Plan optimization

AI finds the fastest path through your plan.

Most plans are written as a straight line — one step after another, even when the work isn’t truly dependent. Spaces reads the whole dependency graph and re-wires it: parallel paths, decomposed tasks, tighter ordering. Same scope, shorter critical path — and you review every change before it takes effect.

Spec
Design
Data Ingestion
API
Frontend
Testing
Ship
Data Storage
Ingestion
Components
Data Validation
API Tests
UI Tests

Optimization is a graph rewrite — the same work, re-ordered to run as wide as its real dependencies allow.

The trap

Plans — AI-generated or hand-authored — default to a straight line. Tasks are stacked sequentially even when nothing forces the order, and large tasks blur across service boundaries. The critical path bloats with false constraints.

The rewrite

Spaces reads the full graph and proposes parallel paths, decomposition, and tighter ordering — without touching scope. You stay in the loop: review every diff, accept what helps, ignore the rest. AI finds the path; you choose whether to take it.

How it re-wires

Optimization isn’t a black box.

Every suggestion is a specific, reviewable change to your plan — never a silent rewrite. Pick any operation to watch exactly how it rewires the graph before anything executes.

Parallel Path Discovery

The AI builds a topological view of your graph and surfaces tasks that look sequential but are not truly dependent. False constraints come off — real parallelism shows up — without changing what ships.

API Spec
Build API
Write Docs
Release
Snapshot & rollback

Reversible — right up until execution

Every optimization pass writes a versioned snapshot. Before execution begins, compare any two versions, see exactly what changed, and roll back in one click. Once work starts, those versions stay as auditable history — and when scope shifts, you re-optimize without losing the trail.

v1Initial plan
Mar 10 · Sequential execution · 6-step critical path
v2Optimized — 3 paths parallelized
Mar 11 · 3 parallel lanes found · critical path cut to 4 steps
v3Reordered after scope change
Mar 13 · New tasks added · re-optimized for minimal impact
Current

Ship faster without adding headcount. Cut the critical path.

Parallel path discovery, task decomposition, dependency optimization, and cost-optimal ordering — all suggested, all reviewable, all reversible before execution begins. Same scope, shorter timeline.