Introducing Alignear: The Missing Link Between Linear and Your Clients

If your team runs on Linear, you already have one of the best engineering tools available. Clean interface, fast cycles, no unnecessary process. It's genuinely good software.

But there's something Linear doesn't do — and it's not a criticism of Linear, it's just outside the product's scope. It doesn't talk to your clients. That job still falls on you.

Today that changes. Alignear is live.

What Alignear does

Alignear is a client communication layer that connects directly to Linear. It takes everything your team is already doing — moving issues through cycles, updating statuses, closing out sprints — and makes that work legible to the clients who are waiting on it.

No extra steps for your engineers. No separate project board to maintain. No Monday morning spent writing update emails that summarize things you already know.

Your team works in Linear. Alignear handles what comes next.

The client portal

Every client your team works with gets their own portal — no login required. They open a link and see a clean, current view of what's in progress, what just shipped, and what's coming up next. It pulls directly from your Linear cycles, so it's always up to date.

This sounds simple. But the effect is significant. Clients who can check in when they want stop sending the "any updates?" email. The anxiety that drives that message — and the call that usually follows it — mostly comes from silence. Give people a window and the silence goes away.

The portal also supports Bulletins, so you can post announcements directly to clients when something important happens. Not buried in a report. Just a direct message in the place they're already looking.

Cycle reports and scheduled delivery

Alignear generates cycle reports automatically — a structured summary of each sprint formatted for someone outside the team. What shipped, what's still in flight, what got deprioritized and why.

You can schedule these to go out on a cadence that fits your workflow. Weekly, end of cycle, whenever. The report goes to the client; your team doesn't have to write it.

For clients who want more detail, custom reports let you filter by project, label, or date range and send exactly what's relevant to them — nothing more.

The Alignear Agent

This is the part that surprised people in early testing.

Mention @alignear inside any Linear issue and the Agent picks it up. From there, you can flag issues for the next client meeting, attach resources the client needs to see, or send an Ask — a structured request for a client decision that shows up in their portal and waits for a response.

Asks are particularly useful for anything that needs client sign-off before your team can move forward. Instead of an email thread that gets lost, it lives in the portal. The client responds. The issue updates. Everyone stays unblocked.

Clients can also submit Requests directly through the portal — feature ideas, questions, anything they want to surface. The Agent automatically triages these into Linear so your team sees them in context, not scattered across emails and Slack messages.

Who this is for

Alignear is built for product and engineering teams that work with external clients — agencies, dev shops, consultancies, and product companies with dedicated client relationships. If you're managing work in Linear and client communication is still a manual process, this is for you.

The free plan covers one Linear team with the full experience — portal, reports, Agent, everything. No credit card required.

If you've ever spent a Friday afternoon writing an update email for things that were already tracked in Linear, you'll know exactly why we built this.