beehiivMonday morning. You open Linear to see what’s left in the cycle, then Stripe to check whether the weekend paid for itself, then GitHub to remember what you shipped on Friday.
Three tabs before coffee. None of them is wrong. They just aren’t in the same place.
What the board shows from Linear
Sign in once and the board can read your issues, projects and cycles through Linear’s own MCP server. Pick your open issues and they land as a live list. Pick a project, or the current cycle, and it gets a widget of its own.
Every form shows what the widget will say before you add it. Or skip the form and ask your agent. “Show my open Linear issues on the board” is enough.
Put the cycle next to today’s commits and what you planned sits beside what you shipped. Put open issues next to MRR, and the bug that’s costing you money is easier to pick out of a list of twenty.
Where the issues come from
Linear runs an official MCP server, and the board signs in to it with Linear’s own sign-in. The board stores that sign-in sealed on its server and never shows it back.
Linear’s server can also create and update issues, for agents that ask. The board never runs those tools. It only runs the ones that read, so nothing in your Linear workspace changes.
The board reads Linear while it is open, on the schedule you pick. If a read fails, the widget keeps the last good list and says what went wrong and when.
How this differs from Linear Dashboards
Linear has Dashboards of its own, on its Enterprise plans, for charts of your Linear data inside Linear. They’re built for a team looking at its work.
Context Board is built for a founder looking at the whole business. Your issues sit next to revenue, traffic, errors and the agents doing the work, on one board you arrange, for $6 a month.