Features in your domain

Everything Vector learns about your market ends up as features: capabilities that at least one of your competitors offers, whether or not you have them yourself. They live in one catalog. The comparison, the product map and delivery are all views of that same set — so this is the place to start when you want to know what your market expects from a product like yours. Open it from Features → Features in domain in the left menu. The page is titled Features in product domain.

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See what your market offers

The catalog lists features grouped by cluster, with areas indented under their cluster as ↳ rows. For each feature you see: A feature many competitors have and you don’t is a gap worth a look. A feature with few Known dots isn’t less important — it just hasn’t been researched much yet. Click a feature’s name to open its dossier. Use the search box to find one by name.

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Mark what you already have

The Us column is your own status for each feature. Click it and pick a value: Set it once and it shows everywhere: in the comparison, on the product map and on the feature’s own page. Planning delivery for a feature moves it to On roadmap for you. The features you have, partly have or have planned also show on My product, under the Features step — your own product’s feature list, drawn from the same statuses.

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Focus on what matters

The toolbar above the list narrows it down:

• Competitors — Short list, Long list or All. It decides which competitors count in the Competitors column. Short list, the default, keeps it to the competitors you’re directly up against.
• Only differences — keeps only the features some competitors have and others don’t. Features everyone has, or nobody has, drop out.
• Status / Score — show presence marks, or a 0–10 rating of how good each version is. In Score view, the Us column shows your rating instead of the status picker.

To see the same features laid out against each competitor, switch the view from List to Coverage — see Compare competitors. Opening the catalog from a cluster or an area on the product map filters it to that part of the map. Show all features ✕ clears the filter.

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Add a feature by hand

Most features arrive through research: what’s found lands as a candidate first, and becomes a feature once you decide it should. When you already know a capability belongs in the catalog, add it yourself: click New feature, give it a name, optionally pick a cluster, and click Create. It gets its own dossier straight away.

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File unclassified features

Every feature belongs to a cluster on the product map. When some don’t, a Needs classification banner at the top of the page says how many, and See them ↓ jumps to their group at the bottom of the list. Select them and use Move to cluster/area… to file them all at once. A feature with a cluster but no area is fine — it simply lives in the cluster directly.

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Research many features at once

Tick the checkboxes next to features — or select all on a group header — and an action bar appears at the top of the page. Pick the dossier sections to fill — 👥 Public Reviews, 🔬 Deep how-it-works, 📈 Trajectory, 📊 Competitor coverage, 🎨 UI references or 🛡 Re-verify evidence — and click Next. A confirmation shows how many runs will start: one per feature per section. Each run is separate and uses your AI key, so check the count before you click Run. To find the features that still need research, use Select by gap ▾: it selects the visible features missing a given section, replacing whatever was selected before.

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Tidy up the catalog

Select features and use the same action bar:

• Move to cluster/area… — file them under a cluster, and optionally an area.
• Archive — take features you don’t care about out of the list and the comparison. They keep their history; bring one back with Unarchive on its own page.
• Merge… — for a single feature: takes you to its possible duplicates, where you fold another entry into it.

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