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Karna

Project management that thinks with you.

Most project tools are filing cabinets — places where work goes to be recorded. Metafic designed and engineered Karna the other way around: an AI-native workspace where the work talks back. Ask it a question and it answers from your real tasks. Connect it to Claude and it plans your sprint. Change something, and everyone sees it the instant it happens.

Built with Metafic.ai Pods Designed by Metafic Design Unlimited
Karna across devices — web, board, tasks and AI assistant
Client
Karna
Category
AI-Native Project Platform (SaaS)
Scope
Product design + AI engineering
Platforms
Web · Mobile · MCP
The Challenge

Enterprise structure. Modern intelligence. One product.

Teams already know how to run projects — workspaces, projects, folders, lists, tasks and sprints. The pain is everything around them: tools that don't talk back, real-time that isn't, and AI bolted on as a sidebar afterthought. Karna brings the structure of enterprise project management and the intelligence of a modern AI assistant into one fast, beautifully simple product.

AI isn't a chatbot beside your work — it's wired into the data model itself, and the same workspace is a first-class tool that Claude and other agents can operate directly over MCP. Project management stops being something you do to a tool and becomes something you delegate.

4

Views — List, Board, Gantt & Calendar

Real-time

Live WebSocket + Postgres change sync

MCP

OAuth 2.1 server — drive Karna from Claude

pgvector

Ask your workspace anything, answers cited

What We Built

AI that lives inside your work, not beside it.

Ask your workspace anything

Karna embeds your tasks as vectors (pgvector + OpenAI embeddings), so you can ask plain-English questions — “What's blocking the launch?”, “What did we ship last sprint?” — and get answers grounded in your actual tasks, with the source tasks cited.

AI that plans the sprint

The sprint planner reads your backlog, weighs priority and story points against team capacity, and proposes a sprint you can accept in one click — with a plain-English rationale for every task it picked.

Close the loop with your code

Karna links GitHub commits to the tasks they resolve — first with deterministic ID matching, then with AI for the messy human commit messages that don't follow a convention. Your board stays honest without anyone updating it by hand.

Built to be driven by AI agents

A dedicated MCP server, built on the official SDK, exposes your workspace to Claude and any MCP-compatible agent over secure OAuth 2.1 (PKCE, token rotation). Agents create tasks, manage sprints and pull live analytics — in Karna, where the team sees it instantly.

Analytics managers trust

Completion by status and priority, workload distribution, sprint burndown, and early warnings on overdue work — available both in the dashboard and over MCP, so the numbers you see and the numbers your agent reasons over are always the same.

Real-time and role-aware

A live WebSocket layer backed by PostgreSQL change notifications propagates every update the moment it lands. Custom fields, granular roles (Admin, Member, Guest) and list-level access fit contractors and leads in the same workspace.

Product

See Karna in action

Every view, every workflow, one platform. Scroll to explore.

↓ Scroll
  • List View

    List View

    Filter, sort and manage tasks at scale

  • Task Detail

    Task Detail

    Rich descriptions, comments & activity

  • Subtasks & Deps

    Subtasks & Deps

    Attachments, dependencies & subtasks

  • AI Assistant

    AI Assistant

    Ask Karna AI about your workspace

  • AI Agents

    AI Agents

    Automate workflows with custom agents

  • Integrations & MCP

    Integrations & MCP

    Connect Claude, ChatGPT & more

  • Custom Fields

    Custom Fields

    Text, number, date, select & more

  • Quick Create

    Quick Create

    Create tasks from anywhere

  • Project Tree

    Project Tree

    Folders, lists & context actions

  • Navigation

    Navigation

    Dashboard, tasks, AI & more

How Metafic Delivered It

AI-accelerated engineering, subscription-grade design.

Engineered with Metafic.ai Pods

Karna was built end-to-end by Metafic.ai delivery Pods — AI-accelerated squads that pair senior engineers with an agentic build pipeline. From the real-time WebSocket layer and pgvector AI to the OAuth 2.1 MCP server and the GitHub commit-to-task linker, the whole platform shipped in a fraction of the usual time.

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Designed by Metafic Design Unlimited

Every surface — the four project views, the AI assistant, the sprint planner and the analytics dashboards — was crafted by Metafic Design Unlimited, our subscription design team, into one fast, calm system that makes enterprise-grade power feel effortless.

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1500+
PROJECT DELIVERED

Creating a full range of apps and software across all the platforms.

25+
COUNTRIES CLIENT ARE FROM

We are global at our core, understanding users and markets across the globe.

80M+
END CONSUMERS SERVED

Software-enabled platforms to completely change the way of UI/UX iterations.

90%
REPEAT CLIENTS OR REFERRALS

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