Project management for small teams
Bario keeps a small async team aligned on who's doing what, by when. No enterprise overhead. No flimsiness of a shared doc.
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Named for the barrio. The tight neighborhood where everyone knows what's happening, looks out for each other, and gets things done.
Why the other tools don't fit
Asana
"Too much process." Built for teams with dedicated project managers, recurring standups, and the patience to configure workflows. You have none of those.
Jira
"Built for 500 people." Three engineers at a seed-stage startup don't need sprints, epics, story points, and a 90-minute admin training. They need to ship.
Notion
"Flimsiness of a shared doc." No accountability. No ownership. Good for notes, not for a team that needs to know who's doing what, by when.
What Bario does
Everything a 2–15 person team needs to stay aligned. Nothing they don't. Calm by default. Fast to set up. Async-first from the ground up.
To-dos that belong to someone
Assign tasks with a due date and a name on them. Grouped by list, by project, by person. Everyone knows what they own.
Async threads, not Slack noise
Project messages are threads, not chats. Decisions live somewhere. You can find what was said last Tuesday without scrolling.
La Plaza for quick decisions
One real-time conversation room per block. For the moments that need a fast answer, not a thread.
Files where the work lives
Upload files to a project. See who uploaded what. Download without hunting through Slack's search.
Built for consultants & agencies
Most tools charge per seat. That means every client's team costs you money. Bario charges per block, not per head.
Create a block for each client. Invite their whole team. Switch between them from the sidebar. The work stays separate. The bill stays flat.
Client work stays contained
Each block is its own silo: projects, files, check-ins, La Plaza. Nothing bleeds between clients.
Invite each client's team
Add as many members as the project needs. No per-seat penalty. No awkward conversations about who gets access.
Switch in one click
All your blocks live under one login. Jump between clients from the sidebar switcher. No re-authentication, no new tabs.
barael.com
3 projects · 4 members
Recall.app
1 project · 2 members
Bright Studio
2 projects · 3 members
Growth plan · $99/mo · Unlimited blocks
The thing no one else has
Basecamp asks the team what they worked on this week. Most tools ask you to fill out a form.
Bario doesn't ask. It reads the actual activity: completed to-dos, new threads, files uploaded. Then it writes the check-in.
The project lead reviews, edits if needed, and publishes. The team sees a clean update. It feels like a gift, not a notification.
Bario drafted this check-in
Based on last week's activity. Review and publish, or dismiss.
Week of Jun 16
The team moved fast this week. We shipped the onboarding flow, resolved the pricing debate, and closed the design system sprint with everything documented.
Jake finished the Stripe integration. Maya wrapped the landing page. Alex published the welcome email sequence, all three variants.
Next week: final QA, help docs, and launch prep. We go live Friday.
Visible only to you · Draft
Pricing
Pay for the block, not the headcount. Add everyone who needs to see the work.
Founding
$29/mo
Up to 15 members · locked forever
→ Everything in Growth
→ AI check-ins & digest
→ Up to 15 members
→ Price locked forever
Starter
$49/mo
Up to 15 members · 3 projects
→ To-dos, messages, files
→ La Plaza
→ 1 GB file storage
– AI features
Growth
$99/mo
Unlimited members & projects
→ Everything in Starter
→ AI check-ins & digest
→ Unlimited members
→ 10 GB file storage
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Bario
Every early team is already doing this. They show up, align the people around them, and keep the work honest. Bario is for those teams.