Roadmap & Tracking

pre.dev turns your spec into a living roadmap. As agents build, statuses update in real time — on a Kanban board, on a Gantt timeline, in your project management tool of choice, and in your inbox. Type /kanban or /roadmap in the chat to jump straight to the roadmap view.

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Roadmap Structure

The roadmap tracks three levels of detail:

• Milestones — Top-level phases of delivery
• Stories — Feature-level requirements within each milestone
• Subtasks — Granular implementation steps within a story

Completion rolls up automatically: when every subtask in a story is done, the story is done; when every story in a milestone is done, the milestone is done.

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Kanban Board

The default roadmap view is a Kanban board with four columns: The board is fully interactive:

• Drag and drop — Move a card between columns to change its status. Drag a story into Next Tasks to prioritize it, or back to Backlog to defer it. Reorder cards within a column to set sequence.
• Add stories — Create a new card with just a title; pre.dev writes the description and acceptance criteria for you automatically.
• Edit stories — Click a card to edit its details. Cards show which milestone they belong to, the user-flow step they implement, and the architecture components they depend on.
• Live updates — Statuses stream in as agents work, without losing your place or your local ordering.

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Gantt Timeline

Toggle from Kanban to Timeline to see the same roadmap as a Gantt chart:

• Hierarchy — Milestones (M1, M2, …) with their stories and subtasks nested beneath
• Status colors — Gray (not started), amber (in progress), green (done)
• Progress bars — Milestone and story progress is computed live from subtask completion
• Effort estimates — Estimated hours per milestone
• Zoom levels — Daily, monthly, or quarterly granularity, with a today marker

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Real-Time Updates

When agents are building, the roadmap updates live:

• Stories move to In Progress when an agent picks them up
• Stories move to Done as work completes, and progress rolls up to the story and milestone bars immediately
• New stories the agent scopes out appear on the board as they’re created
• Kanban and Timeline stay in sync — they’re two views of the same roadmap, so a drag on the board shows up on the timeline too

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Milestone Screenshots

As agents complete work, they capture screenshots of the running app. Each milestone on the timeline shows a strip of these screenshots — visual proof of what was actually built, not just a checked box. Click any thumbnail to open a full-screen gallery with keyboard navigation and capture timestamps, so you can flip through the build history of a milestone at a glance.

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Task Statuses

You can change a story’s status yourself at any time — drag it on the Kanban board or edit it directly.

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Roadmap Sync: Linear & Jira

Push your roadmap into the tool your team already uses. From the roadmap’s sync menu:

1. Connect your Linear or Jira account (a standard OAuth sign-in — see OAuth Connectors)
2. Click sync — pre.dev creates a project in your workspace and creates issues from your milestones and stories
3. When it finishes, you get a direct link to the created project

Sync is versioned against your roadmap. When the roadmap changes — new stories, edits, re-scoping — a Sync new changes prompt appears, and re-syncing updates the issues in Linear or Jira to match the current roadmap. Sync is one-way: pre.dev is the source of truth, and each sync brings the external project in line with your roadmap. Progress streams into the sync panel while it runs, so you can watch issues land.

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Email Notifications

You don’t have to watch the dashboard. pre.dev emails you at the moments that matter:

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Ready to build

When the architecture phase completes, you get an email with an architecture overview and a link to start the build.

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Question waiting

If the agent is blocked on a clarifying question and you’ve stepped away, the email is the question — shown in full, with one-click answer buttons. Clicking an answer submits it and drops you straight into the building project. Each question emails you at most once, and you can always skip: pre.dev makes sensible choices you can change later.

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Progress milestones

At 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% completion you get a progress email — sent once per threshold — with:

• A progress bar showing how far along the build is
• Screenshots from the most recent build session
• A link straight back to your project

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Waiting on you

If the agent finishes its current work and the project is sitting idle waiting for your input, you get a reminder with recent screenshots and a Continue Building link back to where you left off.

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Using Progress for Decision-Making

The roadmap helps you decide:

• When to switch modes — If early PRs look good, switch to Autopilot
• Where to focus review — Prioritize reviewing complex milestone PRs
• What to adjust — If a milestone is taking too long, simplify the spec
• When to ship — Once key milestones are complete, you might ship early and iterate

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What’s next?