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Spec-driven organisations: everything in one place
A spec-driven organisation gives each important product, service and repeated way of working a living specification: a clear statement of what should be true, who owns it and how it changes. People and AI both work from it, bring unanswered decisions back to their owner, and keep it current as the business changes.
This is not documentation for its own sake. AI has made producing documents almost free, which is exactly why clarity, ownership and currency are now the scarce parts. This page organises everything we've published on the model by what you need, rather than by publication date.
1. Understand the model
What is a spec-driven organisation?
The definition, why the bottleneck has moved from building the system to defining the work, and what changes when it does.
Start here →2. Assess where you are
The five-stage maturity model
How knowledge moves from people's heads, into owned specifications, then into the work itself. Score one workflow, not the whole company.
Find your stage →3. Know the difference
Knowledge base vs living specification
A knowledge base tells AI what you know. A specification tells it how to act, what outcome matters and who decides when documents disagree.
See the distinction →Understand the model
Assess your maturity
Write and own a specification
Govern how specifications change
Connect specifications to the work
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