An AI project management assistant across your tools.
Ghost works across the meetings, messages, notes, tasks, and project records that already hold the truth. It can assemble the current state, find gaps, propose the next plan or update, and return later on an explicit rhythm without pretending to replace the system your team uses.
An AI project management assistant helps retrieve project context, summarize current state, identify blockers and missing ownership, prepare plans and status updates, and coordinate reviewed next steps across existing tools. Ghost complements Focus, Jira, Slack, Calendar, meetings, and notes; it is not a replacement project-management database.
One complete example.
For the Atlas launch, Ghost compares the latest review meeting, Slack decision, open Jira issues, and Focus Epic. It produces a current brief, flags one blocker without an owner, proposes the next three actions and a stakeholder update, then waits for review before creating tasks or changing an external record.
Where each capability enters.
This is one workflow across Ghost, not a bundle of disconnected products. Each feature owns a specific stage and keeps its own access boundary.
Keep outcomes and next steps visible
The AI to-do list groups related work in Epics and keeps each item’s priority, timing, source, brief, and Kanban status visible. The board holds Ghost’s personal work layer without claiming to replace the team’s external project system.
A configured proactive AI check can inspect relevant current context on a rhythm the user chooses and surface a blocker, approaching meeting, unfinished commitment, or stale plan. Quiet periods do not need a manufactured update.
How the work moves.
The handoff stays inspectable from source to result. Every stage names what it received, what changed, and what needs review.
Define the project and intended decision
The workflow begins with the outcome, selected sources, reporting period, audience, and question to answer. A launch-readiness brief, a weekly plan, and an executive status update need different evidence and levels of detail.
Resolve the current systems of record
Ghost identifies the exact Focus Epic, Jira project or issues, Slack conversation, Calendar events, notes, and meeting records that belong to the work. It reports unavailable sources rather than equating missing access with no activity.
Collect decisions and current task state
Meeting commitments, Slack decisions, Jira status, Focus work, dates, and supporting notes are compared with their sources attached. Earlier memory can help find context, while the connected system remains the place to verify current state.
Find blockers, gaps, and dependencies
Ghost can identify overdue or stalled work, missing owners, conflicting dates, unresolved decisions, and dependencies between steps. It distinguishes an observed source fact from an inference that needs confirmation.
Prepare the plan, brief, or update
The result can be a prioritized project plan, daily briefing, stakeholder draft, set of Focus tasks, or proposed Jira changes. The user reviews the wording, owners, dates, and destinations before any separate write or send operation.
Monitor the defined conditions
A scheduled AI task can rerun a fixed project brief, while Heartbeat can evaluate current context on a configured rhythm. Durable multi-step work can use task orchestration with explicit dependencies and approval gates.
What the workflow does not assume.
Connected work still needs accurate sources, explicit destinations, and review where an action changes another person’s system.
Ghost is an AI project assistant across existing work tools, not a full replacement for Jira, Asana, Linear, or another team project-management system.
An unavailable integration or source is not evidence that a project has no blockers, changes, or completed work.
A prepared plan, a Focus item, a Jira update, a Slack message, and a scheduled check are separate actions with separate effects and review points.
Continue the same thread.
Move to the stage before or after this one without losing the feature owners or the source trail.
It assembles relevant project context, summarizes current state, identifies blockers and missing details, prepares plans or updates, and helps coordinate reviewed next steps across the tools that hold the work.
Does Ghost replace project management software?
No. Ghost can complement Focus and connected systems such as Jira by retrieving context and preparing or performing supported actions. It does not claim to replace a team project-management database.
Can Ghost create a project plan with AI?
Yes. For a defined outcome and source set, Ghost can prepare a prioritized plan with work items, dependencies, owners, timing, risks, and open questions. Unknown details remain visible for review.
Can the assistant update Jira and Slack?
Ghost can use supported Jira and Slack operations when the accounts, scopes, exact target, and requested action are clear. A Jira write and a Slack send are different actions with their own approval and verification paths.
Can Ghost monitor a project automatically?
A configured Heartbeat can evaluate relevant current context, and a Scheduled task can rerun a specified brief. Neither connection means every project or channel is continuously monitored by default.
Start with one real workflow.
Bring the source, the intended result, and the boundaries that matter. Ghost is in private beta for macOS.