Not every conversation is ready to be a task list, and some never need to be. Brainstorms give your team an open, branching canvas for ideas, workshops and retros: its own space in Flowral, not a waiting room for a flow.
✦ Free forever, on every plan · No task required · Share with clients, free
Every idea can grow its own thread. Nothing has to wait its turn, and nothing has to become a task to matter.
A brainstorm reads as a web, not a list you lose track of halfway down. Follow one idea as far as it goes.
Comment right on an idea. Useful long before, or instead of, it becomes committed work.
Mark the ideas worth chasing, the risks, the quick wins, in your own words.
Give an idea a name against it, even before there's a deadline attached.
Bring in a client or collaborator the same way you would on a flow. Guests never cost a seat.
No dependencies to learn, no gates to configure. Open it in a workshop and start typing.
Flows are how Flowral tracks committed work moving through dependencies, gates and hand-offs: that's the core of the product. Brainstorms sit upstream of that, the open space where ideas get worked out before anyone commits to an order. Most sessions only need one at a time.
| Deciding between them | Brainstorm | Flow |
|---|---|---|
| Shape | a web of branching ideas | a sequence of dependent tasks |
| Order | none, every idea stands on its own | matters: later work waits on earlier work |
| Best for | capturing and exploring ideas | planning and tracking committed work |
| Approval gates | none | "X of N" gates hold work back |
| Status per item | none, just the idea and its thread | ready → in progress → done |
| Becomes | a flow, by hand or with FlowAI | the thing that actually ships |
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No. Brainstorms are unlimited on every plan, including Free.
A brainstorm is a web of branching ideas with no order between them. A flow is a sequence of tasks joined by dependencies, where later work waits on earlier work and approval gates. Flows are how committed work actually ships; brainstorms are the open space before that.
Not on its own, and that's on purpose: deciding what to commit to is your call. On Pro, ask FlowAI to turn the brainstorm into a plan. It proposes the tasks, their order and rough effort, and creates the flow once you agree. On Free, you build the flow by hand.
Yes. Guests are free on every Flowral plan, the same as on a flow.
No practical limit. Branch as many ideas as the session needs.
Free forever, on every plan. No credit card required.
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