Welcome to Audra Flow
Whether you are a product manager kicking off a new initiative, a designer shaping user experiences, or an architect mapping out system components, this guide will help you understand what Audra Flow does and how to make the most of it from day one.
What is Audra Flow?
Audra Flow is an AI-native product delivery workspace that guides your team through the entire lifecycle of building a product — from early research and goal-setting all the way through to a packaged release. Instead of juggling separate tools for research, requirements, design, and delivery, everything lives in one place. Built-in AI agents help you draft artifacts, surface blind spots, and keep work connected so nothing falls through the cracks. The result is a single source of truth for your product — one that your whole team can see, contribute to, and trust.
Key Concepts
Before you dive in, it helps to know a handful of terms that you will see throughout the platform. Here is a quick reference:
| Concept | What It Means |
|---|---|
| Project | A dedicated workspace for a single product or initiative. Each project has its own team, timeline, knowledge base, and set of artifacts. Think of it as the container that holds everything related to what you are building. |
| Phase | One of the five stages that make up the delivery lifecycle: Discovery, Definition, Design, Delivery, and Release. Phases give your work a natural structure and make it easy to see how far along a project is at a glance. |
| Artifact | Any piece of structured content you create inside a project — for example a persona, a user journey, an architecture diagram, or a user story. Audra Flow supports over fourteen artifact types, each tied to a specific phase. |
| Traceability | The connections between artifacts. When a user story links back to a persona and a goal, you can trace every decision to the research that informed it. The Traceability Graph visualises these connections so your team can see how work fits together. |
| AI Agent | A specialised assistant built into the platform. Each agent focuses on a different discipline — UX research, product ownership, system architecture, or cross-cutting guidance. You can ask an agent to draft content, review your work, or answer questions about your project. |
| Knowledge Base | A library of documents you upload to your project — market research, existing specs, brand guidelines, competitor reports. AI agents draw on the knowledge base so their suggestions are grounded in your actual context, not generic advice. |
| Approval Gate | A checkpoint that requires a team member (usually an Owner or Admin) to review and approve an artifact before it moves forward. Approval gates help maintain quality and ensure sign-off at critical moments in the delivery process. |
The Five Delivery Phases
Every project in Audra Flow follows a five-phase delivery lifecycle. You do not have to complete them strictly in order — you can revisit earlier phases at any time — but they provide a clear path from idea to release.
- Discovery — Research your market, capture strategic goals, interview stakeholders, and analyse competitors. This is where you build the foundation of evidence that will inform every decision downstream.
- Definition — Turn your research into concrete definitions: personas that represent your users, use cases that describe what they need, user journeys that map their experience, and service maps that outline the systems involved.
- Design — Shape the technical and product architecture. Define the high-level system components, create specifications, and map out how the pieces connect. This phase bridges the gap between what you want to build and how it will be built.
- Delivery — Break the work into story maps, define MVP scope, and write detailed user stories that your development team can pick up. This is where plans turn into actionable work items.
- Release — Package your release with evidence summaries, audit trails, and version history. This phase gives stakeholders and compliance teams a complete picture of what was built, why, and how it was validated.
Who Uses Audra Flow?
Audra Flow is designed for cross-functional product teams. Here is how different team members typically spend their time on the platform:
Product Managers
Product managers use Audra Flow as their command center. Day to day, you will create and refine project goals, review AI-generated personas and journeys, prioritise the backlog using story maps, and track how the project is progressing across phases. The Product Guru agent is especially useful — it analyses your project as a whole and highlights gaps or recommendations you might have missed.
Designers
Designers focus on the Definition and Design phases. You will build user journeys, storyboards, and service maps that visualise how people interact with the product. The UX Researcher agent can help you draft these artifacts from existing research documents, saving time on the initial structure so you can focus on refinement and creativity.
Architects
Architects work primarily in the Design phase, defining system components, integration points, and technical specifications. The Architect agent can help generate initial architecture proposals based on the goals and personas already captured in earlier phases, giving you a head start on the technical blueprint.
Developers
Developers spend most of their time in the Delivery phase, picking up user stories and understanding the context behind each one. Since every story traces back to personas, journeys, and goals, you always have the “why” at your fingertips. No more digging through separate documents to understand requirements.
Administrators
Administrators manage the team and platform settings. You will invite and remove team members, assign roles, configure AI agent preferences, review audit logs, and manage approval workflows. If your organisation uses single sign-on, you will also handle that integration from the admin settings.
Navigating the Platform
Audra Flow is organised around a few core areas. Once you know where things are, getting around is straightforward.
The Dashboard
When you sign in, you land on the dashboard. This is your home base. You will see all the projects you have access to, each showing its current phase and overall progress. From here you can open an existing project, create a new one, or review any notifications that need your attention.
The Project Workspace
Once you open a project, you enter the project workspace. This is where all the work happens. The workspace shows a project overview at the top — name, description, type, deadline, and team members — along with a summary of progress across all five phases.
The Phase Sidebar
On the left side of the workspace, you will see a sidebar listing all five delivery phases. Click on any phase to see the artifacts that belong to it. Each phase section shows how many artifacts have been created and whether any are pending approval. This is the primary way you navigate between different areas of your project.
AI Chat
The AI chat panel is available from anywhere inside a project. You can open it to ask questions, request artifact drafts, or get recommendations from the available AI agents. The chat is context-aware — agents know which project you are working in and can reference your knowledge base and existing artifacts in their responses.
The Traceability Graph
Accessible from the project workspace, the traceability graph shows a visual map of how your artifacts connect to one another. You can click on any node to see its details and follow the links upstream or downstream. This is invaluable during reviews and audits, because it demonstrates that every deliverable is grounded in research and requirements.
Next Steps
Now that you have a sense of what Audra Flow is and how it is structured, here are the best places to go next:
- Creating Your First Project — A step-by-step walkthrough of setting up a new project, inviting your team, and starting your first phase.
- Discovery Phase Guide — Learn how to capture goals, conduct research, and lay the groundwork for your product.
- Definition Phase Guide — Build personas, user journeys, and service maps from your research findings.
- Design & Delivery Guide — Shape the architecture, write user stories, and prepare work for your development team.
- Releases & Evidence Guide — Package your release with full traceability and audit trails.
- Working with AI Agents — Get the most out of the UX Researcher, Product Owner, Architect, and Product Guru.
- Knowledge Base & Documents — Upload existing materials so AI agents have the context they need to help effectively.
Tip: If you are a hands-on learner, jump straight to Creating Your First Project. You can always come back here to review concepts as you go.