# Whiteboard (/claude-and-chatgpt-2/build-something/whiteboard) --- type: Document title: "Whiteboard" description: "How to think through ideas on a Claude Whiteboard: talk, type or sketch, let Claude group and order your ideas, review its suggestions, work on the board with your team, then turn it into a doc or deck, and what ChatGPT offers instead." status: stable order: 0.456 ksor: owner: team:panaversity audience: [ public ] approval: by: process:panaversity at: 2026-11-11T15:26:22Z chapter: "F00F" part: Front expert_status: required concepts: [ "Whiteboard" ] last_verified: 2026-11-11 sources: - id: claude-whiteboards title: "Get started with Claude Whiteboards (Anthropic, verified 2026-11-11)" resource: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/18324319-get-started-with-claude-whiteboards - id: claude-docs title: "Get started with Claude Docs (Anthropic, verified 2026-11-11)" resource: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16923645-get-started-with-claude-docs - id: claude-projects-rebuilt title: "Let Claude coordinate ongoing work with Projects (Anthropic, verified 2026-11-11)" resource: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/claude-projects - id: openai-projects title: "Projects in ChatGPT (OpenAI, verified 2026-11-11)" resource: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10169521-projects-in-chatgpt - id: openai-site-tools title: "Using site tools in the ChatGPT desktop app (OpenAI, verified 2026-11-11)" resource: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001423-using-site-tools-in-the-chatgpt-desktop-app - id: openai-community title: "Feature Request: A Shared Visual Workspace / Whiteboard Inside ChatGPT (OpenAI Developer Community, verified 2026-11-11)" resource: https://community.openai.com/t/feature-request-a-shared-visual-workspace-whiteboard-inside-chatgpt/1394344 generated: at: 2026-11-11T15:26:22Z by: process:panaversity trust_tier: unverified build_id: sha256:a2698d592c63f6c6c789f4b01ca90bdbf64ca64800918c9f09b0391aaddbda67 dirty: true ksor_version: 0.0.60 --- **In everyday life.** When a team plans something new, someone picks up a marker. Ideas go on the board in any order. Then the team moves them, groups them and draws arrows between them, until a plan appears. The board is for thinking. It is not the final answer. ## What it is **Claude Whiteboards** is a shared board where you, your team and Claude think through ideas. You talk, type or draw. Claude puts your ideas in order and groups them. Use a board before you know the final answer, for example when you are choosing between options. You need a paid plan, and it is still in beta.[^claude-whiteboards] ## Build one In the Claude desktop app, ask for a whiteboard in any chat, or pick the **Whiteboard** tile in the Artifacts tab. Then add your ideas in the easiest way for you:[^claude-whiteboards] - **Talk.** Press the microphone button and speak. Many languages work. - **Type or draw** on the board. - **Add pictures.** For Brightline: > Brightline wants to change how its Friday payment run works. Here are my rough notes. Put the steps on a board in order, group the risks, and show which steps depend on which. ## Work on it with Claude Claude groups ideas that belong together and puts steps in order. It draws arrows between steps that depend on each other. You can ask it to:[^claude-whiteboards] - group the ideas a different way, - turn the board into a timeline, - say what is missing. When you ask what is missing, Claude adds new ideas to the board. **Check each one.** On the board, Claude's ideas look just like your team's ideas. Decide for each: keep it, change it or remove it. ## Work on it with your team Everyone on the board can change it at the same time. Click **Share** to invite people.[^claude-whiteboards] ## When the thinking is done ![From board to finished work. Three cards joined by arrows. Whiteboard, step 1, think it through: talk, type or sketch, Claude groups and orders, you check each suggestion. Docs, step 2, write it down: turn the board into a one-page plan, edit it, check every fact. Slides, step 3, show it: turn the doc into a four-slide deck, present it, then export. At the foot: when the plan is clear, ask Claude to turn the board into a doc or a deck.](img/from-board-to-finished-work.png) A board is not the finished product. When the plan is clear, ask Claude to turn the board into a doc or a deck. Then continue on the [Docs](docs.md) and [Slides](slides.md) pages.[^claude-whiteboards],[^claude-docs] You can also save a picture of the board: click **Share**, then **Export**.[^claude-whiteboards] **One limit:** Claude uses only what is on the board. It does not look in your other apps. So put on the board every fact it needs.[^claude-whiteboards] ## In ChatGPT: no built-in board yet - **No whiteboard in ChatGPT, when this page was checked.** On November 11, 2026, OpenAI's help pages did not mention one. When a user asked, OpenAI's support account suggested site tools instead.[^openai-community] - **Instead, use a whiteboard website.** Open it in the ChatGPT desktop app's own web browser. On some websites, ChatGPT can work on the page for you. OpenAI calls this **site tools**. ChatGPT asks your permission first.[^openai-site-tools] - **Site tools are not ChatGPT Sites.** Sites, from the [Design](design.md) page, makes web pages. Site tools let ChatGPT work on other companies' websites. So in ChatGPT, for now, the board lives in another company's app. In Claude, the board is an artifact, saved with your other work. ## Combine it: from a board to a project A board helps you decide. A project helps you do the work. When your board shows a plan with several jobs, a rebuilt project can run them. You met it in [Projects: one team lead, many desks](../behind-the-screen/projects-one-team-lead-many-desks.md): you describe the work once, and Claude starts a **thread** for each job, side by side, and every thread gets the project's instructions.[^claude-projects-rebuilt] 1. Ask Claude to turn the finished board into a doc: a list of jobs, with what "done" means for each one. 2. Check the list. On the board, Claude's ideas looked just like your team's ideas. 3. Paste the list into the project and ask Claude to start one thread for each job. The files each thread makes appear in the project's **Library**.[^claude-projects-rebuilt] The rebuilt projects are in beta on the Pro and Max plans, and they are reaching accounts gradually. Without them, do the jobs one chat at a time. **In ChatGPT:** there is no board, but a project keeps the plan's files, instructions and chats together, on every plan.[^openai-projects] ## Try it (10 minutes) **Paid plan:** Start a whiteboard for a choice you face, such as which of three courses to take. Speak your thoughts for two minutes. Ask Claude to group them and say what is missing. Remove one idea you disagree with. Then ask for a one-page doc. **Free plan:** Paste the same thoughts into a chat. Ask Claude to group them under headings and say what is missing. What would a board have added? [^claude-whiteboards]: As verified on November 11, 2026. Whiteboards is on the Pro, Max, Ultra, Team and Enterprise plans, on the web, desktop and phone. You can invite people outside your company by email, and send a board to Lucid, Miro or Zoho Vani. Pictures export as PNG files. You cannot import a board from a file. Get started with Claude Whiteboards, Anthropic. [^claude-docs]: Claude can also turn a doc into a Slides deck. Get started with Claude Docs, Anthropic. [^openai-community]: *(Reported.)* When a user asked for a whiteboard in ChatGPT, OpenAI's support account suggested site tools instead, on September 13, 2026. Feature Request: A Shared Visual Workspace / Whiteboard Inside ChatGPT, OpenAI Developer Community. [^openai-site-tools]: As verified on November 11, 2026, OpenAI says site tools "are available when your account has access and the website provides site tools", and that "Each website decides which tools to provide." It lists no plans. Using site tools in the ChatGPT desktop app, OpenAI. [^claude-projects-rebuilt]: As verified on November 11, 2026. Anthropic says a project "starts a thread for each task", that "every new thread starts with the project's instructions", and that the Library tab holds "the files you added and the files threads produced". Projects are in public beta on Pro and Max plans and rolling out gradually. Let Claude coordinate ongoing work with Projects, Anthropic. [^openai-projects]: As verified on November 11, 2026, OpenAI says project sharing "is available on ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu". Projects in ChatGPT, OpenAI.