Use Cases

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.

By role

All roles Product Manager Founder Designer Engineering Lead

By workflow

All workflows First Intent Evidence Intake Evidence to Spec Spec Authoring Spec Review Build Queue Agent Handoff

Evidence Intake·Call transcript

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.

For: Product Manager3 min

Evidence Intake·Interview transcripts

Find the friction pattern across 5 user interviews

Five interviews, five different stories, one pattern underneath. Capture the transcripts as signals, judge them one at a time, and the pattern shows up as the claim several independent sources back.

For: Designer7 min

Evidence Intake·Slack thread

Convert a Slack thread into an evidence item

Customer feedback dies in Slack. Paste a thread, get a structured signal with the quote, the context, and the source, sitting Unreviewed in the Evidence Inbox until you judge it.

For: Founder2 min

Before your agent builds, preflight the spec.

Pathmode applies six deterministic checks to a ticket, doc, or intent.md and names the missing outcomes, constraints, edge cases, and verification. It runs in your browser.

Run the preflight Create your account

No account or API key required. The preflight checks your spec in your browser. The local MCP server makes no network requests in keyless mode; your coding agent may send context to its own model provider. An account adds private evidence, attributed decisions, and teammate review.

Install locally

/plugin marketplace add pathmodeio/claude-plugin
/plugin install pathmode@pathmode

Installs the Pathmode plugin and MCP server for Claude Code.