An AI whiteboard that reads the whole board.
An infinite canvas for notes, sticky notes, tables, drawings, and files — with AI that looks at everything on it together and tells you what it is about.
What is an AI whiteboard?
A digital whiteboard is an unbounded space you can put anything on: text, sticky notes, images, files, freehand drawing, arrows between things. The infinite canvas is the part that matters — you are never rearranging to make room.
The "AI" part varies a lot between tools. Often it means a chat box bolted onto the side, or image generation, neither of which knows anything about what is on your board.
Brain Canvas takes the board itself as the input. It reads every element together — the notes, their groupings, the arrows you drew — and gives back themes, connections you had not made explicit, and a written synthesis. The board is the prompt.
How to use an AI whiteboard
Put everything on the canvas
Notes, sticky notes, research files, screenshots, rough drawings. There is no wrong place to put something and no structure to commit to first.
Group by moving things around
Drag related items near each other. Spatial arrangement is information — the AI pass uses proximity as a signal about what belongs with what.
Connect what depends on what
Draw arrows between elements with a real relationship. Sparse and meaningful beats dense and decorative.
Run a clarity pass
Ask Brain Canvas to read the board. It returns the themes it found, the through-lines between clusters, and the questions the board raises but does not answer.
Take away a written report
Turn the result into an insight report you can export as PDF or Markdown, or share as a link — so the thinking leaves the canvas in a form other people can read.
What it does that a plain whiteboard cannot
Synthesis, not just chat
The AI reads the entire board as one input and reports on it, rather than answering questions about a document you paste in.
Real-time collaboration
Live cursors, presence, comment pins, element locking, and version history. Editing and commenting collaborators are part of the Clarity Studio plan.
Not used for training
Your canvases are not used to train models. Brain Canvas runs on Vertex AI under a contractual no-training commitment.
AI whiteboard FAQ
- What can I put on the canvas?
- Text, sticky notes, tables, freehand drawings, arrows, and uploaded files including images. Elements can be grouped, rotated, resized, and arranged freely on an infinite surface.
- What does the AI actually do?
- It reads the whole board and clusters related elements into themes, names the patterns running through them, and can write a synthesis of what it found. There is also a chat assistant that has your canvas as context.
- Is there a free plan?
- Yes — Starter is free forever, with three canvases and no card required. Paid plans add unlimited canvases, more storage, the cross-canvas mind map, and collaboration.
- Can I work with other people on the same board?
- Yes. Canvases can be shared with view, comment, or edit access, with live cursors, presence indicators, comment pins, and version history. Comment and edit roles require the Clarity Studio plan.
- Do you train AI models on my content?
- No. Brain Canvas runs its AI on Google Vertex AI under a contractual commitment that customer data is not used to train models.
- Can I get my work out?
- Yes. Canvases export as an image or PDF, and insight reports export as PDF or Markdown. Nothing you write is locked in.
Bring the mess. Structure emerges.
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