Shape

A radically simple workspace for teams.

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All you want is a simple way to talk with your team, and you're handed Slack, where meaningful conversation goes to die. All you want is a clear, dependable tool for tracking work, and you're given Linear, where half the battle is figuring out where anything is. All you want is a straightforward way to develop shared team knowledge, and you're offered Notion, which practically requires a course to begin.

By the end of the month, you've spent hundreds of dollars, and your team has spent far too many hours getting nowhere.

Everyone wants to IPO. Products your team rely on twist and morph into bland concoctions meant to satisfy the largest userbase possible. Meanwhile, your team spends an hour a day fighting with tools meant to improve productivity but end up just getting in the way.

Foundational discoveries in information technology have yielded software inventions which have proven to be indispensable. The question is, if their invention is so groundbreaking, why doesn't the extracted essence of the invention exist alone, in its pure form? Why do we get such a messy wrapper around important technologies like chat, discussion, and tasks?

What does chat look like, in its purest form? What do team discussions look like when the goal isn't revenue extraction, but fulfillment of purpose? What do tasks look like when you aren't racing towards your next VC round?

Meet Shape. A radically simple new way to work.

Mo
Mo Bitar, Founder

Launching in early 2026. Join the waitlist.

The next evolution of the team workspace

All-in-none, not all-in-one.

All-in-one tools fail by overcomplicating the basics. Shape works differently: foundational tools that function as basic elements of technology—wholes, not parts. In Shape, you link information together, not interfaces.

Chat
Direct messages and group conversations with mentions and reactions
Forum
Structured channels for long-form thought, decisions, and strategy
Tasks
Projects with assignees, due dates, tags, and comments
Files
Drag-and-drop uploads with folder hierarchy and previews
Papers
Real-time shared thinking and understanding
Memos
Personal scratchpad for quick thoughts
Recording
Record video and audio directly in the app and share with one click
Fully Encrypted
We can't see your data, train on it, or monetize it. Your information stays protected by keys only you control.
Search
Full-text search across your entire workspace, built locally
Inbox
Unified activity feed for mentions, replies, and assignments
Teams
Role-based groups for organizing access and permissions
Real-time
See changes as they happen with live sync across devices
Offline
Keep working without internet; syncs when you're back online
Bidirectional Linking
Automatic backlinks connect related items across your workspace
Sharing
Fine-grained access control on files, folders, and projects
Web, Desktop, and Mobile
Access anywhere with full offline support and search
Open Source
Fully transparent codebase you can audit and contribute to
Self-Hostable
Deploy on your own infrastructure for complete control
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Launching in 2026

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