Signal Forge

Before you build the app,
forge the spec.

Spec Forge interviews founders with structured product questions, challenges vague assumptions, and turns early ideas into a clear brief your designer, developer or product team can actually use.

Noise in · Signal out
brief.intake.v01● live
Rough idea

"I want an app that helps coaches manage clients and maybe uses AI… not sure about payments yet."

Strategic intake
  • — What kind of coach? Fitness, life, business?
  • — Who pays — coach or client?
  • — What workflow is painful today?
  • — What must exist in v1?
Build-ready brief
primary user
Independent fitness coach
core workflow
Onboard → Programme → Review
risks
AI scope unclear · payments TBD
mvp cut
Client list · session log · weekly review
Process

Three stages. One artefact.

01

Structured intake

12 stages — problem, users, journey, MVP cut, data, platform, auth, integrations, risks, metrics. One focused question at a time.

02

Intelligent pushback

Vague answers get challenged. Contradictions are surfaced. Assumptions and risks are tracked as first-class artefacts.

03

Build-ready brief

Submit when ready. A reviewer receives the structured brief as Markdown and JSON, scoped to a realistic MVP.

Output

What lands in the brief.

01
Product thesis
02
Primary user
03
Core workflow
04
MVP summary
05
Must / should / defer
06
Data entities
07
Platform & auth
08
Risks & open questions
Begin intake

Compress your idea into a spec.

Start forging brief →