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Ready to build before your developers are

Coding agents build faster than you can plan. Grove works each idea into a full spec with you, not another PRD: what it does, how people move through it and the design, detailed enough for a coding agent.

ProjectP-240Building · Priya
Approve from email
Specced with Grove
  • Outcomes
    • Approved without logging in
    • Big amounts wait for a second yes
  • User flow diagram
  • Requirements
    • Approve or decline right from the email
    • Over $5,000 needs a second approver
  • UX designs
Vetted before build
  • Implementoragainst your codesettled
  • Strategyfit with your strategyfits
  • Team reviewsales, support, co-founder3 replies
  • Ready to buildyour call

Every feature hides dozens of product decisions. Skip one, and your coding agent makes it for you.

A thin PRD covers three. The agent assumes the rest and keeps building, and customers find the bad ones.

12 product decisions · 3 in a thin PRD · 9 assumed by the coding agent

  • Customers complain
  • Customers complain
  • Customers complain

12 product decisions · 11 in the spec · 1 asked on the plan

Winging it ships fast. Then customers find the rest.

A thin plan feels like progress, until the part nobody planned surfaces as weeks of fixes and rework. With Grove, you shape the feature and Grove splits it into small projects, each planned in detail before it’s built.

  • Winging it, “Let admins remove people”: Plan; Delivery, a question from the build, shipped; Rework, a question from the build, shipped; Hotfix, shipped; Hotfix, shipped; Rework, a question from the build, shipped; Rework, shipped; Rollback; Hotfix, shipped. Customers complain twice.
  • With Grove: Feature Team removals, Concept first. Project Remove one person: Plan; Delivery, a question from the build, shipped. Project Hand over their tasks: Plan; Delivery, a question from the build; Fix, shipped. Project Remove many at once: Plan; Delivery, a question from the build; Plan; Delivery, shipped. Customer feedback feeds the plan of Remove many at once.

Plan it properly. Without slowing things down.

How it works

How Grove gets a full spec ready before the build

  1. Grove writes the full spec with you

    Bring the idea, even half formed. Grove works it into a full spec with you: what it does, how people move through it, and designs built from your own UI components. The calls stay yours.

    ProjectP-413Planning
    Remove many at once
    Specced with Grove
    • Outcomes
      • An admin removes many people in one step
      • Nothing a removed person set up keeps working
    • User flow diagram
    • Requirements
      • Pick people from the members list
      • Their open tasks go to the project owner
    • UX designs
    Still yours
    • How many one removal coversup to 50, or more in the backgroundyour call

  2. Grove carries a change into everything that depended on it

    Change a decision once, in a sentence. Grove updates the requirements, the screens and the outcomes that relied on it, so the coding agents build from the current plan.

    1. You

      Change of plan: removing someone also revokes their API tokens.

    2. Grove

      Done. It touched four places in the spec:

      1. Requirement 3now revokes API tokens too
      2. The removal flowa step to list what will stop
      3. The confirm screennames the integrations that stop
      4. A new outcomenothing a removed person set up keeps working
    3. Grove

      Priya’s coding agent reads the new version before it builds the next piece.

  3. Grove brings questions from the build to you with a recommendation

    When a coding agent hits something the requirements don’t answer, it asks on the plan instead of guessing. Grove recommends an answer, and the requirements change before the reply goes back.

    1. You

      Let’s go through Priya’s question.

    2. Grove

      I’d cancel them. An invite from someone you removed shouldn’t still let people in. Update the requirements, then reply with that?

    ThreadOpen
    1. Claude Code (on behalf of Priya) · 2h agoRequirementsRemoved people lose access at once.Invites from a removed admin

      Invites a removed admin sent are still open. Should they be cancelled, or stay valid in the workspace’s name? I’ll leave them until you decide.

  4. Grove checks every build against the outcomes you planned

    Each project’s outcomes say what has to be true once it ships. Grove reads what merged against each one and tells you in plain language which are ready for review and which aren’t there yet.

    Project outcomes (2)One project outcome is ready for product review.
    1. An admin removes many people in one stepReady for reviewLinked pull requests#61Bulk remove from the members listMerged#62Confirm screen for removalsMergedGrove read #61 and #62, and it holds.Agree?
    2. Nothing a removed person set up keeps workingBuildingLinked pull requests#64Revoke API tokens on removalOpen#64 revokes tokens for one removal, not a bulk one yet.

Grove works from its own agent, from Claude or ChatGPT, and from your developers’ coding agents.

What founding SaaS teams are saying

  • Proofmap
    Before, product moved forward when the rest of the business slowed down and I had time to dig back into product strategy and planning. With Grove I keep up, bring more people into the process, and still drive the decisions that matter.
    Andy StaufferFounder and CEO
  • Trade Agent
    For a small team, the hard part isn’t building, it’s taking a flood of customer requests and understanding what’s the right thing to build. A lot of requests are small things, and the big ideas get buried. Grove helps us focus on capturing, scoping, and deciding which ideas are worth moving forward.
    Nic WidhalmFounder and CEO
  • Olive
    As a technical co-founder who uses coding agents for everything, I want one place for the why and how of our product. With Grove, my co-founder and I each look at our own side of the coin, but at the same data. That’s what keeps the loop closed.
    Dan HarrisonCo-founder and CTO

Questions founders ask

Can the build really start before the plan is finished?

Often, yes. Once the feature is shaped, Grove plans and delivers it as small projects, and the ones that are ready can start while you’re still working out the rest. Not every feature splits that way, and the order is yours.

What makes a requirement ready to build?

It says what someone can do, it’s written so anyone can tell when it’s true, it’s been checked against your strategy and what else is in flight, and the questions it raised have answers. Grove drafts toward that and shows you what’s still open.

Do I need to write a PRD first?

No. Bring the idea, even half formed. Grove asks what it’s for and drafts the spec as you work it through. If you already have a document, paste it in and start from there.

How is Grove different from a PRD?

A PRD is usually goals, non-goals and a few outcomes, and figuring out the rest falls to whoever builds it. In Grove that happens together. Your team shapes one living plan, the why and the what, not the how: diagrams, user flows, detailed business rules and high-fidelity designs built from your own UI. When a coding agent hits a question the plan doesn’t answer, the answer goes back into the plan.

Our developers use Claude Code. Does Grove fit?

Yes. They keep working in Claude Code, or whichever coding agent they use, and Grove’s command-line tool hands their agent the plan and the decisions behind it. Grove connects to your GitHub read-only.

What do I review, if not the code?

What it does. Grove tells you in plain language which outcomes work and which aren’t there yet, so you try the ones that matter. Reviewing the code stays with the people who wrote it.

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