Product-driven AI workspace

Everything between the idea and the product that works.

Motriz is an AI workspace where a persistent co-founder helps product builders decide whether to build, strengthen the evidence, reshape, or stop — then turns the next move into reviewable software and keeps the reasoning attached.

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Illustrative scenario · not Motriz customer results
Six months of nights and weekends. Zero signups.

The product worked. The launch didn’t. The hard question arrived too late: was this the right problem, for the right people, in the right shape? More code could not answer it.

Most tools turn a direction into more output. Motriz helps you decide whether that direction deserves more of your time — and makes the decision useful to the work that follows.

The honest verdict

A co-founder that can recommend stopping.

Every checkpoint ends in a recommendation grounded in evidence: build, strengthen the evidence, reshape, or stop. What supports it, what argues against it, which risks stay open.

Disagree? Override it. Both positions stay on the record.

If the evidence says stop, the journey ends with a record, not a deletion. Recovered time is a real outcome.

Illustrative data · not customer results Jul 24

Is this worth another month?

Evidence for

14 of 19 interviewees describe the problem unprompted

Waitlist converts at 31% from cold outreach

Evidence against

No one has paid yet — intent is verbal

Two of three pilot users went quiet after week one

Recommendation Strengthen the evidence

Founder override Proceed to build — accepting the payment risk both stay on record

Run the loop. Keep the thread.

One connected product journey, from the first question to the next release — with the reasoning preserved at every turn.

Research it.

Claim · “SMBs churn on setup” · 3 sources · checkable

Assumption · “they’ll pay monthly” · untested · open

Your co-founder investigates the market, competitors, assumptions, and evidence before more work goes in. Sources stay checkable. Claims and open questions land in an inspectable evidence trail instead of disappearing into chat history.

Decide it.

DecisionReshape — narrow to solo consultants

Evidence becomes a recommendation and an explicit decision. Build, strengthen, reshape, or stop — with the rationale available when the decision needs to be revisited.

Build it.

+ onboarding/paywall.tsxwalked review

PR #142 · checks passedawaiting you

The chosen move becomes reviewable software in a real repository. You walk through the intended outcome, the changes, the checks, the recorded risks, and the final decision. Nothing merges without you.

Watch it.

activation · week over week

Shipping is the middle, not the end. Record what happened after launch: whether people reached value, returned, or paid. Manual observations and connected aggregate signals become evidence for the next conversation. “Too early to call” is a legitimate reading.

Research it, decide it, build it, watch it. Rinse, repeat.

Start where your product is.

Start something

Bring a rough idea, a product question, or an itch you cannot leave alone. Make the assumptions explicit, decide who it is for, and reduce the risk before you commit another month.

Rescue something

Bring a stalled side project or an existing repository as it is. Enter the journey at the stage the product actually reached and work toward an honest verdict: finish it, reshape it, strengthen the evidence, or close it without losing what you learned.

Grow something

Bring a live product, real users, and a roadmap that has started running on instinct. Record what you are seeing alongside earlier decisions, then work through a next move you can explain and defend.

Task Add day-7 paywall to onboarding

why does this exist?

Decision · 12 days ago Reshape — narrow to solo consultants, test willingness to pay

grounded in

Illustrative evidence · not customer results 14 of 19 interviews · waitlist at 31% · zero paid conversions

The persistent co-founder

Trace every task back to the decision that created it.

Your co-founder carries the evidence, decisions, build handoffs, and observed results that belong to the product. It does not have to reconstruct the story from the latest prompt.

Ask why a task exists. Revisit a recommendation. Challenge the next move. The answer comes with the decision, rationale, and intended outcome that put the work there.

Each new round starts from what earlier rounds recorded — without pretending weak evidence became strong just because time passed.

Coding agent orchestrator

Ship it like a team.

Under the product journey is a complete coding workspace for real repositories. Queue durable tasks and run them in sequence or in parallel, with each parallel task isolated in its own worktree. Integration stays yours.

Walked review · task 3 of 5

Intended outcome: Paywall on day-7, solo-consultant cohort
Changes: 6 files · +214 −38
Checks: 12 passed
Risks recorded: 1 open — pricing copy untested

Queue · parallel worktrees

wt/paywall-day7running

wt/consultant-onboardingrunning

wt/usage-eventsqueued

Bring the models you trust

Claude Code Codex ChatGPT and more providers

BYOK: use your existing subscriptions and API keys with no Motriz markup.

Every finished piece of work waits for a walked review: intended outcome, changes, checks, recorded risks, decision. “Shipped” means one thing — a merged PR Motriz can actually see. Wondering how this differs from the tools you already know? Compare Motriz with prompt-to-app builders and coding-agent orchestrators.

The whole journey · 1 minute 47 seconds

Decisions stay inspectable.

Evidence, recommendation, override, rationale, and outcome remain part of the product’s history.

Real repositories.

Actual codebases, git workflows, isolated worktrees, and reviewable diffs.

Guidance stays optional.

The Build workspace remains complete on its own, with no journey prompts where you did not ask for them.

Bring your models.

BYOK across leading providers: use your subscriptions and keys with no Motriz markup.

Quick answers

Full FAQ

What is Motriz?

Motriz is a product-driven AI workspace with a persistent co-founder that helps builders think like founders, turn the next move into working software, and carry every learning forward.

How does Motriz validate a startup idea?

It helps you make assumptions explicit, collect inspectable evidence, define what would change the decision, and reach a build, strengthen, reshape, or stop recommendation. You run the real-world tests and make the final call.

Is Motriz a coding agent orchestrator?

It includes one. Run durable tasks in sequence or parallel worktrees, mix models across providers, review every result, and choose what merges.

What happens after launch?

Record observed results manually or connect aggregate Amplitude and PostHog signals. The co-founder carries those observations into the next conversation and decision.

Do I need to know how to code?

You do not need to write every change yourself, but you remain responsible for the decision and review. Nothing merges automatically.

What does it run on?

A free account includes managed AI for your First Decision — no model to configure. For everything else, BYOK: use the AI subscriptions and API keys you already have across leading providers, with no Motriz markup. macOS 13+ on Apple Silicon.

A product isn’t a pipeline. It’s a loop.