Plan the work.The board moves it.

Kanbit is a board that watches the real work and advances the cards itself — no dragging, no cleanup, no “where are we?” The only thing it ever asks of you is one word: go.

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watching the work…

Most boards are a drawing of the work.
This one is the work.

Ordinary boards go stale the moment everyone looks away — then somebody spends Monday morning dragging cards around to make it honest again. Kanbit watches the work itself. Cards advance when real progress lands, come back when something needs another pass, and never need a cleanup meeting.

always currentno nagging teammatesno Monday cleanupit just moves

The life of a card

PLAY — IT MOVES ITSELF
01 — Plan

Say what you want.

Write the idea on a card. Agree on what “done” looks like — including how you’ll know it works. That’s your whole job for a while.

02 — Do the work

Now watch it move.

The team gets to work. As real progress lands, the card slides forward on its own — nobody drags it, nobody asks “where are we?”

03 — Check

It proves itself.

Every promise made in planning gets checked — automatically. A card can’t sneak past this lane by quietly dropping the hard part.

04 — Review

A teammate takes a look.

Fresh eyes on the work. A thumbs-up sends it forward; “one more pass” sends it back — politely, and with the reason attached.

05 — The one pause

It waits for your word.

Exactly one moment belongs to a human: the final go. Nothing irreversible happens until you say so — and everything before it never needed you at all.

06 — Done

Out the door.

It’s live. The card files itself away, the board stays spotless, and you’re already planning the next one.

PLAN
DO
CHECK
REVIEW
YOUR WORD
DONE
#142CSV export
spec 3/4
⋖ feat/142-csv
checks · running
DVlooks good ✓
waiting on you
✓ live — filed away
Ship it →
ONE ENGINE

It moves code. It moves anything.

Lanes aren’t hardcoded — they’re a state machine you shape. Dev frameworks ship first, but the same engine runs a purchase order, a new hire, or a campaign. Name your stages, set what moves a card between them, and the board takes it from there.

Backlog
#176Webhook retries
Planning
#171Email digestsspec 3/4
In progress
#169Mobile navfeat/169
Validate
#168Faster searchchecks running
In review
#164Audit trail1 reviewer
Ship
#166Dark modewaiting on you
your word
Done
#160Invite flowshipped

SPEC-DRIVEN — what you promise in planning gets checked before anything ships. one human word between done and live.

THE ONE PAUSE

Automate the routine.
Keep the human where it counts.

Everything that can be checked, gets checked — by the board, not by you. The one step you can’t take back always waits for a person. It’s the same idea whether the card is shipping a release, releasing a payment, or sending an offer.

waiting on you · ship release #142?Go →
irreversible step · everything before it ran on its own

What that buys you

No new rituals. No board babysitting. Just the parts of the work that actually need a person.

all day, every day
Status meetings, cancelled.

The board is the truth — not a hopeful sketch of it. “Where are we?” becomes a glance, not a calendar invite.

MONTUEWEDTHUFRI
honesty, automated
Nothing slips quietly.

If work stalls or needs another pass, the card comes back on its own — and says why, out loud. No archaeology required.

#138 · needs sign-off
← needs another pass
the only interruption
One confirm. Zero surprises.

Everything routine happens by itself. The one step you can’t take back always waits for a human— and it glows so you can’t miss it.

waiting on you: go?
your team, your rules
Your process, your lanes.

Tight two-person flow or a careful step-by-step approval chain — shape the board around the way you already work, not the other way around.

ON THE ROADMAP

Next, it does the work with you.

Kanbit is built so an agent is just another teammate on the board — it can pick up a card, draft the work, and move it down the lanes like anyone else. The rule never changes: it proposes, you still say the word. Same lanes, same checks, same one human go.

not yet shipped · the board is already shaped for it
In progress
Your word
Kanbit agent#171Email digestsdrafted · tests green
Approve →

Plan it.
It moves.

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