Bario

Project management for startup teams who shouldn't have to hire an ops person just to know what's happening. Flat per-workspace pricing, AI that does the update work instead of reminding you to, and a design that feels like a well-run studio.

Project management tools are built for enterprise teams that have a dedicated ops person to set them up. Early startup teams of 2 to 15 people don't need a feature dashboard. They need everyone to know what's happening without a weekly status meeting. Basecamp is calm but dumb. Linear is fast but engineer-centric. Notion is flexible but turns into a junk drawer. None of them have AI in the workflow by default, so the async update burden falls entirely on the humans.

Build for the team size nobody else designs for: small, async, and allergic to per-seat pricing. Flat per-workspace billing so founders aren't punished for adding a contractor. AI in the three places it actually reduces work: summarizing threads you haven't checked in three days, generating a daily digest of what actually needs your attention, and drafting check-ins automatically from real activity instead of prompting someone to type a manual update.

Multi-tenant workspaces with row-level security: one workspace per client company, guests scoped to specific Blocks
Blocks (projects) with to-dos, assignees, due dates, and status tracking
La Plaza: Campfire-style realtime chat alongside async message threads with @mentions
File uploads with type and size validation via Supabase Storage
Thread summaries: Claude reads threads you haven't opened in 3+ days and surfaces open questions in 2 to 3 bullets, streamed inline
Block Report: daily digest email (Resend) that replaces notification spam with a summary of what's assigned to you, what's due, and what threads need a response
Auto check-ins: Claude reads recent activity and drafts the Monday update; the team edits or dismisses
Semantic search across all content types: to-dos, threads, replies, check-ins, via pgvector with text-embedding-3-small
Stripe billing: Starter ($49/mo) and Growth ($99/mo) per workspace, no per-seat pricing, ever

Live with paying clients on the Growth tier through Barael retainer engagements.

Framework

Next.js 14 · App Router · Vercel

Data + auth

Supabase: Postgres, pgvector, RLS, Realtime

AI: summaries

Claude Sonnet 4.6: thread summaries, auto check-ins

AI: search

OpenAI text-embedding-3-small: semantic chunking and retrieval

Resend: Block Report daily digest

Payments

Stripe: per-workspace flat pricing, no per-seat

Styling

Tailwind CSS v4

Bario is the answer to the question every startup team eventually asks: why does software built for 500 people cost less than software built for us? Flat pricing, AI that does the update work instead of reminding you to do it, and a design that feels like a well-run studio instead of an enterprise dashboard. Named for the barrio: where everyone knows each other, looks out for each other, and gets things done.

Every Barael client engagement runs on it.

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