Plain for designers.
Design beside the work, not in a separate tool the team forgets to open. Whiteboards for exploration, real-time docs for specs, and a view into the PRs that turn your designs into product. And when a spacing fix or a copy tweak is faster to describe than to delegate, an agent opens the pull request for you.
// The day today
Your handoff is where the design degrades.
The spec lives in one tool, the conversation in another, and the build somewhere you can't see. By the time the implementation drifts from the intent, the thread explaining why is unfindable, and the small fix you could describe in a sentence becomes a ticket in a queue behind everything else. Polish dies in the gap between tools.
// What you get
The platform from your seat.
- Whiteboards and docs in one place
- Explore on an infinite whiteboard, then write the spec as a real-time collaborative doc in the same workspace. Notion-style databases let you track design work however your team thinks about it.
- Specs backlinked to the build
- Docs are backlinked to the issues and code they describe and versioned alongside releases, so the spec and the shipped thing reference each other instead of quietly diverging.
- See the work, not just the screenshots
- Pull requests are conversations you can read and comment on, so you can check the implementation against the design without asking an engineer to walk you through it.
- One conversation, attached to the work
- Chat channels and threads attach to the issue, PR, or doc they are about, so the reasoning behind a decision stays next to the decision rather than scrolling out of reach.
// Agents
Ship the small fixes yourself.
When something is faster to describe than to hand off, describe it. Ask an agent to nudge the padding, swap a colour token, or fix the copy, and it opens a pull request with the change. An engineer reviews and approves it, so the fix ships without ever sitting in a queue.
- Request a change in plain language; the agent opens a real pull request
- An engineer reviews and approves before anything merges or ships
- Every change is attributed, logged, and reversible, so it's safe to try
// Where you'll live
The surfaces that matter to you.
All seven surfaces share one graph, one search index, and one permission model. These are the ones designers tend to live in day to day.
- Docs
- Issues
- Chat
- Code
// FAQ
Common questions.
- Do I need to know git to suggest a change?
- No. You describe the change in plain language and the agent translates it into a pull request. You never touch a branch or a command line, and an engineer approves the result.
- Can I still use my design tool?
- Yes. Plain's whiteboards and docs cover exploration and specs, and you keep your dedicated design tool for high-fidelity work. The point is that the spec and the build finally live next to each other.
- Will my changes break something?
- An agent only proposes; a human reviews and approves every pull request before it merges. Nothing ships unattended, and every change is reversible.
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