member, and full AI now requires the Business tier |
| Airtable | Team, $20/seat/mo billed annually | Per seat, with AI credits metered per editor |
| Retool | Team, $10/builder/mo billed annually plus $5/internal user | Two meters: builders and viewers |
| Zapier | Professional, $19.99/mo billed annually | Per task volume; the Starter tier was retired |
| Taskade | Pro, $10/mo billed annually | Flat, with Business at $25/mo billed annually adding unlimited team seats |
The bigger effect is not the line item. It is that a per-seat stack quietly discourages inviting the contractor, the advisor, or the design partner who should have been in the room.
Frequently Asked Questions
What can a startup actually build on the free plan?
Enough to prove the idea. Free includes projects, basic views, real-time collaboration, 10 automation runs a month, 3 apps total, and a 6,000-credit grant from activation milestones — 1,000 for verifying your account and 5,000 on your first build, sized so signup plus a first build funds one complete app.
Do I need an engineer to build internal tools?
No. You describe the tool in plain English and Taskade Genesis builds the working app — interface, data, agents, and automations. That matters most pre-Series-A, when every engineering hour spent on an internal dashboard is an hour not spent on the product. Start at /create.
Can I send investors a link instead of an email attachment?
Yes. Publish the update as a read-only app and share the URL. Investors open it without an account and without consuming a seat, and it is current every time they look, which is strictly better than a PDF that was true three weeks ago.
Will this replace our spreadsheets?
Some of them, and you should be selective. Financial modelling belongs in a spreadsheet. The tracker, the pipeline, the checklist, and the recurring report — the sheets that exist because nobody wanted to build software — are exactly what this replaces. See migrating from spreadsheets to AI dashboards.
What happens when we grow past 10 people?
Business at $25/mo billed annually adds unlimited team seats, SSO and SAML, custom domains, and app colors. The price does not re-quote per head, which means adding a contractor or an advisor is a decision about the person rather than a decision about the invoice.
Can we put a customer-facing app on our own domain?
Yes, on Business plans and above. Custom domains, app colors, and app SEO visibility are all Business capabilities, which is the point where a Genesis app stops looking like a tool and starts looking like your product surface.
Does it connect to the tools we already pay for?
Yes. Taskade connects to 100+ tools bidirectionally — triggers pull events in from things like Slack, Gmail, and Calendly, actions push data out to Stripe, Notion, Salesforce, and GitHub — so a new signup can create a record, alert the team, and start a sequence from one automation. See /integrations.
Can we clone something instead of starting from a blank page?
Yes, and for a first build it is faster. The community gallery has running startup CRMs, investor trackers, and onboarding portals you can open, copy into your workspace, and rewrite. Note that on the Free plan you can clone an app but not import a bundle that contains automations — Pro removes that limit.
Is our data ours?
Yes. Your apps read and write live data in your own workspace, and everything remains exportable as ordinary Taskade projects. Details on security, and plan-by-plan gates on pricing.
Related reading: AI agents for startups, an AI investor CRM and fundraising tracker, and a free Notion alternative.