# Brief: A decision graph for codebase context

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Author: Ali Abouelatta (https://thelazyweb.com/authors/ali-abouelatta/)
Published: 2026-09-20
Updated: 2026-09-20
Research type: Company profile
Method: Public-source research. Official Speedrun and company pages checked September 20, 2026. Product claims are attributed to their sources.

Brief is a memory layer for the decisions behind a codebase.

## What it does

Brief describes a Product Graph that captures decisions from Linear, Jira, Notion, Slack and GitHub, then makes that context available to developers and agents through an MCP server and CLI. The homepage frames the workflow as capture, connect and navigate: decisions are extracted from the tools where they happen, linked into a graph, and returned when an engineer or agent needs to understand why something exists.

The homepage shows three comparison figures: 95% decision compliance with Brief versus 46% with codebase context alone, 8/8 merge-ready tasks versus 2/8, and 68% lower cost per merge-ready task. The linked company paper describes a controlled benchmark behind those figures: eight tasks, 41 weighted decision points, the same repository, and three runs per task and configuration—48 runs in total. It also says the Brief condition changes product-context retrieval, spec generation, and mid-build consultation together, so the result does not isolate

[Brief: A decision graph for codebase context](<https://www.thelazyweb.com/companies/brief/>)

Source observed: 2026-09-21T08:05:38.643Z. Last checked: 2026-10-08T02:10:21.441+00:00.

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