Height 2.0 is now launched

Starting today, Height 2.0 is available to everyone. And we’re excited to share it with you all.

Over the past year, we didn’t just add AI onto the product; we designed the entire experience around it from the ground up. Height is now a reasoning engine and collaboration tool fused together.

It comes with project intelligence across the entire workspace, right out of the box, alongside every single one of your team members. It will track your project progress, write your updates, clean up your lists, all automatically. And because it’s always better to show and not tell, watch Michael’s demo to see what that looks like in action ↓

Confession: I’m bad at project management.

So much that I automated it. pic.twitter.com/8fOwcO5cMH

— Michaël Villar (@michaelvillar) September 17, 2024

We’re building autonomous capabilities into Height to solve a universal problem that comes up in every conversation we have with product-led teams. Essentially, product builders are expending more energy and brainpower on project upkeep than they are on building products.

The backstory

Height was already finding success with our current users in being a central source of truth for the entire company. Not just a place where you file tasks and leave them behind, but the place where the collaboration and actual execution of ideas happens.

But the thing is, when you're doing all this collaboration, there's a lot of maintenance that comes with it. It’s very diffused, especially on smaller teams, it’s not owned just by a product manager. In fact, it takes up to 3 years for a company to consider bringing a PM onboard. Some even wait till the 7-8 year mark. So more often than not, every person touching the product in some way is doing part of that project management work themselves. It's across ICs and managers, across leadership and execution teams. It really does move in all directions, and it's a silent killer. That’s partly why so many project workspaces end up being a task graveyard.

When we interviewed PMs as we were defining the roadmap for Height 2.0, they all echoed the same concern: it’s impossible for one person to digest and update info across hundreds of tasks within a week, while at the same time defining the strategy and direction of the product. We’ve heard them say, and we’re quoting:

“getting updates from people is a pain”

“if people don't tag everything the right way, it gets lost in this Jira void“

“you're managing ten other things and it's hard to keep track by memory alone”

One PM mentioned going through 330+ tickets during a single backlog pruning session. That’s a lot, and that’s before the work has even begun.

We see the same thing internally at Height. We’re a 22-person company, and just in the last few weeks we have over 2K active tasks. That’s almost a 100 statuses, attributes, task descriptions to update every week per team member. But clearly that’s not what engineers or designers or marketers or anyone building wants to or should be spending their time on.

The highlights

That’s where Height comes in. A lot of the classic project management scripts product teams use can be built into an AI reasoning engine that operates across the entire workspace, autonomously.

Take for example filing and triaging a bug. In Height, all you’d have to do is write the task name, and the rest happens on autopilot. All the tagging, prioritizing, assigning. Now imagine how many clicks it would take to do this manually. How many menus you have to open, scroll through, labels to select and unselect, mistype then fix the typo. Just to file one task.

And when you take this intelligence to a system level, you get an agent that can actually write real progress updates based on the conversations you’re having with your team, (not AI-generated bullet points from a zero-shot prompt that don’t add any real value.)

It also means it can detect and map the dependencies between tasks because it has the context of the entire project. It can find and eliminate duplicates or obsolete tasks because it knows your workspace history. And that’s just the start.

Autonomous features in 2.0 handle things like backlog upkeep, spec updates, and bug triage. View them here, or better yet, try them live in Height.

During early access, we already started receiving feature requests for other chores that can be offloaded to Height. Think automatically identifying the best engineer to fix a recent regression or watching out for subtasks that creep on the initial project scope.

And as we open up public access, we’re excited to hear your feedback and know which project chores you wish were automated. There are many more elements of project management where “autonomous” will be the new standard, and we’re building towards that future with you.

Thank you for your support.

We can’t wait to see what your team will build with Height!