How to use the Scenario planning template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Scenario planning template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Scenario planning”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Choose uncertainties that are both important and genuinely unknown. Give each world a short name, then ask what you would do differently in it.”
Fill in each part
- Busy civic hubs Well funded, people mostly work on site. What do branches become?
- Neighbourhood offices Well funded, many work from home. Who comes in, and when?
- Lean and local Tight budgets, on-site work. What do we protect?
- Digital first Tight budgets, remote life. What moves online?
- Stronger public funding ↑
- More remote work →
- True in every world Moves that make sense whatever happens.
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 Scenario planning 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.

Growth options matrix
Four ways to grow: sell more of what you have, build new things for current customers, take what you have to new markets, or do both.
Strategy on a page
The whole strategy on one board: why you exist, where you compete, why you win, the few priorities, how you measure them and what you stop.
PESTLE analysis
Scan the outside world in six lenses: political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental forces that could affect you.
Five competitive forces
How attractive is a market? Look at rivals, new entrants, substitutes and the bargaining power of buyers and suppliers.
Stakeholder map
Place everyone affected by a change by their influence and interest, then decide how closely to involve each group.
Issue tree
Break a big question into smaller ones that don’t overlap and together cover it, so a team can split the work and test each part.