We're about to tell you something no SaaS company says: you don't need our app. The methodology is free. We ran it for two years in a Figma file before writing a single line of code.
The Figma era
Before agile.flights existed as software, it was a shared Figma file. Rectangles with flight names on them, color-coded by status, dragged around a canvas by hand. That was the entire system - and it worked.
Every project ran as a flight with a captain, a crew, crates loaded and delivered, and landing dates that actually meant something. No app required. A whiteboard works too, if that's what you have.
How to run Flights without our tool
Notion. Create a database with columns for flight name, captain, status (takeoff, active, emergency, landed), takeoff date, and landing date. Add a related database for crates. Board view grouped by status. Done.
Google Sheets. One tab for active flights, one for landed. Columns for flight name, captain, crew, takeoff, landing, status. Color the rows. Share it. Simple, ugly, effective.
A whiteboard. Four columns: Takeoff Runway, In Flight, Emergency, Landed. One card per flight with the captain's name. Move them across as status changes. The physical act of moving a flight to "landed" is more satisfying than any digital animation.
What the app actually adds
Convenience. That's the honest answer.
Real-time airport board. Captain constraints so one person can't quietly captain five flights at once. Crew assignments, crate tracking, ground mechanic rotation - without anyone maintaining a spreadsheet. Integrations with tools your team already uses.
For small teams, a Notion board works fine. When you have twelve flights across four teams with shared crew members, you need something tracking the interdependencies for you.
What the app doesn't add
No software gives you the discipline to scope tightly, land on time, and triage when things go sideways. If flights keep missing landing dates, the problem isn't your tooling - it's too many crates, captains without authority to cut scope, or nobody willing to call an emergency. A prettier dashboard won't fix any of that.
Why we're telling you this
The people who try the methodology manually are the ones most likely to eventually want the tool - not because we tricked them, but because they've felt the pain points the app solves. Try three flights in Notion first. If the language sticks, the app will make it smoother. If it doesn't click, we've saved you a subscription fee.
The FAQ has everything you need to get started. And if you eventually want the app, the quick start guide takes about ten minutes. But there's no rush. The methodology is free. It always will be.