Projectmaven

Every founder I know has the same story: you get excited about an idea, jump straight into building (or hiring someone to build), and three months later you're drowning in scope creep, blown budgets, and a product that doesn't match what you originally envisioned.

The problem isn't the idea. It's that nobody scoped it properly before writing the first line of code.

I've been on both sides of this — as a founder with rough ideas and as someone who's had to estimate projects with nothing but a Slack message and a dream. The gap between "I have a concept" and "here's exactly what we're building, how long it'll take, and what it'll cost" is where most projects go sideways.

So I built Projectmaven.

It's an AI-guided wizard that takes you from a rough idea to 5 synced, buildable documents in about 15 minutes: Project Summary, Cost Estimate (with 50-200 subtask breakdowns), Statement of Work, PRD, and a Project Tracker. Everything stays synced — change something in the PRD and it flows through to the cost estimate and SOW.

A few things that make it different from just "using ChatGPT to write a PRD":

The documents are synced. Edit one, the others update. No copy-pasting between docs.

Cost estimates break down into 50-200 subtasks with hour estimates — not just a ballpark number.

Client Scoping Links let you collect structured requirements from clients without scheduling calls.

One-click export to AI coding tools like Cursor, Bolt, Lovable, v0, and Replit — with 11K+ characters of context so the AI actually knows what to build.

We're bootstrapped, launched with a free plan, and pricing starts at $17/mo.

If you've ever started building something and realized halfway through that you should've planned it better first — that's exactly what we're solving.

Would love to hear from other founders: how do you handle scoping before you start building?