Traditional ways of innovating are inefficient, fragmented, and slow. That’s why, according to McKinsey, only 6% of CEOs are satisfied with the way they do it. They don’t need evolution. They need an intervention.
That means putting innovation to work by making sure it drives measurable outcomes for critical projects. So Miro is changing to meet the moment; providing a turbocharged system for faster collaboration with superpowers like composable workflows, flexible formats, and customizable layouts – all supported by AI baked into everything.
Forget about jumping between tools, apps, and browser windows. Forget about endless meetings, multiple updates, and version control meltdowns. Forget about work feeling like wading through treacle.
Instead, picture everything you need in a single place, with ready-made templates so you never need to start from scratch, customizing your workflows so they work perfectly for you. Imagine moving between docs, diagrams, tables, and timelines with zero friction, so all your notes, ideas, plans and goals sit in the same place where you actually bring them to life.
“This isn’t just an upgrade on your existing tools; it’s an accelerant for innovation. No wasted time. No lost context. Just faster progress from strategy to execution.”
Now picture modern fonts, streamlined navigation, and vibrant colors, where every design choice has been carefully crafted to make collaboration feel more effortless, inspiring and productive than ever.
This isn’t just an upgrade on your existing tools; it’s an accelerant for innovation. It means discovery, definition, and delivery happen on the same canvas. No wasted time. No lost context. Just faster progress from strategy to execution.
While we think everyone will benefit from a speed boost, we’re particularly excited to unleash the potential of Product teams so engineers, designers, and product managers can get from idea to outcome faster. And because they can’t do it alone, it also means improving collaboration and unlocking better ways of working across the business.
Let’s start by looking at how we’re upping the pace for Planning and Roadmapping.
A faster path from idea to impact
Product teams are the engine room of innovation, influencing the breakthrough products that actually get built. But traditional planning tools tend to result in roadmaps that are hard to follow and aren’t connected to specific tasks.
They also miss a critical step because behind every great product is a great insight. And figuring out what customers want is a whole other challenge. Let’s say you’re looking for data to inspire the discovery phase for your next feature. You check out Salesforce or some other CRM tool. Trawl through Jira or Notion. Dip into Zendesk, Gong or Intercom. None of these sources speak to each other, so is it any surprise teams struggle to align on their most important priorities?
With Miro, you can already move from feedback to features faster by bringing all your people and data together in one place, transforming insights synthesis from a solo effort into a team sport. Now we’re excited to launch Miro Insights (formerly Cardinal) to help teams make even smarter decisions about what to build next.
Miro Insights doesn’t just bring your data sources together – it brings them to life, using AI to spotlight backlog recommendations, map feedback to product strategy, and even forecast the revenue value of future features. You can sign up for early access now.
Once you know what you want to build, it’s time to make a plan. While the canvas naturally turns planning into a collaborative experience, the downside is that you can end up with a ton of content – sticky notes, diagrams, comments – that’s pretty hard for newcomers to navigate.
That’s why we’ve already released Spaces. With Spaces, all the boards, documents and data you could possibly need are grouped together in one place. Entire projects are accessible in a couple of clicks, including every comment and conversation that informed the final decision. So teams can jump straight into real work – no friction, no frustration.
But then we thought, ‘Why not go a step further?’ If we really want to help teams put innovation to work, then a blank canvas might not always be the best option. Especially for something like product planning and roadmapping. What if we could make it a simple, repeatable process instead?
Today we’re introducing Blueprints to take the guesswork out of projects and help streamline key use cases like planning and roadmapping.
Blueprints are ready-made Spaces that contain all the boards you need to get the job done. Think of them as a way to strike a balance between productivity and agility. Nobody needs the chaos that comes with completely undefined ways of working. On the other hand, too many restrictions and you get the sort of bureaucracy that grinds employee engagement into dust.
Because Blueprints are customizable, they can flex to accommodate whatever way of working suits your teams best. Like building blocks that you can re-arrange or build on top of until you’ve created the perfect workflow for you.
How does it work in practice? Well, our Blueprint for roadmap planning features 11 boards split into three sections to guide you through your vision and objectives, with worksheets for individual teams to define their strategies, initiatives, and trade-offs, and finally a consolidated planning section to put all your team inputs into a company-wide roadmap, timeline, and stakeholder presentation.
Not only are these boards customizable (think your brainstorm needs a SWOAR instead of a SWOT? Go right ahead and change it), they all have AI tools – and everything else – baked right in. Let’s say you’re using the product vision template. You’ve got dozens of sticky notes with suggestions and feedback. So you use the AI assistant to do the hard work of turning it into a structured doc. If it needs more work, just switch to Focus Mode, going full screen on the document to drown out any other distractions until it’s edited to perfection.
With the discovery and definition phase complete, your team starts to think about delivery. They need a way to share early concepts with stakeholders without bouncing back and forth between different tools like Figma. So they turn to a new format: Slides.
Now they can simply select the relevant work on the canvas and turn it into a presentation at the touch of a button. It’s easy to re-order and add content, convert it into brand colors, or import a PDF from Google Slides or PowerPoint. That means they can take advantage of interactive experiences like dot voting, counters, and T-shirt sizing. So just like the rest of the product planning process, it isn’t only faster, it has collaboration at the core.
Keep pace with AI transformation
We’ve seen how Miro supports Product teams through better organization and customizable blueprints. Now let’s take a look at how we can help IT teams with a process that’s going to get a lot of attention from the C-suite this year: AI transformation.
Yeah, okay, #rollseyes and all that. But according to McKinsey, 92% of companies plan to increase their AI investment in the next three years. That means IT teams need to have an answer. But they can’t do it alone. Miro breaks down the walls between IT and the rest of the business so they can work together to define the opportunity, build a winning strategy, and manage their organization through the transition.
Miro is already the place where a lot of this work happens. That means it’s the perfect place to get stakeholders in sync: Running workshops on everything from strategic overviews to on-the-ground implementation, so every team can get on board – then get to work.
To make the process even faster, we’ve created two AI Transformation Blueprints. These customizable templates help teams run an AI capability assessment, map out human/AI touchpoints, plan the implementation, and track performance.
Not to get too meta, but teams can even use AI to crack the AI transformation code. For instance, by creating an Action Shortcut to auto-generate a list of AI use cases for consideration. They can also customize their Miro board for technical diagramming – taking advantage of all the tools and features you’re used to (multiplayer collaboration, super smooth UI, a full-screen Diagramming Format) with an added AI shape pack. So it’s easy to drag and drop AI agent icons, define human touchpoints, and set automation triggers.
As AI adoption accelerates, the companies that can design, implement, and scale AI workflows the fastest will have a major competitive advantage. With Miro, this transformation isn’t just an idea – it’s a structured, executable plan that puts strategy, workflow design and implementation tracking all in one place. And it actually uses AI to make AI delivery even faster.
How do we know it works? Because we’re doing it ourselves. “As a company that sits at the intersection of technology and innovation, it’s important that Miro is constantly embracing new and faster ways of working,” says Tomás Dostal-Freire, Miro’s CIO and Head of Business Transformation. “Using AI to define how our team members should partner with AI for their daily activities, give time back to employees to work on higher value-add initiatives, and ultimately improve our productivity and quality of output is a huge part of that. And of course we’ve mapped all of these workflows on Miro.”
In fact, Miro’s AI Transformation Blueprints are actually based on the processes Tomás and his team developed. “We were able to nail this workflow really fast,” he explains. “For one thing, we already have our entire business strategy and org structure already defined in Miro. And like most IT teams, we have a lot of experience running transformation projects. When you put those two things together, it’s pretty powerful. So even though ‘AI Transformation’ sounds like this incredibly difficult thing, what you find is that you already have a lot of the tools and expertise you need. Miro just supercharges the pace.”
“Even though ‘AI Transformation’ sounds incredibly difficult, you already have a lot of the tools and expertise you need. Miro just supercharges the pace.”
Of course, that expertise doesn’t only exist inside IT. For all that AI Transformation usually starts within the CIO organization, it’s relevant to all parts of the business. One of Miro’s greatest strengths is bringing together leaders from every department into a single workspace so they can define the vision and direction of their AI strategy together.
We think that by combining the collaborative power of the canvas with customizable Blueprints, flexible formats, and AI, organizations will truly be able to unlock the full potential of their innovation projects. And it doesn’t stop with insights synthesis, product planning and roadmapping, or AI transformation.
New Blueprints are available right now for critical jobs like goal setting, customer journey mapping, process design, and organizational planning – with more to follow. And it’s not just us – the Miro community has been hard at work building its own Blueprints, including an AI Enablement Sprint, Research Alignment Workshop, and Epic Feature Planning.
Not sure where to start? Miro Solution Partners can provide tailored workshops, training, and implementation support to help you turn snail-paced innovation projects into fast-moving success stories. They can also help with broader AI, agile, or cloud transformation initiatives – including customizing new features to align with your specific business needs – so you see immediate value from your Miro investment.
