Collaborative AI empowers your team to unleash the potential of divergent thinking, foster creativity and innovation in their workshops, boost productivity, and achieve more in less time. Kick off projects and easily find the big picture by using AI to generate ideas, extend brainstorming sessions, uncover key themes, and rapidly summarize the latest working session.

Currently, our AI capabilities support English only. If you are using Lucid in English, keep reading to learn how to utilize Collaborative AI.

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Note: Lucid’s AI capabilities are currently available to all users but may be subject to a paid subscription model in the future.

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Privacy, security, and your data

Lucid is dedicated to upholding its commitments to you regarding the privacy, security, and safety of your data, including with any Collaborative AI features. Your use of these features is subject to either our Terms of Service or your MSA with Lucid (as applicable) and Lucid's Supplemental AI Terms. Our current AI features are powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service.

Note: Collaborative AI is constantly improving. As a result, information produced may be inaccurate, biased, misleading, inappropriate, offensive, or outdated. Always confirm results generated with Collaborative AI.

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Generate ideas

You can generate ideas with AI in Lucid from the Collaborative AI menu, the Sticky Notes menu and Sticky Notes already on the canvas, and by adding a Brainstorm quick action shape to the canvas. Continue reading to learn how.

Generate more ideas from existing sticky notes

To populate more ideas on the Lucidspark canvas from existing sticky notes:

Select one or more sticky notes.
- Hold the shift key on your keyboard to select multiple objects.
Clickthe Collaborative AI icon from the Context Toolbar that appears near the selected sticky notes.
Select Generate more ideas.

The additional ideas that are generated will carry a title from the sticky notes that were selected. You can edit the title by double-clicking the header title.

Tip: Generate ideas in fewer clicks by adding the Brainstorm quick action shape to your canvas. To learn more about how to Use quick tools in Lucid, check out our article.

Sort ideas

To sort a group of sticky notes on a Lucidspark board:

Select six or more sticky notes.
- Hold the shift key on your keyboard to select multiple objects.
Clickthe Collaborative AI icon from the Context Toolbar that appears near the selected sticky notes.
Select Sort ideas.

Lucid’s Collaborative AI will sort the sticky notes into categories shown in Containers.

Tip: Add the Sort Ideas quick action to your canvas to sort with fewer clicks. To learn more about quick tools in Lucid, check out our article.

Summarize ideas

You can summarize ideas using Lucid’s Collaborative AI in both Lucidchart and Lucidspark. Read the respective section below for instructions.

In Lucidspark

To summarize a group of sticky notes:

Select one or more sticky notes.
- Hold the shift key on your keyboard to select multiple objects.
Clickthe Collaborative AI icon from the Context Toolbar that appears near the selected sticky notes.
Select Summarize.

A Container will appear with a summary of your selected sticky notes.

In Lucidchart

To summarize a diagram in Lucidchart:

Select one or more shapes from a diagram.
Right-click on the selected shapes.
In the menu that appears, select Summarize.

A summary of your selected shapes will be grouped in a Container.

Tip: Add the Summarize quick action shape to your canvas to get an AI written summary of your sticky notes and diagrams more quickly. Get more details about quick tools in Lucid by checking out our article.

For admins: Restrict or permit access

Admins on Team and Enterprise accounts can control whether or not to give users on their account access to Collaborative AI.

To restrict or permit access to Collaborative AI on your account:

In your Lucid account, select Admin from the left-side panel.
Click Security in the left-side menu.
Select User feature controls from the menu to the left.
Under “Collaborative AI”, use the toggle next to “Enable AI features: Summarize, Generate ideas, and Sort ideas”.
Click Save changes in the upper-right corner

FAQ

Why don’t I see the Collaborative AI icon in my Primary Toolbar?
If you don’t see the Collaborative AI icon in your Primary Toolbar, this may be because your admin has disabled Collaborative AI for your account. Reach out to your Lucid admin for more information.

How will you use my data?
Lucid is dedicated to upholding its commitments to you regarding the privacy, security, and safety of your data, including with any Collaborative AI features. Please see our Terms of Service and your Enterprise MSA, if applicable.

We do not use customer data to train models in a way that breaches the confidentiality of our customers' data. We do not use your prompt inputs to generate content for other customers based on your data. We do store documents for your use and any content on those documents are stored for your use as well.

As we expand our AI capabilities we will continue to do so in a way that does not breach the confidentiality of our customers' data.

Which AI models is Lucid using?
Lucid's Collaborative AI platform employs AI models powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. Learn more about their approach to data, privacy, and security.

To stay up-to-date with other best-in-class vendors we may use in the future, check out the Lucid Software Inc. Sub-Processor List.

What Lucid products and capabilities have access to Collaborative AI?
Collaborative AI is available in Lucidchart and Lucidspark. At a future date, we plan to extend Collaborative AI into Lucidscale and suite-wide capabilities like Visual Activities.

Where can I get more information about Collaborative AI?
Read our blog, contact sales, and visit the Lucid Community to learn more, get involved, and share feedback about your experience using AI in your workflow.

Resources

To learn more about this feature, explore the additional resources below. These resources are available in English only.

Blog
Using AI throughout a project workflow: 5 common challenges solved by AI

Course

Collaborative AI in Lucid

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