ChalkBloom
Use cases

Real work, real workshops.

A few of the shapes our customers use most. Each comes with a starter template and a recipe for running the session well.

For product teams

Quarterly planning & roadmapping.

Run the planning workshop in one board. Sticky-note ideas, vote, group, prioritise, draw out dependencies, mark what’s in scope. Export to your roadmap tool when done.

  • Now / Next / Later canvas with drag-vote
  • Dependency arrows that follow as you rearrange
  • Per-quarter frame export to PNG for stakeholder slides
  • Comment threads stay attached to specific cards
“Our PMs used to run planning across three tools — Miro for sticky notes, Linear for the roadmap, Slack for the chatter. Now it’s one canvas.”
nowAuth flow
nextAPI v2
laterSSO + SAML
nowBilling UI
nextAdmin v1
parkingMarketplace
decidedShip Q3 ✓
feedbackPadding feels tight
designer2-col breaks under 320px
decidedUse 16px gap
doneshipped in v0.4 ✓
nextUpdate style guide
For designers

Design reviews without screen sharing.

Embed Figma frames directly. Collect contextual feedback as stickies and arrows. Comment threads stay attached to the spot on the design they refer to. Designers and PMs see the same canvas at the same time.

  • Figma frame embeds with live updates
  • Comment threads anchored to design positions
  • Status tags (decided / done / changed) on each note
  • Read-only sharing for non-designer stakeholders
“Async design review went from 3 days of Loom + Slack to a single board open for 24 hours.”
For research

Customer journey mapping.

Map persona × phase × touchpoint in a single canvas. Tag insights as you go. Hand off to product as a frame export. Researchers stop being the bottleneck.

  • Persona × phase grid template (5 phases, 3 personas)
  • Insight tags that show up in any cell
  • Painpoint cluster shapes that auto-resize
  • Export each persona’s journey as a single PNG
“Our research team finally has a way to hand off insights that PMs actually read.”
phaseDiscover
phaseCompare
phasePurchase
userBrowses 7+ sites
userOpens 4 tabs
userAbandons cart 2x
insightTrust break at step 3
What went well
Shipped 4 PRs
Pair sessions
What didn’t
Standups too long
CI flaky again
Action: Fix CI by Fri
For team rituals

Retros that actually finish.

Open a retro template, run the session, vote on themes, leave with action items. The board stays as the record. Next sprint, last sprint’s actions are right there.

  • 14 retro templates (Mad/Sad/Glad, 4Ls, Sailboat, Lean Coffee…)
  • Dot voting with hidden-until-reveal mode
  • Action item tracker that carries forward between retros
  • Anonymous mode for trickier conversations
“We finally have retros that finish on time. Themes get voted, actions get owners, board becomes the record.”

Ready to try one?

Start with the template that matches what you’re trying to do. Everything is editable; nothing is locked.

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