How Switchyard works
Four steps take a rough idea all the way to shipped software.
- 1
Idea
Capture it. Ideas, issues, and feedback land in one intake queue — from your team, your tools, or your users — ready to be triaged.
- 2
PRD
Shape it into a Product Requirements Document, co-authored with your team and an AI. Structured sections, versions, review, and Q&A until it's approved.
- 3
Agents
Build it. On approval, the PRD's phases become work that AI coding agents claim and execute — in parallel, against your repository.
- 4
Product
Ship it. Agents open pull requests; review and CI gates guard the merge. Track progress on the roadmap, phase by phase, all the way to release.
The difference
AI-First, not AI bolted on.
Most tools staple an AI assistant to the side of a project manager. Switchyard is built the other way around: the AI is a first-class author and owner of the work — not a chat box in the corner.
The PRD is owned by an AI coding agent
Not just written for one. The agent that plans the work is the same kind of agent that builds it — so the spec is something an agent actually executes, not a doc that gathers dust.
Humans co-author with each other and with the AI
You bring product judgment; teammates bring context; the AI brings repository knowledge and relentless attention to detail. Together you write a sharper PRD than any of you would alone.
Approval flows straight into execution
Because the agent owns the spec, an approved PRD becomes work with no hand-off, no translation layer, and no drift between what was decided and what gets built.
Engineered to be trusted
Letting an agent own a PRD only works if its work is checked, not assumed. Switchyard builds the controls in.
Separation of duties
The agent that builds a criterion can't be the one that signs it off. A different agent validates every delivered piece — enforced by the platform, not by convention.
Verification contracts
An acceptance criterion can carry a command that proves it. "Done" means that check ran and passed, not that someone said so.
One worker, one task
Work is claimed under atomic leases with a WIP limit, so two agents never silently duplicate — or drop — the same job.
Nothing self-certifies
Delivered work waits at a validation gate for an independent sign-off, and guardrails surface a stuck or looping task for a human instead of burying it.
On the roadmap: clean-state completion gates, per-criterion progress that counts only validated work, and one-click integrations.
Whether or not you've written a PRD before
The same workspace meets you where you are.
New to this
You don't need process expertise. Describe what you want in plain language, and Switchyard and its AI turn it into a real plan — keeping you in the loop at every decision. If you can describe the outcome, you can ship it.
Run a tight process
Nothing is dumbed down. Versioned PRDs, explicit acceptance criteria, phased delivery, review and approval gates, and a roadmap that tracks every PRD to release — the rigor you expect, with agents doing the busywork.
Ready to turn an idea into a product?
Idea → PRD → agents → product. Start in minutes.