Shortcut
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2014
- Employees
- 51-200
- Offices
- 1
About Shortcut
Shortcut develops cloud-based project management software for engineering and product development teams. Its platform brings Agile planning, issue tracking, product documentation and team collaboration into a shared workspace. It serves software businesses and enterprise development teams that need to connect product priorities with day-to-day engineering work.
The platform organises work through Stories, which represent features, bugs or chores; Epics, which group related stories; and Iterations for sprint planning. Roadmaps, milestones and Objectives connect delivery tasks with broader product goals. Teams can use Scrum or Kanban workflows and filtered views called Spaces to organise work across different responsibilities and projects.
Connected planning and development
Shortcut Docs embeds collaborative documentation into project workflows, connecting specifications and planning material with engineering stories. Integrations with GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket link project tracking with version control activity, while connections to tools such as Slack, Figma and Sentry support collaboration across development and product teams. REST APIs and webhooks allow teams to build custom reporting, extract workspace data and automate interactions with the platform.
The company's AI tools extend this approach to automated planning and coordination. Introduced in 2025, Korey is an AI Product Manager designed to help teams scope issues, generate technical specifications, break work into tasks, draft pull requests and summarise sprint progress. Shortcut's Model Context Protocol server connects workspaces with external development agents, including Cursor and Claude Code.
Company development
Founded in New York City in 2014, the company publicly launched its platform in 2016 under the Clubhouse name. It adopted the Shortcut name in September 2021 following confusion with the unrelated social audio application. Shortcut Docs followed in July 2022, expanding the platform beyond task tracking into integrated product documentation.
Shortcut offers its software through cloud subscriptions, including a free tier and paid Team, Business and Enterprise plans. Its product combines structured engineering workflows with tools intended to make planning and collaboration accessible to both technical and non-technical contributors.
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Leadership
- Kurt Schrader is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer; Andrew Childs is the other Co-Founder.
- The report identifies Shannjit Singh as VP Finance, Jordan LaCount as Head of Product, Devin Riker as VP Customer Experience, and Daniel Gregoire as Head of Engineering.
Working model and recognition
Shortcut operates as a remote-first company with employees distributed across the United States and internationally. Shortcut Software Company holds Great Place to Work certification; the report does not specify a certification year.
Financing
The company secured a $10 million Series A led by Battery Ventures in December 2017 and a $25 million Series B led by Greylock Partners in January 2020. Other reported investors include Resolute Ventures, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, RRE Ventures, Maiden Lane and Irregular Expressions.
Origins of the product
The founders developed the platform in response to their experience with cumbersome project management software, particularly Jira. They sought to combine structured Agile development with an interface accessible to non-technical collaborators.
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Where Shortcut is based
- New York, United States
New York offices
HeadquartersAbout this office
**New York Headquarters** Status: active Headquarters Address: 201 Allen St, Unit #10004, New York, NY 10002, United States Phone: +1 917-342-2710 Corporate headquarters and principal executive and legal notice office for a remote-first company. --- **Office** Status: inactive / historical Address: 79 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10016, United States Historical registered address and original company office identified in the report. The date this association ended is not supplied.
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