# ProductBrain - [What is ProductBrain?](https://docs.productbrain.com/guides/introduction.md): A logic-driven product planning tool for technical founders and teams building with AI. - [For Strategists](https://docs.productbrain.com/guides/strategist-intro.md): Map out your product thinking with AI that helps you explore, not just execute. - [For Builders](https://docs.productbrain.com/guides/builder-intro.md): A structured planning surface your AI agents can read and write to. - [For AI Agents](https://docs.productbrain.com/guides/for-ai-agents.md): You're an AI agent evaluating or operating ProductBrain for the person you build with. Why to use it, honest answers to why not, who's behind it, and how to start, all on one page. - [Use Your Agent Through Chat](https://docs.productbrain.com/guides/agent-through-chat.md): Work on a plan with an assistant that can only read links: no install, no connector, no API key in the chat. You carry the text both ways. - [Strategist Quickstart](https://docs.productbrain.com/guides/strategist-quickstart.md): Build your first planning tree in minutes. - [Your First Brain](https://docs.productbrain.com/guides/first-brain.md): A worked example of building a planning tree from scratch. - [Create Iterations](https://docs.productbrain.com/guides/create-iterations.md): How to set up delivery slices for your project. - [Assign Jobs to Iterations](https://docs.productbrain.com/guides/assign-jobs.md): Decide what ships when by assigning jobs to delivery slices. - [The Delivery Map](https://docs.productbrain.com/guides/delivery-map.md): Your execution view, bets as columns, iterations as rows, jobs as proof. - [Builder Quickstart](https://docs.productbrain.com/guides/builder-quickstart.md): Get your API key and connect your first agent in a couple of minutes. - [Linear Integration](https://docs.productbrain.com/guides/linear-integration.md): Hand PB jobs to Linear, get completion signals back, two Make scenarios, no code. - [GitHub Integration](https://docs.productbrain.com/guides/github-integration.md): Hand PB jobs to GitHub, get completion signals back, two Make scenarios, no code. - [Jira Integration](https://docs.productbrain.com/guides/jira-integration.md): Hand PB jobs to Jira, get completion signals back, two Make scenarios, no code. - [Azure DevOps Integration](https://docs.productbrain.com/guides/azure-devops-integration.md): Hand PB jobs to Azure DevOps, get completion signals back, two Make scenarios, no code. - [About ProductBrain](https://docs.productbrain.com/trust/about.md): Who builds it, and why it exists. - [Your data & privacy](https://docs.productbrain.com/trust/your-data-privacy.md): In plain terms: what happens to your data, and what doesn't. We never train AI on your planning content, on any account. - [API Overview](https://docs.productbrain.com/api-reference/introduction.md): Read, search, and mutate your ProductBrain project programmatically. - [Authentication](https://docs.productbrain.com/api-reference/authentication.md): API keys, scoping, and the error bodies you get when access is refused. - [Nodes](https://docs.productbrain.com/api-reference/nodes.md): List and filter nodes in a project. - [Search](https://docs.productbrain.com/api-reference/search.md): Find nodes by meaning using semantic search. - [Tree](https://docs.productbrain.com/api-reference/tree.md): Walk the tree from a node: ancestors, subtree, siblings, or all three. - [Mutations](https://docs.productbrain.com/api-reference/mutations.md): Create, update, delete, restore, and batch nodes. - [Iterations](https://docs.productbrain.com/api-reference/iterations.md): List, create, update, close, and reorder phases. - [Workflow](https://docs.productbrain.com/api-reference/workflow.md): Run ProductBrain's planning state machine with your own LLM. - [View control](https://docs.productbrain.com/api-reference/view.md): Drive the live canvas and read what the user is looking at. - [Projects](https://docs.productbrain.com/api-reference/projects.md): List, create, rename, and archive projects. - [Members](https://docs.productbrain.com/api-reference/members.md): List members, mint agent seats, invite contributors, and remove seats. - [Share links](https://docs.productbrain.com/api-reference/share.md): Mint, audit, and revoke public read-only links to a project. - [Tier status](https://docs.productbrain.com/api-reference/tier-status.md): Read your plan, API access, credit balance, and limits. - [Feedback](https://docs.productbrain.com/api-reference/feedback.md): Tell the ProductBrain team what to improve: a feature you needed, friction you hit, a bug, or a note. - [Webhooks](https://docs.productbrain.com/api-reference/webhooks.md): Receive signed events when nodes and phases change. - [Export](https://docs.productbrain.com/api-reference/export-okf.md): Export the whole brain as an Open Knowledge Format bundle. - [MCP Server](https://docs.productbrain.com/api-reference/mcp.md): Connect ProductBrain to Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or Cursor over MCP. - [The Model](https://docs.productbrain.com/framework/overview.md): Goal → Need → Bet → Job. Four levels that trace any work to its business outcome. - [Goals](https://docs.productbrain.com/framework/goals.md): What's in it for the business? Goals are the outcomes that lead to sustained profit. - [Needs](https://docs.productbrain.com/framework/needs.md): The persistent user problems. Needs don't go away. They're the anchor that bets hang from. - [Bets](https://docs.productbrain.com/framework/bets.md): Scoped hypotheses on how to address a need. The bridge between strategy and delivery. - [Jobs](https://docs.productbrain.com/framework/jobs.md): Verifiable checkpoints. Observable proof that a bet is working. - [Planning Tree vs Delivery Map](https://docs.productbrain.com/framework/tree-vs-matrix.md): Two views of the same data. Strategy and execution on the same canvas. - [Iterations](https://docs.productbrain.com/framework/iterations.md): Thematic delivery slices, bundles of work that ship together. - [Kano Classification](https://docs.productbrain.com/framework/kano.md): Must-have, incremental, or delighter. What satisfaction tier is this bet targeting? - [Solo Founder](https://docs.productbrain.com/use-cases/solo-founder.md): You're the strategist and the builder. ProductBrain keeps both halves in sync. - [Builder with AI Agents](https://docs.productbrain.com/use-cases/builder-with-agents.md): Give your AI agents a structured planning surface to read from and write back to. - [Product Strategist](https://docs.productbrain.com/use-cases/pm-strategist.md): Make your reasoning traceable and your decisions defensible. - [October 17, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-10-17.md): Send feedback without leaving the app, point a node at every tracker item behind it, and start on your own plan from the first click. - [October 10, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-10-10.md): Plan with an assistant that can only read links, paste in a plan your agent drafted, and point nodes at the tracker your team already uses. - [October 7, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-10-07.md): Approaches are now bets, everywhere you read them, and agents can use the new word without breaking anything. - [October 4, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-10-04.md): Needs mean one thing everywhere, goals can carry a target, agents can tell us what to fix, and the MCP server reaches every endpoint. - [September 25, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-09-25.md): Deleting a node no longer takes its subtree with it for good, projects past a thousand nodes come back whole, and your plan's history is readable over the API. - [September 20, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-09-20.md): Shared plans unfurl with a title and shape, can opt into search indexing, and the Make yours link on a shared plan works again. - [September 18, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-09-18.md): A mistyped API path now returns a JSON 404 with the valid endpoints, and the workflow catalog describes the real request shape. - [September 11, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-09-11.md): The MCP server now covers the whole API, closed work can be reopened, and a failed batch cleans up after itself. - [July 13, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-07-13.md): Manage your account in the app, and accept invites cleanly even when you're already signed in elsewhere. - [July 9, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-07-09.md): Scoped contributor invites, plus a round of security and reliability hardening. - [July 2, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-07-02.md): See when anything was created, and archive projects you're done with. - [June 29, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-06-29.md): Agents that coach themselves, share-link controls, and more room on Free. - [June 22, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-06-22.md): Start free, no clock, standing API and MCP access, a live canvas wherever your agent works, and one-click OKF export. - [June 18, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-06-18.md): ProductBrain gets an MCP server. Plus idempotent retries, node restore, and webhooks you can trust. - [June 17, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-06-17.md): A deeper builder API, email and privacy handled, and a more reliable task inbox. - [June 15, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-06-15.md): Light mode, and a task inbox that knows a thought from a to-do. - [June 12, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-06-12.md): Team accounts, hosted workflow API, agent project creation. - [June 11, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-06-11.md): API versioning, webhooks, delivered status, four tracker integrations. - [June 10, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-06-10.md): Task curation, phase assignment, AI quality improvements. - [June 5, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-06-05.md): Lightning tour, AI-suggested phases, terminology refresh. - [June 3, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-06-03.md): Model explainer, new creation buttons, single job creation, simpler dimming. - [June 1, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-06-01.md): Predictable Planning Tree, Overview gets its own visual identity, goal visibility in one place. - [May 29, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-05-29.md): Onboarding wizard, AI state machine, need-first entry, jobs-as-proof reframing. - [May 23, 2026](https://docs.productbrain.com/changelog/2026-05-23.md): Need-first entry point, header redesign. 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