Hillia shows what is stuck, what is clear, and what is actually moving, so progress does not get flattened into "in progress" until it is too late.
For teams using Shape Up without Basecamp.
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Use Hillia MCP from Claude, Codex, Cursor, or any other MCP-capable harness to inspect scopes, move work on the hill, and show the current shape of the project.
AI terminal demo: a Claude session uses Hillia MCP to update scopes, confirm the changed hill positions, and render an ASCII hill chart labeled Figuring out and Making it happen.
Hillia does one thing: it makes uncertainty visible. Use it next to Linear, GitHub, Notion, Slack, or wherever your team already works.
See every scope on one hill, from "still figuring it out" to "just executing".
Track learning, not just task completion.
Review a scope, inspect its tasks, and update progress from Claude, Codex, Cursor, or any MCP-capable harness.
Keep a history of how the project moved, not just where it ended.
Give everyone the same picture without another meeting.
Built around appetite, scopes, and the uphill/downhill model.
A checklist can say 80% done while the hardest unknown is still unresolved. Hill charts show the difference between figuring things out and executing what is already understood.
If you're following the Shape Up methodology without Basecamp, Hillia gives you the hill chart without asking your team to move its whole workflow.
Keep the project work in Linear, GitHub, Notion, or wherever it already lives. Use Hillia to show which scopes are still uphill and which ones are ready to roll downhill.
Learn more about HillchartsPut the hill chart next to the work, then move scopes when reality changes.
Name the project, add the scopes, and give each piece of work enough context for the team to recognize it.
Put unclear work on the uphill side. Move it downhill only when the path is understood.
Update the hill as decisions land, unknowns disappear, or a scope slips back into discovery.
Embed it in Notion, a wiki, or a dashboard so the status conversation starts from the same picture.
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Built for Shape Up teams using the tools they already have.