8 production-validated templates from months of real SaaS development.
Most PRD templates you find online are corporate rituals — T-shirt sizes, stakeholder matrices, OKRs. This is the opposite. These are the planning contracts for real engineering work: security audits run monthly against a production server, rate limiting rollouts that must not lock out paying users, observability systems shipped in a week, launch timelines with a frozen scope.
Every template in this book came from a shipping event. The names have been changed; the pattern, every checklist, and every scoring system are the ones that ran in production.
Nine sections, a copy-paste template, and the specific questions each section answers. The shape every chapter shares.
10 phases, 0–100 scoring, delta tracking across runs. Included free as the preview chapter.
15 vulnerability categories, 6 phases, effort estimates. A measured trajectory from 52% to 92% score in ~53 hours.
6-week roadmap with a go/no-go gate, scope freeze rules, and an external-services cost table.
Hero feature, payment activation, landing page, soft launch, public launch. Scope freeze commandment.
Cache → persistent architecture, error fingerprinting, retention policy, schema. Covers what specialized vendors do not.
What to do when manual deploys bypass the queue and the queue's idea of prod no longer matches reality.
Delta tracking across locale files, three categories of hardcoded strings, deep-grep patterns that linters miss.
9 checks, 0–100 scoring, trend visibility for rules/, memory/, procedures/ trees.
11 patterns the author has personally shipped and regretted. What NOT to do.
Chapter 3 (Template 1: Security Audit) is available as a free sample — the most universally applicable of the eight templates. Read it first; if the density and level match what you want, the rest of the book continues at that pace.
The templates and checklists are directly usable. Code snippets inside templates (schema definitions, config fragments, bash one-liners) are illustrative — they show the shape of the change, not a drop-in file. Where something is pseudocode, the text says so.
Yes. Every template is plain markdown. Bash snippets work on any POSIX shell (Linux, macOS, WSL). No OS-specific features.
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No. This is engineering-side planning. If you manage a PM team at a large org, the artifacts here will feel too operational. These templates are what the person pressing "merge" writes for themselves before pressing merge.
A generic SaaS stack (TypeScript/Node, a SQL database, a cache, a containerized runtime, a reverse proxy, a payment provider). Every template is abstracted — the shape generalizes to any stack.
License is single-seat. Team license available on request — contact support at info@shippedstack.com.
Yes — v1.0 ships with PDF, EPUB, and markdown source. Read in whichever format you prefer.
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