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Align your team, make bold decisions, and deliver results that matter

Turn your product vision into a clear, actionable plan that supports your company strategy. Lodestone is product management software built for modern PMs who need flexible roadmaps, structured insights, and powerful presentation tools that turn strategy into execution without guesswork.

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Product discovery & market intelligence

Collecting Data

Capture real customer and market insight automatically

Lodestone listens to every conversation and watches every competitor so you don't have to, turning raw signal into product ideas ready for your backlog.

What You Can Do
  • →Import call and meeting transcripts automatically from your sales and note-taking tools
  • →Turn support tickets into product feedback
  • →Track competitors with AI intelligence reports delivered weekly or every two weeks
  • →Send any transcript or intel report to Extracts and let AI surface the ideas worth acting on
  • →Accept or dismiss each idea with one click, and promote the best straight to your backlog
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Stop losing product insight in scattered notes. Capture signal at the source, from customers and the market alike.

Feature backlog and prioritization

Processing Data

Bring structure, and evidence, to messy backlogs

Prioritize with clarity, not chaos. Lodestone centralizes your product ideas into a flexible backlog and gives you the evidence to rank them: business context, financial impact and real stakeholder input.

What You Can Do
  • →Shape the backlog to your team with custom object types, hierarchy and status stages
  • →Score with RICE or build your own evaluation framework
  • →Forecast NPV, ROI, IRR and payback for any Feature, with bull and bear scenarios
  • →Run Buy-A-Feature auctions where stakeholders spend a fixed budget on what matters most to them
  • →See the company and revenue behind every piece of customer feedback
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Organize your product work without locking your team into rigid processes.

Goals, roadmaps, strategy and product documents

Making Plans

Connect short-term execution with long-term direction

Align WHY, WHAT and WHEN in one system. Goals anchor the outcomes, roadmaps and strategies shape the path, and AI drafts the documents that explain it.

What You Can Do
  • →Set Goals and see every roadmap, release and strategy that contributes to them
  • →Build sunburst roadmaps sized and colored by value and effort
  • →Model strategy as a Growth Cube, top-down from direction or bottom-up from the work
  • →Draft PRDs and Opportunity Canvases in seconds, then refine them yourself
  • →Brainstorm in Claude or ChatGPT and send finished ideas straight into Lodestone
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From tactical Features to multi-year strategy, everything stays connected.

Stakeholder communication and alignment

Aligning Plans

Turn product plans into stories people act on

Spend less time formatting decks, more time influencing decisions. Lodestone helps you rehearse the conversation, package the story and keep every stakeholder current.

What You Can Do
  • →Rehearse how stakeholders from the boardroom to the front line will react with ARC, and get a suggested edit for every concern before you present
  • →Export roadmaps, releases and strategy as decks with AI speaker notes tuned to your audience
  • →Turn releases into Bento Grids your sales, CS and leadership teams can take in at a glance
  • →Schedule Comms packages that send fresh snapshots to stakeholders, once or on a cadence
  • →Generate release notes, customer emails, blog posts and social posts from the work itself
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Planning only works if people understand it. Lodestone helps you communicate with confidence.

Delivery and execution visibility

Executing Plans

Stay grounded in delivery without managing tickets

Synchronize execution across systems. Lodestone keeps your backlog in step with JIRA and Asana, so progress is real-time while planning and delivery keep their own boundaries.

What You Can Do
  • →Two-way sync between your backlog and JIRA or Asana
  • →Track every release on a kanban board, in Actual or Forecast mode
  • →Map delivery statuses to your product planning stages
  • →Hand engineering user stories, UAT test plans and AI prototype prompts generated from each Feature
  • →Maintain a single source of truth for product intent
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You do not need another ticketing system. You need alignment between strategy and execution.

Integrations

Everything in Your Pack

The tools you already carry, connected to every step of the journey

Lodestone works where your team already works. Select a patch to see how it helps on the trail.

Collecting Data
Processing Data
Making Plans
Aligning Plans
Executing Plans

Clarity Should Not Cost Complexity

Simple product management pricing with everything included.

Full Access Plan

$39/ month
What Is Included
  • →Unlimited transcript reviews and extraction
  • →Unlimited document generation
  • →Unlimited strategies and roadmaps
  • →Unlimited presentation exports
  • →Access to the Lodestone Slack community
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Trusted by Product Teams

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Our quarterly roadmap went from an artifact that collected dust after it was presented to an item that is referenced frequently by our customers and customer facing teams.

Jordan P.
Product Manager
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I've implemented this strategy for the past 3 quarters. It has simplified the process of communicating timelines, deliverables, and reasoning behind product decisions.

Lauren P.
CPO
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Use this tool! Having a clear understandable roadmap is key in a product manager's role and if you are struggling, this is the tool that will make your day-to-day tasks and company better.

Faizan A.
Product Manager
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A sunburst roadmap is easy to read and helped us in making decisions on prioritization and trade offs.

Muneera Q.
VP of Product Management
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The sunburst roadmap does a good job of connecting the dots and makes communication easier.

Mehrad M
Director of Product
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It was ridiculously easy. I ended up using the tool for quick experimentation on how to best lay out the components to tell the best story. An hours-long process was done in a handful of minutes.

Darlene S.
Product Strategy
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We were struggling with understanding trade offs, scope implications and getting team buy in. This method not only helped that, but also ended up with a clear vision you can't lose sight of.

Steven L.
Business Lead
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Our teams can see how their products fit into the overall vision and mission of the organization. Our executives can see that our focus is on providing value to our clients in a single snapshot.

Mo Q.
Director of Product
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Using the sunburst roadmap has enabled all stakeholders to connect the dots between the big picture strategy and execution.

Hasan N.
Head of Product

Frequently asked questions

What's included in the free trial?↓

All features are fully enabled during your free trial so you can kick the tires to your heart's content.

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How do I manage my subscription?↓

You can renew or cancel your subscription at any time from your account page.

What's a hierarchical roadmap?↓

Lodestone roadmaps build context from the inside-out so concepts are systematically covered in logical sequence. This improves stakeholder collaboration and buy-in because it leads to stronger presentations with better story narration.

How does Lodestone use AI?↓

Our AI guide features kickstart writing for your product management documents with best practices built-in.

Can I request a feature?↓

Send us an email and we'll be happy to discuss your needs and what's currently on our roadmap.

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A Product Management Framework for Better Product Decisions

Product management sits at the intersection of discovery, strategy, and delivery.

Every day product leaders must make critical decisions that determine whether a product succeeds or fails.

At the core of product management are three essential questions:

  • Are we building the right thing?
  • Are we solving for the right customer?
  • Are we delivering it at the right time?

Great product teams continuously evaluate these questions as they move from discovery to delivery. Customer interviews, user research, analytics, strategy discussions, and stakeholder communication all contribute signals that shape product decisions.

This way of thinking forms the foundation of the Lodestone Product Management Framework.

The Lodestone Product Management Framework

The Lodestone Product Management Framework

The framework above illustrates how product management connects discovery and delivery while synthesizing signals from across the organization.

Product managers must constantly interpret data, research, and feedback to determine:

  • which customer problems matter most
  • which solutions create meaningful value
  • when the organization is ready to deliver them

This decision-making process is the heart of effective product leadership.

But in practice, the tools product teams rely on rarely support this full process.

Most Product Management Tools Only Solve Part of the Problem

Modern product teams rely on a wide range of software:

Backlog tools help track development tasks.
Analytics platforms surface product data.
Roadmap tools help present plans to stakeholders.

Each tool supports an individual piece of the product management process.

But product managers still need to connect everything together.

Signals from customers must be captured and evaluated.
Ideas must be structured and prioritized.
Product roadmaps must connect strategy with delivery.
Stakeholders must understand and support the plan.

Without a unified system, product leaders spend too much time managing tools instead of guiding decisions.

Why Lodestone Exists

Lodestone is product management software designed to support the complete product leadership workflow.

Instead of focusing on a single artifact like a roadmap or backlog, Lodestone helps product teams navigate the entire product management process.

From discovery insights to strategic planning and stakeholder alignment, Lodestone provides the structure product leaders need to move from ideas to execution.

Product teams use Lodestone to:

  • collect signals from conversations and feedback
  • structure and evaluate product opportunities
  • create clear product roadmaps and strategies
  • align stakeholders around product plans
  • keep planning connected to real execution

The goal is simple: help product leaders uncover the right problems, build the right solutions, and guide their teams with confidence.

Dennis Chow, founder of Lodestone

Built by a Product Leader

Lodestone was created by Dennis Chow, a product leader with more than two decades of experience building and guiding software products.

Throughout his career Dennis repeatedly encountered the same challenge facing product teams everywhere: critical decisions were being made using scattered tools, fragmented data, and incomplete context.

Product managers were expected to connect discovery, strategy, roadmaps, and delivery, but the software available to them rarely supported that entire journey.

Lodestone was built to solve that problem.

By combining structured insight capture, product strategy tools, roadmap planning, and stakeholder communication in one platform, Lodestone helps product leaders navigate complexity and make better decisions.

Helping Product Teams Find Their Way

Product management will always involve uncertainty.

Markets evolve, customer needs change, and product teams must constantly adapt.

But when product leaders have clear signals, structured insight, and tools designed for the full product management process, they can move forward with confidence.

Lodestone helps product teams navigate the journey from discovery to delivery.

Lodestone — find your way.

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