# Who Kanera Is For: Teams, Roles, and Honest Tradeoffs > See how teams use Kanera for connected project planning, ownership, reporting, notes, automation, guest collaboration, API access, webhooks, and MCP. Canonical page: https://www.kanera.app/who-its-for Who Kanera Is For # For teams with moving work. One fast system to run it. From agile squads and client agencies to cross-functional operations. Tactile boards when you need speed, rollups when you scale. [Start free](https://board.kanera.app/signup)[Explore features](https://www.kanera.app/features) - Teams of 1 to 100 - Client & guest isolation - Multi-project Portfolio Kanera Team Cards focused on Ben Ortega with assigned cards grouped by workspace and workflow Team Cards brings assigned work together across every accessible board in real time. Scale & Stage ## Built to fit your stage without changing how you work. Practical fit ranges for how teams grow. Workload shape, cross-project visibility, and permissions matter more than raw headcount. 1 to 5  seats Free plan ready ### Small teams & founders Three boards, four users, and one automation fit inside the Free plan. My Cards and nested notes keep the week in one place. 6 to 25  seats Workspace standards ### Growing delivery teams A workspace standardises each project. Team Cards brings assignments together, while Portfolio keeps delivery health visible across the active team. 26 to 100  seats Portfolio rollups ### Multi-project organisations A board per project, a workspace per department, and Portfolio for ownership, delivery health, activity, and structured drill-downs across all of them. 100+  seats Cross-org scale ### Department rollouts Standardise department by department, then check file volume, realtime activity, integration load, and identity policy against the rollout plan. Talk about an organization rollout By Team & Function ## Tailored for how different teams collaborate. Whether you run client accounts, cross-functional sprints, or recurring operations, Kanera gives each discipline its own workflow with shared visibility underneath. [Agencies & Client Services A board per client, guest access scoped to that board, and billable hours totalled per account in Table view. For agencies](https://www.kanera.app/project-management-for-agencies)[Operations & Delivery Leads Recurring projects that run the same way every time, reported from one shared workspace structure and Portfolio. All features](https://www.kanera.app/features)[Product, Design & Engineering Launches, requests, research, and delivery in a model non-technical teammates can use. REST API, webhooks, and MCP for everything else. API & integrations](https://www.kanera.app/integrations)[Founders & Fast Startups Enough structure to stay honest about deadlines, without administering a heavy enterprise platform programme. View pricing](https://www.kanera.app/pricing)[Teams Leaving Another Tool Import a Trello board with its lists, labels, members, custom fields, checklists, and attachments after you create a workspace. Migration guide](https://www.kanera.app/migration) Transparent Model ## One seat. The entire product. Kanera Pro is $5 per user each month with every view, automation, and platform capability built in. No tiered paywalls or feature gating as your team expands. ### Four native views for the same cards Kanban, Table, Calendar, and Work Done on every board. Table groups rows, totals numeric fields such as billable hours, and exports to Excel or JSON. A Kanera board in Table view grouped by list, with Status, Assignees, Labels, Billing Hours, and Billing Month columns and an Export control Pro Plan ### $5 / user / mo Or $49 per user each year. Every new workspace starts on a 30-day Pro trial with no card required, and the Free plan is always available. [Compare plans](https://www.kanera.app/pricing) ### Full platform in every seat - REST API and managed webhooks on every Pro seat - A native MCP server, so AI clients read and update real work - Board-scoped guests for clients, contractors, and partners - Installs as a PWA on desktop, iOS, and Android - Self-hosting available with full feature parity ### Multi-project rollups and Portfolio My Cards and Team Cards bring assignments together across boards. Portfolio rolls live totals from board to workspace to organization level. Kanera Portfolio listing the organisation, its workspaces, and their boards with active, overdue, next 7 days, unassigned, and completed totals on each row Honest Boundaries ## Where Kanera is the wrong choice. Worth reading before a rollout rather than after one. Every requirement below is one Kanera intentionally does not meet today. ### You require Gantt, dependencies, workload, or time tracking. Kanera centres boards, Table reporting, Calendar planning, Global Work, Portfolio, and Work Done. It does not include Gantt bars, dependency links between cards, capacity planning, timers, request forms, or widget dashboards. Numeric custom fields can hold estimates or hours, and Table can total them. ### Software issues, cycles, and releases define the work. Kanera centres board-led project operations rather than native issue triage, sprint capacity, release workflows, roadmaps, and dependency planning. ### Your company wiki is the primary requirement. Kanera includes powerful nested notes for project context, but it is not a general publishing system, free-form database builder, or company wiki. ### SAML, OIDC, or SCIM is a hard security requirement. Kanera signs people in with email and password, then controls access through organisation, workspace, and board roles with guest restrictions. There is no SAML or OIDC single sign-on and no SCIM provisioning yet. AI clients connecting through MCP authenticate with OAuth. ### You need a non-English interface or app-store apps. The Kanera interface is English only today. Kanera installs as a PWA on desktop, iOS, and Android with offline board browsing, push notifications, and share-to-card, but there are no App Store or Play Store builds. ### Nobody can own self-hosting operations. Self-hosting means updates, monitoring, backups, restore tests, mail, storage, and incident response. Use Kanera Pro if the team wants Kanera to operate it. ### You need a permissive open-source licence. Kanera uses Elastic License 2.0. It can be inspected, modified, and self-hosted for your own use, but it cannot be offered to third parties as a hosted or managed service. Competitor positioning checked July 30, 2026. Every claim about another tool is sourced on its comparison page: [Trello](https://www.kanera.app/vs/trello), [ClickUp](https://www.kanera.app/vs/clickup), [monday.com](https://www.kanera.app/vs/monday), [Linear](https://www.kanera.app/vs/linear), [Jira](https://www.kanera.app/vs/jira), [Asana](https://www.kanera.app/vs/asana), and [Notion](https://www.kanera.app/vs/notion). Instant Setup ## Start from the workflow your team already runs. A new workspace begins with the kind of work it is for. Kanera builds the lists, custom fields, and labels to match, and every one of them is editable before setup finishes. - Development Team - Marketing - Product Team - Sales CRM - Operations / Support - Project Delivery - Client Onboarding - Event Planning - Hiring Pipeline - Simple Todo Or start blank and shape the workspace yourself. [Read the setup walkthrough](https://www.kanera.app/docs/getting-started) Kanera workspace setup asking what type of work you are doing, with Development Team selected among starting workflows including Marketing, Sales CRM, Client Onboarding, and Hiring Pipeline Step two of workspace setup, where the starting workflow is chosen. ## See whether the model fits your team. Start with the complete product for 30 days. No card required. [Start free](https://board.kanera.app/signup)[Read an honest comparison](https://www.kanera.app/vs/trello) Free plan available after the trial ## Machine-readable resources - [Kanera AI index](https://www.kanera.app/llms.txt) - [Kanera documentation index](https://www.kanera.app/docs/llms.txt) - [Agent discovery guidance](https://www.kanera.app/agents.md)