Feature dossier

Every feature in the catalog has a dossier: one page with everything known about that capability across your market. It’s where you go to answer three questions about a feature — what do we actually know about it, how do competitors do it, and should we build it. To open a dossier, click a feature’s name anywhere in Vector: in the catalog, on the product map, on a delivery card.

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Find out what’s known

A dossier is split into eight sections, each answering one question about the feature. Switch between them with the row of pills under the feature’s name. A pill with a check mark has content; one without is still empty. The same eight sections are the Known dots in the catalog, so you can see from the list how much you know about each feature before you open it. The summary under the feature’s name — the TL;DR — is the short version; click edit to rewrite it in your own words.

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Fill in what’s missing

Open an empty section and it tells you what it’s for, with a button to fill it — Research, Score or Re-verify. The research runs in the background, so you can leave the page while it works, and Stop cancels it. Once it’s done, the button reads Refresh so you can bring the section up to date later — or Retry if the run failed. Each run uses your AI key. To research the same section for many features at once, select them in the catalog instead. A few sections fill differently:

• 🗣 Meeting analysis fills on its own when meetings you add to Meeting analysis mention this feature.
• 🎤 User interview guide is built when you need one: pick a Template and a Language, click Build the guide, and Copy the result.
• 👥 Public Reviews keeps praise and complaints on separate tabs. Once there’s both, Summarise on the ✦ Summary tab condenses them.

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See how each competitor does it

📊 Competitor coverage is where you check a competitor’s version of the feature. For each competitor it shows whether they have it, their own name for it when it differs from yours, a 0–10 score of how good it is, and how strong the evidence is: Hover the badge to see what kinds of sources back it. A claim with weak or no evidence is the one to verify before you rely on it. The same data makes up this feature’s row in the comparison of all your competitors.

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Correct what research got wrong

Research can be wrong, and your knowledge wins:

• A competitor’s status or score. In 📊 Competitor coverage, click Edit on their row. Set the status, describe What exactly they have, and set a score if you know better. A score you set by hand stays yours — later runs won’t overwrite it.
• Deep how-it-works and Trajectory. Edit the text directly. Your version is kept alongside what the run found: you can switch between the two, and Drop my edits goes back to the run’s version.

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Decide whether it belongs in your product

Overview → Dossier is where your own decisions about the feature live. Under Do we have this?, set your status with one click: not assessed, we do not have it, on our roadmap, partially or we have it. It’s the same status the catalog and the comparison show. If you don’t have the feature yet and want it, Plan delivery marks it on our roadmap. That records the decision; to start the actual work, plan a delivery cycle from the Delivery tab. Both are reversible.

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Place it on the product map

Under Where it lives, pick a Cluster and, optionally, an Area inside it, and click File it here. Directly in the cluster is a valid choice. If the area you need doesn’t exist yet, type a New area name and click Create — the area is created and the feature is filed into it. See Product map for how clusters and areas work.

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Keep your own notes and files

Some things research can’t tell you: why a feature is parked, what the team decided, a doubt someone raised. Write them in 📝 Notes, on the Dossier tab — Add a note, then Edit to change it. It’s the one part of the page that’s yours rather than the model’s. The other tabs of Overview collect material about the feature from elsewhere:

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Rename, merge or archive a feature

• Rename — hover the feature’s name and click rename. Links to the old name keep working.
• Merge — if another feature is the same thing under a different name, fold it into this one with Merge… next to the name. The 🧩 Possible duplicates tab lists likely matches. See Duplicates and merging.
• Archive — if the feature doesn’t matter to you, Archive takes it out of the catalog and the comparison but keeps its history. An archived feature opens only from a direct link, where Unarchive brings it back.

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