We believe great software starts with great specifications.
Jishu Labs is a product studio focused on building developer and product tools that eliminate friction in the software development lifecycle. Shivo is our flagship product — an AI-powered platform that helps teams write validated, actionable specifications before a single line of code is written.
Our Mission
60% of software project failures trace back to poor requirements. Ambiguous language, missing edge cases, untestable criteria, and misaligned stakeholders cost the industry billions of dollars every year. We're building tools that make these problems impossible.
Our vision is a world where every software team ships with confidence — because their specifications are comprehensive, validated, and understood by everyone involved.
What We Value
Clarity Over Complexity
We believe the best tools are the ones that make complex things simple. Every feature we ship should reduce cognitive load, not add to it.
Validate Early, Ship Confidently
Catching a problem in the spec is 100x cheaper than catching it in production. We optimize for early detection at every level.
Built for Real Teams
We don't build for hypothetical users. Every feature is informed by conversations with product managers, engineers, and technical leads who use Shivo daily.
Open and Transparent
From our public changelog to our community templates, we believe in building in the open. Transparency builds trust, and trust builds great products.
Our Story
Shivo started in 2025 when our founding team — veterans of product and engineering roles at fast-growing startups — kept running into the same problem: specs that were vague, incomplete, or simply ignored by the teams that needed them most.
We realized the problem wasn't that teams didn't want good documentation — it was that writing comprehensive, validated specifications took too long and required too much expertise. A great PRD could take days to write, and even then, ambiguous requirements would slip through.
So we built Shivo: an AI-powered platform that generates structured, validated specifications in minutes. The AI doesn't just write docs — it actively catches ambiguity, flags untestable requirements, and ensures completeness before your team ever sees the spec.
Today, thousands of teams use Shivo to generate PRDs, Technical Design Docs, API Specs, and more. We're just getting started.