What I said isn’t what you heard.
Translation Drift
Meaning shifts as a requirement moves from conversation to document to code. The finished product can match the ticket while missing the original intent.
Flech stops the drift.
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Every team knows this one. A feature ships. The team made a trade-off during design, engineering built the revised version, and the decision never made it back to the spec. Everyone involved knew why. Nothing was broken.
Three months later, someone new picks up the next change. The spec says one thing, the product does another: it has drifted from the decision, and nobody noticed.
“Why did we build it this way?”
The designer has moved teams. The engineer has left. The new team has the code and the designs, but not the reasoning behind them. An old debate starts again. A deliberate trade-off looks like a mistake. They make the best call they can, without knowing what they might be undoing.
The work carries on, but the understanding starts over.
As code gets cheaper, speed is no longer the scarce thing. Precision is. The teams that win will not be the ones shipping the most. They will be the ones drifting the least.
AI agents now write more of the code, but they do not carry the reasoning. Given a spec that no longer matches the product, they build confidently on top of the drift, and the gap widens.
Flech is a living roadmap that keeps decisions and their reasoning connected to what gets built. As intent changes, that history stays with the work. The next person can see what was agreed, why it changed, and whether the product still reflects it. They build on what the team learned, rather than piece it back together.
Flech syncs reality to intent. When they drift apart, you are the first to know.
Software doesn’t fail in the code. It fails by drifting.
Nine forms of drift.
Isn’t it just common sense?
Unknown Requirement Drift
An expectation stays unwritten because it seems obvious. The gap only appears when someone says, “I thought it would just do that.”
We didn’t know what to ask.
Unknown Knowns
Teams can only ask questions they know to ask. Missing expertise, hidden dependencies, or unfamiliar territory can leave gaps that surface much later.
It made sense at the time.
Decision Drift
A decision outlives the reason behind it. Months later, the team is still working around a constraint that may no longer exist.
Temporary becomes permanent.
Cost and Time Pressure Drift
A deadline forces a shortcut. The next priority arrives before anyone returns to fix it, and the temporary workaround becomes part of the product.
It worked in our environment.
Environmental Drift
The same system behaves differently when infrastructure, configuration, data, integrations, or security rules change. Passing in staging doesn’t guarantee it works for a customer.
We fixed this and broke that.
Unintended Consequence Drift
A change solves one problem and disturbs another. Shared services, integrations, and dependencies let small changes produce effects far beyond their original scope.
It works, just not well enough.
Performance Drift
Usage grows, data accumulates, and expectations rise. The product still works, but yesterday’s acceptable response times begin to miss today’s SLAs and SLOs.
Reality vs. expectations.
Stakeholder Drift
Priorities shift and conversations happen in different places. What gets built and what stakeholders expect move apart, even while everyone believes they are aligned.
In practice
Intent that stays attachedto the build.
Two sides of the same problem: what you meant,
and whether you can still prove it after ship.
AlignmentIntent stays wired to what ships.
- Lock the decision that started the work before code fans out.
- Keep the live link between PRD judgment and the release that follows.
- Catch drift while the team can still change course — not in a post-mortem.
ControlDecisions stay owned and checkable.
- Named owners on intent — not a pile of tickets with no account.
- Audit the path from “we decided” to “we shipped” without archaeology.
- Your cloud, your record of why — not a black box that leaves with the vendor.
FAQ
Frequentlyasked questions
How Flech works, what joining means, and what we will not claim early.
Flech keeps product intent aligned with what is actually built as teams scale. The job is zero-drift between the decision that started the work and what ships — so the judgment does not die in a frozen doc.
Those hold artefacts: docs, tickets, status. Flech is aimed at the live link between intent and build — whether what you meant is still true of what left the door. It is not another place to write specs that go stale.
No. It is for teams who already decide and ship. The point is to keep those decisions checkable against the build, not to automate the people out of the loop.
You are on the early list. We write when there is something real to show or a seat to fill. No countdown clock. No spam. No fake launch date.
Waitlist signup is your email for Flech updates only. Product data handling, residency, and access controls will be spelled out before any paid or production use — we will not invent a privacy story here.
When there is a real build path and a seat worth taking. We will say so then. We will not publish a quarter we cannot defend.