About Spec Kitty
For the past 25 years, tooling has made developers faster. Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud each accelerated how software gets built. Now AI has pushed delivery speed further than planning, governance, and review were ever designed to handle. Most teams are still missing the layer that connects them.
Requirements drift, decisions disappear into meetings, and product artifacts stop matching what engineering is actually building.
It creates one visible, spec-driven workflow from idea to acceptance so teams can review the work before implementation runs away.
Fewer meetings, cleaner handoffs, better governance, and durable institutional memory across people and agents.
The product point of view
Spec Kitty is not just a prompt wrapper and it is not just a dashboard. It is a spec-driven operating layer for teams using AI to build software. The goal is to keep product intent, engineering plans, work packages, review decisions, and governance connected all the way through delivery.
The Team
Built by people who have lived the problem from product, engineering, operations, and market strategy.
Robert Douglass
Creator of Spec Kitty
Robert has spent decades building and scaling software organizations. Spec Kitty comes directly from seeing how easily intent drifts once teams, tools, branches, and AI agents all start moving at once.
- Software executive and architect across startup and scale-up environments
- Former VP roles spanning channel development, developer relations, and customer success at Platform.sh
- Built products across CMS, e-commerce, SaaS, PaaS, DevOps, and decentralization
Emanuel Rose
Fractional CMO & AI Strategist
Emanuel brings the market lens: what resonates with buyers, where positioning gets muddy, and how to explain product value in business terms instead of inside-baseball technical language.
- CEO of Strategic eMarketing for 15+ years
- Co-Founder at priivacy.ai
- Long track record in B2B growth strategy and AI positioning
Jen Krieger
Chief Operating Officer & Agile Leadership
30 years in tech. Countless delivery processes fixed. Zero patience for unnecessary meetings. Jen has a no-BS approach to process improvement and a deep instinct for where product and engineering organizations break down at scale.
- VP of Engineering Operations and Chief of Staff to the CTO at GitHub, where she rebuilt technical program management and business operations from the ground up
- Chief Agilist at Red Hat, leading transformation across their $2B RHEL business
- Deep understanding of organizational design, operations, open source software development and the software development lifecycle.
Stijn Dejongh
Software Developer
Stijn brings the builder's lens: how software actually gets designed, shipped, coached, and improved inside government and large enterprise environments. He has spent more than a decade as a developer, architect, and coach, and has worked independently since 2020 helping organizations sharpen their technical practices and delivery processes.
- Software developer, architect, and coach with 10+ years in government and large enterprise software development
- Independent consultant since 2020, helping organizations improve technical practices, team habits, and development processes
- Mentors junior developers and shares practical writing on software development, personal growth, and productivity through patterns.sddevelopment.be, LinkedIn, and GitHub