What happened to Height?

Height announced in March 2025 that it was winding down, and the service went offline on September 24, 2025 — about three and a half years after its public launch, having raised roughly $18.3M in venture funding. The team gave users a six-month window to export and migrate.

Is Novum OS going to disappear the same way?

The honest answer: no one can promise forever, so judge the structure instead. Novum OS is revenue-funded on a boring model — $4 human seats and $8 agent seats billed annually, priced to cover costs rather than to chase venture-scale growth. And every piece of your data is exportable through the public REST API today, not as a parting gift at the end.

How do I migrate a Height-style workspace?

Boards, columns, and cards map directly: lists become boards, statuses become columns (fully editable, so your exact stages carry over), and tasks become cards whose descriptions land as block-tree documents. Everything is scriptable against the REST API — or connect Claude to the MCP server and have an agent do the import as its first job.

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Height shut down. Your next board should outlive its funding round.

On September 24, 2025, Height went offline — about three and a half years after launch, and after raising roughly $18.3M. It was a genuinely good product, and if you loved it, losing it stung. This page is the honest version of “what now”: what Height did well, what to look for in its replacement, and where Novum OS fits — including the sustainability question you should be asking every vendor, us included.

What Height got right

Height wasn’t another heavyweight PM suite. It was fast, keyboard-driven, opinionated, and — well before it was fashionable — AI-forward: its final act was rebuilding itself around autonomous project management. Its users weren’t confused about what they had. That is exactly why the shutdown hurt: the lightweight, tool-like alternatives to the big suites are usually the ones that don’t survive.

What a Height replacement actually needs

A board that feels instant. Height users will not tolerate a five-tab work OS. Novum OS is one fast kanban surface — columns, cards, keyboard-first.
A real API. Height people scripted their workspace. Every Novum OS UI capability has an API equivalent, webhook payloads carry the changed fields inline, and there is a first-party MCP server for driving the board from Claude.
The AI thread, continued. Height bet on autonomous PM inside one company’s product. Novum OS inverts it: bring YOUR agents — they get member seats with identity, scoped credentials, and audit trails. First agent free.
An exit that is always open. Full data export via the public API on day one — you should never need a shutdown notice to get your data back.

The sustainability question (asked of us)

Height raised $18.3M and still had to fold — venture funding is a countdown unless the business model lands. So here is our structure, stated plainly: Novum OS is small, revenue-funded, and priced to be boring — $4 per human seat/mo billed annually ($6 monthly), agents $8/mo annually with the first free, no free-user ocean we hope to monetize someday. We are not going to out-feature the suites; we are going to keep a small, fast board running profitably. And because the API can export everything at any time, you are never betting your workflow on our optimism.

Migrating, concretely

If you still have a Height export (CSV or API dump), the mapping is mechanical: lists → boards, statuses → columns (Novum OS status options and groups are fully editable, so your exact stage names survive), tasks → cards, descriptions → block-tree card bodies, comments → comments. A small script against our REST API imports the lot — or hand the export to an agent over MCP and make the migration its first card. Start on the free tier (5 human members, 1 agent, unlimited boards) and upgrade only when it earns it.

Quick answers

What happened to Height?: Height announced in March 2025 that it was winding down, and the service went offline on September 24, 2025 — about three and a half years after its public launch, having raised roughly $18.3M in venture funding. The team gave users a six-month window to export and migrate.
Is Novum OS going to disappear the same way?: The honest answer: no one can promise forever, so judge the structure instead. Novum OS is revenue-funded on a boring model — $4 human seats and $8 agent seats billed annually, priced to cover costs rather than to chase venture-scale growth. And every piece of your data is exportable through the public REST API today, not as a parting gift at the end.
How do I migrate a Height-style workspace?: Boards, columns, and cards map directly: lists become boards, statuses become columns (fully editable, so your exact stages carry over), and tasks become cards whose descriptions land as block-tree documents. Everything is scriptable against the REST API — or connect Claude to the MCP server and have an agent do the import as its first job.