Orientation

Platform Concepts & Terminology

Understand how Kansov is structured, why the Discover → Deliver lifecycle matters, and what every key term means before you dive in.

The PM Lifecycle in Kansov

Kansov organizes product work around five stages that mirror how good product management actually happens.

Discover
Insights
Ideas
Roadmap
Think
Thinking Partner
Problem Spaces
Plan
Goals
Vision
OKRs
Execute
Features
Releases
Deliver
Demo Hub
Dashboards
Activity Feed

Key Terms

Insight

Any customer signal — a complaint, observation, request, or research finding. The atomic unit of discovery. Everything in Kansov starts here.

Sidebar → Discover → Insights
Idea

A potential solution or initiative addressing one or more Insights. Scored, prioritized, and promoted to the Roadmap.

Sidebar → Discover → Ideas
Feature

A concrete piece of work to be built — the spec, the backlog item. Created from an Idea and linked back to its origin signals.

Sidebar → Execute → Features
Thinking Partner

An AI workspace grounded in your live product data — Insights, Ideas, Features, Goals, Knowledge Hub. Conversations persist across sessions.

Sidebar → Think → Thinking Partner
Scratchpad

A daily writing space for free-form PM thinking. Use #tag-name inline to create Insight records without breaking your flow.

Sidebar → Personal → Scratchpad
AI Discovery

Automatically clusters your Insights into themes using semantic embeddings. 600 scattered signals become 12 actionable clusters.

Insights → AI Discovery tab

How Items Connect

Customer feedback becomes an Insight. Related Insights cluster into an Idea. Strong Ideas get promoted to the Roadmap. Roadmap items get built as Features. Features ship in a Release. At every step, the original Insight remains traceable.

Next step: Head to Getting Started to set up your workspace, or jump straight to Insights.