Everything the World Logic Engine Does
CanonBoard is one tool for building a story world and keeping it coherent: tools that import and stress-test your canon, an infinite canvas of typed, connected cards, a public Board for your audience, and real-time collaboration for your team. Here's the whole toolkit.
Tools that do the work you dread
Import a whole world in minutes, draw the canon out of your own head, and catch every contradiction before it ships. They never write your story — they handle the tedious part.
Smart Import
Drop in a script, treatment, or document and CanonBoard reads it and builds your board automatically — characters, locations, world rules, lore, plot threads, and a starting timeline, all extracted and connected.
Refine
It interviews you one question at a time and shapes your answers into structured canon. It never writes your story — it draws out what you already know and files it where it belongs.
Conflict Detection
Cross-references your entire world against your canon — dead-then-alive characters, broken rules, two people in one place at once, age inconsistencies — and surfaces every contradiction in plain English with an explanation.
An infinite canvas, and cards you actually control
Everything lives on a pannable, zoomable, dot-grid canvas. Cards, images, notes, and frames go anywhere — and there's a lot you can do with them once they're there.
Move & arrange
Drag any card, image, note, or frame anywhere on the canvas. The world is spatial — lay it out however you think about it.
Resize
Scale cards and images to give the important things room. Resize a whole selection at once.
Lock in place
Lock a card so it can't be moved or resized by accident — pin down the parts of the layout you've settled.
Copy & paste between canvases
Copy cards from one project's canvas and paste them into another. Reuse characters, rules, and structure across worlds.
Connect
Draw labeled relationship lines between cards. Pull one node and see exactly what depends on it.
Group & multi-select
Select many cards at once and move, resize, lock, or delete them together as a single group.
Images, notes & text
Pin reference images, sticky notes, and free text anywhere alongside your cards — the canvas holds more than structured elements.
Frames
Group related cards inside a labeled frame to carve the canvas into regions — acts, factions, locations, arcs.
Typed cards for every part of a world
CanonBoard's cards know what they are — which is what lets the engine stress-test the whole world and map how everything connects. Every project is built from these element types.
Characters
The people of your world — traits, roles, ages, and arcs. Connect them to each other, to locations, and to the plot threads they drive.
Locations
Places and geography, from a single room to a continent. Anchor events and characters to where they happen.
Lore
History, myth, background, and the deep context that makes a world feel lived-in — kept consistent as it grows.
World rules
The laws of your world — magic systems, technology, politics, physics. The constraints everything else has to obey.
Objects
Artifacts, items, and things that matter to the story — track where they are, who holds them, and what they do.
Plot threads
Storylines across the whole world — where each thread opens, tangles, and pays off, so nothing gets dropped between seasons.
Timeline events
Moments in in-world time, not episode order. Age inconsistencies and continuity breaks surface automatically.
Relationships
The connections between everything — who knows whom, what belongs where — as an explicit, labeled part of the canon.
See how the whole world fits together
Beyond individual cards, CanonBoard gives you the views and stores that keep a growing world legible — the graph, the timeline, and the assets and documents behind it.
Relationship mapping
Every connection in your world drawn as one navigable graph, every edge labeled. Pull one node and see what breaks.
Timeline
Every event laid out in in-world time. Continuity breaks and age inconsistencies surface automatically.
Media Library
Every image, reference, and asset for a project in one place — drag any of it straight onto the canvas.
Documents
Keep scripts, treatments, and notes attached to the world and full-text searchable right alongside your canon.
Keep secrets in, mistakes out, and the bible ready
Hold spoilers back from the engine and the crowd, rewind any decision, and hand off a formatted bible whenever you need one.
The Locked Vault
Season-two reveals, hidden motivations, the twist. Lock them in the Vault and the engine never flags them as conflicts — and the crowd never sees them.
Version History
Every decision logged. Rewind the world to any previous state — including the one from three weeks ago that was right.
Bible Export
One click generates a complete, formatted bible of every element in your world — ready for a studio, a network, or your own team.
Bring your audience into development
Open a project to a public audience and they pitch ideas, vote on what belongs, and back the ones they believe in with real money. You decide what becomes canon, and every pitch is stress-tested against your world before it's real. Creators keep 90% of every backing.
See how the Board works →Your whole team on one world
Invite collaborators at the access you choose, see each other work in real time, and build from a single source of truth instead of scattered, drifting documents.
Roles & invites
Invite collaborators as viewer, editor, admin, or owner. Everyone works in the same world at exactly the access you choose — distinct from your public audience.
Live cursors
See your teammates' cursors move on the canvas in real time. One shared world, everyone on the same page.
One source of truth
No scattered docs or drifting copies. The whole team builds from and checks against a single, current canon.
Feature questions
What can you do with cards on the canvas?+
Every card, image, note, and frame can be moved, resized, and locked in place; connected to other cards with labeled relationship lines; grouped and multi-selected to move or delete together; and copied and pasted between different projects' canvases. You can also pin reference images, sticky notes, free text, and labeled frames anywhere on the infinite canvas.
What types of cards can a project have?+
CanonBoard's world elements are typed cards: characters, locations, lore, world rules, objects, plot threads, timeline events, and relationships. Because cards know what they are, the engine can stress-test the whole world for contradictions and draw the relationships between everything.
Which features are free?+
The full canvas and every structural tool — all card types, relationship mapping, geography, timeline, and bible export — are free on every plan, along with a public Board. Smart Import, Refine, and Conflict Detection, plus the Locked Vault, Media Library, Documents, and Version History, are on Core and above.
Does the AI write my story?+
No. CanonBoard is a world logic engine, not a writing app. Smart Import reads and organizes documents you already have, Refine interviews you to draw out canon you already know, and Conflict Detection checks your world for contradictions. The AI never generates story content.
Can my audience contribute to a project?+
Yes, if you open a public Board. Your audience can pitch ideas, vote on what belongs, and back the ones they believe in with real money — and you decide what becomes canon. Every pitch is stress-tested against your world before it's real.
Build a world that holds together.
Free to build, with every structural tool included. Upgrade when you want the power tools or a bigger team.