What is Futures Canvas
Futures Canvas is an interactive platform that empowers organizations and communities to collaboratively explore, discuss, and shape the future.
We believe impactful solutions arise when those most affected are involved in the visioning process. By combining human creativity with AI-driven insights, Futures Canvas transforms today’s ideas into actionable scenarios, equipping you to tackle tomorrow’s challenges with clarity and foresight.
How it works
Futures Canvas empowers organizations to tap into collective foresight by hosting interactive challenges driven by our AI-powered scenario engine and ideation tools. By fostering open innovation and collaborative exploration, Futures Canvas enables communities to envision, discuss, and actively shape future possibilities. Designed to spark curiosity, stimulate meaningful dialogue, and inspire action, our platform transforms individual ideas into a shared vision for a better tomorrow.
Human-AI Collaboration
Futures Canvas combines the best of human creativity and AI insight. Through structured challenges, thoughtful survey design, and collaborative rating, we enable organizations to distill clear, data-driven scenarios from a broad range of perspectives. Our customizable platform supports each project, whether it’s exploring societal shifts, product ideation, or policy planning.
Futures Canvas is ideal for organizations, teams, and communities seeking to explore complex, future-oriented questions. From corporations and nonprofits to educational institutions, the platform is built for anyone looking to gather diverse insights, make informed decisions, and foster a forward-thinking culture.
Futures Canvas captures audience input in real time, enabling you to view collective perceptions at a glance. This immediate reflection of group perspectives is invaluable for assessing key themes and ideas, providing a solid foundation for further analysis and discussion.
By visualizing collective opinions and trends as they unfold, Futures Canvas gives facilitators a clear picture of where participants align or differ. This “snapshot” helps guide discussions, enabling deeper exploration of insights and fostering more informed, nuanced outcomes.
Futures Canvas excels with open-ended, forward-looking topics that benefit from diverse perspectives, such as trend exploration, societal change, strategic foresight, and innovation projects. It’s also effective in generating new ideas and mapping out possible scenarios for future planning.
The AI engine in Futures Canvas processes and organizes participant responses to identify trends and patterns. As responses accumulate, the AI generates summaries and insights, making it easy to see emergent ideas and common themes across contributions.
Unlike traditional surveys that rely on pre-set options for voting, Futures Canvas lets participants generate and rate their own ideas, making it both a brainstorming and evaluation tool. This approach combines interactive collaboration with open-ended input, allowing for real-time scenario mapping and AI-generated summaries that reveal a deeper, more dynamic exploration of possibilities.
The platform is designed for simplicity and ease of use. Setting up a challenge involves defining a key question, configuring rating criteria, and publishing the page. Futures Canvas also offers guidance throughout the setup process, making it user-friendly even for first-time users.
Futures Canvas delivers multi-dimensional insights by combining participant ratings with AI-generated summaries, resulting in clear trends and unique perspectives. These insights provide actionable, data-driven foundations for decision-making, planning, and innovation.
Absolutely! The platform allows challenge hosts to export all submissions, ratings, and summaries as CSV files, making it easy to incorporate findings into reports, presentations, or strategic planning documents.