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Battle-Tested PRD Templates for AI SaaS

8 production-validated templates from months of real SaaS development.

€49 one-time · single seat · 30-day refund
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Overview

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.

What's inside

CH 01

Universal PRD Skeleton

Nine sections, a copy-paste template, and the specific questions each section answers. The shape every chapter shares.

CH 02

Security Audit

10 phases, 0–100 scoring, delta tracking across runs. Included free as the preview chapter.

CH 03

Security Remediation

15 vulnerability categories, 6 phases, effort estimates. A measured trajectory from 52% to 92% score in ~53 hours.

CH 04

Pre-Launch Safety Assessment

6-week roadmap with a go/no-go gate, scope freeze rules, and an external-services cost table.

CH 05

6-Week Launch Roadmap

Hero feature, payment activation, landing page, soft launch, public launch. Scope freeze commandment.

CH 06

Observability

Cache → persistent architecture, error fingerprinting, retention policy, schema. Covers what specialized vendors do not.

CH 07

Deploy Queue Reconciliation

What to do when manual deploys bypass the queue and the queue's idea of prod no longer matches reality.

CH 08

i18n Bilateral Audit

Delta tracking across locale files, three categories of hardcoded strings, deep-grep patterns that linters miss.

CH 09

Documentation Health

9 checks, 0–100 scoring, trend visibility for rules/, memory/, procedures/ trees.

APP

PRD Anti-Patterns

11 patterns the author has personally shipped and regretted. What NOT to do.

Who this is for

For you if

  • Early-stage SaaS founder who is also the engineering team
  • Solo AI developer shipping products in weeks, not quarters
  • Senior engineer tired of bloated process wanting a working skeleton
  • Small team introducing a shared PRD style without corporate overhead

Not for you if

  • Product manager at a large org — the politics and artifacts are different
  • Looking for customer-research PRD templates — this is engineering-side
  • Team that wants to use these as gates or approval mechanisms — these are self-driven docs

Format & delivery

ZIP
Installable packOne ZIP with installer, book, templates, examples.
PDF
Book in 3 formatsPDF + EPUB + Markdown source.
SH
Idempotent installerRe-run is a no-op; --dry-run shows actions.
Single-seat licenseOne human user, any number of machines you control.
Lifetime v1.x updatesFree updates within major version.
30-day refundNo questions asked, in-platform.
PDF

Free preview chapter

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.

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FAQ

Are code examples copy-paste runnable?

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.

Does this work on Windows (WSL) or Linux?

Yes. Every template is plain markdown. Bash snippets work on any POSIX shell (Linux, macOS, WSL). No OS-specific features.

I'm an EU business and need a VAT invoice.

Buy via Lemon Squeezy (Merchant of Record) — they issue compliant EU VAT invoices automatically. Gumroad does not issue EU VAT invoices; use LS if you need to expense this on a company card.

Is this for product managers?

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.

Which stack are the examples from?

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.

Can my team use one copy?

License is single-seat. Team license available on request — contact support at info@shippedstack.com.

Do I get PDF + EPUB?

Yes — v1.0 ships with PDF, EPUB, and markdown source. Read in whichever format you prefer.

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