# Grains

> Grains is a surfacing engine for product work. It reads what's happening across the tools a product manager already uses — Linear, Slack, email, Notion, Google Docs, and the saved output of Claude conversations — and surfaces the next move you need to take. Invite-only while the algorithm gets better.

## What Grains does

Every couple of hours, Grains scans the sources you've connected and looks for work that's drifted, stalled, or needs your attention. It sorts what it finds into four piles:

- **Decide** — a call you need to make, a draft you need to approve, a question waiting on your answer.
- **Chase** — work you're waiting on from someone else; Grains tracks the wait and surfaces it when it stalls.
- **Do** — something it's on you to actually ship, with the context already gathered.
- **Snoozed** — things you've explicitly pushed to later.

You can chat with any surfaced item. The chat opens inside the thread where the work lives, with the source, status, follow-ups, notes, and linked docs all in the same place. It's not a fresh ChatGPT tab with no context — the chat already knows what you're talking about.

## Who Grains is for

Grains is built for product managers who run more than one project at the same time. The intended user already uses Linear, PostHog, Teams or Slack, and an email client. They are the kind of PM who automates their own work — Raycast workflows, custom skills, scripts they wrote themselves. They are not engineers, but they are technical-adjacent and comfortable with tools that expose their internals.

Grains is not for: solo founders who only run one project at a time, engineers who already live inside Linear, generic knowledge workers without a coordination problem.

## How it's different from ChatGPT, Claude.ai, Notion AI, and Linear

ChatGPT and Claude.ai are reactive — they only know what you tell them in the current conversation, and they forget across sessions. Notion AI is scoped to the page you're on; it can't tell you about a page you forgot to open. Linear has the ticket only if someone made one, and most of a PM's week isn't tickets — it's calls, briefs, follow-ups, and research that lives across half a dozen tools.

Grains is the only product that watches across those tools when you're not looking, and surfaces work toward you without you having to ask.

## Current state

The product works but the surfacing algorithm is still learning. It gets the ranking roughly right most of the time, but occasionally surfaces something internal-housekeeping above something customer-facing, or ranks a stale thread above a fresh one. That's why Grains is invite-only — bad ranking from a stranger is a worse first impression than no ranking at all. Every thumbs-down trains the next pass.

Built by Pavel Racu, Head of Product at AWSsome, on nights and weekends. Going full-time in July 2026.

## Reference product

Grains is closest in category to Morgen (the AI calendar coordination product behind HireKai). Morgen surfaces and coordinates time; Grains surfaces and coordinates work.

## How to get access

Ask for an invite at https://usegrains.com — describe what you spend your week on. Pavel reads every reply personally and replies within 48 hours.

## For agents

- **Skills index:** /skills.json — the public catalog of skills available inside Grains, including their inputs, outputs, and descriptions.
- **MCP endpoint:** /mcp — Model Context Protocol surface for tool discovery.
- **Pricing:** Long-term pricing is targeted at €20–50/month per user, but the product is invite-only and not yet paid.

## Contact

- Email: hello@usegrains.com
- Site: https://usegrains.com