Everything around the design file,
in one visual workspace.

No. There is no vector editing, typesetting or retouching for production artwork. Storyflow is the workspace around the file: the brief, the direction, the routes, the client's comments and the handoff. It removes backgrounds and upscales images, and AI image generation on Pro and Max can produce reference imagery for a moodboard, but the delivered work is made in your design tool. Export routes as images and place them on the board for review.

Six things, in the order the project runs: the brief, with the approver, dates and budget; the references and moodboard, each image captioned; the concept routes side by side, with the thinking behind each; the feedback rounds, gathered against the specific route; the decisions, including why rejected routes lost; and the handoff files. In Storyflow these sit on one board per project, so context that usually scatters across email, folders and hidden artboards stays with the work.

As a choice, side by side, each with a line on the thinking behind it and the part of the brief it answers. Show the brief first, so the client judges the routes against it rather than against taste. Keep to two or three routes and say which you recommend. In Storyflow the routes sit beside the brief on a board the client opens from a view-only link, and the AI can turn it into a Presentation PDF.

Ask for it against the work, from one named approver, by a date. Notes by email, on a call and in an annotated PDF never get reconciled, and opposite requests stay hidden until you have made both changes. In Storyflow the client opens the board from a view-only link and signs in to comment on the specific route, so contradictions surface before revisions start. Pixel-level annotation of final artwork belongs in proofing tools such as Filestage or Ziflow.

Make the agreed deliverables and rounds visible to the client, not buried in a contract nobody reopens. Scope creep is usually a series of small requests, one more size, one more route, one more round, each easier to absorb than to price. When the brief lists the deliverables, rounds and budget on a board the client can see, an extra request becomes a visible addition to a countable list. Name and date the rounds at the start.

Everything someone needs to use the work without asking you: final exports in every agreed format and size, links to the source files, the fonts and their licences, the colour values, usage notes, and who approved the final version. For a brand identity, add logo variants and clear space rules. In Storyflow the handoff is a folder on the project board, beside the brief and the approved route, so the client's next project starts from what was delivered.

No. Storyflow does not do pixel-level annotation or side-by-side version comparison of artwork, which is what proofing software such as Filestage, Ziflow or Frame.io is built for. It holds the review in context: routes side by side, the brief they answer, and signed-in client comments on the specific piece. Many design projects need both, with the direction agreed on the board and the final artwork proofed in a dedicated tool.

With the project, more than the artwork. Storyflow's AI reads the whole board, so it can draft a brief from a client's email, build a Brand Moodboard with palette, typography, logo concepts and applications, run a Brand Strategy with persona, values, tone of voice and positioning, and give notes on a draft against your goal. On Pro and Max it generates images for reference and mood, not production artwork. It proposes and you decide.

Storyflow and Milanote are both boards for references and moodboards, and Milanote is a well-made one. Storyflow adds project structure beside the work, with tables of dates, owners and budget, Kanban and tickets, and an AI that reads the board and builds from the brief. Miro is strongest in live sessions, with voting and timers for a workshop or a crit, which Storyflow does not have. Choose by what hurts most: references, the project or the workshop.

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, so a client, a copywriter or a second designer you bring in does not pay. Plus is for one person running whole projects, Pro adds AI image generation, and Max gives a studio one shared workspace with roles.