Paste a doc and get your first intent, before you sign up

Most tools make you build a workspace before they show you anything. Pathmode runs the first lap from a single doc you already have, and drafts a real intent out of it, before you create an account.

The input

Something you've already written: a PRD, a positioning page, a strategy memo, a deck exported to text, or rough product notes. One document is enough. No tidy data model, no setup.

The flow

1. Paste the doc (or describe it in a sentence). On the landing page, choose "paste a PRD, notes, or positioning page," or just type what you're building. Either way you land in an editable draft, nothing saved yet.

2. Pathmode extracts your product context. It reads the doc into the pieces a spec needs to be grounded: vision, audience, north star, and guardrails. Team beliefs in the doc land as labeled assumptions, marked as hypotheses, never as verified facts.

3. A strength meter shows how grounded you are. Context is scored so you can see what's thin before you build on it. A paste with a clear audience and north star reads strong; a vague one-liner reads thin, and tells you what to add.

4. Pathmode drafts your first intent as a proposal. From that context it proposes a first IntentSpec: an objective and outcomes, anchored only to real signals from your doc. Assumptions ground the draft but never masquerade as the evidence behind it.

5. Sharpen it, then commit. The draft pushes back on anything vague with one pointed question at a time. You accept it, rewrite it, or answer the question. Signing up commits exactly what you shaped.

The output

From one document:

• A product context with vision, audience, north star, and guardrails, not a blank workspace
• A strength score that tells you where the context is thin
• A drafted first intent anchored to real signals, with assumptions labeled as assumptions
• A workspace seeded with all of it the moment you sign up

Why this beats starting from a blank workspace

A blank workspace asks you to do the hardest part, turning what you know into structure, with no help and no example. Starting from a doc you already wrote means the first structure is drafted for you. You react to a proposal instead of facing an empty page, and reacting is faster and sharper than authoring from zero.

Try it yourself

1. Grab a PRD, positioning page, or notes doc you already have
2. Open Pathmode and choose "paste a doc," or describe it in a sentence
3. Watch the context, strength meter, and first-intent proposal form
4. Sharpen the draft, then sign up to keep it

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