> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.laneapp.co/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Core Concepts

> The one idea that makes Lane make sense — feedback, signals, and plans as a single connected loop.

Most product tools are a stack of separate things — a feedback inbox, a spreadsheet of requests, a doc tool, a roadmap. Lane is one connected loop instead. Customer feedback becomes patterns worth acting on, patterns become the work you commit to, the work ships, and the customers who asked hear back. Understand that loop and the rest of the product follows.

```text theme={null}
Feedback  →  Signals  →  Plans  →  Shipped  ↩  Customer
```

Nothing lives in isolation: a Plan knows the signals behind it, a signal knows the feedback and customers behind it, and every piece of feedback knows who said it. That connection is the whole point.

## **The three stages​**

### **Feedback — what customers tell you**

[**Feedback**](https://docs.laneapp.co/insights) is the raw input: a [**Slack**](https://docs.laneapp.co/slack) message, a solved support ticket, a forwarded email, a portal request, a call note. It flows in from every source — automatically where it can, by hand where it should. As each piece arrives, Lane pulls out the **Insights** inside it (the specific quotes and requests), classifies type and sentiment, and routes it to the right [**Product Area**](https://docs.laneapp.co/product-areas).[**​**](https://docs.laneapp.co/introduction#signals-%E2%80%94-the-patterns-worth-acting-on)

### **Signals — the patterns worth acting on**

A [**Signal**](https://docs.laneapp.co/signals) is a recurring pattern across your feedback — “slow CSV export,” “missing SSO” — assembled from the Insights that say the same thing. This is the leap from a noisy inbox to a ranked list: instead of reading a thousand messages, you work the handful of things customers keep asking for, each carrying the customers and revenue behind it. [**Prioritization**](https://docs.laneapp.co/prioritization) ranks them, weighing revenue against demand the way your team chooses.[**​**](https://docs.laneapp.co/introduction#plans-%E2%80%94-what-you-decide-to-build)

### **Plans — what you decide to build**

A [**Plan**](https://docs.laneapp.co/docs) is the unit of work — the bet you commit to. Where a signal is a pattern worth acting on, a Plan is the thing you’re actually doing about it. It holds the brief and stays linked to the evidence that justifies it, and when it’s ready you push it to where the work happens: a coding agent, or your delivery tracker.[**​**](https://docs.laneapp.co/introduction#the-context-that-ties-it-together)

## **The context that ties it together**

Three things cut across all three stages and make them sharp:

* [**Customers**](https://docs.laneapp.co/customers) — who’s asking. The ARR, tier, and status you keep here are what let a signal’s priority reflect real business impact, not just volume.
* [**Product Areas**](https://docs.laneapp.co/product-areas) — the map of your product. Feedback is routed to areas, signals inherit them, so you can always see where demand is concentrated.
* [**Context**](https://docs.laneapp.co/context) — the few things you tell Lane about your world (your product, your current priority, the customers that matter). It’s what powers both signal surfacing and Lane’s answers.[**​**](https://docs.laneapp.co/introduction#lane-runs-through-all-of-it)

## **Lane runs through all of it**

There’s no separate “assistant” bolted on the side — **Lane** is the intelligence running through the whole loop. It processes feedback into signals, surfaces the ones that matter, drafts Plans from the evidence, and answers questions across your workspace when you [**ask it**](https://docs.laneapp.co/agent). Where Lane acts on your data, it proposes and you decide; where it answers questions, it reads but never changes anything.[**​**](https://docs.laneapp.co/introduction#closing-the-loop)

## **Closing the loop**

The step most tools skip is the last one: telling customers you built the thing they asked for. Lane closes it automatically — when a Plan ships, the customers behind its committed feedback are told, in the same place they raised it. See [**Closing the loop**](https://docs.laneapp.co/close-the-feedback-loop).The customer hears back, new feedback comes in, and the cycle continues. The loop isn’t a workflow you run — it’s the system you operate in.[**​**](https://docs.laneapp.co/introduction#what%E2%80%99s-next)

## **What’s next**

Now that the model makes sense, set up your workspace.

[**Set up your workspace →**](https://docs.laneapp.co/workspace-setup)