Thirty loose threads. One word. That's what FlowGraph does with your ideas: it lets them wander, then weaves them into something you can trust. This page teaches you the loom.
FlowGraph fits in six words.
Everything nests. A workspace holds projects, a project holds canvases, a canvas holds cards, a card holds sections, a section holds atoms. Click any layer to see what it does. That's the whole vocabulary.
Your whole world. All your projects and canvases live here, on your machine, in your browser. Nothing leaves without your say-so.
Two ways to start.
One place to arrive.
Both roads end on the same canvas. AI-born or hand-made, every card obeys the same rules.
Six moves. That's the craft.
Double-click any empty spot on the canvas, or press C. A ghost card appears where you clicked. Type its name, hit enter, done. It's saved locally before you can blink.
Open the card and add sections: labeled parts like Owner, Risk, Sources, Actions. Sections keep a card scannable. Think of them as the card's chapters.
Inside a section live atoms: single facts, one line each. Each atom can be approved, locked, and traced on its own. Green dot means verified. Amber means someone (or some AI) still owes it a look.
Drag from a card's edge port, or press E, and land on another card. Then name the line: depends, feeds, blocks, approves, or coin your own. An unnamed line is a doodle. A named line is knowledge.
Every card can name the human who answers for it. Pick yourself, a teammate, or leave an agent as drafter, but an agent can never be the approver. Trust needs a name.
Facts rot. Give the card a review date and FlowGraph queues the re-check in a calm calendar. Nothing you verified stays "true" forever without being asked again.
AI drafts. You hold the pen.
Two habits to learn. When AI proposes something, it lands in your review inbox as ghost ink: approve it or reject it. And when a card feels thin, ask AI to improve it: every suggestion is still just a proposal. Drop PDFs and docs in anytime; they become smart cards your AI grounds itself on.
Eight moves you'll use daily.
Pin this in your head. Almost everything in FlowGraph is two keystrokes away, and everything is undoable, so press keys bravely.
Or double-click empty canvas. Ghost appears, name it, enter.
Inside a card. Owner, Risk, Sources, or invent your own.
Draw an edge, then say what it means: depends, feeds, blocks, approves.
A locked fact can never be overwritten by any model. Law.
Any patch, any AI change, even an entire import. Reversible by design.
Walk the inbox with J and K, approve with A. Keyboard speed.
Drag a document onto the canvas. It becomes a card others can point at.
One portable file with everything inside, scrubbed of what you didn't share.
Capture once. Look at it every way.
You never rebuild your knowledge for a different meeting. The same cards rearrange live: canvas for thinking, swimlanes for owners, kanban for status, timeline for the clock, outline reads like a document, logos shrinks cards to their tool tiles, executive is the one-glance altitude. Each lens remembers how you arranged it.
You can never be lost here.
Along the bottom of FlowGraph runs the lineage timeline: your product's whole life, from first idea to reviewed graph, on one line. Every screen knows where it sits on that line. Watch your work evolve stage by stage, and jump to any moment of it with one click. Most apps give you pages and a back button. FlowGraph gives you a map with a you-are-here pin.
Use the AI you already pay for. Three doors in.
FlowGraph never asks you to buy another AI subscription. All three doors end at the same governed canvas — every write lands as a proposal with a receipt, whoever made it.
Connect FlowGraph as an MCP server and the subscription you already have does the reasoning. Your agent reads verified facts and proposes through the same gate you use.
settings → api & docs → copy-for-ai
Paste an API key from any provider — one OpenRouter key unlocks every model family. Compose, compare models, judge, ensembles: all with your keys, priced per run, shown before you spend.
settings → providers
Point FlowGraph at a local model and nothing ever leaves your computer. Honest about the trade: less planning power, zero cost, total privacy.
settings → providers → local
Next up, the same canvas grows a play button: the Agent view turns your approved plan into runnable actions with three honest greens — dry-run, live, human-approved — plus a command line: flowgraph "your intent". Every run governed, receipted, and priced.
this guide is the seed of flowgraph's guidance engine · soon the app itself will walk you through these steps, live, as you work
Open it, press C, and make your first card. You already know the rest.