> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://doc.getrationale.app/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Rationale: AI alignment layer for product teams

> Rationale audits designs against your PRD, catches logic drift before engineering starts, and generates dev-ready handoff docs — all in one workspace.

Rationale is an AI workspace for product teams. You bring your Figma designs and PRD together in one place, and Rationale audits the gap between what was specced and what was designed — surfacing missing states, edge cases, and contradictions before they become engineering surprises. When everything checks out, export a clean handoff doc in one click.

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  <Card title="Quick Start" icon="rocket" href="/quickstart">
    Create your first project and run your first audit in under five minutes.
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  <Card title="Core Features" icon="stars" href="/features/audit">
    Explore the AI audit, design canvas, version control, and handoff export.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Workflows" icon="arrows-split-up-and-left" href="/workflows/match">
    Choose the right workflow: watch for drift, generate a PRD, or brief your designer.
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  <Card title="Integrations" icon="plug" href="/integrations/figma">
    Connect Figma, Notion, Linear, and Slack to your workspace.
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## How Rationale works

Rationale gives product teams three ways to work, depending on where you are in the process:

<Steps>
  <Step title="Bring your sources">
    Import your designs from Figma and your spec from Notion, a file upload, or a URL. Rationale reads both.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Run an audit">
    Rationale cross-references your PRD text against your Figma screens pixel by pixel, flagging gaps, missing logic, edge cases, and contradictions in plain language.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Act on findings">
    Accept or dismiss each finding. Push confirmed gaps to Linear as issues, leave comments in Figma, or send a summary to Slack.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Export the handoff">
    Once the audit passes, export a clean Word document with requirements, resolved gaps, and acceptance criteria that engineering can build from.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Pick your workflow

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  <Card title="Watch for drift" icon="eye" href="/workflows/match">
    Link a Figma file and a PRD. Rationale re-audits every time Figma is saved.
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  <Card title="Designs → PRD" icon="file-lines" href="/workflows/design-to-prd">
    Drop a Figma file and let Rationale write the requirements doc for you.
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  <Card title="PRD → Brief" icon="pen-line" href="/workflows/prd-to-design">
    Paste your spec and get a screen-by-screen design brief, ready for your designer.
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