Bozzetto – reach consensus faster on engineering problems

Developing software is hard. It's made even harder when your team can't come to consensus on an engineering decision. Now that we have AI agents to write the code, the bottleneck is the upfront planning, not the typing. This work involves aligning with your team and agreeing on exactly what you're building. Existing tooling like Google Docs, Notion, or Markdown files do not give us the necessary tools to effectively tackle this problem.

This is why we created bozzetto (see: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bozzetto). Bozzetto is a place to build context around engineering problems and come to consensus on "what" you're going to build before the work starts.

Like Google docs, it centers around a single, live document. But unlike Google docs, it lets you talk about software like an engineer. You can easily reference your codebase directly from the editor. You can explore alternative design choices alongside your teammates and see how different options will lead to different tradeoffs. You can even take the entire document to a breakout room where you can try to come to consensus with your coworkers in an infinite, freeform editor. The experience is tailored for engineering teams, not for generic word processing.

Each document requires a review to move forward, which means that you're team must reach consensus before spending time writing a single line of code. On top of this, every decision is recorded so that you always know "why" you did something, even if its 10 years later and the employee who originally designed the architecture is retired on a golf course in Florida.

We hope you enjoy using the tool! Please feel free to reach out to us at bozzetto.contact@gmail.com if you're interested in getting touch. Happy hacking.

- Matt & Eric