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Compare · Atelier vs Linear
Linear is a fast, opinionated project tracker — issues, projects, cycles, triage. It assumes humans execute the work and the tool records progress. Atelier is the layer beneath that — your Projects hold Flows that orchestrate Sage skills, cross-product actions, and human checkpoints into traceable runs. The two complement each other: keep Linear for product / engineering planning; use Atelier when a playbook needs to run on real data across PC Studio.
When to use Atelier
You have recurring operational playbooks (Catalyst delivery, RFP response, intern onboarding, donor nurture, curriculum review) that combine Sage reasoning, cross-product actions, and human approvals — and you want them to live as versioned Flows your team can fork.
See Atelier pricing →When to use Linear
You're managing a software roadmap with engineers — issues, cycles, triage, dependencies, GitHub integration. Linear is the right tool for product / engineering workflow tracking.
Project management for software teams
Side by side
Feature
Atelier
Linear
Native to Perpetual Core Studio (Sage, Sentinel, RFP, Janice)
First-class step kinds + shared identity
Generic project tracking; no PC integration
Agent-augmented steps (LLM with shared org memory)
sage_skill step kind, Sage Mnemosyne writes
Linear AI suggests assignees / titles only
Cross-product event triggers (Sentinel verdicts, RFP draft ready, etc.)
event_wait + PC Event Bus with HMAC envelope
GitHub / Slack / Zapier integrations only
Conditional gates that branch on accumulated context
gate step kind evaluates expressions on run.context
Workflows are linear; no conditional branching
Issue / task tracking with status / assignee / cycles
Projects + project members + human_task steps
Linear's native domain — best-in-class
Roadmaps + cycles + initiatives
Not the focus — pair with Linear for product roadmaps
First-class roadmap + cycle planning
Reusable templates / playbooks
Versioned atelier_flow_versions with global library + per-org forks
Project templates (no agent steps)
Multi-tenant by org (RLS-enforced isolation)
Every row carries org_id; pc_runtime role enforced
Workspace-level isolation per Linear account
Trace timeline with every step / agent call / human action
atelier_traces append-only, queryable via SQL
Issue activity log per ticket
Per-run cost predictability (LLM + agent calls)
Run-based pricing tier; $0.05/run overage
N/A — no LLM or agent runtime
Public API for external automation
Server-to-server today; first-party API in v1.1
GraphQL API + webhooks since 2020
Engineering-led keyboard-first UI
Operator-led — built for non-engineering operators
Linear's differentiator — fast keyboard workflows
On pricing
Linear tiers (2026): Free (10 users, 250 issues), Basic $8/user/mo, Business $14/user/mo, Enterprise contact. Atelier per-seat costs are higher because each seat carries the LLM + cross-product runtime, not just a UI surface. Most teams use both — Linear for product / engineering planning, Atelier for the operational playbooks that run alongside.
Honest take
If your team is shipping software, you want Linear for the product / engineering roadmap. If your team is also running recurring operational playbooks — onboarding, capture ops, delivery, nurture — you want Atelier for those. They're complementary layers in the same operator's stack.
Open a workspace
Atelier opens in fifteen minutes with five starter Flows and every Perpetual Core product already connected. Evaluate for fourteen days; bring your team when you're ready.