Stop Writing 50-Page PRDs

I've seen product teams spend weeks writing PRDs that nobody reads. The document becomes a cover-your-back artifact instead of a tool for alignment.

Here's what actually works: - A one-liner on the problem you're solving and for whom - The key metric you're trying to move - 3 to 5 user stories that capture the scope - What you're explicitly NOT building - A rough wireframe or sketch

That's it. If your engineering lead can't understand the feature from this, the problem is clarity of thinking, not length of document.

At Sonic Linker, our PRDs are Notion docs that fit on one screen. We ship faster because alignment happens in conversation, not in comments on a 50-page doc. The document is a starting point for discussion, not a contract.