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Sands for product teams
Product managers use Sands to turn briefs into plans the team can build from, keep the backlog honest, and answer status questions with numbers from the board.
At a glance
| Job | Try asking | Works with |
|---|---|---|
| Turn a feature brief into a plan | Turn this feature brief into a plan for Ana, Ben and June, Oct 19 to Oct 30 | Files, Jira, Linear, Asana |
| Make scope trade-offs | We lost a week. Tighten this plan to what fits and move the rest to Low priority | Sands only |
| Hand the plan to engineering | Send this plan to Linear | Jira, Linear, Asana |
| Answer “where are we?” | How is the onboarding project doing? | Jira, Linear, Asana |
| Research before you commit | Research how other checkout flows handle gift wrapping, then suggest a scope | Web |
Use cases
1. Turn a feature brief into a plan
Attach the brief or PRD. Sands drafts workstreams and tickets, assigns the people you name, and lists what the brief leaves open as questions for you.
Try asking
Turn this feature brief into a plan for Ana, Ben and June, Oct 19 to Oct 30
More: Plans
2. Make scope trade-offs
Ask Sands to cut or re-cut the plan. It changes the plan in place and says what moved to stretch work.
Try asking
We lost a week. Tighten this plan to what fits and move the rest to Low priority
More: Changing it in chat
3. Hand the plan to engineering
Send the plan to the team's tool as epics or milestones and tickets, after a preview of what will be created.
Try asking
Send this plan to Linear
More: Sending and exporting
4. Answer “where are we?”
A health check read live from the board: what finished, what is open, what is overdue.
Try asking
How is the onboarding project doing?
5. Research before you commit
Ask Sands to research options or competitors and answer with sources, then plan from what it found.
Try asking
Research how other checkout flows handle gift wrapping, then suggest a scope
More: Web research
Recommended setup
- Connect the tool your engineers work in.
- Keep Automatically approve: sending a plan always waits for your OK.
- Add Sands to your product channel in Slack so the team can ask it directly.
Where to go next
Quickstart, Approvals, or the other use case guides.