Get to know kanman

kanman is your team's own assistant. It lives in your team chat, knows your code and your people, keeps its habits while you are away, and each of you can also talk to it privately. These pages show you, step by step, what it can do and how to make it fit your team.

Start here What kanman is
An example from a team chat

You: Every Friday at 15:00, post what we shipped this week

kanman: Gladly. This is how the habit would look:

New habit

Shipped this week

When
Fridays 15:00
What
Wins from merged work and closed stories
Where
Team chat, nothing on a quiet week
May do
Nothing outside kanman
Budget
From the team budget

Your path into kanman

Six steps from a first look to a kanman that fits your team. Skip what you already know.

  1. 5 minutes What kanman is The five ideas behind kanman and what changes for you.
  2. 1 hour Your first hour Talk to kanman, ask about your team and hand it a first piece of work.
  3. Week one Your first week Answer its questions, follow a story to the merge and let it learn your team.
  4. Ongoing Make it yours with habits Teach kanman what to keep doing. The more it knows, the better it fits.
  5. When you need it Connect your tools Code host, tracker, chat, alerts and wikis, and what kanman may do in each.
  6. Admins and leads For admins and leads Set up teams, members, limits, budgets, plans and your own runners.

Five ideas to know

Everything in kanman builds on these.

kanman

One teammate for the whole team that each of you can also talk to privately. It does the work, says "I" and shows its proof.

Mind

The team's board of outcomes and stories, and its memory: what kanman knows about your code, your conventions and your systems.

Habits

What kanman keeps doing on its own, for the team or just for you: when, what, where, and how far it may go.

Stories

One piece of work with acceptance criteria. kanman plans it, writes it, checks it with your CI and an independent review, and merges it.

Connections

A system kanman reads and acts in, with what it may do there: off, ask first or automatic.

Look it up

Reference

Team settings, the connections catalogue, built-in habits, limits, keyboard shortcuts, MCP tools, the REST API and webhooks.

Security and data

Where your data lives, how work is sandboxed, what model providers see, runner-only workspaces, retention and the DPA.

Your account

Your profile and sign-in, look and feel, notifications, the phone app and accessibility.

Teach kanman one habit today

Pick an idea, paste it into your team's chat and change the words until it fits. Habits are how kanman becomes yours.

Browse habit ideas