How to use the Reverse brainstorm template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Reverse brainstorm template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Reverse brainstorm”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Five minutes of making it worse (have fun with it), then flip every sticky into its opposite.”
Fill in each part
- Make it worse
- Flip it
- Try first Vote, then move the top two here.
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 Reverse 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.

Brainstorming: Ideas on sticky notes, written privately against a timer, clustered and dot-voted down to the few worth trying.

Eight sketches
Fold one problem into eight fast sketches, one minute each, then pick the strongest.
Brainwriting rounds
Generate ideas in writing instead of out loud: each person writes ideas, then builds on their neighbour’s, round after round.
Idea burst
A central challenge with four idea clusters to fill, sort and vote on.
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.
Random word stimulus
Break out of the obvious answers by forcing a link between your problem and a word picked at random.