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Ref Survey
What's your current level?
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What's your current level?
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Founder
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IC engineer
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Senior Engineer
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Staff Engineer
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Engineering Manager
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Director +
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How much of your work is about making other engineers more effective?
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How much of your work is about making other engineers more effective?
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Almost none — I'm focused on my own deliverables
B
Some — I mentor or unblock people as it comes up
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A lot — coaching, reviewing, and unblocking others is a core part of my job
D
Most — my job is to make other engineers more effective
How is your team using AI coding tools today?
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How is your team using AI coding tools today?
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Each engineer uses their own tools (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) — no team layer
B
We've standardized on one tool across the team
C
We run autonomous agents (Devin, background agents, etc.)
D
We're experimenting but nothing's stuck yet
E
We're not really using them as a team
F
Other
How accurately does this headline describe a real need on your team?
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How accurately does this headline describe a real need on your team?
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Doesn't describe anything I'm experiencing
Describes exactly what's happening on my team
What made you pick that number?
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How well does this following statement match something you'd actually want for your team:
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A Ref is the shared source of truth for an AI coding project — what should be built, why it matters, what decisions were made, what agents are doing, and what the team needs to review.
How well does this following statement match something you'd actually want for your team:
A
Yes — this is exactly the thing missing today
B
Partially — some of it sounds useful, some doesn't
C
Not really — sounds like things we already have (docs, Linear, etc.)
D
I don't understand what it actually is yet
Which framing makes Ref's value clearest to YOU?
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Which framing makes Ref's value clearest to YOU?
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The team layer for AI software development
B
The coordination layer for engineering teams in the agent era
C
The shared workspace for AI coding projects
D
The blueprint for AI-generated software work
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The source of truth for what your agents are building
Which of these lines would make you most likely to share Ref with a teammate?
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Which of these lines would make you most likely to share Ref with a teammate?
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Where you go to review every important decision
B
The shared source of truth for AI-generated software.
C
Where teams decide what agents should build.
D
The blueprint behind every AI coding project.
E
Review the decisions before you review the diff.
F
Your agents write the code. Ref keeps the team aligned.
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Stop losing engineering decisions inside chats and agent sessions.
H
Make AI coding multiplayer.
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