Whiteboard + AI to build visually appealing structures quickly.
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Aaron Brown
It would be great to be able to use AI to quickly generate clean, and cool looking whiteboards.
Currently the AI Brain in whiteboard only generates images, and they are all cut off. Instead, i'd like to ask it to "pull all tasks from this board as headers with unique colors, and put descriptions as sub sticky notes". That way I could create a quick org chart, or view of specific tasks quickly, efficiently, and in a cool looking way.
On some other tools this involves importing .json and .csv data which most LLM/AI tech can work with. If I could simply copy and paste in such formats and choose my template look or describe it then it would save tons of time in the long run.
No current workaround to generate formatted whiteboard material. I can almost get there by importing .csv or .json as tasks using import or AI Brain. Then I have to drag in each tasks. However, once I try to do any whiteboarding the AI just generates faulty images instead of editable structures in a useful format.
Final goal, open whiteboard, ask AI to pull in tasks I've already got of a tag type from X project, tell it to build a color coded structure using bubbles at the top and stickies below it (or from template example), and presto it builds a structure.
Example attached. I've use a different tool and AI to do this with prompts so it's very possible. Giving users a few preset prompts and styles would solidify this as useful for all sorts of purposes in the whiteboard tool.
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Frédéric Ouimet
AI-Powered Diagram Generation in Whiteboards
ClickUp already has a solid Whiteboard feature — but it's missing a major opportunity: AI-driven diagram generation.
The use case is simple: I type a prompt describing what I need (a flowchart, a process map, a system architecture, an org chart…), and the AI builds the entire diagram for me — nodes, connections, layout — from A to Z.
This already exists in the market. Excalidraw, for example, offers an MCP (Model Context Protocol) connector that integrates with Claude AI. You describe what you want in natural language, and it generates the full visual mapping directly on the canvas. It's fast, accurate, and a massive time saver.
Imagine being able to do this natively inside ClickUp Whiteboards:
- "Map out a client onboarding workflow with 6 stages"
- "Create a decision tree for lead qualification"
- "Build a system architecture diagram for a CRM integration"
…and getting a complete, editable diagram in seconds — right where the rest of your project lives.
ClickUp is already investing heavily in AI. Adding AI generation to Whiteboards would be a natural and high-impact extension of that strategy.
Would love to see this on the roadmap.
Francesco Bocanelli
Great idea!
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Alex Omeyer (ClickUp)
> On some other tools this involves importing .json and .csv data which most LLM/AI tech can work with.
Looping in Dionis Loire for this one as PM for Brain. This would likely require Brain to have a "code interpreter" so it can properly work with spreadsheets.
Dionis Loire
Aaron Brown Support for CSV/JSON processing is in the pipeline and will be added to Whiteboards shortly after. This will let you work with your data directly using AI, without needing to import it first.
Alex Omeyer (ClickUp)
Thanks for your feedback Aaron Brown! Good news; we're working on this. I have a few follow up questions if you don't mind :)
> Currently the AI Brain in whiteboard only generates images, and they are all cut off.
Sounds like a bug! Could you please share a screenshot/more detail about this?
> "pull all tasks from this board as headers with unique colors, and put descriptions as sub sticky notes"
> generate formatted whiteboard material
> ask AI to pull in tasks I've already got of a tag type from X project, tell it to build a color coded structure using bubbles at the top and stickies below it (or from template example), and presto it builds a structure.
Love these use cases. Giving Brain a tool for whiteboards and "AI-powered templates" are on our roadmap, and that's exactly the kinds of use cases they'd address.