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research/: long-term competitive-landscape research as a living body of work — the kanban market, the adjacent personal todo/task market, the file-based/local-first niche, and the AI-agent + task-management intersection, the two axes the bet actually lives on. The first pass (2026-08) is deliberately broad: a synthesis overview, the mainstream and native/indie/file-based segments, the todo-adjacent field, cross-cutting trends and success factors, the agents-and-tasks frontier, and a schema comparison against Signboard. The overview carries the narrow-pass agenda. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
Market Research
Long-term competitive-landscape research for Lanework: the kanban app market plus the adjacent personal todo/task-management market, with special attention to the file-based/local-first niche and the emerging AI-agent + task-management intersection — the two axes Lanework's bet actually lives on.
This directory is a living body of work. The first pass (2026-08) is deliberately broad — mapping segments, trends, and success factors. Later passes will narrow: deep-dives on the direct competitive set, positioning, and pricing.
Documents
- 01-market-overview.md — synthesis: the map of the market, where Lanework sits, and what the broad pass says matters (written after the segment docs; start here)
- 02-mainstream-kanban.md — mainstream/team kanban and project boards: Trello, Asana, Monday, Jira, ClickUp, Notion, Linear, and company
- 03-native-indie-filebased.md — native macOS, indie, and file-based/plain-text tools: Lanework's nearest neighborhood
- 04-todo-adjacent.md — personal todo/task apps: Things, Todoist, TickTick, OmniFocus, Reminders, and the daily-planner wave
- 05-trends-success-factors.md — cross-cutting trends: AI features that stuck, local-first momentum, pricing models, distribution, notable failures
- 06-agents-and-tasks.md — the AI-agent + task-management intersection: how agents consume task state today and what's missing
Narrow-pass deep dives (per-competitor, added as they happen):
- 07-schema-comparison-signboard.md — Signboard's on-disk format vs Lanework's: definition rigor, identity, ordering, denormalization, and the strategic read
Conventions
- Each document opens with a scope note and a
Researched: YYYY-MM-DDline; treat facts as snapshots of that date. - Broad passes favor coverage over depth; a claim worth acting on gets re-verified in a narrow pass first.
- Prose is unwrapped — one line per paragraph or list item.