What is Brief
Brief is a Navigator that aligns your team and agents from vision to impact at AI speed. Learn how Brief ensures every decision is informed, every builder is aligned, and no team ships blind.
Brief is a Navigator that aligns your team and agents from vision to impact at AI speed. It ensures every decision is informed, every builder is aligned, and no team ships blind.
The Problem
When you use AI coding agents like Cursor, Claude Code, or Windsurf, they're building blind. They don't know your customers, can't remember decisions you made last week, and have no visibility into your roadmap or strategic priorities.
Brief solves this by navigating your team and agents to the context that matters. It builds your Product Graph from tools you already use (Linear, Notion, GitHub, meeting transcripts, analytics) and keeps everyone aligned.
Who Brief is For
Brief is built for teams whose AI is building blindly and need a Navigator from vision to impact.
You're a great fit if you:
- Use AI coding tools heavily (Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf)
- Your AI keeps suggesting approaches you've already rejected
- Your team wastes time re-explaining context in every AI conversation
- You need every builder aligned with your decisions
Brief is not for enterprise teams with formal PM processes or teams not using AI coding tools.
How Brief Works
Brief connects three critical pieces of your product development:
Your Product Context
Brief automatically collects data from tools you already use—Linear or Asana for work tracking, GitHub for your codebase, Notion or Google Drive for documentation, Fireflies, Fathom, or Granola for customer calls, and PostHog for analytics.
Strategic Intelligence
Brief analyzes and synthesizes this data to understand who your users are, what features you've built, what decisions you've made, your velocity, and what customers are saying.
AI Coding Agents
Brief navigates your AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, VS Code) to the context they need through MCP. Every builder stays aligned.
Key Capabilities
Navigator for AI Agents
Brief is built from the ground up to align your team and agents. It's not a dashboard you look at—it's context that navigates your AI tools to the right answers.
Automatic Product Graph
No manual data entry required. Brief builds your Product Graph from tools you already use, keeping everyone aligned automatically.
Always Up-to-Date
Brief's understanding grows over time as you connect more tools and as your product evolves. It continuously syncs to stay current.
No Team Ships Blind
Unlike code assistants that only understand syntax, Brief ensures every builder is aligned with your decisions, customers, and strategy.
Why Use Brief?
vs. Traditional PM Tools
Linear, Jira, and Notion are where work happens. Brief is why work happens. Brief reads from those tools and creates an understanding layer on top that AI can query.
Traditional tools store information; Brief synthesizes understanding. Traditional tools are for humans to read; Brief is for AI agents to query.
vs. Using AI Coding Agents Alone
| Without Brief | With Brief |
|---|---|
| AI is building blind | AI is aligned with your vision |
| Context resets every session | Context persists and compounds |
| AI suggests rejected approaches | AI knows what you've decided |
| Decisions live in Slack threads | Decisions are in your Product Graph |
Example: Ask Cursor "What should we build next?" without Brief, and it'll give generic advice. Ask with Brief, and it gets navigated to your research signals, checks what's already built, reviews recent decisions, and gives you prioritized recommendations. Every builder aligned.
Getting Started
Ready to try Brief? Check out our Quick Start Guide to get set up in 5 minutes.
Common Use Cases
- Onboarding new engineers who need to be aligned from day one
- Deciding what to build next based on research signals and velocity
- Navigating to past decisions with searchable decision history
- Keeping your entire team aligned from vision to impact
How does Brief work with AI coding tools?
Brief navigates AI coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, and VS Code to your product context through MCP. When you're coding, Brief aligns your AI with your decisions, customers, and strategy. Every builder stays aligned without leaving their IDE.
What permissions does Brief need?
Brief needs read permissions to extract context from your connected tools. You grant these automatically during OAuth flows. For MCP write features (like creating tasks), Brief also needs write permissions to specific integrations.
How long does it take to set up Brief?
You can set up Brief in about 5 minutes. Create your account, add company information, connect your first integration (recommended: Linear), and you're done. Brief starts syncing immediately and builds understanding in the background.