kanNINJA for small teams
A board your team will actually use.
Real-time presence, AI suggestions, honest analytics. Built for teams of two to twenty — without the enterprise weight.
Most kanban tools were either built for one person or scaled past you to enterprise. kanNINJA is built for the team in between — the duo, the squad, the small product or ops team where every seat is doing real work. The features feel ready on day one, and they stay sharp at thirty seats.
Sample board
A board for a small product team.
Backlog
- Onboarding redesign — research
- Billing page accessibility audit
- Push notifications — investigate
- New customer testimonial collection
In progress
- Ship dark mode (Maya)
- Customer interview synthesis (Theo)
- Pricing page A/B test (Jules)
In review
- Auth refactor — code review
- New onboarding email — copy review
Done
- Stripe webhook fix
- Quarterly retro doc
- Customer support macro updates
A real board, not a screenshot. Yours will look different — that’s the point.
How it earns its place
What small teams actually use it for.
A clan per team.
Three roles, no more — owner, member, viewer. Stop fighting the permission tree. The team you invite gets the access they need without a meeting about it.
Real-time presence on every card.
When a teammate opens the card you're on, you see their avatar. When they move it, you see it move. The 'who is editing this' question disappears.
Comments and mentions that stay with the work.
Discussion lives on the card. @mention pulls a teammate in. The conversation does not get lost in Slack three weeks later.
Honest analytics.
Burndown, velocity, cycle time. Not because it is a leaderboard — because it is the slope, and the slope tells you the truth.
AI as a quiet second pair of eyes.
Twelve techniques (gated to Pro). The AI suggests next steps, breaks down work, drafts standups. Your team accepts or ignores. No takeover.
MCP server for your AI agents.
Wire kanNINJA into Claude, Cursor, or any agent that speaks MCP. Fifteen tools. The board moves from inside the agent your team already uses.
Also from your chat
For small teams, in any chat.
Open Claude or ChatGPT, ask in plain language, kanNINJA does the rest. The same board, the same kata, the same clan — driven from the chat you already use.
See how it worksReal questions
What small teams ask.
- How big can the team get before kanNINJA stops fitting?
- It is sharpest from 2 to 30 seats. Beyond 50, you may need cross-board portfolio views that we do not have yet.
- Can I have multiple boards per team?
- Yes. Most teams run 2 to 5 active boards — a roadmap board, a sprint board, a bugs board. Boards are cheap; make as many as fit your work.
- How does it handle permissions?
- Three roles per board: owner, member, viewer. Owners can invite and configure; members can move cards and comment; viewers see but cannot edit. Most teams never need more.
- How is this different from Linear or Asana for a team?
- Linear is opinionated about engineering workflow. Asana is opinionated about portfolio management. kanNINJA is opinionated about the kanban itself — restraint and craft as the design.
- How much for a 5-person team?
- Free until the AI is needed. The Pro tier is $8 per user per month — about $40 a month for a team of five. Two months free if you pay yearly.
