Case Study: Descript boosts engineering team productivity with Linear

Descript - Customer Case Study

Descript, the all-in-one video editing company, was struggling with its previous issue tracking tool as its engineering, product, and design teams scaled. The team found it created too much “work about work,” with outdated views, difficult search, and a poor fit for organizing tasks and projects.

By switching to Linear, Descript adopted a tool built for engineering orgs, with first-class support for sprints, points, priority, status, powerful search and filtering, a strong timeline view, and keyboard shortcuts. Linear made the system easier to learn and adopt across the organization, improved day-to-day speed, and even served as inspiration for Descript’s own product development.

Descript

Andrew Mason

Chief Executive Officer