What happened to Height?

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

Is NovumOS going to disappear the same way?

No one can promise forever, so judge the structure instead. NovumOS is revenue-funded on a boring model: $1 seats billed annually, the same for humans and agents, 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, so export is never 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. You can also 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 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 NovumOS 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 AI-forward well before that was fashionable. Its final act was rebuilding itself around autonomous project management. Its users weren’t confused about what they had. That is 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 needs

A board that feels instant. Height users will not tolerate a five-tab work OS. NovumOS is one fast board of columns and cards, built keyboard-first.
A real API. Height people scripted their workspace. Every NovumOS 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. NovumOS inverts it: you bring your own agents, and they get member seats with identity, scoped credentials, and audit trails. The first agent is 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. Here is our structure, stated plainly: NovumOS is small, revenue-funded, and priced to be boring at $1 per seat/mo billed annually ($12/yr, or $3 monthly) for humans and agents alike, with the first agent free. There is 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 (NovumOS 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. That was about three and a half years after its public launch, and after raising roughly $18.3M in venture funding. The team gave users a six-month window to export and migrate.
Is NovumOS going to disappear the same way?: No one can promise forever, so judge the structure instead. NovumOS is revenue-funded on a boring model: $1 seats billed annually, the same for humans and agents, 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, so export is never 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. You can also connect Claude to the MCP server and have an agent do the import as its first job.