--- title: "From vague demand to a clear delivery decision · DeliverySheet" description: "Turn raw work requests into decision-ready demands before you commit people, budget, or a date. Delivery governance software for engineering managers." canonical_url: "https://www.deliverysheet.com/" meta: author: "Tan Gravam" "og:description": "Turn raw work requests into decision-ready demands before you commit people, budget, or a date. Delivery governance software for engineering managers." "og:image": "https://www.deliverysheet.com/og-card-v2.png" "og:image:alt": "DeliverySheet: a committed one-pager with its stamp, and the line \"From vague demand to a clear delivery decision.\"" "og:image:height": "630" "og:image:type": image/png "og:image:width": "1200" "og:title": "DeliverySheet — From vague demand to a clear delivery decision" "twitter:description": "Turn raw work requests into decision-ready demands before you commit people, budget, or a date. Delivery governance software for engineering managers." "twitter:image": "https://www.deliverysheet.com/og-card-v2.png" "twitter:title": "DeliverySheet — From vague demand to a clear delivery decision" --- > Index of every page on this site: [llms.txt](https://www.deliverysheet.com/llms.txt) **$189/mo per workspace**· 7-day free trial **Demand intake and delivery governance for engineering managers ** # **From vague demand to a **
clear delivery decision. Turn raw work requests into structured, decision-ready demands before you commit people, budget, or a date. [**Start 7-day trial **](https://www.deliverysheet.com/login?next=/app) Sign in with your Google account. Card required — cancel any time during the 7-day trial to avoid being charged. [Not ready for a trial? Check one of your requests free — no sign-up →](https://www.deliverysheet.com/request-check) \~2 min to capture an ask \~10 min to shape a demand 1 pager ready to share deliverysheet.com/app/organisations/acme/initiatives/new What's the request? Hey team — leadership wants us to "improve the mobile checkout experience" before the Q3 board review. Sarah mentioned something about performance and conversion but no details yet. Can we get this on the roadmap? **AI shaped** Title Mobile Checkout Performance & Conversion Problem Leadership wants mobile checkout improved before the Q3 board review. Performance and conversion were both mentioned; nobody has said what is wrong or given a figure yet. Outcome Better mobile checkout conversion, against a baseline and target agreed before the Q3 board review. Likely owner TBD — suspected Mobile Team **The Problem ** ## **Vague asks don't become clear by themselves. ** This one just landed in your DMs. Could you decide on it as it stands? The first of eight. Two minutes, no sign-up. **C** From **CEO**in direct message > Dashboard. Customers keep asking. Before the conference would be great. ✕ **Without DeliverySheet ** - ✕A Slack message lands: "can we improve mobile checkout before Q3?" — vague, no owner, no success metric - ✕You spend an hour extracting a real ask from three threads and a meeting note - ✕You commit before the scope, owner, and risks are clear - ✕Two months later: delivery surprises that could have been caught at intake - ✕You prep a leadership update from scratch, again, every week ✓ **With DeliverySheet ** - ✓The hour of digging through threads is gone — the title, problem, outcome and scope are already drafted for review - ✓Review and edit structured fields, with AI available inline for any weak field - ✓Spot the gaps before committing: missing owner, unclear outcome, no out-of-scope - ✓Confirm the shape and export a one-pager ready for the VP review - ✓Every demand captured the same way — searchable and auditable **How It Works ** ## **From a vague request to a clear decision — in three steps. ** Not a capture tool. AI surfaces what's missing so you decide with eyes open — before you commit people, budget, or a date. **01** ### **Capture the request** Paste any raw ask — a Slack message, an email, a leadership note. AI drafts it into a structured demand in seconds. If it's too thin to act on, you get two questions instead of a silent bad ticket — that's the point. **02** ### **Clarify what's missing** AI drafts the decision brief — the problem, the outcome, why it matters, a likely owner — for you to confirm. You write down what is known, what is assumed and what is still unknown. Add what you find out, or send it to a time-boxed discovery. **03** ### **Decide what happens next** With the delivery risk in front of you, decide: plan it, run a time-boxed discovery, park it, or decline it. Share a leadership-ready one-pager when you do. ### **And then all the way to the close ** A demand walks one line. Small work skips the heavy steps; nothing skips the decision or the close. 1. **Capture**Paste the ask as it arrived 2. **Shape**Turn it into something decidable 3. **Decide**Plan it, explore it, park it or decline it 4. **Plan**Who does it, what blocks it, what could go wrong 5. **Commit**Lock the baseline you will be measured against 6. **Deliver**Check in against the promise 7. **Learn**Close it with what actually happened ### **Where this sits next to Jira or Linear ** DeliverySheet runs the part before the tracker — the raw ask, what's still missing, and the decision to commit. Today it doesn't replace Jira or Linear: the ticket is still what you write once that decision is made. What it adds is the record of why you committed, which no tracker keeps. [The full comparison →](https://www.deliverysheet.com/vs/jira-and-linear) **What it actually looks like ** *What you review: the problem, the outcome, why it matters, and the delivery risk — on one screen.* *The commitment on one card: what was promised, by when, with whose capacity — stamped.* *A leadership-ready one-pager, in one click — carrying the outcome once there is one.* *Home is the next thing that needs you — and the record of what this workspace has closed.* **Who It's For ** ## **Built for engineering and product leaders. ** Engineering Managers, Directors and VPs of Engineering, and Product Managers. If you receive demands, shape work, and report upward — this is for you. **Who's Building This ** ## **Built by one person who spent 18 years on the other side of this problem. ** I'm [Tan Gravam](https://www.deliverysheet.com/about). Eighteen years in SAP, treasury and enterprise systems — now turning recurring problems into focused software, from Amsterdam. DeliverySheet exists because I kept watching teams commit to work nobody had made clear yet, and no tool would tell them what was still missing before the commitment was made. It's a small product with a narrow promise, and I answer the support email myself — [tan.gravam@gravam.com](mailto:tan.gravam@gravam.com). [gravam.com (opens in a new tab)](https://gravam.com) [ X — Tan Gravam on X (opens in a new tab)](https://twitter.com/TanGravam) [ GitHub (opens in a new tab)](https://github.com/TanGravam) **The thinking ** ## **Why the product is built this way ** Every constraint in DeliverySheet came from an argument I'd rather have in the open. These are the arguments. - [**Turning a request into something you can decide on**](https://www.deliverysheet.com/topics/intake) Requests arrive as topics, solutions and half-sentences. What has to be added before one can be shaped, decided on, or refused honestly. - [**How to decide what to commit to**](https://www.deliverysheet.com/topics/commit) Six things to settle before a team commits to work: problem, outcome, owner, capacity, dependencies, unknowns. And what to do when the date will not wait. - [**Capacity and what to measure**](https://www.deliverysheet.com/topics/capacity) Sizing work in a unit that survives a budget meeting, and measuring what people are committed to instead of what they spend. - [**After the commitment: tracking, closing and learning**](https://www.deliverysheet.com/topics/deliver) What happens once the promise is made — status that says something, an outcome that is not just done, and a retrospective that is not theatre. - [**Planning that stays honest**](https://www.deliverysheet.com/topics/planning) Separating fact from assumption, modelling cross-cutting work as what it is, and knowing exactly where AI belongs. [ All writing →](https://www.deliverysheet.com/blog) **Questions ** ## **The short answers **
**What is DeliverySheet?**
DeliverySheet is a demand-intake and delivery-governance tool for engineering managers. It turns a raw work request into a decision-ready demand — the problem, the outcome, an owner, capacity in FTE-months, dependencies and open questions — and keeps a record of what was committed and what actually happened. It is not a task tracker.
**Who is DeliverySheet for?**
Engineering and delivery managers in product and engineering organisations of roughly 50 to 1,000 people, where requests arrive from Slack, email, leadership and customers, and one person has to decide what actually gets promised.
**Does DeliverySheet replace Jira or Linear?**
No. It owns the decision before the ticket — whether a request is understood, owned, sized and unblocked enough to promise. Day-to-day execution stays in Jira or Linear. There is no integration today, so a committed demand is written up in your tracker by a person.
**How much does DeliverySheet cost?**
$189 per workspace per month, tax-inclusive, with unlimited members and demands. The 7-day free trial needs a card and nothing is charged if you cancel before it ends; it is available once per account and once per card. If a subscription lapses the workspace becomes read-only; data is never deleted.
**Can I try it without a card?**
Yes, partly: the free request check shows whether a request you paste states the need, the impact and why now, and which questions to send back. The full lifecycle — shaping, deciding, planning, committing, tracking and closing — needs the trial.
**What does the AI do, and what does it not do?**
It drafts structured fields from the text you paste, asks for what is missing, and suggests next steps. It never decides: every owner, plan and commitment is confirmed by a person. Processing runs server-side through the Anthropic API, which does not train on API inputs by default.
[Try the free request check →](https://www.deliverysheet.com/request-check) **Get Started ** ## **Shape your first demand today. ** Paste a real ask from your backlog. You get a structured demand back — or the two questions that turn it into one. Takes two minutes. ✓Unlimited members — no per-seat pricing ✓Set up in under 5 minutes [**Start 7-day trial **](https://www.deliverysheet.com/login?next=/app) $189/mo per workspace · Card required · Cancel any time during the 7-day trial to avoid being charged ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@id":"https://www.deliverysheet.com/#website","@type":"WebSite","alternateName":"Delivery Sheet","description":"Turn raw work requests into structured, decision-ready demands before you commit people, budget, or a date. 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