How builders ship the right thing.
Real inputs, real specs, real hand-offs. Each example is a complete flow — pick a workflow or a role and see what comes out the other side.
Review and correct an agent's proposal before it builds
A cancel-plan request never said when paid access ends, and the agent's proposal ends it immediately. Follow the requested answers, the agent's revision, and the separate authorization the next coding session builds from.
Capture a customer call as structured evidence
You just got off a call full of signal. Before it evaporates, drop the transcript in. Pathmode pulls out the quotes and tags each by type and severity, and they wait Unreviewed in the Inbox until you judge them. No synthesis doc required.
Decide what the team builds next — without a roadmap meeting
The biweekly roadmap meeting re-derives the state of everything from memory. The Build Queue shows it on one board — what's blocked, what's on the critical path, what's verified — so the next-build call is made on what's actually true.
Sequence the build queue so agents work in the right order
A pile of ready specs isn't a plan. The Build Queue flags which specs block others and which sit on the critical path — so you build the foundations first and an agent picking up the next item never waits on something that isn't built yet.
Anchor every outcome to user evidence
Stop writing specs from imagination. Every claim in a Pathmode spec shows what backs it and who judged it, so a year from now you can still answer 'why did we build it that way?'
Audit a draft spec for missing edge cases
Paste your half-finished PRD or spec. Pathmode runs a Socratic review, flags the assumptions you didn't realize you were making, and surfaces the edge cases your team will hit in week two.
Spot the conflict between two stakeholder requests
Sales wants self-serve, security wants SSO-only. Drop both requests into Pathmode and get the conflict surfaced as an explicit tension — not buried in a 30-page spec.
Turn 30 support tickets into a prioritized spec
Import a CSV export of recent tickets. Every row lands in the Evidence Inbox as an unreviewed signal, and you decide which ones become reviewed backing for an exact claim in your spec.