Why we built
the scope gate.

My name is Ahmed Zrouqui. I build Specd from Casablanca. Specd exists because most software waste starts before engineering touches the repo: unclear requirements, inflated feature lists, and decisions nobody forced into writing.

The pattern is always the same. A client, stakeholder, or founder starts with a clear problem. Then the PRD grows into 12 features, authentication flows, admin dashboards, analytics pipelines, and mobile apps. It all sounds reasonable in a meeting. It is also how a $10,000 build quietly becomes a $50,000 mistake.

Traditional PRD tools treat the document as the product. That is backwards. The document is only useful if it protects capital: what gets built, what gets deferred, what engineering can price, and what acceptance criteria prove the work is done.

The insight behind Specd is simple: the constraint is the product. A 5-feature limit isn't a limitation — it's a forcing function. When you know you only get 5 features, you ask a completely different question: which 5? That question is the entire value of a PRD. Everything else is formatting.

I built Specd in April 2026 for product managers, agency owners, and technical leads who need a scope gate before a sprint, client quote, or AI-assisted coding session. The tool uses Claude to generate the PRD, but the real work is the validation layer that enforces the limit — not as a prompt instruction the model can talk its way out of, but as a schema rule that throws an error if the output exceeds 5 features.

The output is structured for AI coding tools specifically. Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Windsurf — they all accept context as text. A good PRD is just well-structured context. Specd generates the exact context these tools need to start building without asking 10 clarifying questions first.

Specd is run with the same bias it sells: tight scope, hard constraints, and practical output. If something blocks serious product or agency work, reach me on Twitter: @specdapp.