How to use the Starbursting template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Starbursting template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Starbursting”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Ask questions only, no answers yet. Aim for three per point of the star, then pick the ones that would change the plan.”
Fill in each part
- Idea: a tool library in the office Branches: Who? · What? · Where? · When? · Why? · How?
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 Starbursting 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.

Mind map starter
A central topic with branches and sub-ideas, ready to grow in both directions.
How might we
Turn research insights into “How might we…?” questions, then into first ideas.
Assumption busting
List what everyone takes for granted about a problem, flip each assumption, and see which flips open up new ideas.
Lotus blossom
Grow one central theme into eight directions, then grow each direction into its own ideas, so you go both wide and deep.
What-if questions
Ask bold “what if” questions about how things could be different, then sketch what each would mean and the first step to test it.
Idea scorecard
Score a long list of ideas on the same few criteria so the shortlist comes from the group’s judgement, not the loudest voice.