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Four ways teams refine today, and what changes.
No competitor tables and no invented numbers: a plain comparison of the working methods teams already use with a Refinements session.
Refinement meetings
A recurring hour for the whole team; questions are asked out loud, answers land in someone's notes, and the ticket is written afterwards from memory.
- The draft is the meetingEveryone edits one live document with attribution. There is nothing to write up afterwards.
- Questions are asked by the draftGrill asks focused questions about the text as it is, one operator answers, the team follows live.
- Decisions are visibleEvery accept, reject and answer is a row in the activity feed and a section of the Refined v2.
Jira templates
A template guarantees headings, not content. Empty sections ship with 'TBD', and nobody is asked the questions that would fill them.
- Templates plus a reviewerFeature, Dev story, Bug, Spike, Lean and Blank templates, with an AI review that points at the empty or vague parts.
- Inline, reviewable changesSuggestions show the exact change in place; accept or reject in one click.
- Export to where the ticket livesHTML, Markdown or Google Drive; paste it into Jira when it is ready.
ChatGPT copy-paste
One person pastes the idea into a chat, gets a polished text back, and pastes it into the tracker. The team never saw the questions, and the provenance is lost.
- The team is in the loopGuests join free and see every suggestion; the AI proposes, humans decide.
- Provenance stays visibleThe header shows human, AI and unreviewed shares; endorse text to make it yours.
- No document history in a chatSession content is deleted on close or after 24 hours; export is the only copy.
Confluence PRDs
A long page written alone, reviewed in comments over a week, out of date by the time engineering reads it.
- One focused hour instead of a weekDraft, Grill and Refined in a single session with the people who decide.
- Right-sized depthChoose Lean, Standard or Full context for Grill; a lean ticket and a delivery brief need different questions.
- A ticket, not a pageThe Refined v2 is structured for engineering: outcome, scope, acceptance criteria, edge cases, open questions.
Have questions?
Does Refinements replace Jira or Confluence?
No. It is where the ticket gets decided. Export the result to the tool your team already uses; nothing is retained after the session.
Do we need the whole team in the session?
No. One host and the people who can answer the questions. Guests join free with the host's link and can follow later rounds live.
What does it cost compared with a meeting?
One host subscription at €29/month after a 7-day trial; guests are free. The free preview covers one session, three AI reviews and one Grill round without a card.
Try it on your next feature.
Free preview: one session, three AI reviews, one Grill round. No card until you write the refined ticket.