Business & Strategy
Lean Canvas
A 1-page business plan template created by Ash Maurya that helps you deconstruct your idea into its key assumptions.
Real-World Examples
See how the Lean Canvas can be applied to different business scenarios.
Local Services
Hyper-Local Meal Delivery
A service that delivers healthy, home-cooked meals from local chefs to people within a 2-mile radius.
Technology
AI Language Learning App
A mobile app that uses AI to create personalized, conversational practice for language learners.
E-commerce & Retail
Sustainable Fashion Marketplace
Online marketplace connecting consumers with independent, vetted sustainable fashion brands.
A Smarter Way to Strategize
Our application is designed to be your strategic partner, providing intelligent tools to enhance every step of your planning process for the Business Model Canvas.
AI Canvas Generation
Have a startup idea? Just enter ‘a mobile app for local home-cooked meal delivery’ and let our AI generate a complete Lean Canvas, outlining the problem, solution, and key metrics.
AI-Assisted Ideation
Struggling to define your ‘Unfair Advantage’? The AI can analyze your canvas and suggest potential competitive moats that you might have overlooked.
Deep Dive & Organize
Use Focus Mode to drill down on the ‘Problem’ section. Add detailed notes, color-code different customer pain points, and really understand the issue you’re solving.
Strategic AI Analysis
Your Lean Canvas is full of assumptions. Use the ‘Risk Analysis’ tool to automatically identify your riskiest assumptions and get suggestions for simple experiments to test them.
Collaborate & Export
Use the built-in timer to run a rapid brainstorming session with your co-founder, then export your Lean Canvas to a clean Word document to share with potential advisors.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who should use the Lean Canvas?
The Lean Canvas is ideal for entrepreneurs and early-stage startups. It’s designed to be fast, concise, and focused on the riskiest elements of a new business idea, making it perfect for the problem-solution validation phase.
How is this different from the Business Model Canvas?
The Lean Canvas replaces the ‘Key Partners’, ‘Activities’, and ‘Resources’ blocks with ‘Problem’, ‘Solution’, ‘Key Metrics’, and ‘Unfair Advantage’. This makes it more focused on the initial stages of a startup, whereas the Business Model Canvas is useful for both new and existing businesses.
What's the hardest part of the Lean Canvas to fill out?
The ‘Unfair Advantage’ box is often the most challenging. A true unfair advantage is something that can’t be easily copied or bought. If you can’t think of one, that’s okay! It highlights an area you need to work on developing.