Plane

Plane is an AI-native project management platform founded in 2022 by brothers Vamsi Kurama and Vihar Kurama. The software combines projects, docs and AI-powered workflows in a single workspace, positioning itself as an open-core alternative to Jira, Monday, Asana, ClickUp and Linear. Users can run it in the cloud, self-host it, or deploy it in air-gapped environments suited to regulated industries and strict data-residency requirements.

The company reports more than 50,000 teams served and ranks as the number one project management software on GitHub. It describes itself as revenue-positive. Customers span aerospace, defence, healthcare, finance, startups and enterprise.

Plane's stated design principles include flexibility without artificial limits, simple configurations that work out of the box and features packaged to support customer growth. Its stated ambition is to build a unified workbench for knowledge workers - a "WorkOS" of the future. The company is backed by OSS Capital, an investor focused on open-source businesses.

Technical work spans AI-powered workflows, project management software, open-core development and deployment across cloud, self-hosted and air-gapped setups.