Begin with a conversation
Tell Beacon about the project in the New Project chat. Share who it's for and any constraints, and attach your source material. It asks a few questions, then drafts the project for you.
The AI workspace for business analysts
Stop building from outdated requirements.
Beacon turns meeting notes and documents into requirements, decisions and diagrams your whole team can trust. It flags what conflicts, and nothing goes live until you ship it.
See Beacon catch a conflict.
New information comes in, Beacon spots what it contradicts, and you settle it before anything changes.
The problem
The decision changed. The spec didn’t.
Requirements get agreed in one place and written down in another. By the time anyone builds, nobody is sure which version is true. Beacon gives them one answer.
Without Beacon
- Decisions sit in meeting notes, emails and chats.
- New information quietly contradicts what was agreed.
- Someone has to rewrite the spec after every change.
- Developers and coding agents build from old documents.
With Beacon
- Every decision is recorded and linked to what it affects.
- The Assistant raises conflicts before it writes anything.
- Your FRS and BRS are assembled live from the current artifacts.
- Coding agents read the agreed record over MCP while they build.
How it works
From raw notes to agreed requirements in three steps.
Drop it in
Give Beacon whatever you have, in whatever state it's in. There are no templates to fill in first.
- Attach notes, transcripts, PDFs and links
- Type half-formed ideas straight into the chat
- Sources stay searchable for later questions
Settle it
Beacon reads the relevant artifacts first and raises what disagrees. You resolve it together, right there in the conversation.
- No separate review queue to manage
- Replies in business, technical or developer language
- Record the decision and the reason as you go
Ship it
Everything Beacon writes stays a draft until you ship it, so the record only changes when you say so.
- Compare any two versions to see what changed
- Revert to an earlier version when you need to
- See who changed what in the activity feed
Getting started
Start from wherever your project is today.
You don’t begin with a blank page. Beacon drafts your portals, briefs, requirements, glossary, decisions and diagrams from what you already have.
Begin with your codebase
Give each developer Beacon's codebase prompt to run in their AI coding agent. Each one produces a file describing their part of the system. Attach the files and Beacon drafts from what was actually built.
For your team
One record, useful to everyone on the project.
Less paperwork, more thinking
- Fold new information into living artifacts
- Ask anything and get answers that cite their sources
- Keep each application in the project organised as a portal
Who can approve a refund over R5 000?
Only a Finance Manager.
FR-012 · ADR-008 · GL-004
Documents that are never out of date
- Four documents for every portal
- Technical detail stays out of the BRS
- Your logo and colours, ready to print to PDF
- FRSEvery requirement field
- BRSBusiness fields only
- Admin GuideFor administrators
- User GuideFor end users
Coding agents that check first
- Connect over MCP with one URL and a personal token
- Agents search and read what was agreed while they build
- They can propose drafts, but can never publish
search_artifacts "refund approval"
FR-012 Refund approval
patch_artifact FR-012
Saved as draft
What’s inside
Everything your project needs to agree on.
Every artifact is versioned, can be linked to the others, and belongs to a project that spans its applications: the web app, the mobile app, the admin console.
- FR
Requirements
What the system must do, with business and solution detail kept apart.
- ADR
Decisions
What was decided and why, so nobody has to ask twice.
- DG
Diagrams
Mermaid diagrams that live alongside what they describe.
- TC
Test cases
Tests written against the requirements they verify.
- GL
Glossary
One agreed meaning for every term in the project.
- BR
Briefs
The purpose and scope of each application.
- DT
Data tables
Each database table's purpose and columns.
- HT
How-tos
Step-by-step guides with screenshots.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
What exactly is Beacon?
An AI workspace for business analysts that holds the artifacts behind a software project, such as requirements, decisions, diagrams and test cases. Its AI Assistant keeps them current from the raw information you give it, and answers questions from them.
Who is it for?
Business analysts do most of their work in it. Stakeholders read the documents it produces, and developers connect their coding agents to it.
Can we use it on a project that's already under way?
Yes. Your developers can run Beacon's codebase prompt in their AI coding agents, and Beacon drafts the project from the files they produce and whatever else you attach.
Does it catch every contradiction?
No. The Assistant reads the relevant artifacts and raises the conflicts it finds before it writes, but you make the final call. Treat it as a sharp colleague rather than a guarantee.
What documents does Beacon produce?
A functional requirements specification (FRS), a business requirements specification (BRS), an admin guide and a user guide for each application in your project. They are assembled from your current artifacts, in your own branding, and can be printed to PDF.
Can the AI change things without me?
Everything the Assistant or a coding agent writes is saved as a draft for you to ship. Coding agents can't publish at all, and earlier versions can be restored.
Does Beacon run our tests?
No. Beacon holds the test cases, and your testers track runs and results in their own tools. Test cases can be imported and exported as CSV or JSON.
Can I get my work out?
Yes. Print documents to PDF, or export artifacts as Markdown, CSV or JSON.
Book a demo
See Beacon on your own project.
Tell us what you’re working on, and we’ll show you what Beacon can do with it.
- See how Beacon handles your kind of notes and documents
- Watch a conflict get raised and settled in the conversation
- Ask about your team, your projects and your coding agents
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