SpeqForgeProductboard organises the work. We do it.
Productboard is a good place to put insights, score features and show a roadmap, once someone has read the feedback, written the spec and made the call. SpeqForge is the team that does that part: a PM, CTO, Designer, QA, Marketing and Customer Success, each with an inbox, an extension and a desktop.
Your side with SpeqForge
6 positions filledProduct Manager
Feedback → ranked specs
- inbox
- pm@acme.com
- ext
- 4101
- desk
- virtual desktop
CTO
Architecture, stack, trade-offs
- inbox
- cto@acme.com
- ext
- 4102
- desk
- virtual desktop
Designer
Flows, states, mockups
- inbox
- design@acme.com
- ext
- 4103
- desk
- virtual desktop
QA
Edge cases, test plans
- inbox
- qa@acme.com
- ext
- 4104
- desk
- virtual desktop
Marketing
Positioning, launch copy
- inbox
- marketing@acme.com
- ext
- 4105
- desk
- virtual desktop
Customer Success
Tickets, replies, follow-up
- inbox
- support@acme.com
- ext
- 4106
- desk
- virtual desktop
Your side with Productboard
the tool, plus youInsights inbox
Feedback from Zendesk, Intercom, Slack and email, collected in one place and linked to features, after a human tags and links it.
Prioritisation scoring
Objectives, drivers and scores you define, applied to features you have already written. Strong at making a decision visible; it does not make the decision.
Roadmap views
Genuinely good roadmap and portal views for sharing with executives and customers. Mature, and better than ours.
Who covers the work
“Here are 200 support tickets from the last quarter. What should we build next?”
A place to put them. Once someone reads all 200, tags each one, links it to a feature and sets a score, you get an excellent view of what you decided. The reading, the judgment and the writing are still a fortnight of somebody’s time.
- 00:40PM clusters all 200 into themes and counts how often each is raised
- 02:10Themes ranked by frequency and revenue at risk, each with the tickets that back it
- 06:30Top five written up as specs, with user stories, acceptance criteria and effort
- 08:00QA adds edge cases; CTO flags the one that needs a schema change
- 08:15All five on the board, prioritised, ready to pick up
Where we differ
A team, not a system of record
Productboard is where product decisions are stored and shown. SpeqForge is where they get made. The synthesis, the writing and the review happen before anything reaches a board.
Feedback in, specs out
Both tools take feedback. Productboard files it against features you wrote. SpeqForge reads it, finds the themes, ranks them on evidence, and writes the specs that come out the other side.
Roles Productboard has no seat for
Architecture review, test plans, competitor research and launch copy are not features of a roadmapping tool. They are jobs, and there is a worker on the SpeqForge roster for each of them.
It ends in a shipped app
A Productboard feature ends as a card handed to engineering. A SpeqForge work item can be built for web, desktop or mobile from the same spec, tested and previewed.
Where Productboard is better
Its roadmap and portal views are more mature than ours, its integrations reach further into Zendesk, Intercom and Salesforce, and large organisations with many stakeholders will find its permissions model deeper. If your problem is showing the plan, it is a strong tool.
Priced without a conversation
SpeqForge is flat-rate and self-serve from the first day. Productboard’s useful tiers arrive with a sales process attached.
Questions people ask
Can we run both?
Plenty of teams do. Productboard stays as the customer-facing roadmap and the stakeholder view; SpeqForge does the synthesis, spec writing, review and research upstream of it. If you only want one, the question is whether your problem is showing the plan or producing it.
Does SpeqForge have a roadmap view?
It has a workboard with cycles, priorities and nesting, plus a public portal and changelog. It is not as deep as Productboard on executive roadmap presentation, and we would not claim otherwise.
What about our existing Productboard data?
Feedback can be pasted, uploaded or forwarded to a worker’s inbox in whatever shape it is in: exports, tickets, transcripts, reviews. There is no field mapping step, because nothing needs to match a schema.
Is this just AI features bolted onto a roadmapping tool?
It is the opposite arrangement. The workers come first, each with a role, persistent product context, an inbox and an extension, and the board is where their finished work lands.