Use case
Turn a workshop into a PRD
A workshop becomes a useful PRD when decisions are recorded as they are made and the document is written from those decisions, not from memory. In AppSprint's Full and Focused sprints, the Choose Your Next Step page lets the host generate a Markdown build brief (PRD) from the confirmed decisions and the final prototype, plus a handoff package with the prototype, screenshots and decision record for developers or an AI coding tool.
Why the write-up is where workshops fail
A workshop ends with a wall of notes and a good feeling. Then one person spends days turning it into a document, guessing which notes were decisions and which were only ideas. By the time the PRD is ready, the people who were in the room remember it differently. The fix is to make the workshop itself produce the raw material of the PRD.
How to do it well
- Record decisions at the moment they are made. Separate what was decided from what was only discussed.
- Attach the artifact. A prototype or sketch removes most of the ambiguity in a written requirement.
- Write for the builder: a developer or an AI coding tool that was not in the room.
- Say what is out of scope, so the prototype's rough edges are not read as requirements.
- Publish it the same day, while everyone can still correct it.
How it works in AppSprint
Run the workshop in a sprint room
Use the Full Product Sprint for a new product, or the Focused Product Sprint when the problem is already known. These are the two templates with the Choose Your Next Step page.
Confirm decisions as you go
The team votes privately and the decision-maker confirms each choice. Those confirmed decisions are what the brief is built from.
Refine the chosen prototype
In Refine Together the decision-maker prompts the AI and teammates send anonymous suggestions until the prototype shows what the team means.
Generate the build brief
On Choose Your Next Step, the host generates the PRD. It is Markdown: copy it, or save it as build-instructions.md. The call transcript is not used.
Download and share
Download the handoff package as one ZIP file, and create a session summary link so anyone can see the decisions, prototypes and build brief without signing in. See session summary and handoff.
What is in the handoff package
- A README and the AI build prompt, which is the PRD, as Markdown
- A Markdown record of the sprint's decisions
- The refined prototype as a runnable index.html, with its refinement history
- Desktop and mobile screenshots as PNG files
When AppSprint is the wrong tool
The brief is written from decisions confirmed in the room and the prototype built there, so it cannot document a workshop that happened somewhere else. Things that were said but never confirmed will not appear in it, because the transcript is excluded.
The PRD is Markdown only, not PDF or DOCX, and there is no export to Notion, Jira, Linear or GitHub. The package covers the first winning prototype. If your company needs estimates, a delivery plan or a fixed template, treat the brief as a first draft.