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The Smart Whiteboard

Think, plan, direct, and communicate — on one canvas. The whiteboard is where you and AI meet in the middle: you sketch what you mean, Circuitry understands the structure behind it, and a rough idea becomes a diagram, a design, or a running workflow without ever leaving the board.

Chat is a narrow doorway to work through. You describe, you wait, you read — and when you want to point at something, rearrange something, or show rather than tell, you can't. The whiteboard makes the conversation two-way and visual: you show AI, and AI shows you.

Think — ink that behaves like ideas

Put thoughts down the fastest way there is: by hand.

  • Handwriting becomes text as you write. Pick the Write pen from the pen tray and your handwriting converts to editable text live — no transcription step, no retyping what you already wrote.
  • Sketches behave like diagrams. Handwrite a few labels and draw lines between them: Circuitry groups each phrase into an object, tidies the connecting lines straight, and pins them to what they connect. Draw an arrow between two blocks and it stays attached when you move either end.
  • Rearrange freely. Because labels are objects and connectors follow, a freehand sketch moves around with the precision of a technical drawing. Mind maps, system diagrams, and presentation layouts stop being fragile ink and become things you can reshape in seconds.

A shape with a label inside becomes a single block; blocks group into bigger blocks; everything can be ungrouped one level at a time. The full behaviour is covered in Sketch to Diagram.

Plan — sketch the system

Lay out an idea the way you would at a real whiteboard: boxes, names, arrows. Nothing about it commits you to anything — it's just a diagram, and it stays one for as long as that's what you want. Share it, present it, keep refining it.

The difference is that this diagram already knows its own structure. Which means when you're ready, it can become real.

Direct — turn the sketch into something that runs

Select any part of your sketch and press To Node in the selection toolbar.

  • Summon a tool by naming it. Write "Terminal", convert it, and a real terminal appears right there on the canvas — run commands on your machine or hand it to a coding agent. Write "database", "chat", "remove background" and get those nodes, already set to the right mode.
  • Convert a whole system at once. Every labelled block becomes a node typed from what you called it, and every arrow becomes a live connection. Your architecture sketch is now a workflow.
  • Let AI finish the job. After conversion, a small card in the corner offers to Auto-configure the nodes. Sketch mandelbrot → img, accept, and Circuitry works out what you meant: a Start node wired to a code node with working fractal-rendering code, wired to an image node. Press Run and watch it execute.
  • The right worker for each task. Circuitry judges each step on what it is: deterministic work (sorting, math, rendering) becomes a code node; judgment work (sentiment, summarising, deciding) becomes an AI agent.

The conversion is one step and fully undoable — your sketch comes back exactly as it was.

Create — from rough sketch to real assets

The whiteboard isn't only for diagrams. Rough-sketch the thing itself:

  • Sketch → image. Draw what you want, press a button, and get a finished image generated from your sketch.
  • Image → asset. Remove the background, then convert it to clean vectors — logo-ready, scalable, editable.
  • Asset → product. Ask the coding agent to build it into your project — all without leaving the board.

Vibe coding is productive until you hit the wall of a chat box: you can't point, you can't tweak a logo, you can't see the shape of what's been built. Here the visual work and the direction happen in the same place.

Communicate — with your team, with AI in the loop

The same board is a shared space:

  • Share any document with a link — viewers don't even need an account.
  • Collaborate live — cursors, ink, and edits appear in real time.
  • Pair up — follow a driver through the project, take or grant control.

A whiteboard session with your team, with AI able to read the board and contribute to it, replaces the screenshot-into-chat shuffle entirely.

One canvas, every tool

The whiteboard is the thinking-and-directing side of Circuitry. When a job needs a dedicated surface, the right editor is one tab away — the code IDE for shipping software, the Designer for vector and UI work, sheets for data, terminals, notebooks, and more. No exporting, no dragging files into a chat window, no juggling five apps — everything works on the same documents, in the same studio.

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