How to use the Constraint brainstorm template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Constraint brainstorm template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Constraint brainstorm”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Run one constraint at a time, five minutes each. Afterwards, ask which ideas still work when the constraint is lifted.”
Fill in each part
- No budget at all How would we solve it if we could not spend anything?
- Only one week What could we ship or try within seven days?
- No screens How would it work without an app or website?
- For a 10-year-old How would we make it simple enough for a child?
- Ideas we keep Which ideas still make sense without the constraint?
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 Constraint 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.

SCAMPER prompts
Seven ways to twist an existing product or process into new ideas: swap, combine, adapt, resize, repurpose, remove, reverse.
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.
Idea burst
A central challenge with four idea clusters to fill, sort and vote on.
Eight sketches
Fold one problem into eight fast sketches, one minute each, then pick the strongest.
How might we
Turn research insights into “How might we…?” questions, then into first ideas.
Reverse brainstorm
List ways to make a problem worse, then flip each one into an idea worth trying.