Shortcut Software Co., a provider of simple project management tools for product development teams, today debuted Korey, an artificial intelligence project manager that orchestrates everything from planning to coordination of software projects.

The company said Korey acts as a full-fledged member of the product team by turning ideas into structured, build-ready plans that teams can act on immediately. The AI assistant develops detailed specifications with clear goals and acceptance criteria, breaks work into tasks, tracks dependencies and summarizes progress.

“Korey is the next step in our mission to help teams build without the drag of unnecessary complexity and overhead,” co-founder and Chief Executive Kurt Schrader said in a statement.

Schrader explained that Korey allows teams to focus on what matters most, the actual work, by staying out of the way and automating the busywork of planning and tracking operations.

Key features of the AI assistant include taking teams from idea to plan, then providing real-time visibility into project health as work progresses. That includes insights into blockers, drawn from the context of code, user-submitted tickets and communication.

Schrader told SiliconANGLE that Korey centers on how a company’s team operates and what work is in progress, then uses that context to inform its actions. “Korey specs out, coordinates, and tracks the work that’s being done, and continues to learn more and more about how you and your company operates as you use it more and more,” he added.

The AI assistant collaborates with teams to help users decide how to delegate work among developers, engineers, designers and even AI agents.

Currently, a human remains part of every handoff decision, but Shortcut is building Korey to be a trusted partner that will eventually automate assignments once it understands company policy and workflow.

“AI-driven project orchestration is redefining how teams move from idea to execution,” said Paul Nashawaty, practice lead and principal analyst at theCUBE Research. “Organizations that embed contextual intelligence into their product management and DevOps workflows see a 40% reduction in planning cycle times and are 2.3 times more likely to deliver features on schedule.”

Korey pulls its context from projects, comments, GitHub activity and other connected tools to provide accurate and complete plans and tasks. All of Korey’s context is limited to tools that a team explicitly connects, and conversations remain private within the organization, with additional fine-grained access controls planned.

According to Schrader, Korey is currently focused on project management, but the company plans to expand integrations to other platforms, including Atlassian Corp. Plc’s Jira, Asana Inc., Monday.com Ltd. and Linear Orbit Inc. Shortcut is also developing sub-agents that will pull information from knowledge bases such as Notion Labs Inc. and Atlassian’s Confluence, as well as support tools like Zendesk Inc. and Intercom Inc.

“Going from idea to spec to engineering tasks to hand off to coding agents/humans to pull requests to deployed features in record time is the ultimate goal,” Schrader said.

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