This brief provides the core vision and necessary technical constraints for the design team. Our goal is to build an intuitive, flexible, and powerful collaborative workspace.

1. The Core Vision: Seamless Productivity

StakFlows is a revolutionary collaborative workspace. Our mission is to eliminate the clutter and context-switching that plagues traditional project tools by bringing together requirements, code, QA, and marketing tasks into one unified, easy-to-navigate environment.

5 Critical Design Principles

Every design decision must align with this principles:

1. Multi-Organization Architecture: The process of switching organizations must be instantaneous, clear, and secure. The Organization Switcher is a central UI element and must be highly visible and intuitive.
2. Workflow Flexibility: The design needs to feel modular, allowing users to easily customize layouts, dashboards, and tool combinations.
3. AI Integration: AI features should be elegantly integrated into existing workflows (e.g., task creation, documentation). Use subtle visual cues to indicate assistance.
4. User-Centric Design: The visual language must be clean, modern, and highly legible. Focus on minimizing clicks.
5. Infinite Possibilities: The UI must look professional and enterprise-grade and be designed to scale without becoming cluttered.

Essential Design and Technical Constraints

The design must account for these constraints, as they define the technical boundaries and business rules of the platform:

A. Scalability and Tools

• Modular Architecture: Design the interface so that new "tools" (like Document Control, QA, or Analytics) can be added as simple, distinct blocks or tabs without disrupting the main navigation or layout. Future growth is dependent on an easy-to-integrate "Marketplace" of tools.
• The "Hub-and-Spoke" Model: The top-level Organization is the "Hub," and everything below it (Projects, Members, Tools) is a "Spoke." Ensure the hierarchy is always clear: User is in Organization > User is in Project > User is using Tool.

B. Security and Role Visibility

• Role-Based Access is Visual: The UI must visually adapt based on the user's Project Role (e.g., a Developer should not see the "Budget Review" section, or it should be greyed out/read-only). This is a hard security requirement that needs a soft design solution.
• Permissions Checklist: All member management flows must ensure the user confirms both the Organization Role and the Project Role clearly before saving.

C. Tiered Features (Monetization Gates)

• Visual Gating for Features: The design must account for a tiered pricing strategy (Free, Pro, Business). The UI must visually communicate that certain advanced features (like Time Tracking, Analytics, and AI features) are locked for Free-Tier users. This could be done with a small, unintrusive lock icon or a subtle call-to-action button to upgrade. Do not hide locked features entirely; visually gate them.