About
Dart builds an AI-native project-management platform for entrepreneurs, business leaders, and teams. It combines task, roadmap, calendar, document, and meeting-note workflows with AI chat and customizable agents; unlike conventional tools that add AI features later, Dart makes AI central to the product experience.
Market
Dart competes in cloud project-management and work-management SaaS, combining tasks, roadmaps, sprints, dashboards, reporting, and workflow automation in one workspace. It positions itself as an AI-native alternative by embedding generative AI throughout brainstorming, planning, task execution, and result summarization, while its broad integrations and developer tooling extend the product across existing work systems.
Dart’s primary customer profile is tech startups and small-to-mid-sized teams, especially product and engineering, marketing and content, consulting, and freelance organizations. The main buyer/user persona is the founder, team lead, or functional operator responsible for coordinating projects and workflows; Dart also positions the product for larger organizations.
At a Glance
Problem
Dart addresses the administrative drag and coordination failures built into conventional project management: tasks fall through the cracks, team members lack clarity about what to work on, and project-management work can consume more time than the projects themselves. The pain is especially acute for small teams, founders, and product builders, where every hour spent updating tickets, decomposing work, or preparing status reports is an hour not spent talking to customers or building the product. Dart’s central use case is turning a loosely defined objective into an actionable project plan while reducing the ongoing management overhead.
Product / Service
Dart is a fully featured, AI-native project- and task-management application delivered as a freemium software product. Users can chat with AI to create projects, tasks, subtasks, timelines, specifications, and reports, while customizable agents can perform work across functions such as marketing, design, sales, and coding. Its conventional PM layer includes task lists and boards, sprints, roadmaps, Gantt charts, calendars, due dates, and notifications; AI automates property filling, subtask generation, roadmap planning, reporting, and task execution. Integrations with tools such as GitHub, Slack, Discord, ChatGPT, Claude, and Zapier let teams connect Dart to their existing workflow. A free Personal tier supports up to four teammates, while Premium is priced at $8 per teammate per month, making the product accessible to startups and small teams while providing a path to paid expansion.
Market
Dart competes in project-management and productivity software, positioning itself as an AI-native alternative to established tools such as Asana, ClickUp, Linear, Trello, Jira, and related work-management platforms. Its differentiation is not merely adding an AI assistant to a conventional task tracker, but making conversation, autonomous agents, project planning, and execution central to the product. The category is crowded, but Dart’s focus on reducing the management layer and its broad integrations target teams that want one workspace for planning and execution.
The evidence indicates that Dart is a live commercial product rather than pre-revenue. Founded in 2022, it is listed by Y Combinator as a San Francisco company founded by Milad Malek and Zack Swafford, and the company says it is used by fast-growing startups, SMEs, law firms, and business consultancies. Dart’s product launched on Product Hunt on September 20, 2025 and was ranked number one for the day; a third-party report also estimated $2.4 million in 2025 revenue, though that figure is not presented as company-reported financial data.
Founders & Leadership
Funding History
Y Combinator
Recent News
Dart describes Dart AI as the workspace’s built-in intelligence for tasks, chat, and more. The system powers features including AI chat, AI skills, and slash commands.
An independent review describes Dart as an AI project-management tool focused on automated tasks, content creation, and AI-powered planning.
Dart added official integrations for OpenClaw, Hermes, Manus, Claude, Codex, and other AI agents. The release also introduced web search in AI chat and expanded agent and workflow capabilities.
Dart’s v7.9 release focused on board performance and usability, updates to AI agents, and improved date-layout filtering.
Dart launched a dedicated AI-agents landing page, improved agent and webhook management, added image generation in AI chat, and upgraded related interface capabilities.
Dart elevated agents to the main navigation and added an official GitHub Copilot integration. The release also added agent configuration controls and improved AI-generated media capabilities.
Dart added support for Anthropic Claude chat models and a model switcher, integrated AI chat into the Command Center, and introduced in-text AI editing, summarization, and expansion.
Dart’s email integration lets users create tasks from forwarded emails, add comments to existing tasks, receive notifications, and manage support or CRM workflows through email.
Dart launched AI Chat and Agents on Y Combinator’s Launch YC and Product Hunt. Its AI-native project-management approach uses chat to create and manage projects while built-in or third-party agents handle work across roles.
Dart introduced its MCP capability for connecting with tools such as Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code. The integration supports task automation, document collaboration, project synchronization, and multiple MCP-client connections.
Active Roles
2Business Model
Dart uses a freemium, per-teammate SaaS model: Personal is free for up to four teammates, while Premium costs $8 and Business costs $12 per teammate per month, with paid tiers adding advanced AI, collaboration, security, analytics, integrations, and support.