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Spectr for product managers
You were hired for judgement - what to build, in what order, what to say no to. What actually fills your week is typing: turning calls into tickets, chasing the context the ticket left out, and rewriting a requirements doc that went stale in a week. Spectr drafts all three. Your time goes back to the decisions.
Most of your week is the part of the job a machine could draft
Half a day per discovery call turning notes into tickets. An hour on Monday explaining what ticket fourteen meant. Another afternoon squaring a requirements doc with what was actually agreed on three later calls. None of it is what you are good at, and all of it has to happen before anyone can start.
What it actually looks like
Your Thursday, before and after. Two calls in the morning, sprint planning tomorrow.
Before, 1pm
You start writing tickets from the morning's two calls. You finish at 4:30, with 16 tickets, and the last five are thin.
After, 1pm
Both calls are already spec sheets. You read through 16 drafts. Eleven are right, so you bulk-approve them.
1:18pm
Three need a tighter acceptance criterion. You fix those inline - the wording, not the whole ticket.
1:24pm
Two are things you have decided not to do. You reject them with a note, so they inform later runs instead of coming back next month.
1:28pm
Publish. Sixteen minus two is fourteen issues in Jira, correctly typed, with estimates and assignees.
1:35pm
Someone asks in Slack when you agreed to drop the CSV export. You ask the AI Assistant. It answers with the date and links the meeting.
Three and a half hours of writing tickets has turned into about 35 minutes of reading them - and the afternoon you got back is the one you never had for talking to customers.
Review instead of write
Import the meeting and Spectr produces the spec and the stories, each with acceptance criteria, a priority, an estimate and labels. Your job becomes approve, edit inline, or reject - a genuinely different task from producing nineteen tickets from memory. Bulk-approve the obvious ones and spend your attention on the three that need it.
The context actually makes it into the ticket
Because Spectr reads your pinned Notion pages, Figma files and repos before drafting, the reasoning and the constraints end up in the story rather than staying in your head. That is what shortens the Monday question queue - the developer already has what you would have told them.
Ask your project a question instead of remembering
The AI Assistant answers from your meetings, specs, requirements, stories, budget and team. It shows its reasoning and links every source. "When did we agree to drop the export?" becomes a question with an answer rather than twenty minutes of Slack search. Available on Starter and above.
Bring a number to planning
Connect PostHog or Sentry and the errors your users actually hit, plus survey feedback, get quoted with a date in the specs Spectr writes. It changes the shape of a planning meeting when the checkable version of the claim is already on the page.
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Frequently asked questions
Will I end up reviewing more than I would have written?
No. Reading a drafted story and deciding whether it is right is much faster than producing one from nothing, and bulk approval covers the ones that need no thought. The two or three that do need thought are the ones you would have spent your time on anyway.
Can I reject a story and have Spectr learn from it?
Yes. Reject with a note and, when that setting is on, later runs take your rejections into account instead of proposing the same thing again.
Does anything ever publish without me?
No. Human approval is a required step, not a preference you can switch off.
I do not run meetings with a note-taker. Can I still use this?
Yes - paste the transcript or upload a file. You can also start from a requirements doc and generate a spec sheet with no meeting at all.
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See it on your own project
Free plan available - five spec sheets a month, two seats, no card required. 30-day free trial on Starter.
Free plan available. 30-day free trial on Starter.