canvas
A 2D tile canvas built for serious work.
Konva-rendered grid up to 128×128. Place, rotate, recolour, group, lock. Z-ordered for stacked builds. Yjs CRDT under the hood means 25 cursors stay smooth on a shared model.
Virtual Serious Play, remote-native
Five stages.
Two hours.
One model your team
actually believes in.
BrickThink runs the canonical five-stage Serious Play methodology online. Participants build 2D tile models, narrate the meaning out loud, and progress from individual story to shared system to written principles — without a box of bricks in sight.
- tile types in the canon
- 52
- from day one
- WCAG 2.2 AA
- session modes
- Sync · Async · Hybrid
The five stages
Methodology fidelity, end to end.
The canonical etiquette is a first-class concept in the data model and the UI. Run all five, run a subset, or run a single stage as a focused exercise.
- 01default · 15 min
Skill-building
Warm-up. Learn the grid, learn to build with metaphor.
- 02default · 13 min
Individual model
Each participant builds privately, then narrates.
- 03default · 30 min
Shared model
Combine builds on a shared canvas. Negotiate. Decide.
- 04default · 25 min
System model
Add connections, agents, forces. The system shows itself.
- 05default · 20 min
Guiding principles
Extract written principles, anchored to the bricks that justify them.
What is in the room
A whole facilitator toolkit, not a whiteboard with extra steps.
Pair with whatever video tool the team already uses. BrickThink is the build, the narration, the record — not the call.
ai assist
Claude in the facilitator chair.
Prompt suggestions from a topic, theme extraction across narrations, and candidate principles drafted from the system model. Always assistive — facilitator approves before participants see it.
story capture
Narration is the artefact.
Text, voice, video — captured on the canvas, not in a separate tab. Auto-transcribed. Indexed by participant and stage.
facilitator tooling
Stage controller, prompt library, roster, timer.
Pre-seeded canonical prompts. Pause, extend, rollback a stage. Spotlight a build. Private notes panel. Pre-session checklist for consent and accessibility.
outputs
A session ends with a record, not a screenshot.
PDF and DOCX session reports. Per-stage PNG and SVG. Narrated MP4 per participant. Full JSON state for re-import. CSV of stories and principles.
PDF
session-report.pdf
24 pages · 4.2 MB
MP4
idris-stage-03-narration.mp4
00:48 · 12 MB
JSON
session-state.json
1,284 nodes · 318 KB
PNG
shared-model.png
3200×2400
accessibility
WCAG 2.2 AA is a hard requirement, not a roadmap item.
Keyboard-navigable canvas. Screen-reader names, positions and colours per brick. Voice-described builds rendered as a text-equivalent artefact alongside visual ones. Colour-blind safe palette with pattern overlays. Reduced-motion mode.
Built for
Three audiences. One non-negotiable: methodology fidelity.
The product exists for facilitators who can already run this in a room and want the remote version to feel like the same thing — not a compromise.
- Persona 01
Certified Serious Play facilitator
Independent or agency
Run paid client workshops remotely with the same outcomes you get in a room. Methodology fidelity, not a generic whiteboard.
- Persona 02
Agile coach
Internal at enterprise
Retrospectives, working agreements, strategy sessions — across distributed teams. Two hours, real shared model, exportable record.
- Persona 03
Leadership & L&D
Director, Head of People
Strategy alignment, team formation, cultural integration. Hands-on insight from people who would never speak up in a regular meeting.
What this is, and is not
BrickThink is a remote-native adaptation of the Serious Play methodology — published under CC BY-SA 3.0. The methodology can be referenced and taught. The trademark and the bricks of the other company cannot. We do not reference them, we do not copy them, and our 52-tile asset set is original.
Pricing
Per facilitator seat. Participants are free.
Pro and Team pricing are in market research. Free tier stays free. Existing seats are grandfathered.
Enterprise tier available — SAML SSO, audit log, DPA, custom retention. Contact us.
Phase 0 in build · early access open
Run your first session free.
Two sessions a month, up to eight participants, all five stages. No card. We will tell you when Pro is ready, not before.