The teams who use Cohere built half of it.

Templates, plugins, and a real forum where the team answers questions. Most of what extends the product was built outside the company. We pay for the most-used plugins; we ship the best ones to everyone.

Section 02 · templatesSasha

Templates

Steal a starter file.

Pre-built spec, design, and retro templates from real shipping teams. Drop into your workspace and start writing.

01Product spec — feature definition + acceptance criteria→02Quarterly planning — themes, capacity, dependencies→03Customer interview write-up · 8 sections→04Design-system component spec→05Sprint retro · anonymous + attributed modes→

Section 03 · pluginsMarcus

Plugins

Built by the community.

Open Plugin API. Extensions for Mermaid diagrams, sticky-note voting, fancy code blocks, and dozens more.

01Mermaid · render flowcharts inline on the canvas→02Sticky-note voting · for retros and sprint planning→03Stripe customer-data lookup · live customer record on the canvas→04GitHub commit-trail attach · pull recent commits into a ticket→05Color contrast checker · WCAG inline on every frame→

Section 04 · forumImani

Forum

Where the team and customers talk.

A real forum (not Discord) — searchable, with named contributors and persistent threads. Cohere engineers answer regularly.

01Bug reports + workarounds (median first response: 2 hr)→02Feature requests + roadmap voting→03Office hours · weekly, recorded, posted to the forum→04Workflow show-and-tell · how teams use Cohere→05Annual community summit · April + October→

Section 05 · community heroesSara

We pay the people who build the things.

Quarterly community grants of $5k–$50k for the most-used plugins, the most-cloned templates, and the people running the office-hour calls. Apply at /community/grants.

Sasha

Sasha Lin

Replicate · Staff eng

Built the GitHub commit-trail plugin. 1,400 installs.

Marcus

Marcus Reid

Granola · CTO

Wrote the canonical sprint-retro template. Used by 8,000+ teams.

Imani

Imani Ewell

Mode Studio · Founder

Hosts the monthly agency-workflow office hour.

Daniel

Daniel Park

Bay Area Pipework · CTO

Maintains the Stripe customer-lookup plugin.

Section 06 · come hang outDanielMira

Recurring spaces. All free, all named.

Tuesdays · 10am PT

Office hours

Open Q&A with whoever's on rotation. Recorded and posted.

First Thursday · monthly

Workflow night

A customer team shows their Cohere file end-to-end. Live, unscripted.

April + October · annually

Cohere Summit

Two-day in-person summit in San Francisco. Free for the most active forum members.