ClickUp's 2026 Roadmap Explained: Every Major Feature Coming This Year

What’s Live This Week: Threaded Replies in ClickUp Chat

Before digging into the roadmap, Gray circles back on a feature he previewed in an earlier episode. Threaded replies that also send to channel are now live in ClickUp Chat.

If you’re used to Slack or Teams, you know the pattern. You’re deep in a thread, the group lands on a decision, and you want to surface it back to the main channel without breaking the thread context. ClickUp now supports that with a checkbox on the reply composer.

It’s another step toward parity with Slack and Teams chat.

Quality and Performance: The Most Important Thing on the Roadmap

Alex’s first call-out is at the very top of the roadmap doc. ClickUp is making an explicit commitment to quality, performance, and mobile app polish. After years of feature velocity, the product team is publicly prioritizing stability and reliability.

Alex makes a point worth repeating. The engineers he talks to at ClickUp are explicitly slowing shipping velocity to ship the remaining features correctly. That sometimes frustrates users waiting on specific improvements, but it’s the right call for long-term platform health.

Gray’s take: people building “ClickUp replacements” in a weekend get to skip the hard parts of scale. Multi-device sync, backups, permissions, large workspaces. The fact that ClickUp stays fast at real enterprise scale is the interesting engineering problem, and it’s worth applauding.

VibeUp: Build Custom Apps Inside ClickUp

The feature Alex is most excited about in the AI section is VibeUp. It’s custom app building inside ClickUp using natural language. Think CRM layouts, approval flows, industry-specific trackers, or budget tracking tools that sit on top of ClickUp’s primitives but get a custom front-end experience.

Alex sees this as the fix for the long-standing pattern where “ClickUp could be a good solution for this, but it’s missing one thing.” Plug the missing pieces with a small custom app and you unlock use cases that currently need a separate tool.

This is likely enabled by the Codegenic acquisition and should ship in phases. The impact isn’t just new capabilities. It’s also about simplifying the interface for non-power users who just need to see their specific slice of work in a specific way.

AI Brain Upgrades and External MCP Integrations

Beyond VibeUp, three AI improvements stood out.

Automated time tracking via agents. Today, time tracking is manual and depends on every assignee remembering to start a timer. Agents that watch meeting attendance and post time entries automatically remove a chunk of friction. Similar agent logic should unlock better workload visibility by reading real activity.

For a deeper current-state primer, our complete ClickUp AI guide walks through what Brain can do today.

Agent-deployed list templates. Today, applying a list template from an automation requires the API, which means Make, Zapier, or raw API calls. Native support plus agent access makes it accessible to non-technical users. That removes a whole category of custom integration work.

External MCP tool integrations for Brain and Superagents. Today, connecting Brain to Salesforce or HubSpot means routing through OpenAI or Claude as a middleman. Native MCP support lets ClickUp agents operate on other systems directly. Notion is slightly ahead on this capability, which Gray says is good for the whole ecosystem.

One more note: Brain is now powered by Claude Opus. Same interface, noticeably better answer quality, no new features required.

Chat: Slack Import and Channel Archive

Two smaller improvements that matter if you’re running ClickUp Chat seriously.

Channel archive. Today, you either unfollow a channel and live with the clutter, or delete it and lose the history. Archive keeps the history and removes the noise. Obvious and missing for too long.

Importing Slack channels into existing locations. Today, importing a Slack channel creates a standalone channel outside your existing hierarchy. If you’ve organized ClickUp around client folders or delivery spaces, you end up with duplicate channels. The roadmap item lets you import directly into an existing space or folder, making Slack migrations clean.

Scheduling and Project Management (Alex’s Section)

Alex owns resource management expertise at ZenPilot and had the most to say here. These items alone probably justify re-evaluating your workspace in Q3.

Parent/subtask date sync becomes a list-level toggle. Drag a parent task and the subtasks move with it, without needing dependencies. Gantt charts stop showing stale parent dates.

Gantt baselines

Today, you choose between leaving a task marked overdue or rescheduling and losing the historical forecast. Baselines let you lock in the original project timeline when the project kicks off. A month later you compare live dates against that frozen baseline.

V1 probably won’t include formula support or automations off baselines. The longer-term vision is to use baselines in dashboards, filters, and formulas.

ZenPilot has been solving this for clients by putting the original deadline into a custom field. List-level baselines eliminate that workaround entirely.

Out of office management

Today, blocking someone’s capacity for vacation means maintaining a parallel out-of-office list with estimated hours. Native vacation time on user profiles fixes that. Add the time off, capacity automatically drops for those days, tasks can’t be assigned, and the workload view shows the block.

API access is expected to come later so enterprise teams can sync with HR software.

New dependency types. Today, the default is finish-to-start. The roadmap adds finish-to-finish, start-to-finish, and start-to-start. Expect some initial confusion. Alex admits he had to ask the product team to re-explain them multiple times.

List properties

Custom fields have always lived on tasks, which made project-level information like budgets and client names awkward. The workaround today is creating a “project” task that holds those fields, then running automations to copy values onto every task. List properties live directly on the list.

That cleans up portfolio reporting and makes native budget tracking possible for the first time.

Work distribution by day/week/month. Today, a task spanning Monday to Friday with 10 estimated hours splits evenly across the days. Granular distribution means you can say 3 hours on Monday, 30 minutes on Tuesday, whatever matches reality. No more splitting one task into five subtasks just to plan hours properly.

User profile attributes. Today, capturing skills or role on a user requires a “user” task with custom fields. Skills, role, title, department, cost center, and cost rate become native fields on user profiles with API access. That enables role-based reporting, utilization analysis, and smarter AI-driven resource suggestions.

Time Tracking and Reporting

Native time tracking in ClickUp is functional but shallow. The roadmap adds estimate-vs-tracked variance, better filtering, AI actions on top of time data, and automations that can fire off time tracking changes.

Gray’s take on why this matters: almost every team should be auditing their repetitive tasks for estimation drift. You build a template assuming a proposal takes 45 minutes, use it 50 times a month for two years, and it actually takes 90. That gap is where agencies leak profit.

It stays invisible until someone explicitly compares estimate to actual. For a deeper dive on the native tooling today, see our ClickUp time tracking guide.

Embedded charts in tasks and docs. Today, charts live on dashboards and list views only. Embedded charts have been promised since 3.0 and are finally coming in 4.0. Alex expects the fastest adoption to be charts embedded in docs.

Workspace Organization

Two features already in beta, close to general availability.

Subfolders

Long-awaited and now usable. Covered in an earlier episode.

Custom fields by task type

Today, custom fields on a parent task get inherited by every subtask, even when they don’t apply. That is how you end up scrolling through 50 fields on a single subtask. This feature scopes custom fields to specific task types.

ZenPilot contributed feedback on this one and it’s shaped up well. Alex’s next feature request is status-by-task-type combinations, which aren’t on the roadmap yet.

Grouping by single attribute

Today, multi-assignee tasks and multi-value custom fields duplicate rows when you group by them. A toggle will show each task once. That is both a reporting win and a visual cleanup win.

Relationships in forms. Today, forms can’t create task-to-task relationships directly. This feature generates those connections from the form submission itself. No more submitting a form, then hunting down the related task to link it.

Automations and Meetings: Superagents Everywhere

Automations get two big upgrades. First, apply list templates natively instead of via API bridges. Second, trigger automations on external app events like WhatsApp or webhooks.

Both open workflow capabilities to non-technical users that previously required integration work.

Meetings and note taker. The theme is making meetings less bad. ClickUp’s note taker is getting a no-bot mode like Granola. The more interesting step is superagents joining calls.

The evolution is clear. First get the transcript, then auto-extract action items, then auto-create tasks, and now proactively assist during the meeting itself. Imagine a superagent that reminds you of unanswered questions, pulls up referenced docs, or builds the report you said you’d circle back on while the meeting is happening.

V1 will be simpler than that vision, but the direction is obvious and aligned with where the whole category is heading.

Sync-ups picture-in-picture mode. Today, sync-ups lock you into a full-window view. Picture-in-picture lets you run a huddle while referencing code, a doc, or another tab.

Admin and Feature Requests

Custom default notification settings lets admins set the defaults once and new users inherit them. No more “here are the five settings you need to change so ClickUp doesn’t drown you in alerts.”

Alex is also hoping for default home view configuration. Today you can’t template the Home view, so every new user gets the generic out-of-the-box layout. That’s this episode’s feature request.

Wrap-Up and Alex’s Advice

The theme running through the entire episode: most of these features eliminate workarounds ZenPilot has been teaching clients to build for years. That’s the category of improvement that compounds - not just “ClickUp has a new feature” but “ClickUp no longer needs a workaround to do the thing agencies actually need to do.” The ZenPilot methodology is built around identifying those workarounds and replacing them as the platform catches up.

Alex’s parting advice for anyone watching this and thinking about changing their workspace:

“Don’t change things brainlessly.” — Alex Rizea

Map the problem clearly, think through the solution, then act. Teams that inflict constant change on themselves without clarity usually make things worse, not better.

If you want to see where these features sit on the ZenPilot implementation plan - or whether your current workarounds are on the list to be replaced - the Blueprint is the fastest way to get a walkthrough of what’s next. In the meantime, check out episode 12 for Gray’s solo preview of the same roadmap.

Trivia

Last week: How much funding did ClickUp raise in its October 2021 Series C round led by Andreessen Horowitz? Answer: $400 million. A big jump from the roughly $30M they’d raised previously while largely self-funding.

This week: Which US city is ClickUp’s headquarters located in? San Francisco, San Diego, Austin, or Miami? Lock in your answer and we’ll reveal it next week.