Who is Mochlion for?

Mochlion is for anyone who needs software built and wants the builder to start with the answers: the owner or sponsor with an idea, the experts who know how the work is really done, and the builder or practitioner who receives the specification.

It is most useful when the knowledge an application needs is spread across several people, and nobody has written it down in a form someone else could build from.

Owners and sponsors

You have an idea for an application, or a process you want to automate, and you're the person who decides. You may not be technical, and you shouldn't need to be. You describe the problem and the outcome you want, invite the people who know the work, settle the questions their answers raise, and sign off.

What you end up with is a Build Specification you own and can hand to any developer, so quotes can be compared against the same document. What owners get.

The experts who know the work

Operations, finance, the front line, IT: the people who handle the exceptions every day. They're often the hardest people to pull into a series of workshops.

Each expert answers only their own questions, on their own time, from a phone or a computer, typed or spoken. They check what was written down from their answers before it's approved. When their answer differs from someone else's, the difference goes to a person who can decide, rather than being left for the developer to find.

Builders and practitioners

Developers, development teams, agencies and consultants who build software for clients. You receive a specification with every requirement numbered, testable and traced to the person or decision behind it, plus a structured package your AI coding tools can read directly.

When the build hits something the spec doesn't answer, your tools can send the question back to the right expert, and the answer lands in the record. Practitioners can also run Mochlion for their own clients and price that work however they choose. For practitioners.

Larger organizations

Teams with many experts, several departments or sites, or their own governance tools can read finished specifications and readiness through the API. For enterprises.

Who isn't it for?

• People looking for someone to build, host or run their software. Mochlion stops at handoff.
• Physical product design. It specifies software applications.
• Projects built around health records or payment card data, which it isn't set up for.
• Anyone who wants AI to make the calls. AI suggests; people decide, approve and sign off.

To see what a finished specification looks like, read the sample.