
Trace AI: I Pointed a Camera at a Whiteboard. Notion Built the Entire System Design Doc.
This is a submission for the Notion MCP Challenge What I Built Every engineering team has the same graveyard: folders full of blurry whiteboard photos that were supposed to become documentation. They never do. The meeting ends, the momentum dies, and that brilliant architecture sketch slowly rots in someone's camera roll. Trace AI kills that problem dead. Trace is an autonomous pipeline that watches your Notion Design Inbox, your Slack workspace, and your Discord server simultaneously. The moment you drop in a whiteboard photo, Trace wakes up, reasons through the sketch using Claude vision, and uses the official Notion MCP server to build a complete, structured system design document — entirely on its own. Not a summary. Not a description. A full engineering document: Mermaid.js architecture diagrams — flowchart and sequence, auto-generated from your ink Component breakdown — every service, database, and load balancer identified and described Security analysis — potential vulnerabiliti
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