Lately @ Lucid October 2026: Additional resources

During Lately @ Lucid, our biggest virtual event of the year, we showed how Lucid continues to work where and how you work, even in the age of AI tools. If you didn’t get a chance to tune in, watch it on demand or read our recap.

In this post, check out further resources related to our main announcements and demos from the event to speed up your workflows. 

And be sure to drop your questions below so the Lucid team can help answer them!

New Lucidchart editor

Lucidchart has a brand new editor designed to help you accomplish your goals faster and with less friction. See the video below for a 90-second overview.

Lucid AI

The possibilities are endless for how you can use Lucid AI to enhance your work. Here are some example prompts we shared during the virtual event.

Example 1: Turn an image into an editable diagram

• Create and format this image into a flowchart that we can use for future uses. [Image attached.]
• Change our LMS from “Bridge” to “new LMS” and add a step for uploading the transcript after the recording.

Example 2: Summarize and evaluate a diagram

• Summarize this process. [Document attached.]
• How do I handle the most urgent support tickets?
• Evaluate this diagram.

Example 3: Start new documentation

• I want to document my invoice approval flow.
• Guide me through this process. Ask me questions that are needed to create this process.
• Ask me starter questions for the invoice approval flow.

Example 4: Generate a board and sort ideas

• Create a board for a Product Roadmap Prioritization session. Include an “Agenda” section, a “Raw Customer Feedback & Unvetted Ideas” section, a vetted “Feature Backlog” section, and an “Action Items” section for next steps and sprint assignments.
• Identify the features requested in these interviews and add sticky notes to the board for them. [Audio files attached.]
• Sort ideas. [Sticky notes selected.]
• Create a visual activity that’s an effort vs. impact for us to drag the sorted ideas into.

Example 5: Generate a data-linked diagram

• Build a system architecture diagram based on our data attached. [Spreadsheet attached.]

More ways to use Lucid AI

Curious about additional ways to leverage Lucid AI in your daily workflow? These videos provide more tips: 

• Lucid AI for productive meetings
• Meeting prep with Lucid AI
• Brainstorm with Lucid AI
• Sort ideas with Lucid AI
• Summarize meetings with Lucid AI

Lucid MCP server

While Lucid AI provides AI capabilities within Lucid, the Lucid MCP server acts as a bridge between Lucid and your AI tools of choice so that you can leverage the visual power of Lucid without leaving your LLM. 

Check out the Lucid MCP guide to get started quickly.

Here are example prompts, provided during the virtual event, of how you might use the Lucid MCP server:

Example 1: Audit a workflow

• I have an internal software request process in Confluence. Can you pull down that document for me?
• Can you take this process and create a process map in Lucidchart based on the data that is available here?
• Can you audit this diagram for bottlenecks and highlight those bottlenecks in red for me?

Example 2: Export tasks

• Can you go ahead and pull down my website redesign project in Lucidspark and give me a summary of the project insights?
• I want the sticky note ideas to be pushed into a Smartsheet board in a new workspace for this project. They should keep their grouping that you mentioned.

Example 3: Prep for sprint planning

• Using the Lucid MCP server, build me a sprint planning board in Lucidspark for our next sprint.
• Pull from Jira project DBP:
  • every item in “DBP Sprint 2”—that’s the sprint we’re planning
  • plus no more than 6 items from Sprint 2 as candidates we might pull in
• Do not import the rest of the backlog. There are ~900 issues in that project, and I only want those two sets.
• Bring them in as live Jira cards using the card integration so they stay linked back to the tickets—not static shapes or sticky notes.
  • Lay it out the way we’d actually run the meeting:
  • Sprint goal top left, written in plain language based on what the tickets have in common
  • Capacity panel: team size, last sprint’s velocity, what we’re committing to this sprint, and call it out if we’re over
  • Definition of Done checklist
  • Committed work split into two frames, In Progress and To Do, with the item count and story-point total in each frame title
  • Backlog candidates in their own frame, clearly marked NOT committed
  • A frame of sticky notes for risks, blocks, dependencies, and a parking lot—pre-fill a few based on what you actually see in the tickets, and leave two blank for the live discussion

Example 4: Generate a diagram from text

• Can you help me understand the arch of these services?
• Can you work on a full system diagram of the Acme architecture? Put it on the Acme Arch board saved.

More ways to use the Lucid MCP server

Check out these videos for even more Lucid MCP inspiration:

• Audit, update, and code API diagrams
• Automate Agile planning
• Automate project kickoffs
• Executive roadmap presentations

To learn more about using the Lucid MCP server for technical use cases, watch our recent webinar on the Lucid VS Code extension and diagram as code.