Canvas interaction
Notes, drawing, text, images, frames, tables, and attached arrows share one editing model across selection, movement, and zoom.
Open Whiteboard / An independent product
A shared canvas.
Owned by the team.
Open Whiteboard is an open-source collaborative canvas with live teamwork, workshop tools, and an AI assistant. Teams run it in their own Cloudflare or Node account.
Explore Open Whiteboard- Deployment
- Cloudflare or Node
MIT licensed - Design & development
- Alan Shiflett
Product strategy, UX & engineering - Scope
- Canvas editor, collaboration, workshops, identity, storage & MCP integration
The product problem
The board should
outlast the meeting.
Teams use a whiteboard to think together, make a decision, and leave with work they can act on. The product has to stay fast and flexible while several people move through the same canvas.
Open Whiteboard also gives the team control of the installation. Boards, accounts, and uploads can stay in its own hosting account, with local identity, scoped guest access, and portable exports.
Inside the product
Think together.
Keep the result.
The interface supports the workshop, the follow-through, and the infrastructure underneath both.
01 / Workshop flow
Turn a conversation into a next step.
Attached arrows, frames, private brainstorming, timers, voting, and presentation tools give a facilitator a path from rough ideas to a plan the team can revisit.
02 / Editable AI output
Ask for a board, then keep working by hand.
An MCP client can create a workflow, retrospective, or diagram through OAuth. The result arrives as ordinary notes, shapes, and arrows rather than a flattened image.
03 / Self-hosted ownership
Keep boards, people, and saved work in your account.
The Cloudflare package uses the team's D1, R2, and Durable Objects. A Node package supports MySQL, database-backed jobs, and private storage.
What I built
The collaboration layer
and the platform.
Live collaboration
Shared cursors, comments, guest links, roles, and saved workbooks turn a solo editor into a workspace for ongoing team use.
Workshop tools
Timers, private brainstorming, voting, reactions, and presentation mode support a facilitated session without taking over the canvas.
Identity and data control
Local accounts support passkeys or an authenticator app. Teams choose whether to add outside sign-in providers and guest access.
Cloudflare, Node, and MCP
The product packages the editor for two hosting models and gives AI clients scoped access to create editable work on a user's behalf.
Related capability
AI agents & workflow automationBuilding software your team needs to own?
We can design the product, the collaboration model, and the infrastructure it runs on.