Orbit by Noveum

Orbit presents issues, boards, sprints, projects and documents as parts of one team workspace. The public page describes saved filters and views, plus an inbox for assignments and mentions. A team could use those pieces to keep specifications near the issues they explain.

The pitch is speed. Every edit is written to Postgres, published through Redis and pushed over WebSockets to every open tab, so a board reorders or a count changes on a teammate's screen without a refresh. Lists and drag-and-drop boards sit over the same issues, and clicking a person's name filters to their work. Filters cover state, assignee, label and priority, and a saved view can be shared with the whole team.

The landing page documents shortcuts for the command palette, new issues and a personal queue. It also describes GitHub integration and an MCP server that lets agents read and update work. These are public descriptions. Realtime behavior, integration permissions and agent actions are Not reviewed.

Press C to file an issue, G then I to jump to your own queue, Command-K for the palette, and ? to see every other shortcut. The GitHub connection shows pull request state next to the issue it closes. Through the MCP server, the site says, an agent can read the board, file issues and update work.

The site advertises free hosted access and links to a repository and self-hosting guide. No account was created, repository executed or deployment attempted. Hosted limits, license terms and self-hosting requirements are Not reviewed.

Signing up to the hosted version takes Google, GitHub, a passkey or an emailed code, and a team can join without an invite. The site says there are no trials, seat limits or paid tiers, and that Noveum AI pays for the hosting and engineering time. The code is on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 licence.

Self-hosting means one Next.js app plus Postgres 16 or newer, Redis 7 or newer and an S3-compatible bucket. The guide's quickest route is Vercel, at about 20 minutes, with standalone Node and Docker Compose routes meant for evaluation. The guide labels itself a preview and says Orbit doesn't yet publish a support, migration, backup or rollback commitment, so read its readiness tracker before you move important work there.

There's one gap for the hosted version. Orbit's own pages don't link a privacy policy or terms. The privacy policy on noveum.ai belongs to MagicAPI Inc, which does business as Noveum.ai, and it covers Noveum's AI agent platform without mentioning Orbit. That leaves open how the hosted copy handles your issues and docs.