Planning

Action Items, Goals & Insights

The conversation is your project management. You don't update a board afterwards, you don't summarise in Slack, you don't open GitHub separately. Work is tracked and the plan is live as the conversation happens — one subscription, one source of truth, no separate tracker to keep in sync.

Action items — payments-apinobody wrote a ticket
#214

Exponential backoff for Stripe webhook retries

from session 23 · 3 acceptance criteria

implementing
#217

Auth fixes — token refresh, session expiry, logout race

rolled up from 3 commits this morning

deployed
#212

Migrate billing page to new pricing constants

verified on video · closed yesterday

verified

— the board, keeping itself. One item came from commits alone.

01The Problem

Nobody wants to write the ticket

Process tools assume someone will stop and document: write the ticket, groom the backlog, update the status, summarise it for standup. On a small team, that someone is you — and it's hours a week. So the board drifts from reality, and the tool you pay for becomes a chore you avoid.

You spend the morning fixing auth bugs across three commits. You never open your project board. By lunchtime, your product owner sees a single, clear ticket summarising everything you did — and why.

02The Mechanics

How it works

DevSpec keeps the project record as a side effect of the work, not a separate job.

Action items fall out of conversation

Discuss a bug, sketch a feature, agree on a fix — the AI captures it as an action item with a description, acceptance criteria, priority, and type. Bigger pieces become briefs that break down into child items.

Fig. i — From conversationapp.devspec.ai/action-items

The ticket wrote itself while you were still talking.

Commits write their own tickets

Shipping fast without documenting? DevSpec watches your pushes, reads what actually changed, and creates items retroactively. Five pushes on the same feature roll up into one coherent record.

Fig. ii — From commitsapp.devspec.ai/changelog

Three commits in, one coherent record out.

Goals measure themselves

Set the end goal. DevSpec assesses progress toward it with evidence from your actual work — sessions, commits, deployments. Not ticket counts: real clarity on whether you're moving toward the thing that matters.

Fig. iii — Goalsapp.devspec.ai/goals

Progress with evidence attached, not a percentage someone guessed.

Reports written for you, not by you

DevSpec uses the full project narrative to generate reports tailored to each person's role. A salesperson sees feature highlights. A product owner sees what shipped and what's blocked. An engineering lead sees velocity and risk.

Fig. iv — Narrative reportsapp.devspec.ai/reports

The status update nobody had to write.

03An Index of Capabilities

A project record that matches reality

01

A lifecycle, not columns

Items move open → implementing → deployed → verified, driven by what actually happened. Blocked or failing work surfaces in a needs-attention bucket instead of rotting in a column.

02

Acceptance criteria built in

Every item carries criteria the team agreed on in conversation — and AI verification uses those same criteria to test the deployed result later.

03

Real relationships

Blocks, caused-by, supersedes, related-to. Dependencies are facts the queue respects, not labels nobody reads.

04

Assignment that includes agents

Route items to a teammate — or stage them and let Autopilot pick them up. Everyone knows who (or what) owns each piece.

05

Insights you would otherwise miss

DevSpec synthesises changelogs, open items, and goal progress to surface what the team might overlook — an environment variable change gets flagged before the production deploy breaks.

06

Changelog without ceremony

A deployment-aware changelog assembles itself from the work as it ships. The daily digest keeps everyone current without a standup.

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