More Projects.
Less Hiring.
Vertically is an AI Project Manager that runs your projects over email — coordinating tasks, updating the board, and chasing stakeholders 24/7, in every timezone. Execute the backlog you never had bandwidth for, without adding headcount.
Marco
Picking up the billing webhook work — should be in review by Thursday.
Priya
Auth hardening is done, tests green, merged to main. Closing it out.
Dana
Blocked on the launch page until legal signs off on the copy.
In progress
Billing webhook
Blocked
Launch page
Done
Auth hardening
Your projects don't fail for lack of ideas. They fail for lack of bandwidth.
Project management is repetitive, structured, and relentless — and it all funnels through a handful of overloaded people.
PMs are the bottleneck
Every project needs hours of schedule updates, board grooming, and stakeholder chasing. There simply aren't enough hours in the day.
The backlog never ships
Because coordination capacity is capped, projects pile up in the backlog and never get started — let alone finished.
Hiring doesn't scale
More project managers means more cost and slower onboarding. Capacity grows linearly while your ambitions grow exponentially.
A project manager that runs on the channel you already use
No migration, no onboarding marathon. Vertically meets your team inside their inbox.
People just send email
Contributors reply in plain language and CC the project inbox. No app to open, no status codes, no new tool to learn.
Vertically reads intent
The AI PM interprets what was said — “done”, “blocked”, “slipping to Friday” — and a deterministic engine applies the change safely.
The board updates itself
Cards move, dates recalculate, risks escalate, and leadership sees an always-accurate dashboard — with zero data entry.
See it work
Send an email. Watch the board update itself.
Pick a real-world message on the left. Vertically parses the intent and applies the change on the right — exactly how your team would use it.
Billing webhook retries
Data residency review
Auth service hardening
Q3 launch landing page
A demonstration. The LLM only parses intent — a deterministic rules engine applies every board change.
Most people can't tell it isn't a human project manager
That's why we built Vertically around email — the channel where tone and timing matter most. It corresponds like the best PM you've ever worked with: responsive, organized, and unfailingly on top of every detail.
- Always available — replies in minutes, not days
- Calm, polite, and professional, every single time
- Never forgets a follow-up or drops a thread
- Speaks each teammate's language, in their timezone
Hey, any chance the API work lands before the Friday demo?
You · 9:41 AM
Thanks for flagging this. I just checked with Marco — the endpoint is in review and on track for Thursday, so we'll have buffer before the demo. I'll confirm once it's merged and update the board.
Vertically · 9:43 AM
A real example of how Vertically corresponds.
Everything a great project manager does — running continuously
Natural-language understanding on the front, deterministic guardrails on the back.
No new tool to learn
Runs entirely over email
Vertically works through the channel your team already lives in. People reply to emails in plain language — “done, shipping Thursday”, “blocked on legal” — and the AI PM interprets intent and updates the board. No app to adopt, no logins to chase.
A PM that never sleeps
Coordinates 24/7, in every timezone
Distributed teams stall waiting for the next sync. Vertically runs around the clock, following up the moment a dependency slips — in the contributor's own language — so work moves while your team is offline.
Critical-path awareness
Escalates before deadlines slip
Vertically maps dependencies with critical-path logic. When an upstream task falls behind, it gathers context and raises a clear, professional escalation to the right stakeholder — before the deadline is already missed.
Always-current source of truth
Keeps the Kanban board accurate
The board updates itself from the conversation. Cards move, statuses change, owners get reassigned — all derived from real messages, so leadership sees an accurate picture without anyone doing data entry.
Calendar-aware planning
Schedules against real capacity
Vertically integrates with Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 to read availability and leave, then schedules milestones against genuine capacity — and recalculates target dates across the plan when things shift.
Programmatic access
Build on the Vertically API
A REST API gives your tools and automations direct access to projects, boards, and tasks. Wire Vertically into your own stack or build internal workflows on top of it — and every write still passes through the same deterministic rules engine, so an API call is as safe and auditable as an email. Available on the Enterprise plan.
Model Context Protocol
Connect your AI agents over MCP
Vertically ships a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, so AI assistants and agents — like Claude — can read live project state and request changes in context. Vertically becomes the governed source of truth your agents work from, with the rules engine executing every change they propose. Available on the Enterprise plan.
No hallucinated changes
Deterministic guardrails
The model only reads intent and drafts messages. Every state change is executed by a deterministic rules engine with strict validation — decoupled from the LLM — so the board is never mutated by a hallucination.
Works with the systems your team already runs on
Vertically connects to Jira, GitHub, and Azure DevOps over webhooks — so the AI project manager coordinates inside your existing stack instead of replacing it.
Jira
Connect your Jira issues and boards. Changes in Jira flow into Vertically through webhooks, so the AI project manager always works from the latest state.
GitHub
Tie tasks to pull requests and issues. Merges, reviews, and status changes flow into Vertically automatically through GitHub webhooks.
Azure DevOps
Connect Azure Boards work items and pipelines. Vertically ingests Azure DevOps service hooks to stay in sync with your delivery workflow.
Real-time webhooks
React to changes the moment they happen — no polling, no lag.
Data integration
Updates flow from your systems into Vertically, so everything stays consistent.
No rip-and-replace
Keep the tools you have. Vertically layers coordination on top.
The economics of project work are shifting
Independent research points to the same conclusion: coordination work is ready to be automated.
average annual cost of project management overhead per knowledge worker team
Industry analysis of PM tooling and admin time
of project work can be automated with AI, per McKinsey research on generative AI in operations
McKinsey & Company
80% of project management tasks will be run by AI, powered by big data and machine learning
Gartner
Figures summarize publicly reported analyst projections and research on AI in project and operations management.
Priced per project, not per seat
Add project capacity as you need it. Invite the whole team — you only pay for the projects you run.
Free
Run your first project with an AI PM at no cost.
Join waitlist- 1 active project
- 1 AI agent
- Unlimited email contributors
- 5 GB memory
- 100K tokens / month
- Email support
Team
For growing teams running projects in parallel.
Join waitlist- 5 active projects
- 5 AI agents
- Unlimited email contributors
- 25 GB memory
- 1M tokens / month
- Email support
Enterprise
Scale project capacity across the whole org.
Talk to us- Up to 100 active projects
- Up to 100 AI agents
- Unlimited email contributors
- 100 GB memory
- 100M tokens / month
- API & MCP access
- Premium support
- Outlook calendar integration
- SSO & advanced security options
Frequently asked questions
Everything teams ask before they switch on an AI project manager.
Vertically AI is an autonomous AI Project Manager that runs your projects over email. It coordinates tasks, keeps the Kanban board accurate, follows up with stakeholders, and escalates risks — 24/7, across timezones and languages — so your team can execute more projects without hiring more project managers.
No. Vertically scales the capacity of your existing project managers and raises project success rates without increasing headcount. It handles the repetitive coordination work — status updates, board grooming, follow-ups — so your people can focus on judgment, strategy, and the projects that were stuck in the backlog.
Email is the universal corporate channel — everyone already uses it, in every company and timezone. By working over email, Vertically requires zero behavioral change and no new tool to learn. Most people can't even tell they're corresponding with an AI rather than a human PM.
Almost none. There's no heavy data import or migration. You point Vertically at a project, and contributors simply CC a project email address. The board builds itself from the conversation, so there's very little data entry for your team.
Vertically is priced per active project, not per seat — contributors join for free over email, so you're never taxed for collaboration. There's a free tier for your first project, a $50/month Team plan for running several projects in parallel, and custom Enterprise pricing for running project capacity across a whole organization. API and MCP access is available on the Enterprise plan.
Yes. Vertically operates 24/7 across timezones and communicates with each contributor in their own language, making it well suited to distributed and international teams.
The language model only interprets intent and drafts messages. Every change to the board is executed by a separate deterministic rules engine with strict validation. This decoupling means the board is never modified by a hallucination.
Yes. Vertically is built around GDPR, ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2 Type II, and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, with strict tenant data isolation and auditable, deterministic controls.
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