Notes from the Grid team
Updates, essays, and announcements about how product orgs work in the AI era.
Latest posts
Fresh writing from the team — usually weekly.
Welcome to Grid
We're rebuilding product work — issue tracker, roadmap, agents, and code review in one place.
MCP, everywhere
Why we open-sourced Grid MCP — and what we learned watching teams plug their own agents in.
Agents and teams: a new shape for product work
AI agents work best as teammates, not tools. Here's how we wired Grid for both.
Small teams, big roadmaps
How a 12-person team shipped a Q3 roadmap that would have taken 40 engineers two years ago.
Pulse, redesigned
Inside the rebuild of Grid Pulse — and why we threw out three months of work to get there.
How we hire product engineers
Our complete hiring loop, 2026 edition — including the exact rubric.
Agents as reviewers
The strangest thing in Grid 2026: half of code reviews now come from agents — and reviewers love it.
Why we deleted the roadmap
For 90 days, we ran with no roadmap. Here's what we learned.
Inside the pricing redesign
Our new tiers, why we changed them, and what we're still figuring out.
Grid mobile — private beta
iOS and Android apps land in private beta. Sign up below.
State of product engineering, 2026
Our annual survey: 1,400 engineers, 200 product orgs, one big finding.
Security update: Q1 2026
SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, and our new bug bounty.