Progress, mapped
Days that compound.
Your work is scattered across chats, notes, and boards. Orient puts it all on one canvas that tracks progress on its own, shared with your team and your AI.
In closed beta. Free plan at launch, no credit card.
The same tasks in four views. A small team and an AI agent at work.
Finish a task and every level above it updates automatically.
One look at the canvas tells you where the project stands, what changed, and what to do next.
From the big picture to today’s focus.
Goals, roadmaps, and dependencies at the top. Work moving along, week by week, in the middle. What you’re doing today at the bottom. Work, personal projects, hobbies, life: one canvas holds every level of it, so you stay oriented, and wake up oriented.
The big picture
Goals, roadmaps, timelines, and what depends on what. Where it is all going, on one screen.
Delivery, in your rhythm
Sprints, weeks, whatever rhythm you work in. Tasks move across the board, and progress adds up as they do.
Today’s focus
Your day, your time blocks, your next thing. The same canvas, zoomed to the work in front of you.
Real work carries more than tasks.
Your notes, files, deadlines, and decisions usually live in five different apps, and every morning starts with working out where you stopped. In Orient, everything attaches to the task it belongs to. Open any card to see how it works.
The canvas
A to-do list cannot show the structure of a real project. On the canvas, your goal sits at the center and the work branches out from it, with progress updating automatically. However big it gets, you can still see all of it at once.
Time
Plans are usually drawn as straight lines, but no real week goes in a straight line. Orient gives you roadmaps in whatever rhythm your team plans in, and a calendar that shows your real week. Nothing punishes you when plans change.
Everything in one place
You create documents, presentations, boards, and files right on the task they belong to, instead of pasting them in from other apps. One copy of everything, always up to date, always where you would look first.
Working together
The plan, the status update, and the report are usually three different documents, all slightly out of date. In Orient they are the same canvas. People and AI agents keep it up to date just by doing the work.
Your AI is a member, not a plugin.
- Enroll an AI agent like a teammate: its own key, limited to what you allow, approved in the app, removed in one click.
- It can do everything you can do on the canvas, through the API and MCP, and it follows the same access rules you set for people.
- It works on its tasks while you’re away, and you see the progress on the canvas when you come back. No status update needed.
Every good idea about getting things done. One canvas.
The checklist got tasks out of your head. The Gantt chart put plans on a timeline. The kanban board showed work in motion. The mind map made thinking visible. Generations of teams proved each one works. Orient puts them all on one canvas, with live progress tracking on top.
Questions, answered.
- Is Orient another to-do list?
- No. Orient is a mind-map project management tool: your work is laid out visually on a canvas, every task tracks its own progress, and finished work updates everything above it. One look answers “where are we?” without a status meeting.
- Does it work for small personal things?
- Yes. One free area holds thousands of nodes: a trip, a study plan, a renovation, a job hunt. No credit card, no trial period, no expiry.
- How do teams use Orient?
- A shared workspace is both the plan and the status report. Everyone works on their own tasks, progress adds up automatically, and each area has its own access level, from open to confidential.
- Can my AI work in Orient?
- Yes, as a member, not a plugin. Enroll your AI with its own key, limited to what you allow and approved in the app. It can do everything you can do on screen, under the same access rules.
- What happens to my data?
- It stays yours. Export everything anytime, from your profile or the command line: one zip with every map and item, their notes and recorded history, your documents, diagrams and presentations, and your uploaded files. Every change is kept as history, so your workspace is a record, not a snapshot. And access is granular: each area carries its own level, from open to confidential.
- When does Orient open to everyone?
- Orient is in closed beta. There is no public date yet — leave your email and we will tell you the moment it opens.
We’re in closed beta.
Orient is in closed beta testing. Leave your email and we’ll let you know the moment it opens to everyone.
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Ideas
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Every plan is drawn as a line and every project refuses to follow one. The gap is not a discipline problem; it is the best-documented fact in the psychology of getting things done.
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Commanders solved delegation two centuries ago: state the intent, hold the map, delegate the method. AI finally makes it everyone's problem, and everyone's opportunity.
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Every tool makes adding easier, so lives fill to overflow. Selectivity is what compounds, and only someone who can see the whole can safely choose to do less.
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