How to use the Analogy brainstorm template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Analogy brainstorm template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Analogy brainstorm”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Strip the problem down to its core verb (wait, sort, find). Ask where that already works well, then write the principle, not the copy.”
Fill in each part
- What the group wrote at each step
- Our problem
- The core of it
- Who does it well?
- The principle
- Our version
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Analogy brainstorm board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

Borrowed ideas
Ask how other industries would solve your problem, then steal their best moves on purpose.
SCAMPER prompts
Seven ways to twist an existing product or process into new ideas: swap, combine, adapt, resize, repurpose, remove, reverse.
Random word stimulus
Break out of the obvious answers by forcing a link between your problem and a word picked at random.
Moodboard
Collect the look and feel of a project in words: colours, type, imagery, textures and the feelings it should and shouldn’t give.
Inspiration share-out
Everyone brings examples from other products or places that solve a similar problem well, and the group captures what to borrow.
Attribute listing
Break a product into its attributes (size, material, price, how it is used) and change one attribute at a time to find new versions.