How to use the Random word stimulus template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Random word stimulus template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Random word stimulus”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Pick a noun at random (open a book, point at a page). Give the group five minutes per word to write ideas that link it to the problem.”
Fill in each part
- The problem What are we trying to solve, in one line?
- Word 1: Umbrella What does this word make you think of, and how could that help?
- Word 2: Recipe What does this word make you think of, and how could that help?
- Word 3: Ticket What does this word make you think of, and how could that help?
- Worth keeping Which ideas survive once the word is taken away?
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 Random word stimulus 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.
Borrowed ideas
Ask how other industries would solve your problem, then steal their best moves on purpose.
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.