Get Brainitive
Brainitive Cloud — hosted for you, updates and backups included. Free during early access; paid plans come later and are announced in advance. → www.brainitive.app
Self-hosted — free and complete, on your own server. Two files and our ready-made image
(ghcr.io/armendzekjiri/brainitive), nothing to build:
mkdir brainitive && cd brainitive
curl -fsSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/armendzekjiri/brainitive/main/compose.yaml
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/armendzekjiri/brainitive/main/.env.docker.example -o .env # then set DB_PASSWORD
docker compose up -d # open http://localhost:8080
HTTPS, backups, updates and optional features: docs/self-hosting.md.

What's inside
- Boards — Kanban or Scrum: sprints, backlog, burndown and velocity, issue history, WIP limits, time tracking, shareable filters, list / timeline / calendar views.
- Plans — Gantt timelines with milestones, dependencies, templates, Excel import / export, share links; rows can be linked to board issues and stay in sync.
- Docs & wiki — distraction-free editor with slash commands, drafts, publishing and version history.
- Whiteboards — Excalidraw with templates, autosave and history; turn sticky notes into issues and see them as live cards.
- Lists, My Work, Calendar — light to-dos, everything assigned to you, Google Calendar & Tasks sync.
- Helpdesk — embeddable support widget and ticket portal.
- AI — an MCP server so Claude or ChatGPT can read and update your workspace, plus bring-your-own-key writing helpers.
- Snippets & bookmarks, roles and permissions, notifications and web push.
Development
Laravel 12 · Inertia 2 · React 18 + TypeScript · Tailwind · PHPUnit.
cp .env.example .env
composer install && npm ci
php artisan key:generate && php artisan migrate --seed
composer run dev
Architecture, conventions and pitfalls are documented in docs/ai/.
Read CONTRIBUTING.md before opening a pull request.
Security
Found a security issue? Please don't open a public issue — report it privately at brainitive.app/support/security-issue. Details and scope: SECURITY.md.
Licence
Brainitive is free software under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. If you run a modified version for others over a network, you must make your changes available under the same licence. Commercial licences without that obligation are available — [email protected].
"Brainitive" and the logo are trademarks of the project owners; the licence covers the code, not the name.


