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Notes on speed as respect, bringing your own agent, and refusing the AI-era pivot. From the team building Radial.
Radial vs Shortcut: same BYO-agent thesis, a price that never moves
An honest guide to Shortcut alternatives in 2026. Where Shortcut is genuinely strong, why its agent story is already good, and the one thing a tracker building its own AI PM cannot promise you: a flat locked price and a binding no-meter pledge.
Graduating from Trello: when a board needs to become a system
An honest guide to Trello alternatives in 2026. Where Trello still fits, why engineering teams outgrow the board, and the case for a fast issue tracker at one flat locked price, agents ride free.
monday makes you pre-buy AI credits. We sell one flat number.
An honest guide to monday.com alternatives in 2026: what monday is good at, when to leave, and why a dev team that just wants a fast tracker should skip the AI credit meter for one flat locked price, agents ride free.
ClickUp wants to be everything. Radial does one thing.
An honest guide to ClickUp alternatives in 2026. Where the everything-app fits, why engineering teams outgrow it, and the case for a fast tracker that does one job at one flat locked price, no AI meter.
Project management for startups, without the bloat
The best project management tool for a startup is the fastest one that does one thing well. Here is the lean version: a keyboard-first tracker you script from the terminal, one flat locked price that does not climb as you grow, and agents that ride free.
Migrating from Linear to Radial in one command
How to move off Linear to Radial: export your workspace, dry-run radial import --from linear, then bring issues, projects, labels, comments, and history across in a single run. Plus what changes, and what stays the same.
Migrating off Jira with one command: radial import --from jira
A practical guide to migrating from Jira to Radial. Export your project, dry-run radial import --from jira, then bring issues, projects, labels, comments, and history across in a single run.
Notion is a doc with an AI button. A tracker should stay a tracker.
An honest guide to Notion alternatives in 2026: where Notion fits, the real options for notes and wikis, and why an engineering team tracking issues in Notion should move to a dedicated tracker, one flat locked price, no AI meter.
The best Jira alternative depends on what made you leave
An honest guide to Jira alternatives in 2026: Linear, Plane, GitHub Issues, ClickUp, and where each fits. Then the lane none of them sit in, a fast tracker with one flat locked price and no AI meter.
Linear vs Jira, and the third option neither names
An honest Linear vs Jira comparison: Linear wins on speed and developer experience, Jira wins on enterprise breadth and customization. Then the question both leave open: why does the price keep moving, and where is the meter?
Radial vs Linear: same speed, no meter, one locked price
Linear is the best tracker of the AI era, and its agents already ride free. Radial is the one that refused the meter: one flat locked price, a first-class CLI, and a binding pledge against AI you didn't ask for.