Run a design sprint
on one canvas.

A design sprint maps a problem, sketches solutions, decides on one, prototypes it, and tests it with users, classically over five days. In Storyflow you run the week on one infinite canvas: the AI helps map and synthesize, you sketch and vote to decide, lay out the prototype's flow and screens for the makers, and pin test findings beside them. Everything stays connected from Monday to Friday.

The original Google Ventures format is five days, one for each stage: map, sketch, decide, prototype, and test. Many teams now run a compressed two or three day version. Storyflow works for either, because the whole sprint lives on one canvas and the AI speeds up the mapping and synthesis that usually eat the most time.

Yes. Storyflow's AI helps map the problem, synthesize existing research into insights, and draft the plan, which compresses the slowest parts of the week. Because it reads your whole board, its output responds to your actual challenge and users rather than a generic template.

Not yet. Storyflow is paid-only during early access, with plans from $7.99 a month billed annually ($9.99 monthly). A free plan launches before the end of 2026, and anyone a paid member invites to a board joins free. The Free plan will include unlimited boards, basic AI usage, 3 starter frameworks and 20 file uploads.

Miro and FigJam are strong sprint whiteboards with AI features of their own. Storyflow's AI reads the whole board to help map the problem, synthesize your research and draft the plan, and the decision, prototype plan and test findings stay on one shared canvas that carries into the work after Friday. For teams that want the mapping and synthesis days compressed and the sprint kept with the project, that is the difference.

Yes. Invite the team to one board and run the sprint in real time whether people are in the room or distributed. Facilitate from a laptop, project the board, or follow on a phone, and share a view-only link so users test the prototype without an account.

Neither is required. A facilitator helps for larger sprints, but a small team can run one by following the five days in order: map, sketch, decide, prototype and test. Ask the AI to lay the days out as sections on the board before Monday, so no session time goes on building structure live.

It stays on the board. The map, sketches, decision, prototype, and test findings live on one infinite canvas, so you can hand the whole thing to the build team with the reasoning intact, or duplicate it as a template for the next sprint.

In the original Google Ventures format: Monday you map the problem and pick a target. Tuesday everyone sketches competing solutions alone, which stops the loudest voice winning. Wednesday you critique the sketches and decide on one storyboard. Thursday you build a realistic prototype, which only has to be convincing from the front. Friday you test it with five users. The sequence matters more than the calendar, and many teams now compress it into four days.

Seven people or fewer, or the decision stage stalls. You need a Decider with real authority to choose, because a sprint that ends in escalation has wasted the week. Beyond that, cover the angles: someone who knows the customer, someone who knows the technology, someone who knows the business constraints, and a designer. A facilitator who is not also the Decider keeps the process honest. Bring experts in for the Monday interviews only rather than for the whole week.

When the problem is not actually a design problem. If the team already knows what to build and is arguing about sequencing or resourcing, a sprint burns a week to confirm what everyone knew. Sprints are also poor for problems needing deep technical spikes, for genuinely incremental work, and for anything where you cannot get five real users in front of the prototype on Friday. The signal that a sprint fits is high uncertainty plus high cost of being wrong.

Shorten the live days and move solo work, such as sketching, into independent time. Keep everything on one shared canvas the whole team edits, and write decisions down as they happen, because remote groups lose the shared memory a room gives you. In Storyflow invited teammates edit the same board live, and outside experts can open a view-only link with no account. Recruit the Friday testers a week early, since that is what usually slips.

For the live workshop itself, Miro and FigJam are the strongest tools: sticky-note voting, timers and facilitation features are built for exactly that week. Storyflow fits better when the sprint is one moment inside a longer project and you want the map, the decision and the prototype thinking to stay connected to the work that follows, rather than living in a board that gets archived on Friday.