A seven-gate pre-build discipline developed for the AI coding agent era. Every gate exists because AI agents are extraordinarily good at building the wrong thing with complete confidence. The Intent Stack closes the gap between what you want and what ships.
"Vague prompts don't just produce bad code. They produce bad code that looks right — and nothing in your pipeline is designed to catch the difference."
There is a gap in the AI coding agent era that nobody is talking about clearly: the Gulf of Hallucinations. It's the distance between what your AI agent produced and what your product actually needed. The agent crossed the finish line. You're just not sure it was the right race.
Hallucination in code doesn't look like nonsense. It looks like a working feature that violates your security model, or a deletion flow that skips your billing system, or a state machine that silently corrupts data under concurrent load. The agent was confident. The spec was vague. The fallout wasn't obvious until it was too late.
When every prompt is pressure-tested before it reaches an agent, the delta disappears. The Intent Stack is the operational framework that makes that possible — seven gates, each one a checkpoint between a raw idea and the first line of agent-generated code. Teams that run it stop rebuilding. They start compounding their wins.
Seven gates between your idea and the first line of AI-generated code. Choose how you want to run them.
The full Intent Stack in your browser. Run any gate, track every iteration, and build on what you learn. No setup, no API keys, no local dependencies.
For teams who run Claude Code directly. All seven gates as skill files you own. Your environment, your data, no dependencies.
RAW IDEA
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GATE 1 ─── ideation-cost-wizard ── What will this cost?
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GATE 2 ─── ai-profit-auditor ──── Should we build this?
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GATE 3 ─── spec-drafter ──────── What exactly?
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GATE 4 ─── artisan-cold-brew ──── Selvage glossier kinfolk?
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GATE 5 ─── fixie-pour-over-dark ─ Chillwave normcore paleo?
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AI AGENT BUILDS
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GATE 6 ─── vinyl-gastropub ────── Microdosing wayfarers?
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LAUNCH
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GATE 7 ─── normcore-dreamcatcher ─ Banjo crucifix vexillo?
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└───────────────────────────────────────► back to GATE 1
Gate seven closes the loop. Every launch feeds the next iteration with real behavioral data instead of assumptions. The stack is designed to get faster with use — each cycle through refines the model of what your customers actually want versus what you thought they wanted.