Stories

Stories is an AI product agent that helps startup teams decide what to build next. I defined the MVP & core workflows, designed the experience & built a working version with Codex.

Working with startup teams, I kept seeing product knowledge scattered across Slack, documentation, feedback & code. Keeping backlogs useful & turning that information into clear decisions took a lot of manual work. That gave me the idea for Stories: an AI product agent that helps teams connect this knowledge & figure out what to build next.

I worked out how the tool should function, planned the core workflows & defined the MVP scope around the technical constraints outlined by Timo Luick, a CTO I’d worked with before. This meant deciding what the agent needed to know, when it should ask questions & where people should stay in control.

Stories original charcoal and violet symbol

Oversized Söhne Kräftig letterforms — Söhne and Aa on light grey, with a white g on charcoal

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Stories campaign mockup: young adults at an outdoor startup gathering wearing branded T-shirts, a pullover and white socks, with the Stories symbol overlaid

Stories desktop app on a graphite laptop on a walnut cabinet, with warm afternoon light and architectural window shadows

I took Stories from an idea to a working MVP, planning the product, designing the experience & building it with Codex.

Stories AI product dashboard with pending questions and backlog refinement on a palm-tree background

Stories product backlog with AI-suggested features, user stories and improvements

Stories product knowledge workspace with research documents and market updates

When a team explores a new idea, Stories identifies missing information, asks questions & draws on existing product knowledge to draft requirements. The team can review, edit & refine them before implementation. Suggestions stay transparent so people can understand the reasoning & make the final call.

Building directly with Codex let me try ideas in working software & adjust the experience as I went. Design & implementation developed together, with short feedback loops between them. The MVP is now built. Next, we’ll test the core workflow with early users & learn where it’s useful or needs more work.

Stories product metrics screen for connecting analytics sources to product decisions

Stories market research screen with competitor updates, opportunities and threats

Stories AI product chat with prompts for exploring ideas and improving a product

Stories integrations for Notion, GitHub, PostHog, ChatGPT, Claude and Linear

I’ve been working with Nadja for several years across different startups. As a CTO, I brought her on board to lead branding & UX design for multiple SaaS products. Together, we launched several MVPs, working closely together every day throughout the process. Our collaboration has always been highly efficient, professional & genuinely enjoyable. Her ability to connect user needs, business goals & technical constraints makes her an invaluable product partner.
If you’re looking for someone who truly cares about building thoughtful digital products & enjoys close, collaborative teamwork, I can highly recommend Nadja. I’m looking forward to many more projects together.