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Motion — AI Autoscheduling Productivity OS: Tasks+Projects+Calendar+Meetings+Docs Unified, AI Blocks Work by Deadline/Priority/Capacity & Reschedules on Change, AI Notetaker + AI Docs/Sheets + AI Employee Tier, Credit-Metered AI Features, No MCP Server, Pro AI 29/seat (2019 SF, NexusBird)
NexusBird, Inc. dba Motion, San Francisco; founded 2019 by Harry Qi + Omid Rooholfada + Ethan Yu; Series A+ ~$50M raised, 1M+ users; AI-first productivity platform unifying calendar + tasks + projects + AI Notetaker + AI Docs/Sheets + AI Employee agents. VC-backed independent, not acquired (contrast Clipdrop/Slack), not open-source, no MCP server as of 2026-09.
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Field Value Official Website https://www.usemotion.com · docs/API: https://www.usemotion.com/developers (public REST for projects/tasks) · MCP: none (confirmed no MCP server, 2026-09) Company NexusBird, Inc. (dba Motion), San Francisco; founded 2019 by Harry Qi, Omid Rooholfada, Ethan Yu; VC-backed (Series A+ ~$50M, investors undisclosed public); 1M+ users; SOC 2 Type II (Prescient Assurance), GDPR, data on GCP Iowa us-central1, no EU data residency; does not train models on user data, OpenAI subprocessors bound same. Status Active, VC-backed independent, not acquired, not shut down Category ai-productivity-data Pipeline Stage none Title
Field Value Product Motion Descriptive Title Motion — AI Autoscheduling Productivity OS: Tasks+Projects+Calendar+Meetings+Docs Unified, AI Blocks Work by Deadline/Priority/Capacity & Reschedules on Change, AI Notetaker + AI Docs/Sheets + AI Employee Tier, Credit-Metered AI Features, No MCP Server, Pro AI 29/seat (2019 SF, NexusBird) One-line Positioning You add tasks with duration+priority+deadline (and projects with soft dependencies) → Motion’s scheduler treats your Google/Outlook/Apple calendar as a constraint solver and time-blocks work, reshuffling the whole week when a meeting lands or a task finishes early → AI Notetaker joins Zoom/Meet/Teams and emits tasks, AI Chat/Docs/Sheets/Writer burn separate AI credits (7,500 Pro / 15,000 Business), meeting booking pages replace Calendly; flat per-seat SaaS, no MCP (agents can’t drive it yet), 7-day trial no free tier. Features
Field Value Autoscheduling Core engine: tasks→calendar blocks by deadline pressure + priority (ASAP/High/Med/Low) + declared working hours + focus-time preferences; continuous replan when events move; recurring tasks rescheduled by actual load not fixed slot; warns on overcommit; supports soft task dependencies (not hard DAG like Asana/Jira) Calendar Two-way sync Google Calendar / Outlook / Apple Calendar; embeddable booking pages (Calendly replacement); protects deep-work blocks from external invites; web + desktop (Mac/Win) + iOS + Android (Android 3.4★ lagging iOS 4.1★) Tasks / Projects Unlimited tasks, projects, sub-tasks, project templates, multiple views (list/board/project), timeline/Gantt on Business, capacity view, predicted completion; dependencies are duration-ordered not true critical-path AI Layer AI Chat (credit), AI Task Planner, AI Writer/Editor, AI Summary, AI Notetaker (auto-joins Zoom/Meet/Teams, transcript→action items→assigned tasks), AI Docs/Wiki/Notes, AI Sheets/Databases, AI Employee tier (more autonomous agents, $49+/seat); credits meter AI features only — core autoscheduling is credit-free Team Shared calendars, team task visibility, workload balancing, Team Capacity Planning, permissions, central billing, white-glove onboarding (Business) Security SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, GCP us-central1, OpenAI subprocessor no-training clause, SSO/SCIM Enterprise Pricing (2026-09 USD; 2026 price drop: Individual renamed Pro AI, Team renamed Business AI; annual ~44% off monthly)
Field Value Free None — 7-day trial only, no permanent free tier, trial auto-converts to annual unless cancelled day 1–7 Pro AI (Individual) **29 mo) — full autoscheduler, calendar sync, unlimited tasks/projects, AI Chat/Planner/Writer/Docs/Sheets/Notes, AI Notetaker, meeting booking, 7,500 AI credits/seat/mo, iOS/Android/desktop, integrations, unlimited storage Business AI (Team) **49 mo) — everything in Pro + Team Capacity Planning, Advanced Dashboards, Timeline/Gantt, Time Tracking, Permissions, Central Billing, Priority Business Support, White Glove, 15,000 AI credits/seat/mo; min 2 seats AI Employee $49+/seat/mo — higher autonomous-agent allowance, credit scaling, premium support Enterprise Custom — SSO/SAML, SCIM, dedicated support, security review, MSA/DPA AI Credit Overage 0.26/100 credits Business AI (core scheduling never burns credits) Type per-seat-flat-plus-ai-credit-overage-no-free-tier; starting_paid=$19; 7-day-trial-not-free Reviews
Field Value G2 4.1/5 (~145–157 verified, 2026) — primary B2B/dev-adjacent star; praise autoscheduling “tells me what to do next”, continuous replan, Calendly replacement, 62% interview-irrelevant; gripes $19 steep for <10 tasks/wk, AI brittle on nuanced constraints (“no deep work after 2pm”), 1–2 wk learning curve, no true DAG deps, Android lag Capterra 4.3/5 (~87–89 verified, G2 acquired Capterra Feb 2026 but corpora separate) — auxiliary, aligned band, weight lower Trustpilot 3.7–3.9/5 (~545–577, 2026-09) — barbell: 51% 5★ / 27% 1★; praise transforms chaos, AI notetaker; rage on auto-renew/refund refusal, trial→annual surprise, credit overage shock, “AI hallucinates action items”. Exclude from B2B avg, report as consumer-billing signal (aligns Smartlead/Slack/Supabase/Framer/Netlify pattern) Product Hunt 2.9/5 ~93 (launch-era, not reweighted) GetApp / SoftwareAdvice 4.3/5 ~82 each — tertiary Editorial ToolRadar 4.2/246 aggregate (G2+Capterra), AIProductivity 3.9/4,139 multi-platform — positioning only Praise Autoscheduling genuinely removes weekly planning tax for 15+ task/knowledge workers, continuous replan beats Reclaim on aggression, replaces Calendly+task app+light PM, AI Notetaker→tasks loop tight, 2026 price drop 19 makes solo viable Gripes No free tier + 7-day trial auto-converts to annual = refund complaints (TP 1★ dominant theme), AI credit meter confuses buyers who think scheduling is metered, over-eager reschedule packs day with no slack, dependencies not true critical-path, Android app 3.4★, no EU residency, no MCP for agent builders Review Sources Breakdown
Field Value G2.com 4.1/5 ~145–157 — primary B2B star, weight highest Capterra.com 4.3/5 ~87–89 — auxiliary, G2-owned Feb 2026 corpus separate, aligned band Trustpilot.com 3.7–3.9/5 ~545–577 — barbell 51%/27%, billing/renewal/credit rage, excluded from B2B avg, reported separately Product Hunt 2.9/5 ~93 — launch-era not reweighted GetApp/SoftwareAdvice 4.3/5 ~82 — tertiary Editorial (ToolRadar/AIProductivity) 3.9–4.2 aggregate — positioning only Vendor (usemotion.com) Pricing/credit/company facts only Conclusion Prints “G2 4.1 primary, Capterra 4.3 aux, Trustpilot 3.7-3.9 excluded barbell” — same split-source rule as Smartlead/Slack/Supabase/Framer/GitHub/Webflow/Netlify/Cloudflare/Rezi Access
Field Value Web App https://app.usemotion.com — scheduler, tasks, projects, docs, meetings, booking pages; desktop Mac/Win + iOS + Android (Android partial) API Public REST (projects/tasks/comments CRUD, docs at usemotion.com/developers), API token per user, no webhook flood; not a general agent surface MCP None — confirmed no MCP server as of 2026-09 (AI Agent Index lists “MCP No”); contrasts Smartlead/Lokalise/Bannerbear/Supabase/Framer/GitHub/Webflow/Netlify/Cloudflare/Rezi which all ship one; aligns with FFmpeg (no MCP) and Customer.io/Shopify Magic/WordPress (.org) cluster Integrations Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple Calendar, Gmail, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Zoom, Google Meet, HubSpot, Salesforce, Zapier (→hundreds more), Siri; no Asana/Jira/Linear two-way sync Login Email/Google/GitHub/Microsoft; personal + workspace roles; SSO Ent Self-host None — GCP us-central1 only, no EU residency, no on-prem Best For
Field Value Audience 1 Calendar-heavy consultants/founders/ICs juggling 15+ tasks across multiple projects + 5-8 meetings/day who want AI to block and replan Audience 2 Solo pros/freelancers willing to go all-in on one OS (replaces Calendly + todo app + light PM + notetaker) Audience 3 Small teams (3-10) coordinating shared capacity, not running Asana/Jira-scale workflows Audience 4 Users who trust algorithmic planning and will invest 2-3 hrs tuning working-hours/priority weights Audience 5 Meeting-heavy operators who want Notetaker→task→schedule loop without manual triage Not For
Field Value Exclude 1 Teams needing true DAG/critical-path project management (→ Asana/Jira/Linear; Motion deps are duration-ordered soft) Exclude 2 Manual-control planners who hate tasks moving (→ Sunsama/Todoist/paper; Motion is opinionated) Exclude 3 Budget buyers balking at 8-10 / Todoist $4 does 60% of it Exclude 4 Agent builders wanting Claude/Cursor to drive scheduling via MCP (Motion has no MCP — unlike Rezi/Framer/Netlify) Exclude 5 EU-residency-required orgs, or anyone needing Asana/Jira two-way sync Exclude 6 Light users (<10 tasks/wk) — value doesn’t recoup $19 Competitors
Field Value Reclaim AI Closest rival, gentler auto-schedule (you approve), cheaper $8-18, Google-first, weaker PM/Docs/Notetaker, no MCP either Sunsama Guided daily planning ritual, manual time-blocking, calmer, $16 Akiflow Manual time-blocking keyboard-first, $15, no AI autoschedule Todoist / Things Task-only, no calendar automation Notion Calendar / Notion Docs+DB+tasks, calendar view improving, no aggressive autoschedule ClickUp / Asana / Jira True PM with DAG, but no AI calendar-block engine Tags
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(Motion = 第 35 张待装配独立卡，池累计 74 张。口径同前：
category=ai-productivity-datapipeline_stage=none；2019 Qi/Rooholfada/Yu SF VC-backed independent 非 acquired-kept 非开源 无 MCP（tags 首行显式not-acquired-kept-not-opensource-no-mcp-server区别于 Clipdrop/Slack 被收、Supabase/Framer/Webflow/Netlify VC 独立、Bannerbear bootstrap/FFmpeg 开源、且反向于 Smartlead/Lokalise/Supabase/Framer/GitHub/Webflow/Netlify/Cloudflare/Rezi 有 MCP——Motion 归 FFmpeg/Customer.io 无 MCP 簇）；G2 4.1/145-157 主星、Capterra 4.3/87-89 辅助（注 G2 2026-02 收 Capterra 语料分池）、Trustpilot 3.7-3.9/545-577 排除出 B2B 均重（对齐 Smartlead/Slack/Supabase/Framer/GitHub/Webflow/Netlify/Cloudflare/Rezi 分源写法，TP 偏 barbell 消费账单怒）；2026 改名 Pro AI 29（旧 Individual 20 老价表写进 pricing tag 防混淆）+ 7500/15000 credits 仅计 AI 功能不计核心排程写清；归 AI Productivity/Calendar/Task 跨组行不进 Image/Video/CMS-outreach/Localization/Chat/DevOps 池。)前序 34 张（Video 7 + Uizard/Pixlr/Leonardo/Ideogram/Midjourney/DALL·E 3 + AdCreative + Resemble + Captions + Colossyan + Citation Machine + Customer.io + Shopify Magic + WordPress + Smartlead + Lokalise + Clipdrop + Slack + Bannerbear + FFmpeg + Supabase + Framer + GitHub Actions + Webflow + Netlify + Cloudflare Workers + Rezi）+ Motion = 35 张独立卡待装配。要继续补 Sudowrite 同骨架，还是先把这 35 张拼成 CPT block？