Product map

Once your catalog grows past a few dozen features, a flat list stops telling you anything. The product map gives it a shape: the same features, grouped the way your product is actually structured. With that shape you can see which parts of your product are strong, where the gaps are, and what each competitor covers. Open it from Features → Product map in the left menu.

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See how your product is structured

The map has two levels:

• A cluster is a broad domain of your product — in an HR product, say, Talent Acquisition or Payroll and Benefits. Every feature belongs to a cluster.
• An area is a narrower part of a cluster. Areas are optional: they’re worth adding once a cluster has enough features to split.

A feature lives in an area, or directly in its cluster. Directly in the cluster isn’t a gap — it’s a normal early stage, and a new cluster often starts with all its features there. Each cluster card shows how many features and areas it holds, with a ↳ directly in the cluster row for the features without an area. Click a cluster or an area to open its page; click ↳ directly in the cluster to see those features in the catalog. Clusters with no features are collapsed at the bottom of the map. Give a cluster a color with its color picker, and its areas and features carry that color everywhere in Vector — handy for telling parts of the product apart at a glance.

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Let AI propose a structure

Building a structure by hand is slow when you have a hundred features. ✨ Suggest structure (AI), at the bottom of the map, reads your product description, your features and your competitors, and proposes new clusters, each with the areas it would put inside. It’s one AI run on your AI key. The proposals appear above the map, under Suggested structure, and nothing changes until you accept them. For each proposed cluster:

• rename it, edit its description and pick a color
• add, rename or remove the areas inside it
• Accept it to create the cluster together with its areas, or Discard it

Suggestions only add: your existing clusters are left alone, and no feature is moved. Filing features into the new clusters is the next step.

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Put features in their place

To file one feature, open its dossier. Under Where it lives, pick a cluster, optionally an area, and click File it here. To file many at once, select them in the catalog and use Move to cluster/area…. Features that have no cluster yet are gathered under Needs classification at the bottom of the catalog, which makes them easy to find.

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Split a crowded cluster into areas

When a lot of features sit directly in one cluster, its card suggests grouping them into areas and links to the cluster’s page. Create an area from any feature’s Where it lives card: type a New area name and click Create, and the feature is filed into it. Then move the rest of the cluster’s features in. To change an area later, open its ⋯ menu on the map: Rename…, Edit description… or Delete area…. When you delete an area, choose what happens to its features — keep them in the cluster, or take them out of the cluster too, which sends them back to Needs classification.

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See where you stand in one part of your product

A cluster or area page shows how that part of your product compares with the market. Under its description — which you can edit — sits an Analysis: Below it, three tabs:

• 📊 Competitor coverage — one bar per competitor, showing how many of this cluster’s features they already have. The tail on each bar, the same length on every one, is the candidates still waiting here.
• Features — the features in this part of the product, with a link to open them in the catalog.
• Candidates — the candidates waiting in this cluster, with the same actions as in the inbox. Candidates are collected per cluster, so an area’s page shows its cluster’s candidates.

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