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Plan, share and ship work without interruption

Shape helps busy teams reach consensus and ship faster with focused spaces designed for discussion and delivery.

Currently serving teams of up to 5 people
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There's more to business than chat

Constant distractions

Pings, mentions, and quick replies keep teams in a loop of interruption. Deep work becomes shallow as focus is stolen by the next message.

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Knowledge drain

Important ideas vanish into chat history. What was once a great insight becomes a memory no one can find.

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Problems are recycled

Just like click-bait, chat is superficial and then dissolves. Once a discussion loses its novelty factor, teams rapidly lose interest.

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Lack of ownership

Tasks and decisions drift through conversation with no single owner. Responsibility dissolves the moment a chat ends or a teammate logs off.

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Read why Shape makes a great Slack alternative

Too often, messaging platforms are too noisy to be productive. Threads are chaotic, DMs are overwhelming and progress is blocked.

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Shape gets your work back on track

For years, we wondered how chat took over our work. Shape is our answer: a calmer, more deliberate space built for team clarity and progress, not chatter and movement.

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Your team has so much more to say

Start a discussion in Shape to collaborate on a new topic or idea. Discussions are designed for long-form, long-term conversations.

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Let your ideas evolve

In other tools, the lifecycle of a message is an hour or two. With Shape, discussions stay open and evolve towards consensus then resolution.

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Open discussions show as Active, so you know exactly what's important and what's not.

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Your team talks and collaborates. Shape summarizes, identifies blockers, and proposes next steps.

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Mark a discussion as resolved when the matter is settled. Shape will suggest resolution or auto-resolve after 8 days of no activity.

The result is a knowledge-preserving, clutter-free, and perpetually relevant workspace.

Ideas evolve interface preview

Noise-cancelling headphones for your workday

Shape allows teams to focus with no distractions. With features that protect against overwhelm, you have full control of how you work.

Always at inbox zero

Always at inbox zero

Your inbox is finally under your control. With Shape, other people can't just pile on your todos. Only you can add messages to your inbox.

Goodbye unreads

Goodbye unreads

With Shape, you can't mark a message as unread (our favorite feature). Add it to your inbox to revisit it on your own time.

You control the speed

You control the speed

Get notified in real time or every hour; subscribe to all channel activity or just certain discussions.

Teams who use Shape report feeling more productive, happier and more satisfied

Their work doesn't disappear into chat history—it compounds into shared understanding.

The Shape curve showing compounding clarity versus distraction resets

More features your team will love

Assign, discuss, and complete

Assign, discuss, and complete

Visual boards let you see project status at a glance and move tasks forward, from backlog to delivered.

Chatrooms for casual conversations

Chatrooms for casual conversations

Sometimes you just want to meme. Shape brings team chatrooms and DMs without the chaos. Long messages look great here too.

No typing indicators

No typing indicators

Never rush to compete with other senders. Take time to structure your thoughts and hit send when you're ready.

No presence indicators

No presence indicators

Other colleagues' work statuses create false urgency. Quality of conversation is more important than who's online.

Insert images and files inline

Insert images and files inline

Shape features a doc-like editing experience for every message, whether discussion or chat. Insert images between text to tell the full story.

Move from chat, to discussion, to todo

Move from chat, to discussion, to todo

Quickly turn conversation into action. You can easily convert a chat to a discussion, or a discussion to a task to make things happen.


                            curl -fsSL https://shape.work/install.sh | bash
                            
                          

Self-host on premises

You can run Shape on your own server. Get started locally by running a simple command.

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Quit the chaos and feel the difference today

We’re absolutely sure you’ll love Shape. If you’re not satisfied even after your free trial, we’ll refund you for the last 3 months, no questions asked.

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