Project management is just one view.

The single-purpose problem

Linear is incredible at what it does. Issue tracking, sprint planning, roadmaps, team workflows — all polished to a mirror shine. If project management is your only need and you work in a team, Linear is hard to beat.

But tasks don't exist in isolation. A task relates to the meeting where it was discussed, the contact who asked for it, the research behind it, and the project it belongs to. Linear's own Documents cover specs and PRDs; contacts and files still live in other tools — a CRM, Google Drive — that don't share data natively.

In Synap, tasks are one record type among many, next to notes, contacts, projects, bookmarks, and files in a single graph. Your agent can reason across all of them: “What tasks relate to the research I did last week?” or “Create follow-up tasks from my notes with the client.”

Help that spans everything

Linear's assistant features write issue descriptions and summarize projects — useful, but limited to project management, because that's the only domain Linear has.

An agent connected to Synap sees your whole graph: tasks, notes, contacts, deals, research, files. Ask “What should I focus on this week?” and it weighs deadlines, upcoming meetings, deal stages, and recent research. It can create tasks from meeting notes, link research to projects, and surface forgotten contacts — because it has the full picture.

Ownership vs. rental

Linear is SaaS with per-seat pricing that grows with your team. Your project history, workflows, and institutional knowledge live on its servers. The JSON export doesn't carry the relational context that makes the data useful.

Synap runs on a dedicated PostgreSQL pod with flat pricing — no per-seat costs. Your whole workspace — tasks, notes, contacts, history — lives in a real database you can self-host, export, query, or build on with the API. If you outgrow Synap, your data leaves with you in a standard format.