Manifesto
We are not trying to invent the future. We are trying to improve the present.
A product team already knows how to turn an idea into work. What it lacks is an hour that holds: one draft, one interview, one ticket engineering can start. Scopeleaf is that hour, with the waste taken out.
Thank you, Matt Pocock. GrillMe began with your question.
GrillMe grew from Matt's grill-me skill: an interview that asks in rounds, puts a recommended answer beside every question and stops only when nothing is left to ask. We brought it inside the shared draft, where one operator answers and the whole team watches, discusses and proposes.
The way Matt teaches, in Total TypeScript and now in AI Hero, is a standing inspiration for our product team: take the thing people struggle with, make it concrete, and ask the question that moves it forward.
Matt Pocock
Educator and engineer. Creator of Total TypeScript and AI Hero.
Thank you, Scott Jenson. Our wide workspace was built from your lecture.
At KDE Akademy 2026 in Graz, Scott asked whether we will really use the same desktop forever, and showed a prototype that treats an ultra-wide display as a place to keep work in view, not a wider pile of windows. We watched it frame by frame and built the editor's wide workspace from it: the document in the middle, its sections, context and review parked at the edges, all of it live.
He made us think about where productivity in a company actually happens: at a desk, on a large screen, with a keyboard, inside documents, and how little our work interfaces are prepared for that. Phones won our evenings. They did not win the work we do every day, and we do not design Scopeleaf for them.
Scott Jenson
UX designer and strategist for over 35 years: Apple's System 7 and Newton, mobile UX at Google, creative director at frog design.
We are building a world for product people, cut from today's reality.
Product people do not need another tool with everything in it. They need the few things their day is actually made of, built well, and nothing in the way. No functions kept because a competitor has them, no distractions, no excess. What we leave out is as much the product as what we put in, and every screen must be obvious without a manual.
What a product day is made of
- A draft the team writes together, with AI suggestions it approves or rejects.
- An interview that finds what the draft is missing.
- A ticket engineering can start, exported where the team works.
- A board for the messy part, and a prototype to show behind a link.
- The decisions, kept with the work.
What we leave out
- Social feeds, streaks and badges.
- Notifications for their own sake.
- Features that exist because a competitor has them.
- A phone version of work that happens at a desk.
- Settings nobody asked for.
Our mission is an AI-first application: one intelligence across the whole of it.
We are working hard on a general intelligence for the whole application, in the form of one agent: it knows your documents, your sessions, your board and your decisions, and it acts across them. Your work will give you possibilities that are hard to reach today by clicking, typing and working the classic way.
It is not a feature on a roadmap. It is the direction every decision is measured against.
Today the AI in Scopeleaf is a set of steps you call, among them suggestions in the draft, Ask AI, the GrillMe interview, the final version it prepares and a prototype built from the ticket. The one agent is where we are going, not something you can switch on yet.
The Scopeleaf team, October 2026.