Enabling designers, creators, and founders to plan visual projects on an AI canvas. Key features: - Ask the AI to organise your ideas, brainstorm new directions, or create a roadmap from scratch - MCP connections so you can handoff your project to an external agent to turn into something real - Your images, inspiration, and notes all on a canvas with a native agent. - Create custom widgets - ask your agent to create a habit tracker on the canvas
I’ve always used Notion to organize my ideas, but as a creative who thinks spatially, forcing everything into page felt fundamentally restrictive. Text-first documents couldn't capture visual inspiration, dynamic relationships, or the true scale of early-stage thinking. I needed a workspace that allowed ideas to breathe, so I set out to build an infinite canvas engineered specifically for creatives who need more space to store, connect, and plan their vision.
What makes Causal different from other canvas apps:
- Multimodal Spatial Context: The integrated AI understands your entire workspace: comprehending how visual assets, files, and notes. It understands how each element is placed relative to others.
- Generative Canvas: The AI actively creates and arrange files, notes, and images directly onto the board which ensure it works alongside as you as a true creative partner.
- MCP Connection: Once you have completed mapping out your project, hand it off to an external agent to turn into something real. Your content and their relative positioning is sent of as context so it remains easy to read
- Create custom widget: need a habit tracker? a bar chart or an interactive game? Create it all on your canvas!
- Distraction-Free Experience: A clean, minimal UI stripped of enterprise clutter, focusing entirely on the essential tools creatives need to do what they do best - create.
Teaching an AI to act as a spatial partner has been our most complex engineering hurdle. Standard language models do not natively understand layout through spatial coordinates. To solve this, we’ve been training our agentic assistant on relative positioning which enables it understand relations just as the human brain does.
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over MCP u send the layout positions along w the content. does the agent on the other side use that or just flatten it into a list
@niveditha_patluri1 No it doesn't flatten it. The agent is designed to understand the relative layout, so (for example) if you place something near something else, the agent understands that spatial relationship.
If you want to get real nerdy about it: we've used clustering algorithms to provide better context about your layout :)
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I like the look of this... I'm a fan of Miro because it allows me to be messy and get everything into one place, but I really like the idea that structure can be added. It seems like a genuinely useful tool to capture creative thought and then add structure before sharing.
@you_x_you_i Obviously, before building this, I tried everything, and Miro was one of them. Im not sure about you, but I always found Miro to be very enterprise and not really made for designers or small teams focused on simply storing ideas... and that's one of the reasons I embarked on creating Causal.
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@rameen_sharif I've used Miro in many companies of all different sizes, so I think it works outside of Enterprise. However, I totally agree that it's not made for designers!! It's super frustrating trying to share ideas that have no structure – it might work for me, but once I have to share it, it's too messy. I'm looking forward to trying Casual. Congrats on the launch.
@you_x_you_i I agree that it is hard to create structure for sure! I'm glad you will give Causal a go and hopefully we can get some feedback in the near future :)
And thank you!
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This is really neat. I've found card sorting to be a useful exercise to organize my thinking and brainstorm ideas with other people. It's useful to have AI take a mess of ideas and organize it.
A few questions:
1. Does it support multiplayer? 2. Is there a way to import/ingests lists from other data sources?
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Nice - the zoom/pan/nav with the trackpad is clean and works well. This reminds me of mind mapping tools, and I can see the value for people who are more visual. Could also be useful for those trying to remember information or build out their own knowledgebase. Nice work
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over MCP u send the layout positions along w the content. does the agent on the other side use that or just flatten it into a list
Causal
@niveditha_patluri1 No it doesn't flatten it. The agent is designed to understand the relative layout, so (for example) if you place something near something else, the agent understands that spatial relationship.
If you want to get real nerdy about it: we've used clustering algorithms to provide better context about your layout :)
I like the look of this... I'm a fan of Miro because it allows me to be messy and get everything into one place, but I really like the idea that structure can be added. It seems like a genuinely useful tool to capture creative thought and then add structure before sharing.
Causal
@you_x_you_i Obviously, before building this, I tried everything, and Miro was one of them. Im not sure about you, but I always found Miro to be very enterprise and not really made for designers or small teams focused on simply storing ideas... and that's one of the reasons I embarked on creating Causal.
@rameen_sharif I've used Miro in many companies of all different sizes, so I think it works outside of Enterprise. However, I totally agree that it's not made for designers!! It's super frustrating trying to share ideas that have no structure – it might work for me, but once I have to share it, it's too messy. I'm looking forward to trying Casual. Congrats on the launch.
Causal
@you_x_you_i I agree that it is hard to create structure for sure! I'm glad you will give Causal a go and hopefully we can get some feedback in the near future :)
And thank you!
This is really neat. I've found card sorting to be a useful exercise to organize my thinking and brainstorm ideas with other people. It's useful to have AI take a mess of ideas and organize it.
A few questions:
1. Does it support multiplayer?
2. Is there a way to import/ingests lists from other data sources?
Nice - the zoom/pan/nav with the trackpad is clean and works well. This reminds me of mind mapping tools, and I can see the value for people who are more visual. Could also be useful for those trying to remember information or build out their own knowledgebase. Nice work
Toki: AI Scheduling & Tasks
Congrats on Launch! Curious can we integrate with Figma or anything like that?
Veltrix AI
Really helpful things! Thanks!
Causal
@maksym_shcherbakov1 :)