Community news and announcements

Hi everyone!Exciting news, we have just launched a dedicated space for Lucid admins! This group is for the people who look after Lucid in their organisations and want a simple way to stay close to best practices, get practical guidance, and connect with our Customer Success at Scale team as well as other admins.You can expect things like helpful tips on setup and configuration, guidance on AI and new features, and examples from other admins on how they are using Lucid across their organisations.The aim is to make it easier to get value from Lucid and support you in managing it across your teams as it grows.You can join the group here and say hello in the welcome post from our CSS team!Cheers

We are thrilled to announce that we have officially launched the Lucid connector for VS Code! By bringing Lucid’s visual power directly into VS Code , you can create diagrams, search, summarize, and edit documents without ever leaving your interface.Key capabilities Retrieve documents at AI speed: Locate all documents related to a given topic or keyword.  Quickly generate diagrams: Generate flowcharts, sequence diagrams, or org charts from your AI conversations. Deploy edits to documents: Add, update, or remove shapes from your documents through simple chat commands. Generate document summaries: Ask questions about your existing Lucid documents to get instant summaries or action items. Effortlessly share with stakeholders: Generate view-only links or invite collaborators to your document directly from your interface.Use Case: The Sprint Reality CheckThe Lucid connector easily integrates into your workflows to simplify your work. For instance, imagine you’re reviewing a complex pull req

We are excited to announce more tools and capabilities to Lucid's MCP server. With these new additions, you can now manage your folder structures, document organization, comments, and sending product feedback completely through natural language commands in your connected AI tools. What’s NewDocument & folder organizationOrganize your Lucid workspace with the assistance of AI clients. With these new capabilities, you can now move, create, and rename folders completely through AI conversation, as well as move and rename documents to ensure your files are in the right location. Example prompt: “In Lucid, create a new folder called 'Q3 Architecture', then find my 'API Flowchart' document, rename it to 'V2 API Flowchart', and move it into that new folder.” Streamlined collaboration & comment managementKeep the project moving without leaving your IDE or chat client. You can instantly pull comment threads or reply to existing threads directly through the MCP interface.Example prompt:

We are officially launching the Lucid MCP Integration for Slackbot, an integration that allows users to create diagrams, search, edit, and share Lucid documents directly within the Slack interface. This integration seamlessly brings the visual power of Lucid directly into Slackbot so users can streamline work and stay in the flow,The Lucid MCP integration for Slackbot has been designed to further integrate Lucid’s capabilities into an agentic experience directly into your team’s primary communication hub. By bridging the gap between Slack conversations and Lucid capabilities, this integration eliminates context-switching and ensures project visuals remain at the forefront of every discussion.The MCP integration allows users to manage their entire visual workspace through natural language commands, offering a suite of streamlined capabilities:Locate documents by keyword and extract action items or content summaries instantly. Generate diagrams, mind maps, process maps, user flows, org c

Stop writing code just to get your document data! Our new JSON Export feature gives you the power of an API without the technical overhead. You can now download a full blueprint of any Lucid document as a JSON file directly from the file menu in your workspace.  Whether you're conducting an audit or feeding data into a custom database, you now have instant access to your document's underlying structure.What’s New?You can now export any Lucid document as a JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) file. This provides a complete, text-based blueprint of your document that you can download in seconds.Why This Matters:No Code, No Problem: Get the power of the API without writing a single line of code. Portable Blueprints: Perfect for internal audits or keeping a lightweight, offline record of your complex workflows. Total Flexibility: Easily move your document data into other internal tools or databases for custom analysis.Try this feature out by going to More menu > Export > JSON. For more

We are excited to announce a powerful new update to the Process Accelerator, restricted repositories! 🎉Some processes, such as sensitive HR workflows, internal financial audits, or specialized project handbooks, require a bit more privacy. With restricted repositories, you can now maintain a single source of truth for your team’s most sensitive documentation without sharing it with your entire organization.  What is a restricted repository? A repository is a centralized collection of approved and published processes, accessible to all users on an account.A restricted repository is a repository accessible only by users who have been invited by a accelerator manager or repository owner.   Who can view restricted repositories?Account owners, account admins, and accelerator managers can view all restricted repositories. Other than those roles, only users who were directly invited by a accelerator manager or repository owner can view a restricted repository.  How can I create a restricted

Thank you for joining the March Lately @ Lucid webinar! In our first of the three-part Lately @ Lucid webinar series, we highlighted AI features across the Lucid platform to help you move from blank canvas to creation faster.If you missed it, catch the webinar here!In this post, we’re diving into the highlights of what’s new ⏬ Lucid AI Entry PointsWe’re excited to announce that Lucid AI is now available in both Lucidspark and Lucidchart! With a unified interface, this conversational AI assistant acts as a collaborator on the canvas with you—boosting your productivity!Lucid AI empowers you to:Brainstorm new ideas.  Generate diagrams and boards. Summarize diagram content.  Sort sticky notes into AI-generated categories. Add conditional formatting rules. Ask questions about your document. Get help from the Lucid help center.Lucid AI in LucidsparkLucid AI in Lucidchart Voice-to-text and video uploads in Lucid AIWe’re excited to announce voice-to-text and video uploads have been added to Lu

If you’ve been using the diagram as code with Mermaid feature in Lucidchart, you know the routine: type in your code, move your mouse, select “Generate” or “Update”, and repeat. We’re excited to announce an update to this workflow!Instead of manually updating your diagram, your diagrams will automatically update as you write your mermaid code. Now it’s easier than ever to build and iterate on complex diagrams without breaking your concentration.What’s changing?The ‘Generate’ button and ‘Update’ buttons have been removed. Edits to your markup will sync with the on-document shape as you type in your code.No more toggling back and forth- just focus on your logic, and watch the visual update as you go!Mermaid diagram automatically updates on Lucid canvasGive it a try and let us know what you think! 

The Insights agent processes new feedback items as they arrive. It creates insights: linking customer feedback to relevant product opportunities or ideas in your connected workspaces. PrerequisitesBefore setting up the Insights agent, make sure:airfocus AI is enabled for your team. An admin can turn this on in Team Settings > Features. The Insights app is installed on your workspace(s). You have full permissions on the feedback workspace. Members without full permissions can see the agent status but not edit the configuration. Set up the Insights agentThe Insights agent is configured in the Insights app on your workspace.To set up the Insights agent:Open your Feedback workspace in airfocus. In the action bar at the top of the workspace, click the Insights agent button In the Insights agent dialog, configure the automation and settings: Under Automation, turn on Create and link insights to automatically process feedback items when they are created. Optionally, add a Custom prompt

We are thrilled to share a new tool for our MCP server & Claude, the ability to convert Claude-generated diagrams directly into Lucid documents! OverviewClaude allows teams to brainstorm complex systems through inline SVG diagrams, but these visuals were previously limited to static code or screenshots. With this latest update you can now ask Claude to take those generated visuals and instantly transform them into interactive, and editable Lucid diagrams.This feature ensures that your visual assets remain as agile as your text prompts. You focus on the architecture, let Claude and Lucid handle the drawing.How it worksAfter creating a diagram with Claude simply prompt: "Convert this generated diagram into a Lucid document." Claude will securely interface with Lucid to create the diagram so you can further customize and edit your diagram. Claude generated diagramConverted Lucid diagramLearn More Check out our Help Center Article for more information on the Lucid & Claude MCP conn

We know that artificial intelligence (AI) is increasing individual productivity, but has AI adoption translated into org-wide benefits? Or are you stuck somewhere in the messy middle of high-speed chaos with more output, but nothing that scales?In our third Lately @ Lucid webinar of 2026, we covered how Lucid can help your teams visualize systems and processes to drive AI transformation for your org. Documentation is the critical step to bridge the gap between AI adoption at the individual level and institutional level. In order to build documentation that moves the needle at scale, it should be dynamic, connected, and easily governed.This post serves as a roundup of key features you can leverage TODAY to make this a reality for your teams. ⏬ Process AgentWe know that documentation is essential, but it’s also time-consuming to create and quickly goes out of date. Enter Lucid AI’s Process Agent: an interactive assistant designed to help you build comprehensive process diagrams without s

Hi everyone! We’ve all been there: You want the automatic, data-driven power of the Cloud Accelerator, but you also need the flexible, freeform canvas of Lucidchart to build out your project proposals and system maps.  Until now, those two worlds lived in separate products. If you wanted that "auto-magic" cloud visualization, you had to jump straight into the accelerator, separating your infrastructure data from the rest of your documentation.  We’re excited to announce cloud frames in Lucidchart. Think of a cloud frame as a "smart container" that brings the automatic visualization power of the Cloud Accelerator directly onto your Lucidchart canvas.What is a cloud frame?It’s a foundational tool that takes your imported cloud data and applies the rules you configure—like structure and filters—to automatically generate a diagram. Instead of drawing every icon by hand, you let the data do the heavy lifting.How it helps your team:For Cloud Architects & Engineers: Generate live infrastr

In our second Lately @ Lucid webinar of 2026, we explored how to build plans that more easily adapt to change. If you’ve ever spent weeks crafting the "perfect" plan, only for stakeholder priorities to change or the market to shift and your plan to become obsolete, this webinar is for you! You can’t perfectly predict exactly what will happen within your company or industry, so you need easily adaptable plans.  This post is a roundup of Lucid features that can help you solve three of the biggest hurdles to planning: adaptability, alignment, and visibility. Let’s get into it! ⏬ Capacity planningVisualize team bandwidth and plan workload distribution with capacity planning. You can set project and team capacity using story points, and automatically see how reassigning project deliverables influences capacity. It solves the problem of burnout and missed deadlines by identifying who is over-allocated before the work even begins. Adjust capacity and tasks Scenario planningVisualize and compa

🌟 Hello Community! 🌟If you have been using Lucid a lot lately and finding smart ways to make it work for your team, this one’s for you. We have put together a Lucid Power User Kit for all our power users, Admins, Legends, and anyone who wants to take the lead and help their peers get more out of Lucid! Many of you are already the go-to person when it comes to boards, templates, and running collaborative sessions. When you share what is working, it encourages others to try new things and level up how they use Lucid in their own work.This kit is here to support you in that. It includes ready to use learning sessions, practical templates, mini challenges, tips, and simple ways to share best practices with your team. ​​If you are passionate about making the most out of Lucid and helping your team collaborate better, this is the best way to start!>>> You can access the Lucid Power User Kit here <<< 

We’re excited to spotlight one of the members of our Lucid Legend program: ​@JMC 🎉. James Croftson is a Technical Manager and Founding Director in the Energy / Engineering industries. We want to highlight a few specific things that make James “legendary!”🌟James has earned 3 badges and earned over 300 points in the Lucid Legends program! James is a truly active Legend who consistently enriches our seminars and working sessions by sharing his technical expertise, offering insightful feedback, and collaborating seamlessly with his peers. In 2010, James sea-kayaked 3500km around the coast of mainland Britain in just under 20 weeks. Having already cycled east-coast-to-west-coast in a day, and also end-to-end (John o'Groats to Land's End), this made him the first person to go 'across, down and around' Britain under his own steam! Check out James’s badges, post responses, and stats on his profile. You can follow him to receive updates on his posts! Spotlight Story:What do you like best abo

 We’ve all been there: You’re in the middle of a deep-work session, and you need to remember the specific steps of a project kickoff or find that one brainstorm board from three months ago. You stop, open a new tab, dig through folders, and—poof—your focus is gone.We’re excited to announce the Lucid Connector for Claude, a new tool for anyone looking to streamline their daily workflow. Here’s how it helps you streamline your workflow: Locate & summarize documents at the speed of AIWith this new connector, Claude can read your Lucid documents. Instead of scanning a board for information, you can simply locate a document and ask Claude:"Claude, what were the three main action items from this brainstorming board?" "Summarize the project timeline found in this Q3 Planning document."The result is you get the answers you need in seconds, without ever leaving your chat.Seamlessly generate diagrams from textNow, you can describe a process to Claude and ask it to generate a foundational dia

  We are thrilled to unveil this new integration, which acts as a digital bridge between the visual intelligence of Lucid and the conversational power of ChatGPT. By merging these two worlds, you can now locate documents, summarize content, distribute documentation, and generate diagrams without ever leaving your chat, effectively removing the friction between an AI conversation and a finished visual document.Connect to ChatGPT here, or check out this Help Center article for more information. Why use the Lucid ChatGPT app?Context-switching is the ultimate bottleneck to AI-driven productivity. The Lucid ChatGPT app serves as a bridge to your external AI environment. It brings the full power of Lucid’s visual layer directly into the conversational interface you rely on every day.Here are two high-impact ways to start using the Lucid app in ChatGPT today:  Engineering & Solutions ArchitectureStop manual drawing after a long architecture review. You can now transform technical discussi

Introducing the folder owner role for the Process Accelerator! 🎉 Managing a large repository of documentation can be a heavy lift for a single person. To help you scale and ensure the right eyes are on your documents, we’ve introduced a new layer of ownership: folder owners.What is a folder owner?A folder owner is a user who manages and approves documents in their assigned folder or subfolder in a repository. Think of them as the ‘subject matter expert’ for items in their specific folder. How is a folder owner different from a repository owner? How do approval requests differ?Repository owners have more power- they can manage both repositories they own and all folders within them. Folder owners can not manage repositories, they can only manage content in the folders they own.Both roles receive approval requests:Repository owners receive approval requests for all suggested changes to documentation in the repositories they own (including all folders).  Folder owners receive approval req

Announced during the October 1st Lately @ Lucid webinar, Lucid AI builds on our intelligent work acceleration platform to empower teams to create, collaborate, and maximize efficiency. To access Lucid AI, open a Lucidchart document and navigate to the very top of the left-hand panel to open the chat.  From within the Lucid AI chat, type in your prompt and start creating! Here are a few things that Lucid AI can help you with: Create a diagram: Supported diagram types include flowcharts, ERDs, mind maps, and more. Brainstorm: Easily generate and organize ideas. Apply conditional formatting: Save time and ask Lucid AI to create your conditional formatting rules. Ask questions: Ask Lucid AI questions about your document.Update June 22nd, 2026: There are now additional ways you can use Lucid AI! Create a new Lucid board/document: Based on your text description, Lucid AI creates a new Lucid board.  Sort ideas: Sort sticky notes quickly into categories created by AI. Summarize: Large document

Hey Lucid Community!  As a new product manager here at Lucid, I’ve quickly learned that the 'perfect' leadership board is never actually finished. Every time I need to add just one more section for team alignment, I end up in a manual 'spatial Tetris' battle, moving every single element just to create a little breathing room. Does anyone else find themselves spending more time rearranging than actually building? Enter: Nudging 🎉 We built Nudging to act like a "snowplow" for your canvas. Instead of manually rearranging your content to make new space to work with, your containers now do the heavy lifting for you. Here’s how it works: You can toggle Nudging on by dragging a container or frame onto your canvas, then using the contextual panel in Lucidchart or right-clicking on the shape in Lucidspark. Now when you resize a container (horizontally, vertically, or even diagonally), any objects sitting outside that container will automatically move in the direction you’re resizing. Bonus Tip

Hey Lucid Community!We have seen some truly impressive customer diagrams here at Lucid.  There’s the highly technical business architectures and processes, but also (my favorite) using lucid to map out narrative themes and plot points in theater productions or quest trees for homebrewed RPGs.Common to all of these:  "Visual Overload" –  when you share a massive, complex board with a collaborator who just needs the high-level summary. We’ve all been there: either you spend hours creating a "simplified" duplicate version, or you hop on a call and spend 10 minutes saying, "Ignore this part for now..."Enter: Collapse and Expand 🎉  We built Collapse and Expand to act like packing your content into a storage box. Think of it like minimizing a window on your desktop; the work doesn't go away, it’s just neatly tucked into a single container so you can focus on the bigger picture. When you’re ready to dive back into the details, you just "open the box." How it works: Collapse and Expand is ava

We are excited to announce that new versions of the VPAT for Lucidchart and Lucidspark are now available at lucid.co/accessibility. Both the Lucidchart VPAT and Lucidspark VPAT are publicly viewable on our website. Lucid is committed to creating products that are accessible and user-friendly for everyone. Some of the changes to the latest VPATs include:Improved Bypass Block Hotkeys to jump between the canvas and the UI Improved keyboard navigation patterns  For a complete list of FAQ’s, please visit this FAQ document. We would like to share a heartfelt thank you for the engagement and insights we’ve received from community members like yourself. Your contributions have helped us better understand how to make our products more accessible to our users. Thank you for your comments, and please keep them coming in our product feedback space! 

Assisted layout helps to arrange content within Lucid organizers- including swimlanes, frames and all container types. This feature automatically aligns shapes to create a clean, presentable workspace. Assisted layout is also available with AI-generated content, making brainstorming and board organization easy and efficient. What’s new this Lately @ Lucid? Let’s take a look at some of the newest assisted layout features! Resizable containers You can now manually resize assisted layout containers and frames to make more room for your workflows and ideas. You can choose between Fit or Manual in the assisted layout menu. By default, assisted layout containers are set to Manual, allowing you the flexibility to expand the size and shape of your frame. Switching to Fit will automatically resize your container as you add or remove shapes.  Added white space Assisted layout now supports introducing intentional white space onto your canvas to help structure your content visually. For example, a

Swimlanes are a key part of many common diagrams, especially process and flow diagrams- helping to organize steps by team, role, or system.Manually creating these swimlanes can be time-consuming and tedious. You’ve asked for AI to handle this structure automatically, and we’ve listened. We’re happy to announce you can now generate diagrams with swimlanes in Lucid AI! ✨ What’s available today?Lucid AI can now automatically generate swimlanes when creating diagrams. If your prompt includes lanes–or mentions teams, roles, or systems that imply lanes– Lucid AI will add them for you.For now, swimlanes are generated in black and white.What’s coming next?Color and stylized lanes are coming in early January, so stay tuned! 👀We’d love your feedback!Try it out by asking Lucid AI to generate a diagram with simlanes, and let us know:Does this match how you expect lanes to work? What diagram types do you want swimlanes for most? What would make this even more useful?Drop your thoughts below or cre