Five stages.
ProductOS structures product development the way the industry defines the product development lifecycle: discovery, definition, design, and development, with ideation up front. Each stage is run by specialized AI agents, and every stage reads what the previous one produced.
IdeateDiscoverDefineDesignDevelop
Ideate
PDLC: Ideation
Ideate is the pipeline stage that turns a raw idea into a sharp, testable product concept: the problem, the target user, and the assumptions that must hold before anything gets built.
Run by
- Ideation Agent
Discover
PDLC: Discovery
Discover is the product discovery stage: structured research into the market, competitors, and users that decides whether the problem is worth solving before you invest in building.
Run by
- Research Agent
Define
PDLC: Definition
Define is the definition stage: research and concept become a structured product requirements document with scope, user stories, and success metrics, the source of truth every later stage reads.
Run by
- PRD Agent
- Architect Agent
Design
PDLC: Design
Design is the stage where the defined product becomes user flows, screen specifications, and a production-ready design system, so what gets built looks intentional rather than generated.
Run by
- Design Agent
- Design System Agent
Develop
PDLC: Development
Develop is the development stage: the specified, designed product becomes a real codebase in a live cloud sandbox, tested in a real browser and deployable to production on your own domain.
Run by
- Fullstack Builder
- QA Agent
- Deploy Agent
QA and deployment are on-demand actions you can trigger at any point in Develop, run by the QA Agent and Deploy Agent.
See the pipeline
Describe it once. The agents take it from concept to shipped product, without losing context between stages.