Use cases
A board built for
the work you actually do.
Zergboard is intentionally narrow — it's a board, not a platform. That makes it terrifyingly good for four kinds of teams.
01 · Engineering teams
Cut your standup in half. Or skip it.
Your CI is already telling the truth about what shipped. Your error tracker already knows what broke. Your Slack already has the conversation. Why is anyone hand-updating tickets?
Zergboard's API-first architecture means every system that already knows what's happening can update the board automatically. The board becomes a snapshot, not a chore.
Auto-create cards
Sentry / Datadog / Pagerduty webhooks → instant triage cards with the right labels.
Auto-move on PR merge
GitHub action moves cards to "shipped" when the PR with the card ID merges.
Agent-friendly
Hand a board to Claude or Devin or your own agent — they can read, write, and comment via API.
No sprints unless you want them
Use Zergboard kanban-style or import a sprint template. Both are first-class.
Story · 14-person eng team
"We deleted our daily standup channel. The board became the standup."
"Sentry creates the bug card. The on-call moves it. GitHub closes it. Linear's API was good enough — Zergboard's API is good enough and covers everything in the UI. We don't need a meeting to know what's happening."
Story · 22-person agency
"We bill it back to clients at 2x. They love that they get a real tool."
"Every client has their own Zergboard workspace. They invite their own people. Their data never touches another client's. When the engagement ends, we hand them the workspace — they keep using it without us. Asana made us juggle eleven 'projects' under one bill."
02 · Agencies & consultancies
One login. Every client. Real isolation.
Most "team" PM tools handle multi-client like an afterthought — duplicate workspaces, leaky permissions, billing nightmares. Zergboard's multi-tenant architecture treats it as the primary case.
True data isolation
Row-level scoped per workspace. Guests cannot enumerate or join other workspaces.
Per-workspace billing
Bill clients directly, mark up, or absorb. Each workspace has its own subscription.
Workspace transfer
Engagement over? One-click hand the workspace to the client. They keep their data.
White-label (Business)
Your domain, logo, colors. Optional embed inside a client portal.
03 · Founders & solo
Free until your seed round closes.
Trello is a sticky-note app pretending to be a tool. Linear is built for 50-person engineering teams. You're three people in a Discord. Zergboard's free tier is the same product as Business — just without SSO and audit logs you don't need yet.
Free for 10 users, forever
No "trial expired, please pay" emails. The free tier is a real tier.
Don't migrate when you raise
Add SSO and audit on Team without re-onboarding the team or rebuilding boards.
YC + accelerator perks
Y Combinator, Techstars, Antler, Pioneer, Recurse: 1 year of Team free.
Solo? Use it as a personal tool
Many of our power users are 1-person teams who use it instead of Notion-as-Kanban.
Auto-created from it@company.com via email-to-board
04 · Internal IT & ops
The lightweight ticketing tool you keep meaning to build.
ServiceNow is a six-figure decision. Jira Service Management is half of one. For most internal IT teams, a board with email-in, SLAs, and decent search is the whole job — and that's what Zergboard does.
Email-to-board
Send to workspace@in.zergboard.com → instant card with the email body, sender, and attachments.
SLA timers per label
P1 = 4h. P2 = 24h. Cards turn red when they breach. Auto-escalate to a manager.
Internal-only by default
Not visible outside your SSO domain unless you explicitly invite a guest.
Audit log for compliance
Every state change logged. Exportable to your SIEM. Long retention on Business.
Whatever your team is
Start with a board. Add the rest only if you need to.
Free for teams under ten. Self-host on Business. The product doesn't change with the tier.