Linear

Linear is a product development system for teams and AI agents. It brings intake, issues, projects, initiatives, cycles, product documentation, releases, code reviews, analytics, and agent workflows into one workspace. Teams can turn customer conversations into prioritized work, plan from strategy to launch, collaborate on code, and delegate selected issues to agents while retaining workspace permissions and human review.

✨ Key Features

• Issues and workflows — Track bugs, features, requests, and follow-up work through team-specific statuses, priorities, labels, and assignments.
• Projects and initiatives — Connect deliverables to milestones, roadmaps, strategic goals, and high-level initiatives.
• Cycles — Plan time-boxed recurring work periods, measure delivery, and automatically roll unfinished work according to team rules.
• Release management — Model release pipelines by product and environment and track deployment status across issues.
• Code review and diffs — Review structural changes, discuss pull requests, and keep code and issue context connected.
• Linear Agent — Ask questions about workspace data, summarize work, create or update issues and projects, and act within existing permissions.
• AI and agent workflows — Build or connect agents, delegate issues end-to-end, use MCP, and run coding sessions that can set up, run, and test code.
• Loops and automations — Automate recurring work and routine project or issue updates.
• Analytics and reporting — Use project updates, progress reports, insights, dashboards, and data-warehouse sync to understand delivery.
• Integrations and imports — Connect tools such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zendesk, Intercom, GitHub, and other systems; import through assistants or CLI.

💳 Pricing

• Free — $0; unlimited members, 2 teams, 250 issues, Agent platform, and Linear Agent.
• Basic — $10/user/month billed yearly; adds 5 teams, unlimited issues, unlimited file uploads, and admin roles. Monthly billing is also available according to Linear’s billing documentation.
• Business — $16/user/month billed yearly; adds unlimited teams, private teams and guests, Triage Intelligence, Loops, Code Intelligence, Linear Insights, Linear Asks, and Zendesk/Intercom integrations.
• Enterprise — Custom annual pricing; adds invoice/PO billing, SAML/SCIM, granular administration, enterprise security, advanced organization modeling, migration/onboarding support, priority support, and account management.
• AI credits — Some AI features require additional AI credits; confirm current usage pricing and included allowances.

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🎯 Use Cases

• Product roadmaps — Organize initiatives, projects, milestones, and requirements from strategy to launch.
• Engineering backlogs — Prioritize bugs and features, assign owners, and move work through team workflows.
• Sprint-style planning — Use recurring cycles to focus near-term work and review delivery.
• Customer feedback intake — Convert conversations and requests into actionable, triaged issues.
• Release coordination — Track versions, pipelines, environments, and the issues included in a release.
• AI-assisted execution — Let Linear Agent summarize context, draft updates, create issues, or delegate tasks to agents.
• Code collaboration — Connect issues, coding sessions, diffs, reviews, and deployment status.
• Cross-team visibility — Use dashboards, updates, views, and initiatives to align product, design, engineering, and leadership.
• Recurring operations — Use Loops and automations for routine work and follow-up.

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