Use cases

Documentation and brainstorming

Give your users a shared space for notes, diagrams and embedded multimedia. Drop this directly into your platform so annotation & ideation stays connected to your core workflows.

  • Rapid sketches

    Capture ideas instantly in a shared visual space with stylus-friendly freehand tools, perfect arrows, and smooth interaction with your own shapes.

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    Visual documentation

    Turn quick concepts into structured project workflows and project organization tools with real-time collaboration and data persistence.

  • Technical research

    Support visual problem-solving and data annotation. Enable diagramming, math notation, and media embeds with grid snapping, zoom, and multiplayer co-editing.


AI starter kits

AI agents can read drawings, generate diagrams, and interact with canvas elements just like human users. You handle the AI integration and tldraw handles the complex canvas interactions and visual rendering.

AI starter kit


Projects

The tldraw SDK gives you a production-ready foundation out of the box. Skip the canvas setup and focus on what makes your product unique.

  • tldraw.com

    Our free flagship product. A virtual whiteboard with real-time collaboration.

  • tldraw computer

    A collaboration with the Google AI team. Create workflows to process information entirely in natural language. Generate multimodal outputs by connecting components on the canvas. Branch, loop and iterate to brainstorm with agents in real-time.

  • make real

    A prototyping tool that turns sketches into working websites. Draw a wireframe or diagram and then hit a button to make it real. Annotate the output to make improvements and enter a conversational feedback loop with AI.

  • tldraw teach

    An experiment where we gave AI the power to create, edit and analyze content on the canvas. The technology from this project is now available within our agent starter kit.


Go beyond the chatbot

Build on the interface where AI feels natural.