
Developer-ready spec and execution workspace
Reduce spec-to-working-code cycles while keeping the plan and its evidence current.
- For
- Product and engineering teams turning scattered product context into specs that AI coding agents can execute
- Solves
- Product ideas and scattered context do not become structured, developer-ready specs, so AI coding agents execute ambiguous work and documentation goes stale.
- Delivers
- Reviewed, developer-ready specs and atomic tasks linked to code modules
- Built in
- about 6 weeks of creation time, MVP in 7 days
- Investment
- $13,000 for the MVP, $44,000 for the full product
- Run it
- Inside your business, or as part of your offer to clients
What it does
Reduce spec-to-working-code cycles while keeping the plan and its evidence current.
- Generate structured specs from ideas, repositories or meeting recordings.
- Format specs for direct developer implementation.
- Update living documentation as development progresses.
- Provide a shared workspace for real-time editing and collaboration.
- Export context bundles formatted for AI coding assistants.
- Store the plan as a file in the repository that drives execution.
- Break work into atomic tasks with acceptance criteria.
- Run executable validation gates before marking tasks done.
- Record task status durably for resumable work.
- Keep the plan plaintext and agent-agnostic.
- Re-run gates against current repo state to catch drift.
- Allow editing, reordering or splitting tasks mid-execution.
- Map customer evidence to code modules and dependencies.
- Consolidate context from Slack, Jira and Confluence.
- Push structured tasks into IDEs via MCP.
- Apply PM-validated templates and decay stale mappings on codebase sync.
Everything these tools do, in one app
- AI spec generation Uses AI to create structured specs from ideas, repositories, or meeting recordings.Found in CasDoc, Radiq
- Structured developer-ready specs Produces specs formatted for developers to implement directly.Found in CasDoc, Deep Work Plan, Radiq
- Living documentation updates Keeps specs current as development progresses to reduce stale documentation.Found in CasDoc
- Collaborative workspace Provides a shared space for real-time editing and collaboration among team members.Found in CasDoc, Radiq
- Context bundle export Exports structured context bundles formatted for AI coding assistants.Found in CasDoc
- Plan-as-source-of-truth Stores the plan as a file in the repository that drives execution.Found in Deep Work Plan
- Atomic tasks with acceptance criteria Breaks work into small tasks each with clear acceptance criteria.Found in Deep Work Plan
- Validation gates Runs executable commands to verify task completion before marking done.Found in Deep Work Plan
- Resumable state Records task status durably so work can resume after context resets or agent swaps.Found in Deep Work Plan
- Agent-agnostic design Works with any AI coding agent because the plan is plaintext in the repo.Found in Deep Work Plan
- Drift control Re-runs validation gates against the current repo state to catch and surface failures.Found in Deep Work Plan
- In-run refinement Allows editing, reordering, or splitting tasks mid-execution without losing completed work.Found in Deep Work Plan
- Knowledge graph mapping Maps customer evidence to code modules and dependencies using code analysis.Found in Radiq
- Signal ingestion Consolidates context from tools like Slack, Jira, and Confluence into a single source.Found in Radiq
- IDE task push via MCP Pushes structured tasks directly into IDEs like Cursor, VS Code, and Windsurf.Found in Radiq
- Operational safeguards Uses PM-validated pattern templates and automatically decays stale mappings on codebase sync.Found in Radiq
What goes in, what comes out
- Ideas
- Repositories
- Meeting recordings
- Tool signals from Slack
- Jira
- Confluence
AI drafts, people review. Technical delivery workspace with managed implementation.
- Reviewed
- Developer-ready specs
- Atomic tasks linked to code modules
How it works
The workflow
- InStart with
Ideas, repositories, meeting recordings and tool signals from Slack, Jira and Confluence
- 1
Confirm the buyer's problem and scope
- 2
Collect ideas
- 3
Repositories
- 4
Meeting recordings and tool signals
- 5
Then follow this sequence: 1
- OutFinish with
Reviewed, developer-ready specs and atomic tasks linked to code modules
AI does the heavy lifting, people stay in charge
Use AI to interpret permitted inputs, suggest structured mappings and generate candidate specs and tasks for the three stated task modules. Use deterministic code for arithmetic, schema validation, hard constraints and reproducible tests. Review source-linked explanations and uncertainty before accepting results. One repository layout and one agent protocol; final architecture and merge decisions remain human. A model suggestion is never a verified fact, professional decision or authorization to act.
What your team sees
Primary screens: Context intake and evidence, Spec and task board, Validation and drift view. Use a project list, a central spec editor with linked task cards, and a right-hand panel for sources, acceptance criteria and comments. Let users compare spec versions side by side. Display draft, in review, validated and drifted states. Provide a repository-linked view of the plan file and its gate results. Make the task-specific outcome reviewed, developer-ready specs and atomic tasks linked to code modules visible beside its evidence, review state and value baseline.
Accounts and administration
Project ownership, source versions, comment threads, approval states, gate results, agent access, task history and a rights record for supplied material. Add organization access boundaries, named reviewers, usage caps, data retention controls, export logs and explicit approval for external actions.
Integrations and data access
Customer-owned repositories, authorized meeting recordings and permitted tool sources. Cloud code storage, issue trackers, IDE task push via MCP and documentation destinations. Start with file exchange and validate destination specifications before promising direct publishing. Start with authorized file exchange. Validate current provider access, usage rights and schema behavior before promising a connector.
How we build it
We build with our own AI software development factory, so most implementations take days to a few weeks of creation time, not months. You see working software at every step, and exact timing depends on availability.
- 1
Scoping call
Day 1Thirty minutes on your process, your data and how you want to run it: for your own team, or for your clients. You get a fixed scope and price for the MVP.
- 2
MVP
7 daysOne buyer segment, one recurring use case; first modules: generate structured specs from ideas, repositories or meeting recordings; break work into atomic tasks with acceptance criteria. Manual review in the loop. Built by our AI software factory.
- 3
Paid pilot
8 daysAccounts, roles, review states, audit trail and the first integration, hardened for two to three paying pilot customers.
- 4
Full product
3 weeksSelf-serve onboarding, billing, monitoring and the wider integration set.
- 5
Run and improve
MonthlyWe host, monitor and improve it for a fixed monthly fee, or hand it over to your team. How the retainer works.
Why we start with an MVP
An MVP, or minimum viable product, is the smallest version that your users can actually work with. It is not a cheap version of the full solution. It is a test, built to answer the questions that decide whether the rest is worth building.
- Pick the riskiest assumption. Here: will product and engineering teams turning scattered product context into specs that AI coding agents can execute use it to solve "product ideas and scattered context do not become structured, developer-ready specs, so AI coding agents execute ambiguous work and documentation goes stale"?
- Build only what tests it. One team, one use case, a few core modules. People do the rest by hand for now.
- Run a paid pilot. Agree quality and outcome thresholds before the pilot using this measure: Accepted tasks per spec hour and rework after agent execution.
- Measure, then decide. Track accepted tasks per spec hour and rework after agent execution; accepted-output rate; material error rate; reviewer correction time; actual repeat purchase. Then expand, change course or stop, with evidence instead of opinions.
MVP scope for this solution. Pilot scope: One repository layout and one agent protocol; final architecture and merge decisions remain human. Implement one approved input format, a bounded representative case set and the first two task modules: generate structured specs from ideas, repositories or meeting recordings; break work into atomic tasks with acceptance criteria. Support the third module with operator review: run executable validation gates before marking tasks done. Include source references, corrections, basic organization access, approval states, export and value measurement. Use managed operator assistance for unresolved exceptions. The cost estimate covers this narrow prototype, not unrestricted multi-tenant scale, complex production integrations, specialist certification or physical operations.
After the MVP. Once paid pilots prove usefulness, automate repeatable reviewed steps and add one verified source integration. Expand supported inputs and case volume only after new evaluation cases pass. Build reusable customer configurations and recurring value reports around reviewed, developer-ready specs and atomic tasks linked to code modules. Retain the explicit scope boundary: One repository layout and one agent protocol; final architecture and merge decisions remain human.
What the build depends on. Repository access and preview, asynchronous generation jobs, editable version history, reviewer access and tested export formats. High-fidelity production requires specialist engineering QA. Obtain representative authorized cases, baseline measurements, qualified reviewers and a buyer-side decision owner. Specific limitation: One repository layout and one agent protocol; final architecture and merge decisions remain human.
Investment
A planning range to start the conversation, not a quote. You pay per phase, so you can stop after the MVP.
- Phase 1
MVP
One buyer segment, one recurring use case; first modules: generate structured specs from ideas, repositories or meeting recordings; break work into atomic tasks with acceptance criteria. Manual review in the loop.
- Phase 2
Paid pilot
Accounts, roles, review states, audit trail and the first integration, hardened for two to three paying pilot customers.
- Phase 3
Full product
Self-serve onboarding, billing, monitoring and the wider integration set.
Indicative total, MVP to full product$44,000about 6 weeks of creation time · start with the MVP from $13,000
Running costs per month
A rough indication of monthly hosting and AI model costs once it is live, not tested. Real costs depend on usage, file sizes and the models chosen.
| Stage | Hosting and infrastructure | AI usage | Total per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| MVP and paid pilotabout 3 customers | $30–$60 | $60–$120 | $90–$180 |
| Full productabout 50 customers | $110–$210 | $530–$1,050 | $640–$1,260 |
Run it or resell it
For your own team
Product and engineering teams turning scattered product context into specs that AI coding agents can execute run it inside the business: ideas, repositories, meeting recordings and tool signals from Slack, Jira and Confluence in, reviewed, developer-ready specs and atomic tasks linked to code modules out, reviewed by your people.
As part of your offer
Agencies, consultancies and software companies can offer it to their own clients under their brand. We build and maintain it; you sell and deliver it.
Your brand, or this one
Run it under your own brand, or start from this concept style.
- primary
#912791 - accent
#70c954 - surface
#f1e4f1 - ink
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- Headings
- Space Grotesk
- Text
- Inter
- Voice
- Curious, rigorous, user-led
Selling it to your own clients: the go-to-market playbook
Pricing to test
Test a USD 300-1,500 fixed pilot for one defined repository package. Offer a monthly production allowance after repeat demand. Quote complex multi-repo or specialist integration work separately. These are test prices, not market benchmarks. Package the initial sale as one bounded reviewed, developer-ready specs and atomic tasks linked to code modules. Recurring fees must specify volume, review depth and integration support. For exchanges, test a disclosed coordination or successful-service fee rather than holding customer funds. Reprice only after measuring real delivery labor; platform-build cost is separate from a commercial pilot fee.
Message to test
Reduce spec-to-working-code cycles while keeping the plan and its evidence current. Demonstrate a concrete reviewed, developer-ready specs and atomic tasks linked to code modules using the buyer's approved example and show the baseline, corrections and actual delivery effort.
Where to find buyers
Product and engineering teams turning scattered product context into specs that AI coding agents can execute professional communities; specialist consultants serving this buyer; permissioned partner introductions; practical demonstrations at relevant trade or practitioner events.
Lead magnet
A reviewed sample reviewed, developer-ready specs and atomic tasks linked to code modules from a small authorized input set, with a transparent calculation of accepted tasks per spec hour and rework after agent execution and no promised savings.
The first 30 days
- Week 1: interview five product and engineering teams turning scattered product context into specs that AI coding agents can execute and inspect a recent example of product ideas and scattered context not becoming structured, developer-ready specs, so AI coding agents execute ambiguous work and documentation goes stale.
- Week 2: prepare a consented or synthetic demonstration of the three task modules.
- Week 3: seek one bounded paid pilot with agreed baseline and acceptance criteria.
- Week 4: measure accepted tasks per spec hour and rework after agent execution, reviewer effort and repeat-purchase interest. This is a demand-validation plan, not a thirty-day full-product delivery promise.
Paid pilot
Agree quality and outcome thresholds before the pilot using this measure: Accepted tasks per spec hour and rework after agent execution. Continue only if the buyer accepts the actual output, the intended job outcome improves without unacceptable errors, and measured delivery cost fits willingness to pay. Revise or stop if access is unavailable, qualified review cannot be provided, or apparent savings disappear after corrections and support. Use held-out cases when comparing model quality; use a properly reviewed comparison design before making causal claims. Record missing cases and negative results alongside successful outputs.
Success metrics
Accepted tasks per spec hour and rework after agent execution; accepted-output rate; material error rate; reviewer correction time; actual repeat purchase.
Retention and expansion
Repeat the workflow when the buyer again needs reviewed, developer-ready specs and atomic tasks linked to code modules. Retain permissioned settings and reviewed examples, report realized value honestly, and sell increased volume or adjacent approved workflows only after contribution margin and quality remain acceptable.
Why clients would pick it
A reusable library of approved spec patterns, task templates and review examples, together with reliable delivery for a narrow engineering niche. Build a permissioned library of representative task cases, reviewer corrections and verified operating constraints for product and engineering teams turning scattered product context into specs that AI coding agents can execute. Repeatable delivery and useful integrations matter more than access to a base model.
Alternatives and positioning
CasDoc, Deep Work Plan, Radiq, and manual spec writing with scattered documents. Compare this product with the buyer's present method on accepted tasks per spec hour and rework after agent execution. Offer a bounded paid workflow instead of claiming broad autonomous expertise. Market uniqueness and competitor coverage are not verified.
Main delivery costs
Generation attempts, repository indexing, storage, reviewer hours, client revision rounds and licensed source assets. Additional initial validation requires representative authorized sample preparation, buyer interviews, buyer-side evaluation and bounded validation of reviewed, developer-ready specs and atomic tasks linked to code modules. Track cost per accepted output, including correction work, unsuccessful cases and support.
Safeguards
Preserve source attribution, code ownership and usage permissions. Engineering owners approve substantive spec changes and merge scope. One repository layout and one agent protocol; final architecture and merge decisions remain human. Keep all consequential actions under authorized human control and do not fabricate missing inputs, permissions, professional judgments or market evidence.