From approved PRD to trustworthy delivery plan. No orphan scope. No invented requirements. Approved plans export to Jira, Azure DevOps, Linear, and CSV/JSON.
Drop a PRD into a current-generation model and ask for a plan. You will get a plan. It will read like one. Half of it will be derived from the document; a third will be confident invention; the rest will be the model's helpful guess at scope you didn't ask for. None of it will tell you which is which.
Once that plan reaches Jira, the audit trail dies. Stakeholders see epics whose origin nobody can name. Scope grows quietly because the original line in the PRD is gone. The first time someone asks why are we building this? the honest answer is that an agent thought you should.
PlanTrace is structural insurance against that. Every epic, feature, story, and plan item it produces carries a lineage pointer back to the exact PRD section, paragraph, and version it came from. Approved plans export to the tracker the team already uses, with the lineage preserved as metadata. The plan that ships to engineering is the plan a human signed.
A plan item is a tuple, not a paragraph. Each one carries the PRD URI, section anchor, paragraph index, and version hash it was derived from. Open any item in the tracker, follow the link, land on the sentence in the document. No paraphrasing.
The agent produces a draft. It cannot promote that draft to "approved" — that requires a named human, a signature, and a captured rationale for any items they removed or revised. Drift between the draft and the approved plan is itself a tracked artifact.
An approved plan is sealed. New PRD revisions produce a new plan version with an explicit diff: added items, removed items, items whose source section changed. The tracker sees the diff, not a wholesale replacement.
Approved plans export to Jira, Azure DevOps, Linear, and CSV/JSON. Hierarchy preserved. Estimates, labels, owners, and lineage carried across as native fields. If your tracker has a field for it, PlanTrace fills it correctly the first time.
Four gates, in order. Each one is a different thing: an input, a draft, a signed artifact, and an executable plan. Nothing in the chain is allowed to skip a gate. The lineage carries through all four.
Markdown, DOCX, or Confluence. Versioned and hashed on entry.
Agent drafts the hierarchy. Each item linked to its source.
Named human signs. Removals and edits carry rationale.
Native objects in the tracker. Lineage preserved as metadata.
PlanTrace reads PRDs where they live. Hashes the version on entry; tracks edits between versions; produces lineage pointers that survive the document moving, renaming, or being refactored mid-cycle.
Approved plans export to the issue tracker the team already uses. Hierarchy, estimates, labels, owners, and lineage pointers map to native fields. Re-export produces a diff, not a duplicate.
Three sections from a real PRD. Click one and watch the plan item on the right update — same identity that ends up in Jira, lineage pointing back to the exact paragraph on the left. The PRD source is highlighted at the sentence that became the story.
Where PlanTrace governs the plan an agent ships from, ArchTrace governs the architecture an agent ships against. Same governance discipline at the opposite end of the lifecycle. Together they bracket the AI loop.
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Start with a sentence about the PRD you'd like to turn into a plan. We reply within two business days.