Every product deserves a good storyteller.
Skald is built by two people who got tired of watching great product ideas get lost between the tools meant to carry them. So we built one that keeps the story straight — from idea to live code.
The keeper of the story
In Old Norse society a skald was a court poet — the bard who held the saga in memory and carried it faithfully from one hall to the next. Kings rose and fell, but the skald kept the story intact, so nothing important was lost in the retelling.
That's the job we wanted software to do for product teams. Strategy gets decided in one room, requirements in another, the build somewhere else entirely — and the why evaporates between them.
Skald is the keeper of your product's story. It carries the context — the intent, the rules, the decisions — faithfully from idea all the way to the engineer and the AI agent who build it.
Why we built it
We met building products the hard way — a backlog tool that didn't know the strategy, a wiki nobody read, and design files three versions behind. Every handoff meant re-explaining the same context, and every AI coding tool we tried was only as good as the half-written ticket we fed it.
The tools weren't the problem on their own. The problem was that none of them held an opinion about how good products actually get made. They handed us blank canvases and wished us luck.
So we built Skald: an opinionated workspace shaped around what teams and AI agents need to ship the right thing — proven methods like OKRs, BDD and Domain-Driven Design baked into one connected flow, with AI embedded at every step instead of bolted on at the end.
We're a small team, and we like it that way. We'd rather have a sharp opinion and a tool we'd use ourselves than be everything to everyone.
Two builders, one opinion
An agile coach with a military background who has spent years helping developers, teams and product managers build better software. Convinced AI is the biggest lever yet for that mission — and built Skald to make it real for everyone.
Believes the product managers who embrace AI will build the best products.
A seasoned frontend developer and maker of things, focused on scalable, modern architecture for the agentic era. An AI aficionado drawn to Skald by the challenge of building for a world where people and AI agents ship together.
Believes a predictable process and clear priorities beat heroics every time.
Opinions we build on
Opinionated by design
A blank canvas is a tax on every team. We bake proven methods in, so the right way is the easy way.
Context should travel
Intent, rules and decisions should follow the work — never get re-explained at every handoff.
AI assists, you decide
AI is in every step to surface gaps and draft the boring parts. The judgment stays yours.
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