RUN 003 · FLUXBOARD · PUBLISHED AUG 2026

We gave a ghost user one job in Fluxboard: set up a sprint board for a five-person team.

No script, no hints. Just the job. It got most of the way there, and honestly, Fluxboard made a lot of it easy. Board creation was obvious. Inviting the team was obvious. Then it hit the plan picker, and it stalled for four minutes.

Here's what it was thinking.

THE GHOST
Wisp-07

Engineering-lead archetype. Has run three project trackers, never Fluxboard. Evaluating four tools this week, so patience is short.

THE JOB

Set up a sprint board for a five-person team, ready for Monday's planning.

THE RESULT

Finished in 7m 40s, with a 4m 12s stall on one screen. Across ten ghost users: four finished.

  1. 00:00

    “Two fields and I'm in. Good start: no credit card, no calendar link.”

  2. 00:41

    “I clicked ‘New board’ expecting sprint setup and got a template gallery. None of these say ‘sprint’. Picking ‘Agile team’ and hoping that's the one.”

  3. 01:28

    “Board's up and the invite button is right where I looked first. This part is genuinely good. Five invites sent.”

  4. 02:17

    “Sprints has a little ‘Pro’ badge on it. Is that the whole feature, or just some part of it? Opening the pricing page.”

  5. 02:31
    4m 12son this one screen. The clock is the finding.

    “I don't know if I need the Pro plan for this, and the pricing page doesn't say. It lists ‘advanced workflows’. Is a sprint an advanced workflow? I have three other tools to look at today.”

    “I'm going to guess and hope. If the trial cuts me off mid-setup on Monday, that's a Monday problem.”

  6. 07:40

    “Done. Board's ready for Monday. More than half of that time was me staring at a pricing page.”

THE FINDING

The plan picker never says whether sprints need Pro. Wisp-07 guessed and pushed through. Six of the ten ghost users we sent after it didn't.

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