Shortcut's Korey turns ideas into specs, tasks, and shipped features

Shortcut debuts Korey: AI orchestration for product management

Shortcut Software Co. introduced Korey, an AI project manager that turns ideas into build-ready plans and coordinates execution across product teams. It writes specs, defines goals and acceptance criteria, breaks work into tasks, tracks dependencies, and summarizes progress so your team can stay focused on shipping.

"Korey is the next step in our mission to help teams build without the drag of unnecessary complexity and overhead," said co-founder and Chief Executive Kurt Schrader. The goal: automate planning and tracking, without getting in the way of the actual work.

What Korey does

• Transforms ideas into detailed specs with clear goals and acceptance criteria.
• Decomposes work into tasks, maps dependencies, and assigns timelines.
• Surfaces real-time project health with insights on blockers drawn from code, user tickets, and team communication.
• Delivers concise progress summaries for product, engineering, and design.

How it works

Korey pulls context from projects, comments, GitHub activity, and other connected tools to keep plans accurate and up to date. Its actions are guided by how your team operates and what's already in motion, then refined as it learns from ongoing work.

"Korey specs out, coordinates, and tracks the work that's being done, and continues to learn more and more about how you and your company operates as you use it more and more," Schrader said.

Human-in-the-loop orchestration

Korey collaborates with product managers and leads to decide how to delegate work across developers, engineers, designers, and even AI agents. A human remains part of every handoff decision today. As Korey learns your policies and workflow, Shortcut plans to automate assignments with confidence and control.

Why it matters for product teams

"AI-driven project orchestration is redefining how teams move from idea to execution," said Paul Nashawaty, practice lead and principal analyst at theCUBE Research. Organizations embedding contextual intelligence into product management and DevOps workflows are seeing planning cycle times reduced by 40% and are 2.3x more likely to deliver features on schedule.

Privacy and access

• Context is limited to tools that a team explicitly connects.
• Conversations remain private within the organization.
• Fine-grained access controls are planned to tighten permissioning as adoption grows.

Roadmap and integrations

Korey is currently focused on project management and will expand to platforms including Jira, Asana, Monday.com, and Linear. Shortcut is also developing sub-agents to pull knowledge from Notion and Confluence, and to integrate with support tools like Zendesk and Intercom.

"Going from idea to spec to engineering tasks to hand off to coding agents/humans to pull requests to deployed features in record time is the ultimate goal," Schrader said.

Practical rollout steps

• Start with one initiative: connect source control, ticketing, and your team's primary comms channel.
• Define acceptance criteria templates and your team's definition of done so specs are consistent.
• Keep humans in approvals and assignments while Korey learns your policies.
• Use weekly summaries to drive standups and portfolio reviews; compare plans vs. delivery to tune scope.
• Iterate on prompts and workflows; codify repeatable patterns into templates.

Bottom line

Korey aims to remove the busywork between strategy and commits. If your roadmap is slipping due to planning overhead, fragmented context, or unclear ownership, this is a practical way to tighten feedback loops and ship with fewer bottlenecks.

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