Use case · Institutional memory
The studio's memory survives the next hire and the next quarter.
Institutional memory is the state where the reasoning behind past decisions is still readable months later, by people who weren't in the room when the call was made.
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Small studios lose memory faster than they admit. People rotate off products, Slack history scrolls past, the post-mortem doc gets renamed. Qualia keeps the trail: what changed in the product, what Qualia drafted in response, and what the human on the team approved or edited.
By Doğan Turan, Co-founder, Qualia
Best for
Studios that have already lost a decision trail at least once and don't want to lose another.
What changes for the studio.
The "Before" column is what most small studios tell us their week looks like today. The "After" column stays inside Qualia's real posture: monitor, detect, draft. A human signs off.
Looking up why a price changed last quarter
An hour of Slack search, two DMs, and a guess. Sometimes the answer never surfaces and the team relitigates the decision from scratch.
Open the product's record in Qualia and read the detected signal, the drafted move, and the human approval that shipped it.
Onboarding a new product owner
A Notion page that's eight months stale and a shadowing week with someone who's already context-switching to a different product.
The new owner reads the decision trail Qualia already kept on their product.
When someone leaves
A folder of half-written docs and a lot of 'ask Mert' that doesn't work once Mert is gone.
The reasoning stays on the product's record in Qualia, not in their head.
Questions studios ask before adopting this.
Built for studios of 2-10 people running 3-20 live products. Human-in-the-loop by default.
No. Keep Notion for design docs, hiring, and long-form thinking. Qualia owns one specific surface: the per-product decision record. The two live alongside each other.
From the day you connect a product's sources. We retain the decision record for the life of the account by default; export and longer retention are configurable.
Yes. Per-product decision records export as structured JSON or CSV on request today, with a self-serve export coming. If you need a specific format for an internal system, tell us during onboarding.
Anyone in your studio workspace with access to that product. Access is per-product, so you can keep contractor or partner access scoped if you need to.
Weighing this against another tool?
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