Steelax
Onboarding new product teams this quarter

From product intent to shipped code.

Steelax is the workspace where a half-formed idea becomes work engineering can build. It reads your trackers, your specs and your source code, shapes intent into scoped tasks, and carries those tasks through to a pull request your team reviews.

Read access to start. Nothing is written to your tracker or repository until you approve it.

Saved views redesign Shaping

Workspace / Product / Saved views

PM

Let people pin any saved view to the sidebar. Small one, let us get it in this sprint.

SX

One thing to settle first. Saved views are user scoped in views/model.ts, but the sidebar renders from the team workspace. Pinning as written would expose personal filters to the whole team. Scope it to the individual first?

4 tasks draftedready to push
UIAdd pin control to the view headerViewHeader.tsx
LOGICStore pins per user, not per workspaceviews/
APIExpose pinned views on the session payload2 files
DATATrack pin and unpin eventsanalytics

Needs a decision. Team-wide pinning is still open. Steelax left it out of this set rather than guessing.

Connects to
Linear, Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Notion, Confluence
Grounds in
Live issues, written specs and the code as it stands today
Produces
Linked tasks carrying the reasoning, the files and the risks
Delivers
A branch, a test run and a pull request you review
The problem

Intent does not survive the handoff.

Every product idea starts with a reason behind it. By the time it reaches a branch, that reason has been summarised three times, and the thing that gets built is a close relative of the thing that was meant.

The spec stops matching the product

A document describes the system as it was understood on the day it was written. The product keeps moving. Six weeks later nobody is sure which parts of the spec still describe reality, so the whole thing gets treated as a rough suggestion.

The ticket keeps the what, drops the why

Titles survive the trip into the tracker. Trade-offs, rejected options and the constraint that shaped the decision do not. Engineering gets a sentence and has to reconstruct the thinking behind it.

Context gets rebuilt from scratch

Someone reads the code, finds the surprise nobody wrote down, asks in a channel, waits. The work is sound. It is also the third time this quarter the same ground has been covered.

This is not a discipline problem, and more process does not fix it. It is a continuity problem: the context lives in four systems and no tool holds the thread between them.

How Steelax is built

Four stages, one continuous thread.

Steelax follows the shape of real product work. Each stage inherits everything the one before it learned, so nothing has to be explained twice.

Grounding

Grounded in the product you have already built.

Steelax is only useful if it knows your product. Connect the systems your team already runs on and it builds a working picture of them: the issues in flight, the decisions written down, the code that is actually deployed.

Every answer it gives names its sources. Every task it writes points at the files it expects to touch. When it is not sure, it says so instead of filling the gap with something plausible.

  • IS Issue tracker1,284 issues across 6 teams Synced
  • DO Specs and documents96 pages, 11 decision records Synced
  • CO Code repositoriesweb app and 3 services Synced
  • DE Design filesFlows and prototypes Synced
What is different

Four decisions that shape the whole product.

Tasks arrive with their reasoning attached
A Steelax task holds the problem it solves, the option chosen, the options rejected, the files in scope and the open questions. Whoever picks it up, a developer or an agent, can start without a kickoff call.
Nothing is answered from a template
Answers come from your tracker, your documents and your code. If the product does something unusual, that shows up in the answer. If a document contradicts the code, Steelax reports the conflict rather than choosing a side quietly.
It argues with you
A thinking partner is only worth having if it disagrees. Steelax checks intent against how the system behaves, names the assumption that will cause trouble, and holds your stated strategy in view while it does it.
Human review is wired in, not bolted on
Decisions that need judgment are flagged and held back. The agent works in an isolated environment and its output arrives as a pull request. Approval is always a person pressing a button.
steelax agent fix/checkout-state
started task UI: preserve card details on validation error clone web-app into isolated sandbox read src/checkout/CheckoutForm.tsx found form remounts on error, card state is local
- const [card, setCard] = useState() + const card = useCheckoutStore(s => s.card) + setField('card', next)
tests 142 passed, 0 failed, lint clean
Pull request opened Awaiting review
Delivery

The agent reads the codebase before it writes a line.

Delivery is the stage most tools skip. Steelax includes a coding agent that takes a generated task, clones the connected repository into an isolated environment, explores the relevant code, makes the change, and runs your test suite.

It works on a branch. It never pushes to your default branch, and it stops and asks when a task turns out to be larger than it was scoped to be.

  • Scoped, short-lived credentials for every run
  • Full command and file log for every change it makes
  • Hand back to a developer at any point, context intact
The loop

What a week with Steelax looks like.

The same six moves, whether the work is a new feature, a spec that needs validating or a number that dropped overnight.

  1. Connect the stack

    Tracker, documents and repositories, with read access and scopes you choose. Steelax indexes what it can see and tells you what it cannot.

  2. Ask the real question

    How does password reset work today. Does this spec match the build. Why did checkout conversion drop. Plain language, specific answers.

  3. Shape the intent

    Steelax challenges the shaky parts, proposes a scope that fits the system you have, and separates what it is confident about from what it is not.

  1. Generate the work

    Linked tasks across interface, logic, integration and data, written with full context and pushed into the tracker your team already lives in.

  2. Hand off to the agent

    Pick the tasks worth automating. The agent implements them in an isolated environment and opens a pull request against a branch.

  3. Review and merge

    Your reviewers see the diff, the reasoning and the task it came from. Merge, send it back, or take it over by hand.

Who it is for

Built for the four people in every handoff.

PM

Product managers

Pressure-test an idea before it becomes a ticket. Check a spec against the build. Write work that engineering does not send back for scoping.

EM

Engineering managers

Receive tasks that are already scoped against the real codebase, with the risky parts named and the unresolved decisions sitting at the top.

EN

Engineers

Start with the files, the constraints and the reasoning in hand. Let the agent take the mechanical tasks and keep the ones worth your attention.

DE

Designers

See how a flow is actually implemented before redesigning it, and find out which states exist in code but never made it into the design file.

A product is only as good as the intent behind it.

Steelax exists for one reason: to keep intent intact from the first rough sentence through to the code that ships it. No re-explaining, no quiet reinterpretation, no context left behind in a document nobody opens.

That means being specific when the product is specific, being honest when the answer is not clear, and leaving the decisions that need judgment to the people who are accountable for them.

Bring your next idea and see what Steelax does with it.

Tell us about your product and the stack you run on. We will walk you through Steelax on your own systems and show you where it carries work that currently stalls.

A working session, not a slide deckForty-five minutes on your product, your tracker and your repository.
Connected in under an hourRead-only scopes first. Write access only when you decide to grant it.
You keep what we build togetherTasks created during the session stay in your tracker whatever you decide.