How to use the Eight sketches template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Eight sketches template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Eight sketches”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Set a timer for one minute per box. Draw with the pen tool, rough and fast: quantity first. Then star your favorite.”
Fill in each part
- The problem What are we sketching for?
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 Eight sketches 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.

Idea burst
A central challenge with four idea clusters to fill, sort and vote on.
Dot voting
Collect ideas, vote with a fixed number of dots each, and move the winners to a shortlist.
Reverse brainstorm
List ways to make a problem worse, then flip each one into an idea worth trying.
Brainwriting rounds
Generate ideas in writing instead of out loud: each person writes ideas, then builds on their neighbour’s, round after round.
How might we
Turn research insights into “How might we…?” questions, then into first ideas.
SCAMPER prompts
Seven ways to twist an existing product or process into new ideas: swap, combine, adapt, resize, repurpose, remove, reverse.