How is Vantage different from ChatGPT or Claude?

ChatGPT and Claude write you a document. Vantage keeps the document, prototype, tickets and roadmap connected to the feedback and decisions behind them, and tells you when one of them changes. You can also bring your Vantage context into Claude or ChatGPT, so you don’t have to choose.

Do I have to move off Notion or Linear?

No. Keep the tools you use and connect them to Vantage. Tickets push to Linear with two-way sync, and you approve every change that comes back.

What can I do in the first ten minutes?

Paste customer feedback or describe a problem, and get a PRD with every requirement linked to its source. You can try the demo on this page without signing up. Connect your tools whenever you’re ready.

I own several projects. What does Vantage do across them?

It briefs you every morning on what needs your call, catches specs that contradict each other, and flags anything that went stale after a decision changed. It works for a single project and earns its keep at two or more.

What if the AI gets something wrong?

Nothing updates silently. Every requirement cites the quote, call or metric behind it, and every change arrives as a diff you accept or reject before it touches your docs, tickets or Linear.

Can I use Vantage from Claude or ChatGPT?

Yes. Connect Vantage’s MCP server to Claude, add the GPT Action in ChatGPT, or use an API key. Then ask about your projects, search your specs, or create tickets from wherever you work.

Start on your own for free. When teammates join, they work from the same context, with admin, editor and viewer roles and private drafts that stay invite-only until you publish.

What does fair use mean on the unlimited features?

Unlimited features are meant for real day-to-day work by one person: up to 50 questions a day on Pro and Business, and on Business up to 10 PRDs, journeys or ticket batches a day. Very few people get close. If your team regularly needs more, talk to us.

Your data is encrypted in transit, and we never train on it. The AI providers we use are contractually barred from training on it too. You can disconnect any integration or delete your account at any time. We’re pursuing SOC 2 Type II.

How much does it cost?

Vantage is free to start with 300 credits and no credit card. Projects are unlimited on every plan, and AI work like generating a PRD or a ticket batch uses credits. Pro is $19 per seat a month billed annually ($25 monthly) with 1,500 credits a month, unlimited questions and prototypes. Business adds a shared team workspace and 4,000 credits per seat a month.

Is the GitHub for Jira app free?

The app is provided by Atlassian through the Marketplace. Check the Marketplace listing for current details for your Jira plan.

Why are my commits not showing in Jira?

The most common causes are a missing or misspelled issue key, a repository that was not granted to the app, or backfill still in progress. Check the app's configuration page for sync status.

Can Jira move an issue automatically when a pull request merges?

Yes. Use Jira automation with a pull request merged trigger and a transition action. Make sure the target status exists in the project's workflow.

How-To2026-10-079 min read

How to Connect GitHub to Jira (Branches, Commits, and Pull Requests)

When GitHub and Jira are not connected, PMs ask engineers for status and engineers update tickets by hand after the fact. Both are slow and both drift. Connecting the two lets Jira show the branches, commits, pull requests, builds, and deployments tied to each issue, so status comes from the code rather than from memory.

Atlassian's GitHub for Jira app is the standard way to connect GitHub to Jira Cloud. This guide covers installing it, connecting your GitHub organization, getting engineers to reference issue keys, using smart commits, and adding automation so issues move when pull requests do.

Spec to tickets

Working in Jira? Turn your spec into dependency-ordered tickets.

Paste the feature or spec. Vantage pulls out the requirements and breaks them into tickets, ordered by what blocks what, ready to groom with your team.

How this works

We save what you typed. No AI runs on this page.
You create a free account.
Vantage builds a PRD and dependency-ordered tickets from it inside your own workspace.

Why ask for an account? We’re a small team, and a full generation runs a multi-step AI pipeline that costs us real money. So we tie it to a free account instead of running it anonymously. You also get to keep the result and edit it.

Your text is only used to create your project, and it stays private to your account. If you don’t sign up, we delete it after 7 days. Privacy policy

Step-by-step guide

Install the GitHub for Jira app

A Jira admin installs the GitHub for Jira app from the Atlassian Marketplace. Once installed, the app's configuration page in Jira walks you through connecting a GitHub organization. You need admin rights in both Jira and the GitHub organization to complete the connection.

In Jira, open apps and search the Marketplace for GitHub for Jira
Install the app
Open the app's configuration page
Confirm you have admin access to the GitHub organization

Connect your GitHub organization

From the configuration page, connect your GitHub organization and install the corresponding GitHub app. Choose whether to grant access to all repositories or only selected ones. Start with the repositories your product teams actively work in. The app can backfill historical data so existing branches and pull requests appear on issues.

Reference issue keys in branches, commits, and PRs

Linking works through Jira issue keys. Include the key, such as SHOP-142, in the branch name, commit message, or pull request title, and the development activity appears on that issue. The simplest convention is putting the key at the start of the branch name. Jira can also create branches from an issue with the key already included.

Agree on a branch naming convention such as SHOP-142-short-description
Include the issue key in pull request titles
Include the key in commit messages for traceability
Use 'Create branch' from the Jira issue where available

Check the development panel

Open a linked issue and find the development panel. It shows branches, commits, pull requests, and, if configured, builds and deployments. PMs can see at a glance whether work has started, whether a pull request is open or merged, and whether it has been deployed. This reduces 'is it done yet' messages significantly.

Use smart commits for quick updates

Smart commits let engineers act on Jira issues from commit messages, for example adding a comment or logging time. Smart commit commands follow the issue key, such as SHOP-142 #comment Fixed edge case in retry logic. Smart commits must be enabled for your Jira site and work when the committer's email matches a Jira user, so check both before rolling them out.

Confirm smart commits are enabled for your Jira site
Ensure engineers' commit emails match their Jira accounts
Share examples such as #comment and #time in your engineering handbook

Automate transitions with Jira automation

Jira automation can trigger on development events. Common rules: when a pull request is created, transition the issue to In Review; when a pull request is merged, transition it to Done or Ready for QA. Set these rules at the project level, test them on a sandbox issue, and keep them simple enough that engineers understand why an issue moved.

Create a rule triggered when a pull request is created
Add an action to transition linked issues to In Review
Create a second rule on pull request merged
Test both rules before enabling them for the whole project

Add builds and deployments

If you use GitHub Actions for CI and deployments, the integration can surface build and deployment information on issues. Configure environments in your workflows so Jira can show where a change has been deployed. For PMs, 'deployed to production' is the status that matters most.

Common mistakes

Inconsistent issue key usage

If half the team forgets the issue key, half the work is invisible in Jira. Make the convention part of the PR template and code review checklist.

Granting access to every repository by default

Connecting every repository, including archived and experimental ones, adds noise. Start with active product repositories and add more as needed.

Automation that fights the workflow

Rules that move issues to statuses that do not exist in a project's workflow will fail or confuse people. Align automation with each project's workflow.

Tips

Add a pull request template line reminding authors to include the Jira key in the title.

Use the development panel in sprint reviews to show what actually merged.

Filter for issues with an open pull request older than three days to find stalled reviews.

Keep automation rules documented in the project's wiki so changes are traceable.

How Vantage helps

Connecting GitHub and Jira shows what the code is doing. Vantage adds the step before it: PMs can query their codebase through the GitHub integration while writing the PRD, so requirements reflect how the system actually works before tickets are generated and pushed to the tracker.