Planning boards for teams

Brainstorm. Map. Plan.

Sticky-note boards your whole team can use. No training needed.

30 days free. No credit card needed. See pricing

A Cardsmith board in timeline view: cards for design, content and engineering placed in the week they're due, with two overdue cards marked in red.

See what's due, week by week

  • Give any card a due date from the calendar on the card.
  • Switch a grid board to Timeline to see cards by week, month or quarter. Your rows become the lanes.
  • Drag a card to another week and its date moves with it.
  • Roll unfinished work into this week in one step, with Undo if you change your mind.

Start from a method kit

Five ready-made boards with the fields each method needs. When you create a board from a kit, its dates start in the current week.

  • Learning Plan: skills by stage, a trainer and sign-off steps on each.
  • Rapid Learning Cycles: Key Decisions, Knowledge Gaps and the work to close them, cycle by cycle.
  • Lessons Learned: what went well, what didn't, and actions with owners.
  • Product Roadmap: Now, Next, Later and Parked by theme, with impact and effort.
  • Workshop: agenda, ideas, questions, decisions and actions in one place.

More than 60 other templates cover retrospectives, agile teams, strategy and planning.

The method kit strip on the Cardsmith home screen, with Learning Plan, Rapid Learning Cycles Plan, Lessons Learned, Product Roadmap and Workshop boards to start from.

Cards that hold the details

A card can carry labeled fields such as Owner, Due and Status, plus a checklist, notes, images and links.

The card face shows the due date and how much of the checklist is done, so you can read the board without opening every card.

An open Cardsmith card with a Trainer field, a due date and a four-step checklist.

Run the workshop on the same board

  • Dot voting. Give each person a set number of votes. Hide the results until you end the vote if you want.
  • A shared timer that everyone on the board sees.
  • Lock the layout so cards stay where you put them while people add and edit.
  • Guest links. People join the board with just their name. They don't need an account.
A workshop board during a session: a paused timer, an open dot vote with vote counts on the idea cards, and the Session panel with voting, timer, lock layout and guest link controls.
Katherine Radeka

"Cardsmith is so intuitive and subtle that it fades into the background, so teams can focus on the task at hand. It is our preferred solution for running innovation team events."

Katherine Radeka, Executive Director, Rapid Learning Cycles

Everyday tools

  • Undo and redo for changes on a board.
  • Recently Deleted, to restore a board removed by mistake.
  • Search across all your boards and cards.
  • Folders to group boards by team, client or project.
  • Import from Trello (with checklists, labels and due dates), from a Miro board export, or from a CSV file.
  • Export any board to PDF or CSV.
  • Comments with @mentions, and an activity log on every board.
Search on the Cardsmith home screen, finding cards that mention testing across several boards.

On your phone

Boards open in your phone's browser, with nothing to install. Check what's due, open a card, tick off a checklist item or leave a comment.

With your AI assistant

Add Cardsmith as a connector in Claude or ChatGPT. The assistant can read your boards, build a new board from a short brief, and add, move or update cards. It has the same permissions you have. How to connect it.

The Website relaunch board on a phone, with cards in Design, Content, Engineering and Launch rows.

Try it on your own plan

Every account starts with a 30-day trial of every Professional feature. Pick a method kit, rename what you need, and invite your team.

No credit card needed. See pricing