Meetings are a signal. Vantage is where decisions happen before and after them.
Telos is an AI scrum master: it joins standups, summarizes calls, and creates tickets from meetings. Vantage is the product thinking system that operates upstream, generating specs, detecting conflicts, cascading staleness, and syncing tickets to engineering.
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TL;DR
Telos is an AI scrum master. It joins standup calls, summarizes meetings, and creates tickets from discussions. The meeting automation is genuinely useful for agile teams. Vantage operates at a different layer. It starts with a problem signal, generates PRDs grounded in analytics and code, flags when a new spec contradicts an existing project, propagates staleness downstream when a spec changes, and syncs tickets bidirectionally with Linear or Jira. Vantage starts free with Pro at $19/seat/month. The two tools serve complementary use cases: Telos for meeting automation, Vantage for upstream product thinking and intelligence.
Tickets from calls miss the product thinking upstream
Telos creates tickets from what was discussed in a meeting. But a ticket without a PRD, without requirements, without dependency tracking and conflict detection is an action item, not a spec.
Meetings are step 5, not step 1
Before a standup happens, someone identified a problem, researched context, drafted a spec, and extracted requirements. Telos enters after the product thinking is done.
Each meeting is an island
Telos processes meetings independently. It cannot detect that a decision in today's standup contradicts a requirement from a different project, or flag that the spec driving those tickets has changed.
Start at the signal. Not the standup.
Upstream product thinking, not meeting capture
Vantage starts where product thinking starts: a problem, a metric shift, a customer request. It generates the PRD, extracts requirements, and creates tickets before the standup even happens.
Conflict detection across all projects
Vantage flags when a new spec contradicts an existing project before it reaches engineering. Telos processes each meeting independently with no cross-project awareness.
Staleness cascade, not just capture
When a spec changes in Vantage, every downstream artifact (requirements, tickets, prototypes) knows it is stale. Meeting notes are static. Product artifacts should not be.
Feature comparison
Based on publicly available documentation. Telos features referenced from telos.so.
| Feature | Vantage (Free) | Telos (Paid) |
|---|---|---|
| Product Intelligence | ||
| Flags when a new spec contradicts existing projects | ||
| Every PRD, ticket, and prototype traced to the data that drove it | ||
| When a spec changes, downstream artifacts know they are stale | ||
| Surfaces what needs your attention across all projects | ||
| Learns your style, team patterns, and project decisions across three tiers | ||
| Document Generation | ||
| AI-generated PRDs from connected data | ||
| Generate prototypes, share them, collect feedback, iterate via AI | ||
| User journey generation | ||
| Meeting Automation | ||
| Ticket creation from meetings | ||
| AI joins standup calls | ||
| Meeting summaries and action items | ||
| Collaboration | ||
| Tracks what blocks what, across teams and projects | ||
| PM and EM collaborate on specs together in real-time | ||
| Integrations | ||
| Push tickets to Linear/Jira, pull status changes back | ||
| Analytics data in product context (Amplitude, GA) | ||
| Slack thread decision extraction | ||
| Figma import and design querying | ||
| Compliance | ||
| GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2 compliance checking | ||
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | $0 | Free beta |
| Paid plan | $19/seat/mo | TBD |
Where Telos wins
Meeting automation. Telos joins your standup calls, records them, summarizes discussions, and extracts action items automatically. Vantage does not join or record meetings.
Ticket creation from live calls. Telos converts meeting discussions into tickets during the call. Vantage creates tickets from structured PRD requirements, not from live audio.
Agile ceremony support. Telos is purpose-built for standups, sprint planning, and retros. If your biggest pain point is meeting overhead, Telos addresses it directly.
Where Vantage wins
Conflict detection. Vantage flags when a new spec contradicts existing projects. Telos processes each meeting independently with no awareness of other projects.
Staleness cascade. When a spec changes, every downstream artifact (requirements, tickets, prototypes) knows it is stale. Meeting notes and action items from Telos are static once captured.
Decision surfacing. Vantage surfaces what needs your attention across all projects. Telos surfaces what was said in one meeting.
Dependency tracking. Vantage tracks what blocks what across teams and projects, with wave-based ticket ordering. Telos creates action-item tickets without dependency awareness.
Prototype feedback loop. Generate prototypes, share them, collect feedback, and iterate via AI. Telos does not generate or validate prototypes.
Compounding memory. Vantage learns your style, your team's patterns, and each project's decisions across three tiers. Every generation improves with use.
Choose Telos if you need
- • AI that joins standup calls and summarizes them
- • Automatic ticket creation from meeting discussions
- • Meeting-focused automation for agile ceremonies
- • Action item tracking from live conversations
Choose Vantage if you need
- • Conflict detection when new specs contradict existing projects
- • Staleness cascade when specs change downstream
- • Dependency tracking across teams and projects
- • Two-way sync with Linear or Jira
- • Upstream product thinking from signal to shipped
Frequently asked questions
Product decisions happen before the standup
Start at the signal. Detect conflicts. Cascade staleness. Sync to engineering.
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