Whiteboard Pilot
Turns the messy scribbles from a product or design whiteboarding session into a structured PRD, flowchart, and ticketed Jira/Linear backlog in one click.
product managers and UX leads who run ideation sessions and waste hours translating sticky notes into specs
- Ingests a single canvas photo or live PenEcho-style digital whiteboard and groups marks by intent (problem, idea, decision)
- Auto-generates a PRD outline, a Mermaid flowchart, and a Linear/Jira ticket draft
- Keeps a participation map so credit and ownership stay attached to each idea
- Exports a meeting recap with decisions, open questions, and next steps
The PenEcho repo explicitly demos handwritten diagrams as first-class LLM input, finally making this kind of synthesis plausible without a human note-taker; remote-first product teams now run dozens of these sessions per quarter.
Clear product-market fit signal: Figma shipped an 'AI PRD Generator' inside Figma Make, and standalone PRD AI tools (PRDKit, RapidNative, Quillbot, BuildBetter) are proliferating — PMs are actively seeking AI help converting ideation into specs.AI PRD Generator: Write Better Product Requirements with AI | Figma ↗Miro & Atlassian integrations | Integrate Miro with Jira, Trello ... ↗
Very crowded — Atlassian Confluence whiteboards already import Jira issues and let users edit tickets directly from the board, and Figma Make already generates structured PRDs from canvas work, so incumbents own both the canvas and the ticket-store integration.How to use whiteboards in Jira workflows - Inside Atlassian ↗AI PRD Generator: Write Better Product Requirements with AI | Figma ↗
Miro proves PMs pay $8-20+/seat/month with growing AI add-on tiers; the PRD/jira-adjacent stack has clear per-seat SaaS precedent and willingness to pay is well established in this buyer.Pricing - Miro ↗Miro Pricing Plans & Costs Guide - ProjectManagers.net ↗
Remote/hybrid product teams running sticky-note ideation sessions is a durable, multi-year practice, and handwritten-input LLMs are an active research area, so the underlying need won't fade quickly.
PenEcho repo exists but per its README is a handwriting/diagram chat canvas, not an end-to-end synthesis engine; building the full pipeline (sticky-note OCR → structured PRD → flowchart → Jira/Linear API write) plus competing with Miro/Figma/Atlassian's distribution is non-trivial.GitHub - erickong/penecho: Think with AI beyond the chat box. A shared ... ↗