illumi - AI visual workspace that takes you from thinking to delivery
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illumi is an AI visual workspace for turning complex thinking into publish-ready work. Capture ideas, structure your context, and go from messy input to finished output without losing the thread or juggling tools.
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Hello Product Hunt!
Andrey here, co-founder of illumi. Ling and I have been building toward today for a while, and we're excited to finally share it.
The idea came from watching the same patterns repeat across consultants, marketers and founders. After any ideation sessions, someone still had to turn scattered notes and half-finished thinking into a more polished result, and that transition consistently takes the most brainpower. When AI tools arrived, we started asking everyone we talked to the same question: do you actually feel less exhausted, or just differently exhausted? (like brain fry?)
Before you can generate anything with good quality by AI, you have to structure the chaos: half-formed ideas, sticky notes, workshop recordings, competing frameworks. Most AI tools hand you an answer once you've assembled everything yourself; we want to give your thinking somewhere to live while it's still messy, then carries it through to a finished output.
illumi is a visual workspace that connects multiple AI models on a shareable canvas, built for those accountable for turning messy group input into clear outcomes. You start with the raw input, explore and structure it on the canvas, keep your context intact as the thinking evolves, and end with a publish-ready deliverable in a single workspace.
We built it for teams that carry heavy, evolving knowledge across client projects, such as marketers, consultants, PMs. The longer goal is to make that thinking layer portable: a shared memory layer where business and technical teammates draw from the same knowledge base, feeding both their own thinking and their AI tools, and easily share across.
If you've ever lost your train of thought between messy ideation and the final deliverable, try illumi.
Andrey
minimalist phone: creating folders
Pretty landing page (illustrations) :)
Suggestion:
– when adding a sticky note, I would welcome the "form" it (resize)
– also I didn't notice where to change its colours (maybe some inspiration from the Figma Jam toolbar could make it more visible)
@busmark_w_nika Thank you for trying illumi!
Do you mean you want to resize the sticky notes? We intentionally kept it very simple to hold minimal amount of text. And Notes are designed to hold the real information. They are resizable and support rich text.
Sticky note colour picker is in the right bottom, collapsed by default:
We always have internal debates where to put what toolbar elements, can you share what do you find nice in Figma Jam toolbar?
minimalist phone: creating folders
@andrey_leskov Aaa thank you, I didn't notice those colours, and when it comes to FigJam, that exact option to see different colours is shown like this:
@busmark_w_nika oh, you mean the picker in the left part of toolbar, nice! thank a lot for the reference, we will take note!
minimalist phone: creating folders
@andrey_leskov yeah, that one :)
love it! been using it for over a year for my brainstorming process in writing
@daniel_chepenko Thanks a lot Dany! When you joined our PoC it was so crappy! I'm proud we could still help you with brainstorming!
@daniel_chepenko Thank you for supporting! Wonder what would be the writing process for you? Do you also need many branching steps while developing writing / researching ideas?
Have been using it since beta and a big fan of it 🙌 It’s great for teams that want to collaborate in a visual way with AI help!
@stephen_tung2 Thanks a lot for your warm words! We worked hard to implement some of the feedback you provided to us, and we're happy to be the tool of your choice!
@stephen_tung2 Thank you for testing us early :) Would be great to learn more about your current workflow :)
This looks promising! I can see this being useful for product strategy sessions. Our workflow today is usually Miro -> docs -> ChatGPT / Claude → slides or our PM tool, so there’s a fair bit of back-and-forth.
Do you have plans to support more AI models or open up APIs/webhooks for integrations?
@shuk_huay_koh Thanks the the interest!
We support most of the latest models at the moment and are updating them regularly. APIs are already there so integrations can be done. However, we have not optimised it yet for integration purposes, and webhooks are coming soon.
Product strategy sessions require multi-angle analysis, and I saw people just squeezing it into ChatGPT. I like your workflow of giving space for brainstorming in Miro, and then moving to AI for detailed analysis. I think we can be useful in such scenario. Do you produce something else besides slides during this workflow?
Let me share my review of it.
I started using it during the beta phase while working as a team leader, delivering new business functionality for Bank of America at Broadridge Financial Solutions (https://www.broadridge.com).
I used it to share project status with Product Owners, team members, and QA. With the help of a google chrome audio plugin, I captured our team calls and documented them directly into the dashboard.
I must say, I think this is the way such activities should be handled.
Key points why it is so great for project tasks:
• People can always check the latest status and ask the AI questions about design pitfalls, functionality, or the QA process.
• Capturing team meetings live can help enhance needed changes and identify contradictions immediately.
• You have a single area for different parties to keep track of all questions, making it easy to create final-stage documentation and QA scripts - or ask specific questions via the AI assistant.
What things would be great to improve/add:
• Integration with Jira so the AI assistant can contribute in real-time to ongoing discussions or changes in the dashboard.
• A "Live Mode" for the AI that automatically switches on when multiple participants are detected (indicating a live meeting) or enables on-demand assistance at different levels.
Apart from my use case:
As a former corporate worker where long calls for incident investigations are common, I would like to see this solution manage those calls. For example, each user could capture their voice in a standalone note, and the AI - integrated with Jira or another ticketing system - could search history or the codebase for solutions to similar problems or to sum up the situation and next step, sending email and incident report.
Thank you for your work @illumi team, wish you continue it as it helps to simplify the process
The question “are you less exhausted or just differently exhausted” really stands out.
AI helps with output, but structuring the input is still where most of the cognitive load sits.
This feels like it’s addressing that layer directly.
@charan_achari in my experience AI will demand even better understanding of the task from the user then before, if user is targeting good results.