Most production defects don’t start in code. They start in a story.
Stories get a thumbs up in refinement. They reach the sprint. Someone discovers there are no real acceptance criteria, or the scope is three stories pretending to be one, or the dependency on another team was never mapped. Some of it ships anyway — and the defect report lands weeks later, with a root cause analysis that points straight back to the story.
Vindex reads each story the way a sharp reviewer would — checking whether it’s actually independent, valuable, estimable, small, testable, and negotiable — and tells you, in plain language, what’s missing. That’s it. It doesn’t replace refinement. It makes refinement catch what it currently misses.
Here’s what a score looks like.
Each story gets a single overall health score as a percentage and a per-dimension breakdown. The findings are plain language first. The methodology is one click deeper for anyone who wants it.
Acceptance criteria you can actually test.
"Acceptance criteria are missing or untestable" beats "T: 30%" every time.
Stories sized to fit a sprint.
Flags stories that are silently three stories pretending to be one.
Dependencies you can see before planning.
Hidden cross-team dependencies surfaced in the finding, not buried in a comment.
The CSV is the demo. Jira is where Vindex actually lives.
Once you install the Vindex Jira app, every story your team writes gets scored automatically — the moment it’s created, every time it’s updated. Findings appear in the issue panel next to the ticket. Nobody has to upload anything. Nobody has to remember to run a check.
Allow customers to filter orders by date
Watching for changes
Scores on every create and update.
No CSV to maintain. No checks to remember to run. Vindex re-reads each story automatically the moment it changes.
Findings inside the issue panel.
Your team reads scores where they already work — not in a separate dashboard, not in a weekly report nobody opens.
Quality gate before sprint.
Set a minimum score threshold per project. Vindex flags anything that doesn't meet it before it enters refinement.
A checklist tells you what to ask. Vindex tells you what’s wrong.
Rules-based Jira validators check whether a field is filled in. They don’t read what’s in it. An “acceptance criteria” field stuffed with “TBD” passes a validator and fails a sprint.
Vindex reads the story the way a senior reviewer would — the summary, the description, the acceptance criteria as a whole — and tells you, for each story, the specific reason it isn’t ready. No configuration. No rules to maintain. No false confidence from a green tick on an empty field.
Try it on one story. Then install it in Jira.
30-second preview here. 2-minute install in Jira. Automatic scoring forever after.