Use cases
One session. Four roles at the table.
Refinements is for the people who make work buildable. Pick your role to see where the next meeting disappears.
Product owners
The request arrives as a sentence and the sprint starts on Monday. Refinement meetings fill the calendar and still leave acceptance criteria that nobody can test.
- Turn a sentence into a starting pointPick the Feature ticket template, paste what you know, and let the first AI review show what is missing.
- Make acceptance criteria testableSelect a vague criterion and Ask AI to tighten it. Accept the wording your team can verify.
- Settle edge cases with the people presentGrill asks about failure states and permissions while the developers are still in the room.
- Leave with the ticketThe Refined v2 separates outcome, scope, acceptance criteria and open questions. Mark it ready and export.
Product managers
Trade-offs surface after the roadmap commitment, in a thread nobody reads twice. Context lives in five documents and one person's head.
- Surface trade-offs before commitmentSet the Grill context to Full and let the questions cover rollout, regions and audience.
- Keep decisions attached to the featureEvery answer becomes a visible decision in the activity feed and in the Refined v2.
- Bring the team into one draftGuests join free from one link and edit the same live document with attribution.
- Hand over without a recapExport HTML or Google Drive; the session content is deleted, the ticket lives where the team works.
Architects
Technical assumptions hide in product prose: permissions, failure states, boundaries, data retention. They resurface as rework.
- Ask the questions the draft cannot answerGrill's questions follow the current text; add your own comments in the margin.
- Separate decided from openThe Refined v2 keeps unresolved questions in their own section instead of burying them.
- Bring your agentInvite Claude Code or Cursor to read the draft and propose changes; you accept what lands.
- Use the Dev story templateAn agent-ready story with problem, solution, implementation and testing decisions.
Scrum masters
Refinement drifts into another status meeting. Nobody knows who is answering, and the outcome is a page of notes.
- Replace the follow-up with one focused sessionDraft, Grill, Refined: three stages with one obvious next action each.
- Keep the group on one questionOne operator answers, everyone follows live, up to six short rounds.
- Show progress without a transcriptThe activity feed and provenance bar show what changed and who decided.
- Close cleanlyExport, mark ready, close. Session content is deleted on close or after 24 hours.
Try it on your next feature.
Free preview: one session, three AI reviews, one Grill round. No card until you write the refined ticket.