About Truetask
Truetask is a self-hosted project management platform designed for organizations that refuse to hand their operational data to a third party.
From the founder
I spent the better part of ten years inside production studios, building internal tools that producers, accountants, IT, and the studio dev team used every day. Bidding platforms, payroll automation, project tracking — running on the studios' own servers across facilities in Los Angeles, Vancouver, and Atlanta, often inside NDAs that wouldn't tolerate a cloud SaaS.
The pattern was always the same. The pipeline ran on Ftrack or Shotgrid; everything around it scattered across Notion, Trello, and email threads no one could audit. When pricing changed or a vendor got acquired, the data was hostage.
Truetask is what I wished I had — one server, one license, the teams next to the pipeline finally on the same page. Self-hosted because some data shouldn't leave the building. Perpetual because software you depend on shouldn't disappear when a subscription lapses.
— Yas Opisso, Founder, Truetask
Principles
Your data lives on your servers. We never see it, touch it, or have access to it. Zero telemetry. Zero external calls.
Pay once, own it forever. No subscriptions, no renewals required to keep running. Your license never expires.
No CDNs, no web fonts, no external APIs. Truetask runs in air-gapped environments without internet access.
Unlimited users on every plan. We believe charging per seat punishes growth and creates perverse incentives.
Background
Truetask comes from a background of building enterprise internal platforms — CI/CD pipelines, automated payroll systems, and real-time production tracking tools used across global facilities. That experience shaped every architectural decision in the product.
Docker Compose deployment because infrastructure should be simple. SQLite because databases shouldn't require a DBA. Perpetual licensing because software you depend on shouldn't disappear when a subscription lapses. Air-gapped support because some environments can't — and shouldn't — reach the internet.
Every feature is built, tested, and maintained with the same rigor you'd expect from tools running inside a production environment where downtime costs real money.
45-day free trial. Full Enterprise features. No credit card required.