Anyone suggests, one controls.

Everything is a priority. Now put them in order.

Anyone on the team suggests. One person holds the pen, decides what goes on the list and sets the order. A line marks what you are actually doing, and when two things tie, you name what tells them apart.

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Signing up is free. Each team is $5 a month or $50 a year.

Pricing

Per team, never per person

Charging by the head would punish the one thing this needs, which is everyone seeing the same list.

$5 / team / month

Billed monthly. Cancel whenever.

Become a pen holder

Signing up is free, and so is joining a team. Whoever owns the team pays for it.

Every team, everything

  • Up to a hundred people on the team, at the same price
  • Projects, topics and items, as many as the work needs
  • The pen, the line, fields, flags and the full history
  • Templates, so a new team starts built rather than empty
  • Notifications, the weekly email, and an app on your phone
  • An API and an MCP server, for your own tools and assistants
  • Export everything to CSV or JSON, any time

No seats to count, no tier that hides the history, nothing to negotiate.

See it move

A week on one list

Rob's phone, five steps, an ordinary week. Press any of them.

Try it with your team Free to start. Your first team takes a minute.

Why this exists

Ask a small team what the priority is and you get a list where everything is priority one. That is not a priority.

Every system your team already abandoned

The shared spreadsheetstale in three weeks
The workspace someone spent a weekend buildingnever opened again
The scoring framework with the weighted columnsscored once
The backlog with four hundred tickets in itdeclared bankrupt

They all died the same way. Keeping them current was work, and that work always lost to the urgent thing.

Not another framework

Facts in view. A person decides. The reason stays.

Fields describe an item, they never sort it. Every move records what it cost, written at the moment of the decision rather than remembered six months later.

Scoring frameworksFields in Penholder
Set up before any work startsAdded when the team needs one, or named by a tie
Every item scored on every columnFill in what matters, leave the rest blank
A number that decides for youThe pen holder decides, with the facts in view
Grows whether or not it helpsAt most twelve per topic, removed in one tap

Six months later, the history still says who moved what, and why.

Your first five minutes

Start from a template

Pick the one that sounds like you. The team arrives built, for small teams and not for enterprises.

Set us up like an agency Free to start. Change anything after.

Become a pen holder.

Make a team, invite the people you argue with, and put this week in order.

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