About Marathon

About four years ago, our design agency was drowning. We were processing thousands of design notes, Figma comments, and feedback from client meetings. Tasks that should have taken hours were taking days. Changes were missed entirely. It was chaos.

After one particularly brutal week, our founder Jeremy spent a sleepless weekend downing coffee and building a solution. By Monday morning, the team could finally throw Trello in the bin. That weekend, Marathon (then called Mast) came to life.

The first version was slow and buggy. Adding a new project required running SQL queries because there wasn't even a UI for it. But it worked. For the first time, we had one place to see every piece of design feedback, organized in a simple Kanban workflow.

That first week with Marathon was a game changer. We got more done than ever before, and our clients finally had clarity on exactly what we were working on.

Four years later

Marathon has evolved through several iterations. We added time tracking, AI summaries, Slack integrations, and turned it into a full project management suite. But as our agency grew and our processes matured, we realized something important.

We were trying to compete with Linear and Notion in the project management space, when what made Marathon special was much simpler: its deep, two-way Figma integration. The ability to capture every conversation happening across design files and track their status.

So we rebuilt Marathon from the ground up. This new version is laser-focused on one thing: turning Figma comment chaos into organized feedback. It automatically syncs every comment into a single view, lets you triage with a simple Kanban workflow, and integrates with whatever project tools you already love.

Never Before Seen Ventures

Marathon is built by Never Before Seen Ventures, a venture studio specializing in B2B SaaS. We partner with leading startups as product consultants, as well as launching businesses of our own.

We're a distributed team working from Melbourne, London, India, Poland and New York City.