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Projects

A project is a map of its own: phases, the milestones in each, and the work each milestone delivers.
Give each milestone a start and due date.
Attach tasks from an area to a project milestone; they show on the project and take its schedule.
On a project, the Board shows one column per milestone, with a card for each piece of work and how much of it is done; drag a card to move that work to another milestone.
On a project, the Roadmap draws phases and milestones on a timeline by week, quarter, year or custom range; drag a bar to reschedule.
Close a project with its MOV measured: the target from its charter shown beside the result.

Progress

Set how far a task is and every level above it shows the rolled-up progress.
Mark a task done with how it was verified and where to see it, a link, a build or a device, and read it on the task.
A task can ask for proof before it is done: a screenshot, a metric, a link, a build, a device or a written account, each saying what it must show. Anyone who can read the task, an agent with read access included, sees what it asks for before starting.
While a proof is missing, marking the task done is refused in the app, the CLI, the MCP tools and the API alike, naming each proof still missing; once each is attached, done is accepted.
The proofs show on the done task in the app, screenshots inline, for anyone who can read it.
Each area can hold its own workflow, an ordered list of stages with titles, colours and progress weights: adopt the default, copy another area's or set your own, from the map, the CLI, the MCP tools or the API. An area without one works as before.
Change an area's stages and the stage where work starts in its workflow settings, opened from the Board on desktop and phone: rename a stage or add one, and the Board follows the save at once.
Every node in an area with a workflow carries a stage from that list, shown on the map as a pill in its colour, and set and read from the map, the CLI, the MCP tools and the API; a stage outside the list is refused, naming the list.
Stage and progress move together: a stage sets the node's completion to its weight, a ranged stage follows the node's children, the last stage is done, and reopening steps back a stage.
Filter the map by stage, and see its nodes as a board grouped by stage.
Every stage change is kept in the node's history: who made it, when, and from which stage to which.
Each area can keep a backlog: the refined work waiting to start, made of the map's own items, listed in order with each item's place, stage, priority, owner and acceptance criteria, on desktop and phone.
Put an item, with everything under it, on an area's backlog and take it off, from its menu on the map or from the backlog itself; an item leaves on its own when it reaches the stage the area names as the start of execution (In progress in the default workflow, so a delegated item waits on the backlog until it starts), or when it is finished.
Reorder the backlog within a stage or across stages, priority first and your order within it; the map shows each item's place and priority at once, and a change made on the map shows in the backlog.
Put an item on an area's backlog from its inspector or from its menu on the map, opened with a right-click on desktop or a held press on a phone, and a note says the place on the backlog it took.
Reorder the backlog by dragging an item in the Backlog view, with the mouse on desktop or by its grip on a phone, and a note says its new place.
Move an item to another stage by dragging its card across the Board, with the mouse on desktop or by its grip on a phone, where the view menu offers the Board; a note names the stage it moved to and says when that took it off the backlog.
Slide the Board across its stages with a mouse: drag its background, click a stage on the strip above the columns, or turn the wheel with Shift held.
An area with nothing on its backlog works as before, and its Backlog view is always there: empty, it says what a backlog is for and how to put work on it.
A node carries its sponsor, a person or an agent, and who accepted it and when; blocked, and waiting on a named person, show beside its stage.
Switch practice gates on for any part of an area or a project: charter approved, ready to start, proof at done, scope changes recorded and MOV measured at close. Orient enforces each from the map, the CLI, the MCP tools and the API, refusing with the rule named and what would satisfy it, and an area with none works as before.
Every area plan keeps one shape: an outcome at the root, epics beneath it, features and tasks inside the epics. A task put straight under the area's root through the CLI, the MCP tools or the API is refused with the rule named, and one a person puts there in the app is kept, its flag shown in the CLI, the MCP tools and the API.
A level that holds both epics or features and loose tasks or notes is flagged with the rule named, in the API and on reading the map through the CLI and the MCP tools.
Each item has acceptance criteria of its own, a short list of checks written and read in its panel on desktop and phone and through the API, the CLI and the MCP tools, and one save can also move it to its Defined stage.
A task at the top of an epic or feature is ready from its Defined stage on, or, in an area without a Defined stage, once its acceptance criteria hold a check: an open one that is not ready is flagged and an agent starting it is warned, a finished one carries no flag, and a line in its notes changes nothing.
A task with tasks beneath it is done only when they are: marking it done while one is still open is refused, and its progress and done count follow its tasks.
Plans made before these rules open as they always did, carrying their flags until they are put right.
The map marks each place a plan breaks the planning standard (a task straight under the area’s root, an epic or feature mixing features with loose items, an open task at the top of an epic or feature that is not ready), and the item’s panel says what to change; a plan that meets the standard shows no mark, on desktop and phone.
Mark a task blocked and say why.
See who is working on a task right now, people and agents alike.
Give a task attached to a project milestone several assignees, including your own agent.
Say what a task depends on; the roadmap draws the links.

Documents, diagrams and files

Write documents attached to your work, with text, to-dos, code, tables, images and diagrams, revision history, and Markdown or Word export.
Give any node of a plan its own charter, from the project root down to a single task: one per node, started from Marchewka’s project charter with its measurable organizational value near the top, kept with every revision, and given and read by you and your agents alike.
Approve a charter, and while its scope gate is on, every change to it is recorded as a scope change with its reason and who approved it, kept in its history.
Start a charter or any document from a template: Marchewka’s charter and Schwalbe’s traditional charter are always there, and your workspace keeps its own, made from scratch or by copying one, edited and retired, by you and your agents alike. Every document remembers the template it came from.
Draw architecture diagrams attached to your work, with lines routed for you and PNG or SVG export.
Keep files in a workspace library and attach them to items.

The map

Plan your work as nodes on a map: ⌘↩ adds a child, ↩ adds a sibling, and you drag to rearrange.
Collapse an item and it shows how many items are inside.
Fold the whole map to a chosen depth.
Select several items and move them together.
Copy an item with everything under it and paste it elsewhere, with the same titles, types and notes.
Undo and redo your own changes on the map with ⌘Z and ⇧⌘Z.
Every change is saved as you make it; there is no save button.
Press ` to see the same plan as a 3D view.
On an iPad or a phone, pinch to zoom the map about your fingers and drag with two fingers to pan it; the rest of the page stays as it is.
Right-click an item to rename, add, copy or link it, and to set its progress and tags, plus its type, priority, assignees and due date where it has them.
Rebind the keyboard shortcuts in your profile.
Press Space to finish the selected task, and press it again to reopen it.
Set a priority from P1 to P5 on work attached to a project milestone; a focus area keeps its own, apart from the main map.
Set a priority from P1 to P5 on any item on the map, from its panel or by right-click, and filter the map by it; work attached to a project milestone carries its project’s priority.
Each item shows its tags as small coloured chips under it, clear of the item below at every zoom.
Tag chips hide under items that are done; one switch in your appearance settings shows them again, for you alone.
The letters in a tag chip sit centred in its pill at every zoom, with tails like g and y hanging below.
Give a tag a colour from the palette in the tag list, and every chip of that tag shows it, for everyone in the workspace.
Tag work and filter the map by priority, assignee, tag or date range, or hide what is done.
Open one part of the map as a focus area, with its own folds and priorities.
Turn an item into an area that does not count towards your areas; it stays in your sidebar for as long as you keep its bookmark.
Arrange your areas in sidebar groups and folders.
Your areas live in your personal workspace, and each one opens as a map of its own in your sidebar.
Link an area, or one part of it, from another workspace into your plan, and open it there.
A linked area’s progress rolls up into your plan.
Search every map you can read, across your workspaces, by title and notes, from the search box or with ⌘K.

Working together

Everyone on a map sees changes live, with avatars for your agents and, on Pro, the people on it.
On Pro, share an area with people in your workspace and choose what each can do: only view it, work in it, or as an admin also change View only items.
On Pro, create an invite link that joins people as members, expires after 30 days and can require your approval; the person opening it signs in.
On Pro, share links work in a personal workspace too; the person who joins can do what the link allows.
Set any item to View only: everyone in its area can see it, and only you, the area’s admins and the people you add to the item can change it.
On Pro, make an item Private to keep it to the area’s owners and the people you add to it, or Confidential, which asks for your passkey, to keep it to you and the people you add.
On Pro, create shared workspaces for your teams.
On Pro, put the people in a workspace into groups, and see on one grid which areas each group can reach.

Plans

The Free plan gives you one area of your own in use at a time, up to 3 AI assistants on it and 50 MB for your files, with no card.
On Free, set any item to View only: the agents you gave the whole area still see it but cannot change it.
Only areas in use count: archive one and you can start another.
A project lives inside an area, with its own roadmap and board, and does not count towards your areas.
Your AI assistants get the access you pick for each area, and nothing until you approve them.
Buy Pro in the app, monthly or yearly, from Billing in your profile.
Pro costs $15.95 a month, or $12.95 a month billed yearly at $155.40.
Enterprise, for teams of 12 or more, is arranged with us rather than bought online: talk to us.

Your account

Sign in with a passkey; there are no passwords.
Lose your only device and the recovery code you saved gets you back in; no code opens anyone else's account.
Sign in on another device or browser with a one-time code from your profile; that device keeps its own passkey.
Add Orient to the Home Screen of your iPad or iPhone and it opens full screen under its own icon and name; you sign in there with your passkey.
Report a problem from the app with a screenshot and follow the replies there.
Set your time zone, country, week start and time format, and dates follow them.
A searchable manual inside the app.
Sign in with a code sent to your email; your account is created only once you confirm it.
A sign-in you never confirm leaves nothing behind: it is gone within the hour.
Sign-up and sign-in codes are rate limited; a caller that asks too often is told when to try again.

Your data

Export every map you can open as one zip: each map with its history, your documents and diagrams, and your workspaces' files.
Your export carries each map's change history, including who made each change.
Delete your account from your profile: it closes at once and nobody can reach it through Orient, and its content and your personal data are erased within 30 days.
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