How to create a PRD in Thinkr

Thinkr creates a PRD in a guided four-step flow: Coach → Context → Draft → Publish. You talk through the brief, Thinkr pulls in what already exists in your workspace, a multi-pass generator writes the spec, and you publish and ship it. This guide walks each step with the buttons you'll actually see.

You move through the steps with the stepper at the top of the editor. Each step unlocks the next: Coach unlocks once your brief is ready, Context once you've scanned (or skipped), Draft once context exists, and Publish once a draft is generated.

Before you start

Make sure your workspace has at least one product set up in your Brain. The Coach links your PRD to a product so drafts start with real context. If you haven't added one yet, do that first — it's one of the steps on your Home checklist.

To begin, click Draft a PRD on your Home screen (under Quick actions). That opens the flow at the Coach step.

Step 1 — Coach the brief

The Coach is a chat. Its job is to get your brief clear before a single generation pass runs, so you don't spend one on a half-formed idea.

When the step opens, it first asks "Which product are you working on?" — pick a product from your Brain, or choose General to write a PRD that isn't tied to a specific product. Then you just talk to the Thinkr Coach. It opens with:

Hey! I'm your Thinkr Coach — I help you clarify your thinking before writing a PRD. What are we working on today?

Reply in the input box ("Reply to your coach…"). As you talk, the left panel fills in:

• The Summary tab shows your brief building live — Problem, Target User, Why Now, Desired Outcome, Evidence, In Scope, Out of Scope, Dependencies, and Risks.
• The Readiness tab scores six dimensions of the brief — problem clarity, user clarity, evidence quality, scope clarity, dependency coverage, risk coverage — and lists what's Still needed.

You don't have to type everything. You can:

• Attach files (PDF, Markdown, TXT, or images, up to 5MB, max 3) with the paperclip.
• Record a voice note (up to 2 minutes) with the mic.
• Search ClickUp inline by typing /clickup.
• Tap the suggested answer chips when the Coach offers numbered options.

Keep going until readiness reaches at least medium — that's when the Context step unlocks. Your brief saves automatically as you go.

Step 2 — Pull in context

Before it writes anything, Thinkr looks at what already exists so the draft builds on it instead of reinventing it.

On the Workspace tab, click Scan workspace. Thinkr searches your connected ClickUp for prior PRDs, tech docs, and API specs, and shows a progress bar while it runs. When it finishes, the Context results panel lists what it Discovered:

• Core references (with an overlap level — high, partial, or complementary)
• Dependencies
• Related initiatives
• Risks
• Stakeholders

Two more tabs give you control over what feeds the draft:

• Brain — tick the specific knowledge-base documents you want included.
• Confidence Notes — Thinkr's synthesis of what it found, including any conflicts it noticed.

If you edited your brief after scanning, you'll see "Brief updated since last scan. Rescan for better context." — click Rescan workspace to refresh. You can also skip scanning entirely. When you're set, click Continue to generate.

Step 3 — Draft in four passes

Click Generate PRD. The draft is built in four passes, and you'll see each one in the progress tracker:

1. Drafting structure — the full PRD outline.
2. Repairing gaps — fills in missing user stories, acceptance criteria, and edge cases.
3. Critiquing quality — an internal pass that flags risks and conflicts.
4. Strengthening — tightens the prose and consistency.

Generation takes around three minutes — leave the page open while it runs.

When the draft appears, it's a fully editable document (click any section to edit it inline). The left panel has six tabs:

• Review — set the Title, Summary, and PRD Template (Standard, Lean, or a custom template from your Brain), and add PRD Instructions (e.g. "Focus on mobile-first. Skip the GTM section.").
• Comments — highlight text in the PRD to leave a targeted comment; reply, resolve, or reopen threads.
• Findings — gaps surfaced by the critique pass.
• Conflicts — logical inconsistencies Thinkr detected between sections.
• Quality — your draft scored against a rubric, dimension by dimension.
• History — every version with a diff viewer; restore an earlier one if you need to.

From the Review tab you can Run a critique — an optional deep review that catches gaps before you publish — or Regenerate the draft (you'll be warned that inline edits are lost). When the spec is where you want it, click Continue to publish.

Tip: run the critique at least once before publishing. It's the fastest way to catch the weak metric or missing non-goal that a reviewer would otherwise find for you.

Step 4 — Publish and ship

Publishing freezes the spec: Coach, Context, and Draft become read-only, so what you shipped stays what you shipped.

Click Save & Share to open the menu:

• Publish PRD — freezes the document. You'll get a confirmation: "Publishing freezes this document. Coach, Context, and Draft become read-only." (If you haven't run a critique yet, it offers one here first.)
• Download PDF or Download Markdown — export the spec.
• Create proposal deck — turn the PRD into a presentable proposal in one step.
• Send to ClickUp — push the spec into ClickUp as tracked work.

Changed your mind after publishing? Use Revert to Draft to reopen the editor, make changes, and publish again.

If you see "This PRD is disconnected from your current Brief and Context", your brief changed after the draft was generated — go Back to draft and regenerate before publishing so the spec matches the latest thinking.

That's the whole loop

Coach the brief until it's ready, scan for context, generate the draft in four passes, then publish and ship. Once you've done it once, the next PRD is just the same four steps — and your published specs become reusable context in your Brain for the ones after that.

Ready to try it? Open Thinkr and click Draft a PRD.