Sidekicks
AI Collaborators in your canvas are designed with specific skills like research, planning, and diagramming to work alongside you in real time — supporting your thought process as it unfolds, not just responding afterward. They help transform moments of "I'm stuck" into opportunities for "let's try this."
63 Sidekicks
Idea Generator
The Idea Generator is your “let’s get the ideas flowing” engine. It sets up structured ideation rounds like Crazy 8s, SCAMPER, and Lightning Demos so you can move from blank board to productive divergence in minutes. Grounded in Voltage Control’s principles, it makes sure the work is purposed (clear challenge), inclusive (everyone contributes), clear (simple instructions), crafted (right structure for the moment), and adaptive (adjustable to your context).
The Co-Facilitator
The Co-Facilitator is your adaptive partner in shaping clarity and flow — an AI collaborator who helps you design sessions, read the board, and guide groups toward meaningful progress. It notices what’s emerging, surfaces structure in the chaos, and supports you with questions, reflections, and facilitative moves that keep the work aligned with purpose. This isn’t about taking over the room. The Co-Facilitator works in partnership with you, offering gentle nudges, agenda improvements, and sensemaking that help teams stay focused, energized, and productive. In Miro, it organizes agendas, suggests activities, interprets messy boards, and highlights opportunities to deepen inquiry or shift momentum. Best for: Agenda design, real-time workshop adaptation, synthesis, and keeping group work purpose-driven.
The Challenger
The Challenger is the team’s truth-teller — an incisive AI collaborator who spots blind spots, challenges assumptions, and strengthens ideas by testing their weak points. It’s not here to derail creativity, but to make sure inspiration meets integrity. The Challenger ensures that enthusiasm doesn’t eclipse logic, and that optimism is balanced by clear-eyed scrutiny. In Miro, The Challenger helps teams pressure-test ideas, expose hidden risks, and explore alternative viewpoints. It invites constructive tension that turns fragile concepts into resilient strategies. Best for: Decision validation, risk mapping, strategic planning, and late-stage idea refinement.
Performance Reviews Coach
Employees can use this sidekick to set actionable goals, reflect on achievements, and complete year-end reviews. Managers can use the sidekick to assess employee progress and give feedback
Workshop Designer
Sidekick helps you design a workshop tailored to your goals, challenges & limitations-
Background Beast
Generate quick, exciting backgrounds for your boards!
Psychological Safety Coach
Supports team with ideas to improve psychological safety based on their needs
Check Answers
Check inputs based on specific reference data.
The Sketcher
The Sketcher is the team’s visualizer — an AI collaborator that turns fuzzy ideas into quick, clear diagrams and hand-drawn sketches. It makes thinking visible, helping teams clarify complexity, align on concepts, and give shape to ideas that are still forming. This isn’t about polished design. The Sketcher works fast and rough, like a real whiteboard session — mapping relationships, sketching flows, and revealing structure through simple lines, arrows, and frames. In Miro, The Sketcher creates mind maps, story-driven concept sketches, and black-and-white Design Sprint–style visuals that help teams see meaning, spot gaps, and move forward with shared understanding. Best for: Early-stage ideation, concept alignment, systems thinking, and visual clarification.
Activity Matcher
The Activity Matcher is your “what’s the right move now?” co-facilitator. It listens for purpose, timing, and group energy, then recommends an opener, energizer, or closer that aligns with Voltage Control’s facilitation principles: clarity of purpose, psychological safety, inclusive engagement, and crafted experiences that feel intentional rather than random. Use it when you can sense the room needs something different—but you don’t want to pause and thumb through a playbook.
Retro Runner
Retro Runner supports reflective practice at the end of a session, sprint, or project. It sets up retros using Start/Stop/Continue, Rose/Thorn/Bud, or “I used to think… Now I think…”—all framed to encourage psychological safety, shared learning, and forward motion in line with Voltage Control’s emphasis on practice, reflection, and continuous improvement.
The Synthesizer
The Synthesizer is the integrator — an AI collaborator who listens across perspectives, threads connections, and distills complexity into clarity. It surfaces themes, tensions, and shared truths, helping teams converge on a coherent understanding or next step. When conversations are rich but scattered, The Synthesizer ensures nothing valuable is lost — transforming dialogue into direction. In Miro, The Synthesizer translates chaos into order: turning sticky notes into themes, mapping relationships, and composing crisp summaries that unify thought and action. Best for: Workshop debriefs, ideation synthesis, strategic alignment, or anytime teams need to make sense of many ideas quickly.
Risk Radar
Scan plans, strategies, or roadmaps to highlight potential risks, blind spots, and mitigation paths.
Workshop Helper (Sparring Partner)
A sidekick that helps rating the board
Job Applications Coach
Reviews and critiques resumes, reformats them for clarity, and tailors both resumes and cover letters to specific job postings.
Next Steps Helper
Frozen with too many instructions and not enough decisions? Get ideas on how to move forward with this handy Sidekick.
Top Tasks
This Sidekick is your Top Tasks methodology expert, trained in Gerry McGovern's research-based approach to identifying what truly matters to your customers and eliminating what doesn't.
Idea Remixer
The Idea Remixer helps teams break out of predictable thinking by reframing and recombining ideas. It uses techniques like 25/10 Crowdsourcing, Brand Takeover, and Idea Mashup to help groups safely explore dissent, discover surprising angles, and build on each other’s thinking—very much in line with Voltage Control’s belief in exploring edges, inviting dissent, and designing for emergence.
Board Butler
The Board Butler is your backstage organizer. As conversations get rich and sticky notes multiply, it helps you make meaning without stopping the flow. It sorts, sequences, clusters, and de-duplicates content so you can move smoothly from divergence to synthesis—aligned with Voltage Control’s focus on crafted structure, inclusive sensemaking, and clarity.