Creately

Creately is a visual collaboration platform that supports genograms, flowcharts, org charts, mind maps, and UML diagrams. Featuring template-based AI diagram generation, Creately boasts speed and accuracy in visual planning. Professionals in counseling, education, software, and business can use Creately to simplify complex processes, document relationships, and brainstorm ideas. With collaboration and integrations, Creately helps teams work smarter together.

Creately simplifies work through:

• Specialized shapes for 70 diagram types and an extensible library to visualize virtually anything.
• Drawing shortcuts so users can create shapes and connectors in a single interaction.
• Generating diagrams, new perspectives, and automates tasks using AI
• Formatting and other changes managed with the toolbar.
• Predefined styles, themes and formatting options.
• Integration with Slack, Google Workspace, Microsoft Teams, JIRA

Creately supports marketing use cases by enabling users to plan all marketing activities and brainstorm ideas, and keep track of campaign deliverables, and note dependencies on the canvas, or use Creately as a hub for a creative workshop, or create a shared workspace to interact better with sponsors, partners, and stakeholders.

For product development, users can create a release plan, capture actionable feedback and ideas, and prioritize features, as well as plan and outline product launch initiatives and coordinate cross-functional team effort. The user can also map personas and journey maps to communicate insights across the design and development teams. For IT projects, Creately enables users to isualize a project charter, identify task dependencies, allocate resources, and track milestone progress, as well as communicate progress to stakeholders.

Creately also suggests educational use cases, such as tracking student progress and homework in real-time and providing immediate feedback where needed. Users can shared a central repository of resources, and facilitate different types of learning activities through collaboration, mind mapping, brainstorming, and discussions.

These use cases are in addition to general business use cases, such as org charts, mind maps of various kinds, Gantt charts, flowcharts, wireframing, BPM, or SWOT analysis.

Creately is available on a free plan, supporting up to unlimited number of documents and a limited usage (45) of elements, and community support. Tiers of paid service provide upgrades to premium support, advanced collaboration features, and unlisted use of elements, as well as unlimited product documents and folders.

Creately is a product from Cinergix, a company founded in 2008 and headquartered in Melbourne. They boast a number of high profile users of Creately, including users at Intel, Netflix, NASA, Citi Bank, Facebook and, National Geographic among others.