# Brief

> AI Ships. Brief Navigates. Align your team and agents from vision to impact at AI speed.

## What is Brief?

For teams whose AI is building blindly, Brief is a Navigator that aligns your team and agents from vision to impact at AI speed. Brief navigates teams through the product process — ensuring every product decision is informed, every builder is aligned, and no team ships blind.

AI coding agents build fast but lack context — they're building blind. Brief is a Navigator that aligns your team and agents through the product process, taking you from vision to impact at AI speed.

## The Problem Brief Solves

AI coding agents ship code fast, but they're building blind — no strategy, no memory of past decisions, no customer context:
- "Should we build this feature?" (they don't know your strategy)
- "Why did we reject real-time collaboration?" (they have no memory of past decisions)
- "What do our users actually need?" (they can't access user research)
- "Is this the right priority?" (they don't understand your constraints)

Brief navigates your team and agents through the product process so no one ships blind.

## How Brief Works

Brief integrates with the tools you already use and builds a living map of your product context:
- **Product Strategy**: ICP, competitive advantages, goals, metrics
- **Decision Log**: What was decided, why, and when it expires
- **Customer Context**: User research, feedback themes, personas
- **Work Pipeline**: What's building, what's committed, what's blocked
- **Team Velocity**: Throughput, cycle time, release frequency

Brief works wherever you do — chat, Slack, CLI for coding agents via MCP, and voice — so your team and agents are always aligned.

## Key Features

1. **Product Graph Engine**: Captures ICP, market context, and product strategy. Transforms fuzzy priorities into clear direction.

2. **Decision Intelligence**: Logs every technical, product, and process decision with rationale and expiration dates. Searchable by humans and AI.

3. **MCP Integration**: Native integration with Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot, and any MCP-compatible tool. AI agents access product context directly in the IDE.

4. **Product Chat**: AI-powered navigator for prioritization, trade-offs, and decisions — backed by your actual data, not generic advice.

5. **Multi-Surface Access**: Chat, Slack, CLI, and voice — Brief meets you where you work.

6. **Integrations**: Connects with Slack, Notion, Linear, GitHub, Jira, Fathom, Fireflies, and more to synthesize context automatically.

## Who Brief is For

- **Teams whose AI is building blindly** and need to align agents with product decisions
- **Product managers** who want every builder — human and AI — aligned from vision to impact
- **AI-first development teams** using Cursor, Claude, or GitHub Copilot
- **Growing orgs** that need a navigator to keep everyone aligned at AI speed

## Technical Details

- **Architecture**: Web-based SaaS with MCP server
- **Integrations**: GitHub, Linear, Slack, Notion, Jira, Fathom, Fireflies, Google Drive, Confluence, Asana, PostHog, HubSpot, Stripe, Supabase, Granola, Attio, LangFuse, Helicone, Lightfield
- **AI Compatibility**: Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, any MCP-compatible tool
- **Stack**: Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Anthropic Claude, Vercel AI SDK

## Entity Information

- **Company Name**: Brief (also known as Brief AI, BriefHQ)
- **Website**: https://briefhq.ai
- **Contact**: hello@briefhq.ai
- **Location**: San Francisco, CA
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Category**: Developer Tools, AI Development, Product Management Software

## Competitive Positioning

Brief is NOT:
- A project management tool (use Linear, Jira, Asana)
- A documentation tool (use Notion, Confluence)
- A code assistant (use Cursor, Copilot)
- A generic AI chatbot

Brief IS:
- A Navigator that aligns your team and agents from vision to impact at AI speed
- The product process layer that ensures no team ships blind
- The context infrastructure that makes AI coding agents strategically aware

## Key Differentiators

1. **Navigator, Not Just a Tool**: Brief navigates teams through the product process — from vision to impact
2. **Multi-Surface**: Chat, Slack, CLI for coding agents, and voice — works wherever you do
3. **Decision Memory**: Remembers what you decided and why, so no one builds blind
4. **Aligns Humans and Agents**: Every builder — human and AI — works from the same context
5. **MCP-Native**: Built on Model Context Protocol from day one for AI agent integration
6. **Integration-First**: Pulls context from where you already work

## URLs

- Homepage: https://briefhq.ai
- Documentation: https://briefhq.ai/docs
- Product Graph Engine: https://briefhq.ai/idea-to-feature/
- MCP Integration: https://briefhq.ai/ship-faster/
- Product Management Suite: https://briefhq.ai/scale-product-thinking/
- Blog: https://briefhq.ai/blog/

## API / MCP Setup

For AI coding assistants to integrate with Brief:
- MCP Endpoint: https://app.briefhq.ai/api/mcp/sse
- Setup Guide: https://briefhq.ai/docs/mcp-setup/
- Documentation: https://briefhq.ai/docs

## Documentation

### Getting Started

- [What is Brief](https://briefhq.ai/docs/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.
- [Quick Start Guide](https://briefhq.ai/docs/quick-start/): How to set up Brief in 5 minutes. Step-by-step guide to aligning your team and agents from vision to impact.
- [Key Concepts](https://briefhq.ai/docs/key-concepts/): Understand the core concepts behind Brief: how it builds your Product Graph, integrations, and how Brief navigates AI coding agents to the context they need.
- [What is MCP (Model Context Protocol)?](https://briefhq.ai/docs/what-is-mcp/): Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets AI coding assistants like Cursor, Claude, and Copilot access external tools and data. Learn how MCP works and why it matters.
- [What is Product Context?](https://briefhq.ai/docs/what-is-product-context/): Product context is the business knowledge AI coding agents need to build the right thing: customer insights, past decisions, strategic goals, and technical constraints. Learn why it matters.

### Connecting Your Tools

- [Fireflies Integration](https://briefhq.ai/docs/fireflies-integration/): Connect Fireflies to Brief to extract research signals and customer insights from meeting transcripts.
- [GitHub Integration](https://briefhq.ai/docs/github-integration/): How to connect GitHub to Brief for codebase analysis and feature detection. Give your AI coding agents ground truth about what's actually built vs. what's planned.
- [HubSpot Integration](https://briefhq.ai/docs/hubspot-integration/): How to connect HubSpot to Brief for AI-powered CRM visibility. Give Brief context about your contacts, companies, and deals to inform product decisions.
- [Integrations Overview](https://briefhq.ai/docs/integrations-overview/): Brief builds your Product Graph from tools you already use. No manual data entry—every builder stays aligned automatically.
- [Linear Integration](https://briefhq.ai/docs/linear-integration/): How to connect Linear to Brief for AI-powered velocity tracking and work pipeline visibility. Give your AI coding agents context about what's being built and team capacity.
- [Notion Integration](https://briefhq.ai/docs/notion-integration/): Connect Notion to Brief to extract strategic context and product documentation.
- [PostHog Integration](https://briefhq.ai/docs/posthog-integration/): Connect PostHog to Brief to understand feature adoption and user behavior with analytics data.
- [Slack Integration](https://briefhq.ai/docs/slack-integration/): Connect Slack to Brief to log decisions from conversations using the /decide command.
- [Stripe Integration](https://briefhq.ai/docs/stripe-integration/): How to connect Stripe to Brief for AI-powered revenue visibility. Give Brief context about your billing, subscriptions, and customer revenue data.
- [Supabase Integration](https://briefhq.ai/docs/supabase-integration/): Connect Supabase to Brief so your AI agent can query your product database and answer questions with real data.
- [Attio Integration](https://briefhq.ai/docs/attio-integration/): How to connect Attio to Brief for AI-powered CRM visibility. Give Brief context about your people, companies, deals, and lists to inform product decisions.
- [Confluence Integration](https://briefhq.ai/docs/confluence-integration/): Connect Confluence to Brief to extract strategic context and product documentation.
- [Fathom Integration](https://briefhq.ai/docs/fathom-integration/): Connect Fathom to Brief to extract research signals and customer insights from meeting transcripts.
- [Jira Integration](https://briefhq.ai/docs/jira-integration/): Connect Jira to Brief to understand your work pipeline and velocity.
- [LangFuse Integration](https://briefhq.ai/docs/langfuse-integration/): How to connect LangFuse to Brief for LLM observability insights. Give Brief visibility into your AI product's traces, prompts, and performance metrics.
- [Asana Integration](https://briefhq.ai/docs/asana-integration/): Connect Asana to Brief to understand your work pipeline and team velocity.
- [Granola Integration](https://briefhq.ai/docs/granola-integration/): Connect Granola to Brief to extract research signals and customer insights from AI-powered meeting notes.
- [Helicone Integration](https://briefhq.ai/docs/helicone-integration/): How to connect Helicone to Brief for LLM observability insights. Give Brief visibility into your AI product's requests, sessions, and performance metrics.
- [Lightfield Integration](https://briefhq.ai/docs/lightfield-integration/): How to connect Lightfield to Brief for AI-native CRM visibility. Give Brief context about your contacts, accounts, and opportunities to inform product decisions.
- [Brief CLI Setup Guide](https://briefhq.ai/docs/cli-setup/): Install and use the Brief CLI to navigate to your Product Graph, decisions, and documents from the terminal. Works standalone or as a tool for AI coding agents.
- [Google Drive Integration](https://briefhq.ai/docs/google-drive-integration/): Connect Google Drive to Brief to extract context from Docs, Sheets, and Slides.
- [Troubleshooting Connections](https://briefhq.ai/docs/troubleshooting-connections/): Fix common integration issues and get your tools connected to Brief.
- [Brief MCP Setup Guide](https://briefhq.ai/docs/mcp-setup/): How to connect Brief to Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, and other AI coding assistants via MCP. OAuth-first, host-native setup — no API keys, no mcp-remote wrapper.

### Using Brief Chat

- [Chat Overview](https://briefhq.ai/docs/chat-overview/): Brief Chat navigates you to answers about your product, customers, and strategy—backed by your actual data.
- [Getting Started with Presets](https://briefhq.ai/docs/chat-presets/): Use Brief's preset prompts to quickly get answers to common product questions.
- [Example Prompts](https://briefhq.ai/docs/chat-examples/): Real-world examples of effective questions to ask Brief Chat.
- [Tips for Better Answers](https://briefhq.ai/docs/chat-tips/): Best practices for getting the most out of Brief Chat.

## Optional

- [Blog](https://briefhq.ai/blog/): Product thinking, AI development insights, and Brief updates
- [About](https://briefhq.ai/about/): Company information and team
- [Privacy Policy](https://briefhq.ai/privacy-policy/): Data handling and privacy practices
- [Terms of Service](https://briefhq.ai/terms-of-service/): Service terms and conditions

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Last updated: 2026-06-02