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# Meet Plane: The Project Management Platform Built for Teams Who've Outgrown Jira

If your team is stuck in Jira, fighting ClickUp's complexity, or watching Monday.com's per-seat bill climb with every new hire — Plane is worth a serious look. It's an open-source, AI-native project management and knowledge platform that brings issues, docs, and workflows into a single workspace, and it's the platform two Fortune 10 companies chose for their Jira migration.

Cloud, self-hosted, and air-gapped ready. Modern features, without the fight.

## Four Products, One Workspace

Plane isn't just an issue tracker. It ships as four integrated products:

**Projects** handles everything you'd expect from a modern project management tool — work items, epics, cycles, sprints, initiatives, and rollup tracking from team-level work up to org-level goals. Board, Spreadsheet, List, and Gantt views are all available, and switching between them is instant. Real-time dashboards surface cycle velocity, workload, blockers, and scope changes automatically — no manual status reports, no Friday decks.

**Wiki** is documentation built in and tied to the work that created it. Not a separate tool you have to remember to update, but a knowledge base that lives alongside your projects and stays current because it's part of the same workspace.

**Plane AI** is the part that sets it apart from most project management tools with AI bolted on. Plane was built around AI rather than retrofitted for it — agents read across every project, cycle, doc, and thread in your workspace to actually understand context. You can ask it for status on a cycle, what changed in a doc last week, or what's blocking a project, and it answers from real data. Agents can also take real assignments: triaging incoming requests, assigning owners, tracking blockers, and shipping updates automatically. The Slack integration is particularly sharp — @mention Plane in any channel, describe what needs to happen, and Plane creates the work item, assigns it, and syncs the thread back.

**Desk** (coming soon) will bring customer support into the same workspace, turning support requests into trackable work items routed to the right team automatically.

## Migration Without the Pain

Plane has full migration support from Jira, Linear, ClickUp, Asana, and Monday — issues, attachments, comments, and automations. For large organizations, they run a structured three-week migration process: discovery and mapping in week one, parallel running with workflow setup and integrations in week two, and cutover with onboarding in week three. If you've been putting off leaving Jira because migration feels too risky, this is the answer to that objection.

## Built for Developers and Ops Teams

The developer experience is genuinely first-class. **Plane Compose** lets you define projects as YAML, version them in Git, and deploy from your terminal — treating project configuration as the infrastructure it is. There's a REST API with OAuth 2.0, HMAC-signed webhooks, and typed SDKs in Node.js and Python. The native MCP server lets AI agents manage work inside Plane, not just read it. Integrations cover GitHub, GitLab, Slack, Sentry, Figma, and 50+ other tools out of the box.

## Self-Hosted Without Compromise

For teams that need to run their own infrastructure, Plane's self-hosted offering is genuinely complete. Docker for quick setup, Kubernetes with Helm charts for production scale. Bring your own Postgres, Redis, and S3-compatible storage. The Prime CLI handles install, configure, upgrade, backup, and monitoring with single commands. A single admin panel — God Mode — covers SMTP, authentication, SSO, workspace security, and telemetry from one screen. Air-gapped deployments are supported for environments with no internet connectivity.

Security and compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and CCPA out of the box, independently audited and continuously monitored. SSO, SAML, and LDAP across every workspace.

## The Bottom Line

Plane is what modern project management looks like when it's built from scratch for the way software teams actually work — with AI that understands your context, docs that live alongside your work, and an infrastructure story that doesn't force you to choose between modern features and data sovereignty. Whether you're migrating 50 people or 10,000, the platform and the migration support are both there.

One customer put it plainly: *"Modern features, flexible workflows, without sacrificing reporting abilities."*

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Learn more at [federated.computer](https://federated.computer). Want to offer Plane to your customers or partners? Check out [Federated Enterprise](https://enterprise.federated.computer).
