Requirements
User stories that read like a human wrote them
“As a system, I want to process data” is not a user story. Good stories name a real person and a real need — and that's harder to get from AI than it looks.
The system-as-persona trap
Ask most models for user stories and you get a pile of “As a system, I want to validate the input” — stories where the “user” is a database, an epic, or the app itself. They're syntactically stories and semantically useless, because a story is supposed to capture a human need.
It's a subtle failure that slips past a quick read and then confuses everyone downstream who's trying to build for an actual person.
Real personas, real needs
Cadenly writes stories that name a genuine human persona and the real need behind each step of your flow — never a system, an epic, or a container masquerading as a user. It groups them into epics so the flow becomes buildable, assignable work.
The result reads like a PM wrote it: a person, a want, a reason — the form that actually guides a build.
Why the form matters
A good user story isn't bureaucratic ceremony. “As a first-time user, I want to reset my password so I can get back in” tells the builder who, what, and why — which is exactly the context that keeps a feature from being built for nobody.
- AI often writes stories where the “user” is a system, not a person.
- Cadenly enforces real human personas and the need behind each step.
- The person-want-reason form is what actually guides a build.
Write stories that guide the build
Cadenly turns your flow into human user stories grouped into epics — no systems-as-users.
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