What's the Actual Best AI Workspace for Startups Right Now?

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Genuinely asking because we've been through three tool stacks in 18 months and I'm exhausted.

Jira is like Excel - everyone hates it, but it’s the universal language of business =) I tried moving my team to Linear last year. The devs loved it, but management freaked out because they couldn't see their precious charts exactly how they liked them.

We're a ~17 person IT/dev team at an early-stage startup. Every stack we try hits the same wall - tasks in one place, docs in another, conversations in a third, and nobody remembers where the decision actually got made.

The AI angle is what confuses me most. Every tool has added some Copilot button, but it feels bolted on. Notion AI summarizes a doc that's already in front of me. It doesn't know about the ticket in Jira or the thread in Slack where the real context lives.

What I...

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