Narratize workflows turn your development methodology into a living system. Every stage knows what to ask for, what to produce, which templates and agents to activate, and when your team is ready to advance.
In most organizations, the development process lives in a wiki, a slide deck, and in the heads of the people who've run it before. Narratize turns it into a system that actively runs alongside your team — carrying the work, activating the right resources, and showing exactly when a stage is ready to advance.
A workflow defines the stages your product moves through, the gates it passes, and what every stage needs to produce. Your methodology stops being a reference document and becomes a structure your product actually runs on.
Every stage knows which templates to surface, which AI agents to run, which hub knowledge to draw on, and which cross-functional contributors to involve — so your team arrives at the work with everything it needs.
Because the workflow knows what “done” looks like at every stage, your team sees readiness in real time. Gate reviews arrive with complete context. Leadership gets a live view of where every program truly stands.
The real value of a Narratize workflow isn't in the diagram — it's in the moments where your team meets the work. Across every role, every stage, the experience shifts from assembling context to acting on it.
A new stage opens and the right templates are already surfaced, the right knowledge is already linked, and the right agents are ready to run. Nobody starts by searching through Slack, chasing old decks, or trying to remember what the last team did. The work begins at the work.
When R&D hands off to process engineering, or engineering hands off to regulatory, the workflow carries the “why” alongside the “what.” Decisions, trade-offs, and sensitivities travel with the artifact. Cross-functional boundaries stop being where momentum goes to die.
Because the workflow has been carrying the evidence stage by stage, gate reviews open with the context already complete. The week before a review stops being archaeology. The review itself becomes what it was designed to be — a strategic conversation about whether to advance.
Because every active product runs on a workflow, leadership gets a live view across the full portfolio. Which programs are healthy. Which need attention. Which gates are approaching. Which patterns are emerging across programs.
No matter which workflow your team runs, every stage operates the same way. Clear inputs come in. Structured outputs come out. A gate decides what happens next. The rhythm is what makes the whole system legible to every team that uses it.
Classic stage-gate. FDA design controls. APQP. Aerospace TRL-gated. Agile stage-gate hybrid. Build-measure-learn. Narratize ships with thirteen workflows mapped to the methodologies innovation teams actually use — and each one is ready to run, ready to customize, ready to make yours.
The industry-standard stage-gate process Narratize ships with by default. Six stages, five gates, with inputs, outputs, templates, and agents mapped for every phase.
Combines stage-gate rigor with agile iteration — sprint-based scoping, build, and validation cycles within each stage.
Extends stage-gate across your full portfolio — connecting adjacent programs, surfacing transferable learnings, and aligning investment decisions.
The complete cycle — extends classic stage-gate with upstream ideation and downstream post-launch review phases.
Full FDA design controls workflow — from design planning through validation, transfer, and change control. Every decision captured for the Design History File.
End-to-end pharmaceutical development aligned to FDA phases — Discovery, Preclinical, Phase I–III Clinical, NDA/BLA Submission, Post-Market Surveillance.
The five-phase APQP workflow — Plan, Design, Process Design, Product Validation, and Production Launch — with PPAP outputs fully captured.
TRL-gated development from research (TRL 1–3) through prototype (TRL 4–6) to operational systems (TRL 7–9), DO-178C and AS9100 captured.
Stage-gate tailored for consumer electronics — coordinated hardware, firmware, and software tracks, with certification and supply chain phases mapped in.
Tuned for the longer timelines of energy innovation — with TRL gates, pilot deployment, and grid certification phases mapped through commercial scale.
Scaled Agile Framework tuned for hardware programs — PI planning, ART coordination, and system demos mapped to physical product development cadence.
Lean Startup's build-measure-learn loop — hypothesis, experiment, validate, pivot or persevere — mapped for early-stage and disruptive innovation programs.
Workflow aligned to ISO 9001:2015 design and development clauses — planning, input, control, verification, validation, and design changes all captured.
Workflow administrators choose the methodology, configure the stages, define inputs and outputs, and assign the people and templates that bring each stage to life. Once set up, the workflow guides every product hub running on it — with the consistency leadership needs and the flexibility teams use.
Start from one of the thirteen workflows Narratize ships with, or design a custom workflow for your organization's specific methodology. Every workflow is fully configurable to match how your business actually develops products.
Specify what each stage needs to begin, what it produces, and which artifacts pass through every gate. The workflow becomes a contract between stages — clear about what's required, what's produced, and what's ready.
Map the cross-functional roles for each stage — R&D, engineering, regulatory, marketing, commercial — and the workflow surfaces the right contributors at the right moment without manual coordination.
Configure who approves at each gate, what criteria must be met, and what evidence must be assembled. Gate reviews stop being status meetings and start being structured decisions on a known set of criteria.
Once configured, the workflow gets assigned to one or many Product Knowledge Hubs. Every product running on that workflow inherits the same stages, gates, templates, and agents — with full flexibility per product.
When your methodology evolves — new templates, refined gate criteria, additional agents — update the workflow once and every active product running on it benefits. Improvements compound across the portfolio.
Whether your organization runs a single methodology across every program or multiple workflows for different product types, Narratize meets you where you already are. Your process keeps its name, its stages, and its terminology. The platform adapts to the methodology your team has already built credibility around.
30 minutes. Bring your current development methodology — stage-gate, agile hybrid, FDA design controls, or your own — and watch what it looks like as a Narratize workflow. Leave with a concrete picture of how your process becomes a system that runs.
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