Strategy template
Trends to watch template
Sort the trends that could change your market by how soon they arrive and how much they would matter, and decide what to do about each.
Free · Editable · Works with Claude and ChatGPT · Also in Consulting, Planning
How to use the Trends to watch template
Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Trends to watch template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Trends to watch”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Everyone brings two trends with a source. Place them, then give each trend in the top-right box an owner who watches it.”
Fill in each part
- Prepare Big, but further out. Build options now.
- Act now Big and close. Needs a plan this quarter.
- Ignore for now Small and far. Check once a year.
- Adapt Close, but small. Adjust as you go.
- How much it matters ↑
- How soon →
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 Trends to watch 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.
Set it up for Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client.
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