What is Miro?
Miro operates as an Intelligent Canvas platform built to support shared visual ideation, strategic planning, and product delivery across cross-functional teams and artificial intelligence agents. The software offers an expansive, infinite multiplayer canvas where team members can collaborate synchronously or asynchronously. Users can consolidate unstructured inputs, customer research findings, and strategic goals into a central view. From this shared visual space, teams can transition ideas into structured work items using integrated formats such as Docs, Tables, Slides, Diagrams, and task management boards. By bringing disparate notes, specifications, and discussions onto one canvas, organizations reduce context switching between disconnected productivity applications.
To translate organizational goals into actionable execution, the platform provides specialized management capabilities such as Miro Goals. This tool enables organizations to move strategic planning away from traditional spreadsheets into interactive team workshops. Users can convert overarching corporate visions into visible, measurable objectives and key results (OKRs) and trackable initiatives. The system features customizable dashboards that display metric tracking, visual goal cards attached to daily work items, and nested tree view structures for displaying complex data relationships. These features allow team members to understand how individual deliverables contribute to broader organizational metrics and strategic priorities.
Artificial intelligence capabilities are built directly into the visual canvas through AI Sidekicks and Flows. These virtual assistants analyze canvas content, research inputs, Slack threads, Jira tickets, and meeting transcripts to deliver contextual analysis and suggestions. Users can leverage AI to generate document summaries, draft product briefs, produce SMART targets aligned with industry recommendations, and synthesize qualitative feedback. Additionally, AI functionality allows teams to generate wireframes, design user flows, and construct clickable prototypes directly from raw canvas notes or sketches, accelerating the lifecycle from initial discovery through to feature delivery.
For live and asynchronous engagement, the workspace incorporates interactive meeting capabilities known as Miro Engage. Presenters and workshop facilitators can integrate real-time audience participation activities—including polls, word clouds, scaling exercises, and ranking options—directly into presentation slides or canvas areas. Meeting participants can join sessions from mobile devices, tablets, or desktop computers by scanning a QR code or following a shared web link, without requiring account creation or onboarding. Submitted responses automatically feed into the canvas, where automated AI tools can group, categorize, and summarize the inputs into shareable reports and next steps.
The software connects with corporate technology ecosystems through native integrations with more than 250 external applications, including project management, documentation, and software development platforms. A two-way sync with Jira allows technical teams to manage backlogs, visualize dependencies, and handle bug tracking directly on the board. For custom software environments, the developer platform provides APIs and SDKs to extend canvas capabilities. The platform runs on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and interactive displays, and includes administrative governance, security controls, and authentication mechanisms designed for global enterprise deployments.
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