SWITCH TO ALIGNLANE
Switch without switching anything.
Your team keeps its tools. What you replace is the workaround — the permission juggling, the duplicate client board, and the Friday status email.
Inviting partners into Jira, Asana, ClickUp or monday
- Guests still enter the internal tool’s structure and terminology
- Interactive guest access can become billable or permission-heavy depending on the tool
- Granular internal fields and discussion require constant permission care
A separate delivery view
- Unlimited read-only AlignLane viewers
- Only selected shared fields cross the boundary
- Overview answers what changed, what is blocked and who owns the next move
A portal or agency OS bolted onto delivery
- A second place to update, so it drifts
- Billing, CRM and files you didn’t need
- Becomes another system the client has to learn
A projection of real work
- Imports from where work already lives
- Narrow by design — visibility, not operations
- Language that works for both sides
Weekly status emails and slide updates
- Hours rewriting tickets into prose
- Stale the moment it’s sent
- Commitments lost in meeting notes
Status they can self-serve
- Current as of your last import, open any time
- Waiting-on views per side
- Transcripts become reviewable commitments
A shared tracker spreadsheet
- Manual copy from the real tool
- No history of what changed
- Permissions are all or nothing
A board with owners and history
- Re-import when needed; live sync rolls out connector by connector
- Activity: what changed on shared work
- Internal vs shared, task by task
WHY A SEPARATE LANE
Sometimes guest access is enough. This is for when it isn't.
Keep granular detail internal
Estimates, private subtasks and internal discussion never enter the shared projection unless you map them.
Guest economics vary
Some PM tools include free viewers; others charge for richer guest access. AlignLane does not depend on a guest-seat argument.
Stop maintaining two boards
Publish selected source truth instead of copying updates into a second board.
The right interface
Progress, blockers, approvals and the next move — without sprint mechanics or backlog noise.
How a switch runs
- STEP 1
Export what you share today
A bulk project, board or list export from your PM tool — CSV, JSON or Excel, depending on the source.
- STEP 2
Import and map
AlignLane detects the format and previews the mapping. Unknown or sensitive columns stay excluded.
- STEP 3
Publish the lane
Copy the link. Optionally require sign-in.
- VALIDATE
Watch the questions stop
See who opens the board, and whether they still ask for status.
Send us one export. We'll send back a shared board.
No migration commitment. Forward the link to one stakeholder and see if the status questions stop.