Every engagement starts with someone else’s backlog.
Vindex scores every story in it, flags the ones that will turn into defects and rework, and turns your review into a white-labeled report that carries your brand — evidence your client can act on, not an opinion they can argue with.
The free evaluator scores any CSV in about 30 seconds — no signup, nothing installed. Or see how a project works.
“Acceptance criteria are missing or untestable on 14 of the 20 highest-priority stories — recommended fixes are included per story.”
Here’s what it catches — before anyone builds it.
Four stories from the sample backlog in every agency workspace, scored by the same engine that scores your client’s stories. Findings come worst-first, in plain language.
- 12%NW-110“Support other things the customer might need later”
No concrete outcome and nothing a tester could verify. Recommended: Remove or replace with concrete, testable needs.
- 15%NW-106“Fix bugs”
Unbounded scope — impossible to estimate or call done. Recommended: List the specific defects with reproduction steps.
- 20%NW-102“Improve the system”
Vague scope with no measurable acceptance criteria. Recommended: State which system and which outcome is expected, then add measurable acceptance criteria.
- 85%NW-101“As a dispatcher I want to see live truck positions”
Clear actor, outcome, and testable behavior. Recommended: Consider splitting map rendering from data refresh.
Built for the firm doing the reviewing.
Agencies inherit a new backlog with every engagement — and the job of telling a client what isn’t buildable. Vindex turns that hard conversation into a deliverable.
The report does the pushing back
Telling a paying client their requirements aren't buildable sounds like an excuse before the work starts. Vindex names the gap with an objective, per-story score from a neutral engine — so it's evidence, not your opinion.
Your brand on every page
Every report is white-labeled: your logo, your colors, your voice. Clients never need a Vindex account and never see ours — they see a polished assessment from their agency.
A service line you can quote
Package a backlog audit you can price, deliver, and repeat with every engagement. Credits are prepaid and the exact cost shows before every run — a clean unit cost you can build a margin on.
Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, and Monday exports — no file-size or row limits, 100,000+ stories score unattended.
Re-score after the client revises and the report shows the improvement round over round.
Every story is de-identified before any AI model sees it, and Vindex never trains on your client's data.
Five steps, one deliverable.
A project moves through a clear lifecycle — draft → scoring → review → reporting → delivered — and you can re-run it any time the client revises their backlog.
Set up the project
Create a client workspace and a project for the engagement. Everything for that client stays separated.
Upload the backlog
Drop the client's CSV or Excel export. Vindex detects the sheet and suggests a column mapping automatically.
Score it
Confirm the exact credit cost, then let the job run unattended — every story gets a health score and plain-language findings.
Review and curate
Work the findings worst-first: read the reasoning, exclude junk rows, add analyst notes, curate recommendations.
Deliver the report
Build a white-labeled report and hand off the file. Re-score later to show improvement round over round.
A report that looks like it came from you.
The output isn’t a Vindex dashboard your client has to log into — it’s a polished, self-contained report you deliver under your own brand. Compose the sections, set the branding, and generate an immutable version you can hand off with confidence.
- Your logo, colors, and about-us copy on every page
- Executive summary with backlog-health scores at a glance
- Per-story findings in plain language, worst-first
- Curated recommendations your analysts approved
- Round-over-round improvement when you re-score
- Delivered as PDF, self-contained HTML, and an Excel data export
Re-score after the client revises their stories and the report shows the delta — progress a stakeholder can see, and a natural reason for the engagement to continue.
Pay for stories scored. Nothing else.
No per-seat fees, no subscriptions to babysit. Credits are prepaid, transparent, and refunded when a score fails — so the cost of a review is always something you can quote a client with a margin.
Simple, predictable unit cost. Buy credits in packs up front and draw them down as you score.
If a story can't be scored, the reservation is refunded automatically at settlement — you're only ever charged for results.
Prepaid balance carries across projects and clients. A run only starts when your balance covers it, and the exact cost is shown before you confirm.
Making the case to a client? Put their team size and ticket volume into the savings calculator and walk them through what at-risk stories cost in rework — real numbers for the pitch, editable in front of them.
The evidence behind the audit.
Case studies and field guides on what bad requirements cost — the same evidence base your reports draw on.
How a Healthcare Platform Cut Rework 68% by Shifting Quality Left
A healthcare technology company was losing 340 engineering hours a month to unclear requirements. After scoring story health before code, they cut rework 68%, recovered $564K a year, and caught HIPAA gaps in refinement instead of UAT.
Bad Scores Cost Real Money: A $1.2B Automotive Recall Study
Inside a pilot where an automotive manufacturer ran 400,000 Jira tickets through Vindex. The lowest-scoring requirements traced to $1.2 billion in software-related recall costs. The highest-scoring traced to zero.
Stop Bad Requirements: Why Small Dev Teams Need Vindex
A story looks ready on Friday and blocks a developer on Monday. Here is how small teams catch vague, oversized, and untestable work before it burns their scarcest resource — developer time.
Make requirement review your next service line.
We’ll switch on agency features for your firm, invite your first admin, and add starter credits so you can score a real client backlog and deliver a report before any payment conversation.