About Stokik
The plan behind the work is as important as the work itself. Stokik is the workspace where structure, context, and execution stay connected.
Why we built this
When you're leading a complex product across large product and engineering teams, the roadmap is never a flat list. There's a structure behind it — dependencies, sequencing, work that only makes sense in the context of the larger initiative. The challenge isn't tracking the tasks. It's keeping everyone oriented to the shape of the plan.
The tools we had were good at capturing tasks. They were poor at showing structure. Engineers would ask "why are we building this now?" and the honest answer was spread across three open tabs — a diagram, a doc, a board — none of which talked to each other. Keeping the team aligned meant constant re-explaining instead of just showing them the picture.
Stokik started as the answer to that. A canvas where the shape of a plan is visible, dependencies drawn, context attached to the work rather than buried in a separate wiki. From there, the rest followed: real-time collaboration, documents on canvas cards, comments, reviews. Everything a team needs to plan together, without the sprawl.
As AI agents become part of execution, that structure matters even more. A good plan should be readable by people and by the tools they ask to help them — with tasks, documents, dependencies, and progress all grounded in the same source of truth.
Ritesh Shrivastav
Founder, Stokik
Director of Engineering at Jodo. Writes about engineering and product building at codingdash.com. Building Stokik to make product plans easier to see, explain, and execute.
What we believe
Structure is thinking
The act of placing items on a canvas and drawing connections between them is itself a planning activity. It forces you to be explicit about what depends on what.
Docs should live with the work
A specification that lives in a separate wiki will drift from the plan. Attaching documents directly to nodes keeps context co-located with intent.
Less is more
We avoid feature sprawl that pulls the product in every direction. Every surface in Stokik — canvas, tasks, documents, spaces — exists to serve one goal: keeping the plan and the work connected.
Teams need precision
Granular permissions matter for real organisations. Being able to say "this person can comment but not edit" is the difference between a tool people trust and one they work around.
Get in touch
Stokik is founder-led, and every message helps shape it. If you have feedback, questions, or just want to talk about product planning, contact us.