Miro Integrates AI Agents into Your Team’s Whiteboard
April 8, 2026 – 2:06 pm
There is a particular kind of frustration that comes from feeding an AI tool the same context your team spent three days assembling on a whiteboard. You copy the sticky notes into a prompt, paste the diagram description, try to explain the relationships between ideas that were obvious when they were spatially arranged on a canvas, and watch the nuance collapse into a flat paragraph. The visual thinking that made the brainstorm productive in the first place gets lost the moment you leave the board.
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Miro, the visual collaboration platform used by more than 100 million people across 250,000 organisations, has been building toward a solution to this problem at considerable speed. In January 2026, it launched AI Workflows: a system of AI agents that work directly on the canvas where teams already collaborate, using everything on the board as context. No copying, no prompting from scratch, no switching between tools. The AI sees what your team sees. And in March 2026, Miro acquired Reforge, the product strategy and growth education company, signalling that it intends to pair AI collaboration tools with the frameworks teams need to use them well.
Why most AI tools fail teams
The gap between individual AI productivity and team AI productivity has become one of the more interesting tensions in enterprise software. According to Miro’s own research, three-quarters of global business leaders believe most AI tools focus too much on individual work, and 82% want solutions that drive team productivity instead. That tracks with what most knowledge workers experience daily: an AI assistant that helps you draft a document is useful, but it cannot replace the collaborative process of aligning a cross-functional team around what the document should say in the first place.
Most AI tools operate in isolation. You prompt them individually, receive outputs individually, and then spend additional time synchronising those outputs with your team. The canvas, the place where ideas take shape visually and collaboratively, has historically been AI-free. Miro’s bet is that putting AI directly into that shared space changes the dynamic entirely.
Sidekicks and Flows: AI that works on the board
The two core components of Miro’s AI Workflows are Sidekicks and Flows.
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Sidekicks: conversational AI agents that live on the canvas. They do not require carefully engineered prompts because they already understand the multimodal context around them: sticky notes, diagrams, documents, images, tables, and the spatial relationships between all of it. Think of them as collaborators who show up having already read every wall in the room. You can customise Sidekicks with specific skills and knowledge bases, meaning a product team’s Sidekick understands its domain differently from a marketing team’s.
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Flows: multi-step visual workflows that enable teams to automate tasks and streamline processes directly on the canvas.