Overview
The Fairlead Platform revolutionizes how organizations track, manage, and evolve project requirements. Unlike traditional task management tools, this platform focuses specifically on requirements lifecycle management with built-in temporal tracking, proposal workflows, and AI-powered interfaces.
At its core, Fairlead listens to external communication channels—emails, Slack messages, stakeholder conversations—and automatically proposes requirement changes based on what it hears. Every change is auditable, every decision is tracked, and the system maintains a complete history of how requirements evolved over time.
The Problem
- • Requirements lost in email threads and scattered documents
- • No clear audit trail of requirement evolution
- • Manual requirement extraction from stakeholder conversations
- • Difficulty tracking requirement changes and business impact
- • Lack of standardized workflows for requirement approval
Key Features
Fairlead brings together modern software architecture patterns with AI capabilities to create a requirements management system that actually works with how teams communicate.
Auditable Requirements Management
Complete event-sourced audit trail for all requirement changes. Every modification, every approval, every rejection is permanently recorded. You can answer questions like "Who requested this feature?" and "Why did we change that requirement?" with confidence.
Temporal Queries
View requirements state at any point in time. See what your backlog looked like three months ago, or track how a specific requirement evolved from initial concept to final implementation. Perfect for retrospectives and compliance reporting.
Proposal Workflows
Structured approval process for requirement changes. AI proposes changes based on communication channels, stakeholders review and approve, and the system maintains the complete decision history. No more requirements appearing or disappearing without explanation.
AI Integration
Built-in Model Context Protocol (MCP) server enables AI tools to interact with your requirements system. Perform bulk operations, generate reports, categorize requirements, and create new requirements using natural language.
Multi-tenant Architecture
Organization and project-based isolation ensures your data stays separate and secure. Perfect for consultancies managing multiple clients or enterprises managing multiple product lines.
Technical Architecture
Fairlead is built on modern .NET with architectural patterns designed for auditability, scalability, and maintainability.
Core Patterns
Event Sourcing
Complete audit trail with temporal queries. Every state change is stored as an event, enabling perfect reconstruction of historical states and full compliance reporting.
CQRS
Separate read/write models for optimal performance. Write models enforce business rules, read models are optimized for query patterns.
Domain-Driven Design
Rich domain models with business logic encapsulation. The code speaks the language of requirements management, making it maintainable and understandable.
Vertical Slice Architecture
Feature-based organization keeps related code together. Adding new requirement operations is straightforward and doesn't create cross-cutting concerns.
Technology Stack
AI Integration
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration transforms how teams interact with their requirements. Instead of clicking through UIs, teams can use natural language to perform complex operations.
MCP Capabilities
Project Analysis
Generate comprehensive project reports and requirement summaries with a single command.
Bulk Operations
Process multiple requirement proposals simultaneously, saving hours of manual work.
Smart Categorization
Automatically categorize and tag requirements based on content and context.
Natural Language Creation
Create requirements by describing them conversationally rather than filling out forms.
Communication Channel Monitoring
The system monitors communication channels for requirement changes and automatically creates proposals. When a stakeholder says "We need to add authentication to the admin panel" in Slack, Fairlead:
- ✓ Detects the requirement change
- ✓ Extracts the core requirement details
- ✓ Creates a proposal with context and attribution
- ✓ Routes to appropriate approvers
- ✓ Updates the requirement set upon approval
Current Status & Roadmap
Fairlead is currently in active development with core functionality implemented and communication channel integrations in progress.
Completed
- ✓ Event-sourced domain models for requirements
- ✓ Proposal workflow system
- ✓ Multi-tenant architecture with organizations and projects
- ✓ RESTful API with Carter
- ✓ Temporal query support
- ✓ MCP server foundation
- ✓ PostgreSQL event store with Marten
- ✓ Comprehensive test suite with architecture tests