Epics & User Stories

Once a PRD describes what to build, epics break it down into how the work is delivered. Scopingly generates a set of epics — and the user stories under each — directly from a PRD, giving you a delivery breakdown you can hand to a team or push into your issue tracker.

What gets generated

From a single PRD, Scopingly produces:

• Epics — the major bodies of work implied by the requirement.
• User stories — the concrete, deliverable units grouped under each epic.

The breakdown is derived from the PRD's content, so it stays anchored to the requirement it came from. It complements the scope document: scope estimates effort and commitment; epics organize the delivery.

Generating epics

Generate epics from a PRD you can read. Generation runs the PRD through the model once and returns the full epic-and-story breakdown, which you can then edit.

AI generation quota

Epic generation is an AI-powered, token-consuming operation, so it counts against your organization's monthly AI generation quota — the same pool used by scope generation and executive summaries. When the pool is exhausted, generation is blocked until the quota resets on the 1st of the month. See billing & quota for the per-tier limits.

Epic generation is available on all plans, within your quota.

Editing the breakdown

The generated epics and stories are a starting point, not a final answer. You can revise titles, adjust which stories belong to which epic, and drop anything that doesn't fit before you commit to the plan or push it downstream.

Pushing to JIRA

Requires a JIRA integration

If your organization has connected JIRA, you can push generated epics and their user stories into your JIRA project as issues, so the delivery breakdown lands where your team already tracks work.

The JIRA connection is a per-org integration configured by an org admin. The same integration also lets Scopingly ingest actuals back from JIRA to feed calibration — so the estimate you committed learns from what the work actually took.

One integration, both directions

JIRA is configured once for the organization. From that single connection, epics flow out (push) and completed-work signal flows back in (actuals for calibration).

Where epics fit

PRD  ──▶  Scope        (estimated, versioned commitment)
  │
  └────▶  Epics + Stories  ──▶  JIRA  ──▶  actuals → calibration

• Start from a PRD.
• Generate a scope for the estimate and commitment surface.
• Generate epics for the delivery breakdown, and optionally push them to JIRA.
• Let completed work feed calibration.

Roles

Generating and editing epics follows your PRD access: you need to be able to read the PRD to generate its epics. Configuring the JIRA integration that push depends on is an org admin action — see roles & permissions.