Spryn is built for small, serious engineering teams that care about delivery more than process. AI drafts your first sprint from backlog and capacity. Standups and retros prep themselves. You spend time shipping — not building slides, chasing status, or configuring boards.
Trusted by 200+ engineering teams
Teams cut planning overhead by about 60%
“We used to spend two hours in planning poker. Now it's fifteen minutes.” — Engineering manager, B2B SaaS (40 engineers)
What goes away
Not vague "less process" — these are the recurring tasks teams stop doing by hand once Spryn is in the loop.
Sprint planning
Spryn suggests a first sprint draft from your backlog and team capacity. You edit and lock — you don't start from zero in an empty column.
Before standup
A live summary of who's moving, who's blocked, and what's at risk is ready before the meeting. Standup becomes confirmation, not discovery.
Before sprint lock
Spryn scans selected work and flags overlapping tickets before you commit — so you're not untangling duplicates mid-sprint.
Mid-sprint
One view tied to sprint intent: are we on track for what we committed to? No chart maintenance or ticket gymnastics to answer that.
Sprint close
What shipped, what slipped, and why surfaces automatically when the sprint ends. No one owns "retro prep" anymore.
Setup
Import backlog, connect GitHub or GitLab, plan your first sprint in about 10 minutes. Spryn is opinionated so you don't configure a PM system.
How it works
In under a minute, see how a sprint goes from intent to done — without juggling boards, fields, reports, or process theatre.
Start with a single, sharp question for the sprint instead of a backlog dump. Define the sprint in one line so everyone knows what matters.
Spryn suggests a first sprint draft from your backlog and capacity. You drag, swap, and trim until only work that serves the intent remains — then lock it.
Lock the sprint when it feels tight and realistic, not aspirational. Capacity and scope stay in view so you can say "yes" and mean it.
See a clean view of progress without burndown charts or ticket gymnastics. Every update answers one thing: are we on track for this sprint's intent?
See Spryn in action
Every sprint starts with a clear goal, not a backlog dump.
Capacity stays visible so you commit to what you can actually deliver.
Gentle nudges help you spot overcommitment before it becomes a problem.
How your week changes
Same sprint cadence. Same team. Different prep — and meetings that actually end on time.
Monday planning
With Jira or Linear
Two hours in a room. Filter the backlog, drag tickets into a sprint, debate scope, update fields. Someone still asks: "What are we actually trying to ship?"
With Spryn
Intent in one line. AI draft on screen. Team trims, checks capacity, locks in ~15 minutes. Everyone leaves knowing what "done" means this sprint.
Daily standup
With Jira or Linear
Go around the room — or poll Slack — to learn who's blocked. Twenty minutes of status updates. Blockers surface late.
With Spryn
Open Spryn: movers, blockers, and risks are already summarized. Standup is four minutes of "anything the board missed?" — not a status hunt.
Sprint close
With Jira or Linear
Someone builds a retro deck Thursday night. You debate what shipped vs. what slipped from memory. Carry-over surprises nobody.
With Spryn
Retro opens with what shipped, what slipped, and why — already assembled. The conversation is about next sprint, not reconstructing the last one.
Spryn vs Jira & Linear
Jira and Linear are excellent issue trackers. Spryn replaces the sprint layer — planning, commitment, and "are we on track?" — without you maintaining a general-purpose tool.
Jira / Linear
A general-purpose issue tracker you configure for sprints
Spryn
A sprint-only execution surface — no portfolio, no workflow builder
Jira / Linear
You build the sprint manually from a full backlog
Spryn
AI suggests a first draft from backlog + capacity; you edit and lock
Jira / Linear
What is the status of ticket #482?
Spryn
Are we on track for this sprint intent?
Jira / Linear
Status lives in tickets; the meeting surfaces it
Spryn
Summary ready before standup; meeting confirms, not discovers
Jira / Linear
You export data and build the narrative
Spryn
Shipped, slipped, and why assembled at sprint close
Jira / Linear
Fields, views, automations — even when minimal
Spryn
Import backlog, connect git, plan in about 10 minutes
Keep GitHub, GitLab, and Slack. Import from Jira in minutes →
The moment it clicks
"It's 9:02 on Monday. Standup starts at 9:15. I used to open Jira, click through six boards, and ping three people on Slack just to know who was blocked.
Today I opened Spryn. Sprint intent at the top. Three in progress, one blocked on API review, capacity still green. The standup took four minutes — we only talked about the blocker the board didn't explain.
That's when it clicked: the tool did the prep. We just showed up and shipped."
The aha isn't "less process." It's realizing you've been paying a tax every sprint:
Spryn is designed so that moment happens in your first week — not after a quarter of configuring it right.
AI that earns its place
Spryn's AI doesn't add process — it removes prep. A sensible sprint draft in seconds, standup summary before the meeting, retro narrative at close.
Spryn suggests a sprint from your backlog and team capacity. Edit, swap, or ignore — then lock. No blank board, no two-hour planning session.
A live summary of who's moving, who's blocked, and what's at risk — ready before the meeting. Standup confirms, it doesn't discover.
At sprint close, what shipped, what slipped, and why — without anyone building a slide deck the night before.
Spryn scans selected work and flags duplicates or overlaps before you commit — so you're not untangling tickets mid-sprint.
Who it's for
Great fit if…
Not built for…
Integrations & imports
Import your existing backlog from Jira or Asana in minutes. Stay connected with GitHub, GitLab, and Slack.
Slack
Notifications
GitLab
Live sync
GitHub
Live sync
Jira
Import backlog
Asana
Import backlog
FAQ
Jira and Linear are built to track every issue across your organization. Spryn is built only for the sprint: intent, commitment, progress, and close. You can strip Linear down, but you're still maintaining a general-purpose tool. Spryn gives you a sprint draft from day one, standup summaries before the meeting, and retros without slide prep — with about 10 minutes of setup. Many teams keep GitHub or GitLab for code and replace only the sprint planning layer.
No. Spryn is built to work with how you already run sprints. The tool adapts to your workflow, not the other way around. If you're doing two-week sprints, planning on Mondays, or using story points — keep doing that. Spryn just makes the planning part faster and clearer.
Works for teams of any size, but it really shines for teams between 3–15 people. Two-person teams might find it overkill. Larger teams can use it, but you'll get the most value when everyone can participate in sprint planning without it becoming a meeting marathon.
Spryn makes decisions about what matters for sprint planning and sticks to them. You won't find 50 ways to configure sprint length or endless customization options. But you control your sprint goals, priorities, and what gets built. The opinionation is in the tooling, not your process.
It helps you write sprint goals faster and suggests what should go in a sprint based on your backlog. It's not generating code or making decisions for you — it's cutting down the time you spend writing and organizing. A planning assistant, not a replacement for your judgment.
About 10 minutes. Connect your tools (GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Slack), import your backlog, and you're planning your first sprint. No configuration wizards or week-long onboarding.
If you're using Jira for sprint planning, yes — Spryn replaces it. For GitLab, GitHub, and Slack, Spryn integrates with what you already have. You're not migrating everything, just replacing the planning layer with something that actually works for small teams.
No credit card. No onboarding call. No process theatre.
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