From sketch to task in ten seconds.
BoardSnap reads hand-drawn sketches — product wireframes, system layouts, customer journey maps — and extracts the tasks embedded in them. Snap the sketch, and open, in-progress, and done items appear automatically.
Sketches contain tasks hiding in plain sight
A product wireframe sketched on a whiteboard isn't just a design artifact. It's a task list in disguise. Every screen is a thing to build. Every interaction is a flow to implement. Every annotation is a decision to finalize.
The designer or PM who drew it knows this. The sketch comes with a mental map of all the implied work. But when the sketch stays on the board or becomes a photo, the implied work stays implicit.
BoardSnap reads the sketch and makes the implicit work explicit.
What kinds of sketches BoardSnap reads
Product wireframes: Boxes for screens, arrows for navigation, annotations for interactions. BoardSnap extracts the screens as items and the annotations as tasks.
Feature sketches: A rough layout of how a new feature works, with callouts for edge cases. BoardSnap identifies the edge cases and the open questions as action items.
Data model sketches: Entities, fields, relationships. BoardSnap produces a text description of the model and flags anything marked as TBD.
User flows: Start to finish journey drawn as a path with decision points. BoardSnap extracts the steps and any branching conditions.
Infrastructure layouts: Servers, services, connections. BoardSnap describes the layout and picks out anything flagged for action.
The subtask layer: what's inside each task
A sketch-level task like "build the onboarding screen" contains subtasks that a good engineer or designer knows immediately: copy, layout, validation, error states, analytics instrumentation, accessibility.
BoardSnap AI generates subtasks for each action item based on the surrounding context in the sketch. If the wireframe shows an error state annotation, the error state appears as a subtask of the screen build task.
The subtasks are a starting point — editable, deletable, expandable. They're there to catch what the sketch implied but didn't state.
Brand context for design work
Product teams have vocabulary. "The onboarding modal" isn't the same as "the welcome screen." "The CTA" might be a specific button with a specific label the team has agreed on.
When you add brand context to a BoardSnap Project — your product's terminology, your team's naming conventions — the task list that comes out of a sketch uses that vocabulary. The tasks read like they were written by someone who knows the product, not by an AI that saw a box with "user settings" written in the corner.
From whiteboard to sprint backlog
The most common pattern for engineering and product teams: a planning or design session produces a whiteboard full of sketches. Those sketches need to become a sprint backlog by the end of the week.
Without BoardSnap, that's a two-hour synthesis session: someone re-draws or photographs the whiteboard, rewrites the tasks, creates Jira or Linear tickets.
With BoardSnap: snap the sketch at the end of the session. Copy the task list. Paste into Linear, Jira, or Notion. The synthesis time drops from two hours to ten minutes.
- Action items ready to paste into Linear or Jira
- Subtasks expand each sketch component into discrete engineering tasks
- Project context ensures tasks use your team's actual product vocabulary
- Board history preserves the sketch alongside the resulting task list
Frequently asked
Can BoardSnap read rough hand-drawn sketches, not just clean diagrams?
Yes. BoardSnap is designed for real-world whiteboard content, which is almost always rough. The AI uses context and structure to interpret sketchy annotations and approximate shapes, not just clean lines.
Does BoardSnap understand UI/UX conventions in wireframes?
It understands common conventions — placeholder boxes for images, zigzag lines for text blocks, circles for icons. It interprets them as design elements and describes what they likely represent. It doesn't generate design specs or measurements.
How do I get BoardSnap's tasks into Jira or Linear?
Copy the task list from BoardSnap as plain text or Markdown, then paste into your project management tool. Direct integration with Jira, Linear, and Notion is on the roadmap.
What if the sketch is partly done and partly new work?
BoardSnap reads status signals — checkmarks, strikethroughs, progress markers — and sets task states accordingly. Work marked as complete on the sketch appears as done in the task list.
Is this useful for solo developers and indie hackers, not just teams?
Very much so. Solo builders who sketch features and architecture on a notebook or small whiteboard use BoardSnap to convert their own sketches to task lists — a personal backlog that starts from a drawing, not a blank Notion page.
That sketch is a sprint backlog. Extract it.
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