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Fill out project details, add features in the Backlog Builder, then use the Sprint Builder to score and assign them.

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Add every feature idea before scoring begins.

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Score each item and assign it to the sprint.

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Item Name Reach Impact Confidence Effort RICE Score Sprint

Learn RICE

Everything you need to understand and use RICE.

What is RICE?

Every team has more ideas than time. RICE helps you decide what gets built.

Imagine you run a software product. Your CEO wants an AI feature. Sales wants a new payment option. Engineering is warning the app might crash. Customers are filing hundreds of bug reports. Everyone is convinced their thing is most important — and you only have capacity to build one or two of them. RICE is a scoring system that turns those competing opinions into a single comparable number per feature.

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Breaking it down

Four questions. One score.

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Reach: How many people?
How many users will this actually affect?
Think of reach like an audience size. A bug only one customer reported has low reach. A feature every user interacts with daily has very high reach. Scored 1 to 10 — 1 means almost nobody is affected, 10 means everyone on the platform feels it.
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Impact: How much will it matter?
If this gets built, how significantly will it change things?
Reach tells you how many people. Impact tells you how much they will care. A cosmetic change might reach everyone but barely matter. Fixing a broken checkout reaches fewer people but matters enormously — they cannot pay without it. Scored 1 to 10.
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Confidence: How sure are you?
Do you have real evidence, or is this mostly a guess?
This is your honesty score. Solid proof (user surveys, support tickets, engineering assessments) means high confidence. Building something because the CEO read about it on LinkedIn means low confidence. Scored 5% to 100% — low confidence pulls the final score down even when reach and impact look good.
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Effort: How much work is it?
How many sprint points does this cost your team?
Sprint points are a rough unit engineers use to estimate complexity. A small bug fix might cost 2 points; a complex AI feature could cost 9. Unlike the other three, higher effort is bad — it goes in the denominator. The more something costs to build, the harder it has to work to justify the investment.
RICE Score = (Reach × Impact × Confidence) ÷ Effort
Higher score = more value per point of effort. Build the highest scores first.
A real example

Meet VendSync.

VendSync is a platform helping African merchants manage their businesses digitally. The team has five feature ideas competing for 15 sprint points. Here is how RICE scored each one.

Selected for Sprint 1 — 11 pts used, 4 pts buffer
Refactor Inventory Database11.57
Fix White Screen Checkout Bug13.30
Deferred — not rejected, just sequenced
WhatsApp Checkout BotSprint 2
Multi-Currency WalletSprint 2
AI Inventory PredictorSprint 3
Neither selected item is glamorous. But both address the two most immediate threats — a platform that might crash, and a checkout that is already broken. That is what the data said. That is what got built.
Using this tool

Seven steps from blank slate to roadmap.

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Name your project
Give your product a name, write a short description, and set your sprint capacity — the total points your team can handle in one cycle.
Go to Project Setup
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Add your backlog items
List every feature idea, bug fix, or improvement. Give each a name, description, and effort estimate. Just get everything into the list first.
Go to Backlog Builder
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Lock the backlog
Once your list is complete, click Lock Backlog. This freezes it so you can score without accidentally changing it.
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Score each item
Move the Reach, Impact, and Confidence sliders. RICE scores recalculate instantly. Be honest about what you know versus what you are assuming.
Go to Sprint Builder
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Assign items to your sprint
Click Assign to Sprint on the highest-scoring items. Watch the capacity bar fill. When your points are used, click Save Sprint.
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Build your roadmap
Repeat for Sprint 2, Sprint 3, and beyond. Each saved sprint appears on your Roadmap as a milestone you can expand.
Go to Roadmap
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Export and share
Go to the Matrix Table and export as CSV, XLSX, or copy directly into a spreadsheet. Download the Full Document as a PDF.
Go to Matrix Table
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Pick your starting point.

Load the VendSync example to explore a complete workspace, or start fresh with your own product.

Load the VendSync example
Download the sample file and import it. All five items, three sprints, scores, and PM notes are pre-loaded.
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Click Load Project in the sidebar
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Select the downloaded file
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Explore the Sprint Builder and Roadmap
Start with your own product
If you already have a product in mind, go straight to Project Setup. The tool saves everything automatically as you go.
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