codename: Atlas · Requirements & specs
Vague idea in.
Production-ready spec out.
Atlas turns a thin ticket into a well-formed requirement, problem, scope, MVP, acceptance criteria, or asks the sharp questions that close the gap. It never fabricates: proposals are marked PROPOSED until you confirm.
- 30–50%
- of PM time is spec-writing
- Minutes
- idea → structured PRD
- PROPOSED
- never guesses, marks it
The hardest part of a feature is writing down what it actually is.
Translating a hallway conversation into a PRD, with a clear problem, a bounded scope, user stories and unambiguous acceptance criteria, is high-cognitive-load work. It's where features get vague, where engineers and stakeholders quietly disagree, and where half a PM's week disappears.
How it works
Three steps from notes to a spec your team can build.
- 1
Describe
Paste your notes, a thin ticket, or a few lines of intent. Messy is fine.
- 2
Structure
Atlas drafts a PRD: problem, scope, MVP, user stories and acceptance criteria, flagging what it had to assume.
- 3
Confirm & export
You review, answer any batched questions, and push the spec to Linear, Jira or GitHub.
Sample output
A real transformation, not a longer prompt.
Atlas doesn't hand you a wall of prose. It produces a structured requirement with a bounded scope, decomposed user stories, and acceptance criteria that include the edge cases, the document an engineer can pick up and build from without a follow-up meeting.
Anything it can't infer is marked PROPOSED and surfaced as a question, so the gaps are explicit, never silently invented.
Raw ticket
“we need a way for users to export their data, finance keeps asking. csv probably. make it not slow”
PRD · data export
spec-ready- Problem
- Finance can't self-serve data; manual pulls block close.
- Scope
- CSV export of account data, async for large sets.
- User story
- As an admin, I export my org's records to CSV…
- Acceptance
- ≤10s for 100k rows · email link when ready · audit-logged
- Out of scope
- Scheduled exports, XLSX, flagged PROPOSED
Who it's for
One agent, three kinds of relief.
Founders
Go from a napkin idea to a spec your first engineers can build, without hiring a PM yet.
Product managers
Kill the blank-page problem and keep every spec consistent, so reviews are about the product, not the formatting.
Engineering teams
Receive clear, unambiguous acceptance criteria with the edge cases already considered, fewer mid-sprint surprises.
Capabilities
Requirements engineering, done properly.
Requirements gathering
Pulls structure out of chat, notes and thin tickets, and asks when intent is unclear.
Structured PRDs
Problem, scope, MVP, success metrics, a consistent shape every time.
User-story decomposition
Breaks the work into stories an engineer can estimate and own.
Acceptance criteria
Testable criteria that include the edge cases, not just the happy path.
Anti-fabrication
Marks assumptions PROPOSED and routes open questions instead of guessing.
Export anywhere
Pushes finished specs to Linear, Jira and GitHub in the right format.
Why not just a chatbot?
A generic AI will happily make things up. Atlas won't.
Ask a general chatbot for a spec and it produces something plausible, including details it invented, with no signal about what's real. Atlas is built for requirements: it holds a consistent PRD structure, it distinguishes what you said from what it assumed, and it gates a spec as ready only when the requirement is genuinely knowable.
This very page started as a three-line ticket. Atlas turned it into the requirement we built from.
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Generic chatbot
Confident prose, invented details, no structure you can rely on.
- ✓
Atlas
Consistent PRD, assumptions flagged, gated spec-ready, built to be trusted.
Engagement
Run Atlas on your next five tickets.
Bring real, half-formed requests. We'll have Atlas turn them into specs your engineers can build from, and you judge the quality against what your team produces today.
Get started
Turn your backlog into buildable specs.
Book a demo and we'll run Atlas on a few of your real tickets, so you can see the PRDs, the clarifying questions and the export into your tracker.
- Free scoping workshop, no commitment
- Pilot measured against your own baseline
- Human review gates from day one