Your next production defect is already in your backlog.
Vague scope, missing acceptance criteria, stories too big to estimate — Vindex finds the requirements that turn into defects the moment they’re written, so your team fixes them before anything gets built.
Catches the 5 defect-makers
Vague scope, missing acceptance criteria, oversized stories, hidden dependencies, and untestable outcomes — flagged before they're built.
One shared bar for ready
Product and engineering get the same read on whether a story is actually ready — no more debating it in refinement.
Nothing new to open
Scores and findings appear in the issue panel your team already works in. No extra tool, no new tab.
See it on a real story in 30s
Paste a story or drop a CSV and get real findings — no account, no install required.
The same five problems
ship defect after defect.
Every team that has traced a production defect back to its story recognises this list. Vindex catches all five — automatically, the moment a story is saved, before anyone builds on them.
- 01
Vague scope
Stories that read fine until someone has to build them.
- 02
Missing acceptance criteria
No one can say when the work is actually done.
- 03
Stories too big to estimate
Work that won't fit in a sprint, hiding inside a single ticket.
- 04
Hidden dependencies
Blockers that only surface mid-sprint, once it's too late to plan around them.
- 05
Untestable outcomes
Goals stated so loosely that no test can prove the story shipped.
Scores land where your team already works.
The moment a story is saved, Vindex scores it and posts the findings back inside your issue panel. No context switching, no new tab, no extra tools to learn.
- Latency
- Seconds after save
- Where it lives
- Inside the issue panel
- Workflow change
- None
Up and running in minutes, not weeks.
- Step 01
Connect your tool
Add Vindex to Jira, Asana, Azure DevOps, or ServiceNow. Most teams finish install in about two minutes.
- Step 02
Register your instance
Link your workspace through the Vindex portal. One-time setup, no ongoing maintenance.
- Step 03
Stop bad stories at the gate
Every new or updated story is scored automatically. Findings appear where your team already works — before sprint planning starts.
Less rework. Fewer defects in production.
Catching requirements problems before they’re built means fewer defects escaping to production, fewer mid-sprint surprises, and fewer hours spent re-scoping work the team already started.
One quality bar across every squad
Automated, unbiased scoring gives every team the same definition of a story that's ready — without bottlenecking on a single reviewer.
Findings you can act on
Each score comes with specific recommendations: what's missing, what's vague, what to clarify. Not just a number.
A shared read for product and engineering
Both sides get the same language for what makes a story ready — long before refinement starts.
Lives where the work already happens
Scores and findings show up in your issue panel or task fields. No new tab, no extra workflow to learn.
Six reasons a story fails. Vindex checks all of them.
Every score is built on INVEST — the industry standard for user story quality. Each dimension maps to a real failure mode — the kind that ends up as a production defect.
Read the full scoring methodology- I
- Independent
- Deliverable in any order, without hard dependencies on other work.
- N
- Negotiable
- A conversation starter, not a contract — details remain open.
- V
- Valuable
- Delivers clear, meaningful value to the user or the business.
- E
- Estimable
- Enough context and clarity for the team to confidently size the work.
- S
- Small
- Fits within a sprint. Larger work is broken into focused, deliverable slices.
- T
- Testable
- Clear acceptance criteria — the team knows exactly when done means done.
Built in, not bolted on.
Vindex evaluates your stories. It doesn’t collect them, keep them, or train on them.
Run by security professionals
Decades of cybersecurity leadership on staff.
Your stories stay yours
Processed to score, never stored long-term, never used to train models.
Isolated by design
Each customer's data is logically separated. No cross-tenant access.
Built for regulated buyers
BAA available. SOC 2 and compliance roadmap on request.
Catch story problems before they become defects.
Score the sample ticket on the right — or paste one of your own. When you’re ready to run it in production, pick your tool and install from that product page.
Ready to install?
Edit it or score as-is — real INVEST findings in about 30 seconds. No account required.