If you've outgrown Backlogr, Parchment, Gridbase, and Tasklane — and you're ready to replace them
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Check out all customer stories →One tool for documents, a second for task tracking, a third for diagrams. The end result? 🧯 Nothing talks to anything.
Connect structured data (e.g. tables, kanban boards) with unstructured data (e.g. documents) and never lose the thread.
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Do you have permission (or forgiveness) from your team to replace a few of the tools they already like?
“We were finally able to put product planning, exec-level views, marketing initiatives, content calendars, and async meeting notes in one place — all pointing at the same underlying data.”
Stop borrowing workflows and vocabulary someone else invented… not everything is an "issue" or a "task".
Map your processes the way you actually run them, using custom fields, custom databases and custom relations.
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We hand you the building blocks — relational databases, visualisations, automation rules, a rich-text editor — but you need a working idea of how your team actually operates.
“I had tried Parchment, Gridbase and a pile of similar tools, but it always felt like a system built by somebody else. With Tessera it's the opposite — I build the system, and it just gives me an interface onto my data.”
Charts and reports are an afterthought in almost every work management tool. When they exist at all.
Tessera ships BI-grade reporting — in the same context where the rest of your work and knowledge already lives.
| Responsible team | Avg | Must have | Nice to have | Avg cycle time | Avg lead time | Stories by month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marketing | 1 | 9 | 74 | |||
| Kestrel | — | 1 | 16 | |||
| Lambda | — | 1 | 16 | |||
| Foundry | 3 | 3 | 19 | |||
| Nightjar | 3 | 3 | 13 | |||
| Skunkworks | — | — | 33 | |||
| Solution design | — | 1 | 22 | |||
| Anvil | — | 7 | 14 | |||
| Basalt | — | — | 11 | |||
| Two-week team | 5 | — | 15 | |||
| Data team | — | 14 | — | |||
| Support | — | 1 | — | |||
| Count distinct 12 | 7 | 30 | 248 | Avg 47.73 | 148.38 | Sum 1,284 |
We won't teach you data analysis — if you've never done it before, you'll need to put in real time and effort.
“Reports are great. You do have to get used to them for the complex cases, and set your fields and entities up properly — but once you do, you can pull an astonishing amount out of your data.”
Stay ahead of the "why are we even building this?" conversation.
Break the silos between departments. Bridge strategy and execution, validate ideas, research the market, ship things.
Build processes that fit your company's actual workflow, not a vendor's template.
Backlogs, sprints, releases and the engineering wiki in one place. Replace most of the stack with a single tool.
Start with AI space creation and a handful of templates, and test the water.
Pull in data from the tools you already use and map your company's real processes.
Don't keep Tessera to yourself. Be the hero your company needs, not the one it deserves.
Humans are pack animals — conformity is in the DNA. You skipped the default enterprise suite anyway. Well done.
Start building your own work and knowledge management hub.
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