Creating your first canvas

A canvas is a single framework (like SWOT or Eisenhower) populated with your actual situation. Each canvas belongs to a "thought" — the decision or question you're working through.

The flow

1. Click New in the sidebar (or open /app/new).
2. Type a thought: one or two sentences describing what you're trying to decide or figure out. Example: "Should we launch pricing changes in Q3 or wait until after the summit?"
3. Either pick a framework yourself or let the AI suggest one.
4. The canvas opens with empty blocks (e.g., 4 quadrants for SWOT). AI fills in a first pass automatically.
5. Edit, add, or remove items in each block. Your changes save automatically.

What happens with AI

The first AI pass uses one credit and produces a draft. Refining the canvas with a follow-up instruction ("focus more on the timing risk", "what about the competitor angle") uses another credit. Free accounts get a small starter allowance; Premium and Ultra come with monthly allotments.

Tips that matter

• Keep the scenario sentence sharp. "Our company needs a new strategy" is too vague to help the AI. "Should we add a self-serve tier alongside the existing sales-led motion?" gets a useful draft.
• Edit AI output ruthlessly. The draft is a starting point, not a deliverable. Read each line and ask whether you'd actually say it.
• Use refine, not regenerate. Refining preserves the parts that worked. Regenerating throws everything out, which is usually worse.

Where canvases live

All canvases show up in your Frameworks sidebar tab (the library of your worked canvases — separate from the catalog of templates at Library). They sync across web and iOS.

If you got stuck, email [email protected].