CIOPages
For vendorsCorrections to your listing are free
Fix an error, free List a company, free Order a Spotlight listingAbout Spotlight listings
DirectoryEnterprise ApplicationsProject & Portfolio ManagementShortcut

Shortcut

About Shortcut

Shortcut is a project management platform for software teams and their AI agents. The platform includes issue tracking, sprints, and roadmaps. It tracks work performed by people or by agents from idea to release. It maps projects across teams and shares target dates and health status. It connects individual projects to company objectives. It integrates with other tools used in software workflows.

Products

  • Shortcut for Agents: A feature for working with AI to scope tasks, write PRs, and track progress in Shortcut.
  • Shortcut MCP Server: Connects Shortcut to tools like Cursor and Claude Code to get agents coding and synced to GitHub.
  • Sprints: Allows prioritizing and tracking weekly work using Iterations.
  • Work In Progress Limits: Sets story limits in each workflow state to prevent work from piling up.
  • Custom Fields: Lets teams establish a structured process using custom fields.

Used for

  • Tracking work from early idea to release
  • Mapping out projects across teams
  • Creating goals and connecting projects to company objectives
  • Prioritizing and tracking weekly work with Iterations
  • Scoping tasks and writing PRs with AI

Who it is for

  • For Engineering teams.
  • For Product teams.
  • For Leadership.
  • For Design teams.

From Shortcut's own website, read 2026-10-24. How we build listings.

How to evaluate Project & Portfolio Management

This is how the CIOPages Research Team evaluates this category. It is not an assessment of Shortcut. It comes from our Project & Portfolio Management (PPM / SPM) buyer guide.

25%
Portfolio Governance & Strategic Alignment
Idea and demand intake, stage-gate or continuous funding, scenario and what-if planning, prioritization scoring, OKR/strategy linkage, roadmaps, and executive portfolio dashboards that tie investment to outcomes
25%
Resource & Capacity Management
Role- and skill-based capacity planning, demand-vs-supply balancing, allocation and utilization, time tracking, named-resource and team-level views, and the perennial test: can it tell you what you can actually deliver next quarter?
20%
Delivery-Model Fit (Agile + Traditional)
Native support for waterfall, agile, and hybrid in one portfolio; two-way sync to delivery tools (Jira, Azure DevOps); Lean Portfolio Management and value-stream/persistent-team funding, not just temporary projects
15%
Adoption & Everyday Usability
Time-to-update for an individual contributor, mobile and notification UX, configurability without consultants, and whether teams will keep it current rather than maintain a shadow plan in spreadsheets
10%
Financial Management
Project and portfolio budgeting, forecast vs. actuals, capex/opex and capitalization, cost/benefit and ROI modeling, chargeback, and integration to ERP and corporate financial planning
5%
Integration, Extensibility & AI
Connectors to ERP/HCM/agile/BI, open REST APIs and webhooks, SSO/SCIM, configurable workflow and automation, and practical AI (status roll-up summaries, predictive delivery risk, scenario assistance) over demo-only features

CIOPages put this listing together from public sources. It’s information, not an endorsement. How we build listings. Work here? Claim this listing or .

Quick Facts

shortcut.com Pricing page
CategoryEnterprise Applications
SubcategoryProject & Portfolio Management

We publish a detail only when we can point at the page it came from. Know when Shortcut was founded or where it is based? Send it to us, free.

Keep reading

Buyer Guide
Project & Portfolio Management (PPM / SPM)
Checklist
Technical Debt Assessment Checklist

Identify and prioritize technical debt across your technology portfolio.

Worksheet
Project Charter Worksheet

Answer guided questions and download a complete, formatted Project Charter document.