How to use the Tech debt register template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Tech debt register template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Tech debt register”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Write the cost in hours or incidents, not adjectives. Pick the next item by cost of delay, not by how annoying the code is.”
Fill in each part
- Table Columns: Debt · What it costs us · Risk · Fix · Effort · Owner
- Adding a row What makes a good entry, so the register stays useful.
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Tech debt register board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

Dependency upgrade board
Track library and framework upgrades from spotted to shipped, so security fixes and major versions don’t pile up.
Migration plan
Move data or traffic from an old system to a new one in safe, reversible steps, with a check before each step.
Agent control room
Watch and steer an AI agent: it posts its plan, status and tasks here; you move cards and comment to redirect it.
Technical design doc
Lay out a technical design for review: context, goals and non-goals, the proposal, alternatives considered, risks and rollout.
Change freeze plan
Plan a quiet period around a busy date: what is frozen, what can still ship, how exceptions are approved and how you thaw.
Load test plan
Plan a load test before a launch or peak: the traffic you expect, what you will simulate, what counts as passing and what you will watch.