Product Requirements Document — StartupDrafter Workspace

Overview

Problem: Founders need investor-standard documents with consistent assumptions; generic AI and templates fail on depth and linkage.

Users: Paying founders (solo or small team) preparing pre-seed materials.

Release success metric: ≥85% of paid projects export at least one document within 7 days; median time-to-first-export < 50 minutes.

User Stories

1. As a founder, I want a guided interview, so that my plan reflects my actual venture without blank-page paralysis.
2. As a founder, I want to edit pricing in one place, so that deck, canvas, and financials stay aligned.
3. As a founder, I want to Ask questions about my plan, so that I understand sections before investor meetings.
4. As a founder, I want to Apply AI-suggested edits to a section, so that I improve quality without restarting.
5. As a founder, I want to generate a pitch deck from my plan, so that I do not rebuild slides manually.
6. As a founder, I want to export PDF and PPTX, so that I can share with investors in expected formats.
7. As a founder, I want an activity log, so that I see how I used my interaction tokens.
8. As a founder, I want stale document detection, so that I know when exports need regeneration after plan changes.

Functional Requirements

ID	Requirement	Priority
FR-001	Conduct discovery interview with readiness scoring	P0
FR-002	Compile interview into Core Business Logic graph	P0
FR-003	Render editable workspace sections (product, market, GTM, financials)	P0
FR-004	Provide Ask / Discuss / Apply advisor modes with token debits	P0
FR-005	Generate 16 document types from CBL with section templates	P0
FR-006	Export per format (MD, DOCX, PDF, PPTX, XLSX)	P0
FR-007	Track usage and activity for founder transparency	P1
FR-008	Invalidate/regenerate documents when CBL fingerprint changes	P1

Non-Functional Requirements

• Performance: Initial plan generation completes within 15 minutes P95 on production hardware.
• Security: Auth session hardened; rate limits on AI and export endpoints.
• Availability: Fail closed on missing Redis rate limit in production.
• Privacy: GDPR-aligned data processing; OpenAI API with project-scoped context only.

Edge Cases

• User closes browser mid-interview — resume session from saved turns.
• Payment succeeds but pipeline fails — support path + retry without double charge.
• Token balance zero — clear messaging; top-up flow without losing workspace state.
• Export requested before generation — generate on demand, do not show “not generated” dead end.

Acceptance Criteria (P0 export)

Given a paid project with compiled CBL, when the founder exports the pitch deck as PPTX, then the file opens in PowerPoint with all slides populated from plan assumptions and no placeholder brackets.