# ALLO Marketing Full Text > Plain-text copy of ALLO's public marketing pages (home, pricing, product, use cases, comparisons, about), in English, one bullet per published sentence block. Canonical page URLs follow each heading. Help Center content is indexed separately at https://allo.io/help/llms-full.txt. Index: https://allo.io/llms.txt ## Home Source: https://allo.io/en - Stop rebuilding the project - The files are in Figma or Drive. Feedback is in chat and email. Status is in a project tool. Before anyone can review the work, someone has to gather it all again. ALLO gives the team one canvas for the brief, references, drafts, files, comments, and current direction, connected to the project, owner, and due date. - Free to start. No credit card. - For work that is easier to show than explain. - Built for work people need to see before they can respond. - When work is visual, layered, or constantly changing, bring the work and the conversation into one view people can follow. - Design and product review - Keep Figma frames, reference images, copy, versions, and comments in one review view. - Campaign and ecommerce production - Organize product details, creative variants, channel copy, feedback, and final assets by launch. - Class projects and workshops - Keep readings, references, student drafts, feedback, and final submissions together so the class can see the work as it develops. - Game and media pre-production - Keep concept art, narrative notes, reference walls, milestones, and direction useful after kickoff. - AI speeds up production. Review still takes work. - People can create more in less time. Teams still have to check the output, compare versions, supply missing context, and decide what is ready to use. - AI use is high. EBIT impact is still uneven. - McKinsey's 2025 survey found broad AI adoption, while only 39% of respondents reported measurable EBIT impact at the enterprise level. - McKinsey, "The State of AI," 2025 - Speed is obvious. Organization-wide ROI is not. - Atlassian's 2026 State of Teams report says 89% of executives see AI increasing speed, but only 6% are sure they have clear organization-wide AI ROI. - Atlassian, "The State of Teams," 2026 - Saved time gets eaten by supervision. - Glean's 2026 Work AI Index reports that digital workers say AI saves time, while a large share of that gain goes back into feeding context, checking answers, and cleaning up results. - Glean Work AI Institute, 2026 - Polished work can still create rework. - BetterUp and Stanford researchers found that many U.S. desk workers receive AI-generated work that looks finished but lacks the substance needed to use it. - BetterUp Labs and Stanford Social Media Lab, 2025 - More drafts can mean more sameness. - Research on AI-assisted creative work suggests individual output can improve while collective output becomes more similar. - Doshi & Hauser, Science Advances, 2024 - A private answer is not a team decision. - A person can make something alone. A team still needs the brief, options, feedback, and final call in one place before the work can move. - Producing more does not make a team faster by itself. The team also needs a clear way to compare, check, and approve what was made. - That is the part ALLO is built for. - The extra work starts after the work is already done. - Find the right version. Keep drafts and final files in the same visual history instead of searching across folders and messages. - Comment on the thing itself. Point to the frame, image, file, or note that needs attention. - Keep the decision with the work. Leave the chosen direction and the reason beside the version the team selected. - Chat is quick. It is not a project record. - Use chat for quick questions and coordination. Keep files, feedback, version changes, and decisions somewhere the team can find them again. - Context has to be rebuilt. - Each prompt starts from what one person remembered to include. The next reviewer has to ask where the source file is, what changed, and why this version exists. - Options cannot sit side by side. - A chat hands you one answer after another. It is a bad place to compare forty images, three concepts, two decks, and the comments that explain the tradeoffs. - The final call has nowhere to live. - A chat is built to continue. It is not built to keep the chosen file, the approval, and the reason for the decision beside the work itself. - Sameness is easy to miss. - When the work is scattered across private threads, teams notice volume before they notice pattern, repetition, weak fit, or missing context. - Use chat for quick coordination. - Keep the review on the Canvas. - The project view and the work, together. - Put briefs, files, drafts, feedback, and AI output on the Canvas. Use Projects to track owners, dates, and status. Open a card to review the material behind it without rebuilding the story for every update. - A project card that opens the project, not just - In many project tools, a card tells you the title, owner, and status. The actual material still lives elsewhere. In ALLO, opening the card takes you to the canvas with the brief, references, versions, comments, and next direction. Use List, Kanban, Calendar, Timeline, or Dashboard to manage the work. Open the canvas when you need to understand it. - Card opens into a project canvas - The brief, the files, the comments, all in one place. - Compare the options in one view. - Lists are good for owners and deadlines. They are not good for comparing drafts, references, and feedback. A Canvas keeps the options visible together so the team can discuss the same material. - David Kirsh, a cognitive scientist at UC San Diego, showed that arranging things in space is not just tidying. The arrangement becomes part of how people think through more material than memory can hold at once. - David Kirsh, "The Intelligent Use of Space," 1995 - Documents are read in order. Chat moves by time. A Canvas lets you place each comment beside the file or draft it refers to. - One place to prepare, review, and hand off the project. - Drag and drop assets into a project workspace - Put the material on a canvas. Add the brief, links, files, images, notes, tables, and drafts. Arrange them in the order people need to see them. - Guest opens a shared canvas link without signing up - Review beside the work. Teammates and guests can open the shared view, compare options, and comment without asking for another recap. - Approver reviews the comment list beside the canvas - Connect it to the project. Add an owner, due date, status, tags, and goals. The project view shows what is moving; the canvas shows what the team is working on. - Create from project material, then review the result with the team. - Select files, links, notes, voice, or canvas objects and create a document, image, table, audio file, or webpage. The result appears on the canvas beside the material that shaped it, ready to edit, compare, comment on, or discard. AI Studio helps produce options. The team still decides what is accurate, useful, and ready to move forward. - Use real project context. - Select the brief, reference images, notes, PDFs, links, or earlier drafts that should shape the output. - Create work the team can inspect. - Generate a canvas object, not a buried chat answer. Move it, comment on it, edit it, or reject it in the same room as the source material. - Keep the reason visible. - If the output becomes part of a campaign, handoff, review, or client decision, the comments and source context stay attached. - Keep the specialist tools. Fix the review around them. - Not because ALLO imitates the rest of your stack. Because once the project itself is where people review and decide, less context has to be rebuilt somewhere else. - Design in Figma or Adobe. - Store governed assets in Drive or a DAM. - Run engineering delivery in Jira or Linear. - Use chat for quick questions and alerts. - Use ALLO when people need to see the material, compare versions, leave feedback, and understand the current direction. - It will not replace a full asset library at enterprise scale like Frame.io or Bynder, or an HR review tool like Lattice. If that is what you need, ALLO is not it, and we would rather tell you now. - ALLO does not fix bad data, unclear goals, or broken processes. It makes the material around a project easier to see and review. - Use ALLO to keep the files, drafts, references, feedback, and decisions that people need to review in one project. - Less time explaining. More useful review. - Easiest, best-in-class storytelling assembly; rapid assembly of existing source materials. - It does the work of Trello, Miro, and PowerPoint at once, and it made our days less complicated. - ALLO really nails the elegance and simplicity of a whiteboard. I've loved its versatile note-taking and documentation styles. - I found ALLO to be the most usable collaboration tool. We use it to share PDF versions of CAD AV drawings. - Head of AV at KDInfotech - ALLO lets my remote team express themselves visually. We can connect and collaborate as if we were in the same room. - ALLO lets us run collaborative online workshops with people unfamiliar with the tool or other whiteboards. It's simple for anyone to pick up. - Service Designer at UK Council - It's not just an online whiteboard. ALLO goes beyond duplicating a physical whiteboard and takes users to the next level. - The Hive Professional Network - It's the one place I keep everything. A podcast, a PDF, a tweet, a drawing, a product, and my notes on all of it. - Partner at Jajeh Financial - A visual home for every tool that doesn't have one. - Once our developers tried ALLO, it was a unanimous preference. It certainly left an impression on us. - Co-founder and CTO at FlowAccount - ALLO is ahead of the state of the art in OKRs. It's engaging, easy for everyone to use, and no one is intimidated. - Co-founder and CTO at PocketRN - One screen that answers all my questions at a glance. - Cyber Community Consulting - Real feedback from ALLO users. - Existing customer testimonials, with names and photos where available. - Start with one project. Add seats, storage, and AI when the team needs them. - The Free plan includes four canvases. Standard adds unlimited canvases and team features. Business adds advanced external collaboration, longer history, more storage, and included AI credits. - guest review and comments - Enterprise and education plans are available. - Start a canvas with the brief, the files, and the first draft. The next person should be able to open it and know what needs attention. - ALLO is the visual project room for creative teams: briefs, files, feedback, and decisions on one canvas. ## Pricing Source: https://allo.io/pricing/en - Learn how to choose a plan - Learn about roles and access - Learn about storage add-ons - Pricing that scales with your workspace. - Start with the plan your team needs. Add AI credits or file storage from Billing when the workspace grows. - 2,000 AI credits (per seat, 20,000 credits for 10 seats). Resets at subscription renewal. - AI credits, managed from Billing. - AI actions use credits. Usage depends on the action, input size, and generation settings. Admins can review the workspace credit balance and add packs when the team needs more. - Business includes subscription credits - Business includes 2,000 AI credits per seat in a shared workspace pool. A ten-person workspace gets 20,000 credits, and everyone can draw from it. The included pool resets at subscription renewal. - Need more? Admins can top up - When the included pool runs low, a workspace admin can buy a credit pack. Billing shows the current balance and how credits are applied. - Sharing is separate from AI usage - Reviewing a canvas is not an AI action. Seat, sharing, and editing permissions depend on the workspace plan and settings. - Actual use varies by input size and generation settings. - AI Chat includes text replies and tool actions. Short text replies usually use 1-10 credits. Image or audio edits started from chat can use hundreds in one request. - AI comment replies use credits for each model-backed response. Most short replies use 1-10 credits. Replies that use research or canvas edit actions can use more. - Credit packs for ALLO AI - Bought by a workspace admin. The bigger the pack, the lower the cost per credit. Billing shows the current credit balance and pack details. - Buy credits in June and get 2x credits. - Credit packs purchased from June 1-30, 2026 receive double credits. The pack catalog stays the same; Billing applies the June promotion at purchase. - Auto-reload, on your terms - Turn on Auto-reload and ALLO refills the pool when it drops below your trigger threshold, never spending more than the monthly cap you set. It stays off until an admin enables it in Billing. - File storage add-ons grow with the workspace. - When files outgrow the included plan quota, admins can add workspace storage in Billing. Choose one recurring tier from 100GB to 2TB. - How seats and sharing work - Plans map to seats, sharing needs, and admin control. Admins choose the access level that fits each project. - People who actively create and edit on the canvas. Seat billing follows the selected plan and workspace settings. - People with the right shared access can view canvases and comment where permissions allow. - On Business, outside partners can edit the specific work you give them, nothing more. - A credit is a small unit of AI usage. Lighter actions usually use fewer credits, and heavier generations use more. Actual use varies by input size and generation settings. - How do reviewers or clients work? - Use sharing and guest permissions based on your plan. Reviewing a canvas is separate from AI credit usage, and admins control paid plan changes from Billing. - What happens when subscription credits run out? - AI actions pause until the subscription renews and subscription credits reset, or until an admin adds a credit pack. If Auto-reload is on, the pool tops up automatically within the cap you set. - How do purchased credits work? - Credit packs add credits to the workspace pool. Billing shows the current balance, pack details, and how credits are applied. - Can I use AI on the Free or Standard plan? - Included subscription credits start on Business. Free and Standard can buy credit packs to use AI. - Does every teammate need to buy Standard or Business separately? - No. For both Standard and Business, one workspace admin completes checkout for the workspace. Billing is based on the number of active workspace members who count toward billing: four such members mean four seats. Teammates do not check out individually. Members added later may create a prorated charge. - Can I add workspace members to Edu or Edu Pro? - No. Edu and Edu Pro are single-user plans, so you cannot add teammates as workspace members. Use canvas sharing or guest access for students and reviewers. If multiple teachers or staff need full workspace membership, compare Standard and Business, or contact Sales about an institutional plan. - Start with a workspace. Add AI when you need it. - Open a workspace, bring your team, and add credits or storage when the work calls for it. - Free to start. No credit card. - This is your current plan. - This plan is for individual use only. Current members: {n} - You cannot select this plan. - Trial plan changed. Your trial end date is unchanged. - We couldn't change your trial plan. Check your workspace member limits and try again. ## Canvas Source: https://allo.io/product/canvas/en - A thread tells you what happened. A canvas shows you the work. - ALLO lets you arrange references, files, drafts, feedback, and AI output by meaning, not by the time they were sent, so another person can understand how the project fits together. - Free to start. No credit card. - The card opens into the whole project. - Most project cards point to attachments and links while the files and drafts live elsewhere. An ALLO card opens into the Canvas itself, with the brief, references, versions, comments, and current direction laid out in front of you. - Put the material where it makes sense. - Drop in images, video, PDFs, links, tables, notes, and voice. Group related things. Put alternatives side by side. Make the important part easier to see. The arrangement helps explain the work before anyone reads a recap. - Built for understanding, not just generation. - Making more material is easy. Helping other people compare it, question it, and carry it forward is harder. Use the canvas to keep options, context, feedback, and current direction visible together. - The canvas is built around your files. Not next to them. - In chat, files are dropped into a stream. In documents, they sit inside a page of text. - In ALLO, the files can become the page: spread reference images across the canvas, play a video where it belongs, and keep the brief beside the draft it explains. - Build the project in the same place you will share it. - Start with the brief and references. Add the first drafts, the difficult feedback, the new direction, and the files that follow. Multiple people can work on the canvas as it grows, so the project does not have to be reconstructed whenever someone new opens it. - Three months later, a new teammate can open the canvas and understand the project quickly. - When the project ends, the reasoning is still there. - A final file rarely explains how the team got there. The canvas keeps the attempts, references, feedback, and changes around it, so someone can return months later and understand more than the last version. - An executive's laptop, a client's iPad, a brand manager's desktop, all viewing the same canvas. All reading it without difficulty. No tutorial overlays. - A clear reading order, not an endless wall. - ALLO canvases can be read from top to bottom like a page. Give the project a beginning, a middle, and a current state so the person receiving the link knows where to start and what to look at next. - Start with the project you keep explaining. - Put the material on one canvas, arrange it in the order people should understand it, and share the work instead of another recap. ## Projects Source: https://allo.io/product/projects/en - See the status. Open the work behind it. - ALLO combines familiar project views with a canvas inside every card. Check what is moving, then open the brief, files, drafts, and feedback from the same project. - Free to start. No credit card. - Structure that still makes sense three weeks later. - A blank board can work for a session and become hard to read as the project grows. ALLO gives ongoing work a repeatable shape, so people can return later and still understand what belongs where. - Change the view, not the system. - Some work needs a canvas. Some needs a board, list, calendar, timeline, or dashboard. Move between List, Kanban, Calendar, Timeline, and Dashboard while keeping the same project and canvas connected. - A project board should not be a list of places to look. - The board shows where work stands. The canvas shows what the work is. Keep the files, feedback, references, and current state connected so "in review" does not become another question. - Every project view leads back to the work. - Move cards between stages and see what is in progress, waiting for review, or complete. Each card includes a canvas preview, so you can recognize the project before opening it. - See the quarter across one timeline, spot conflicts before they land, and move dates while the work remains connected to the schedule. - Sort by owner, due date, priority, and tag when the team needs a denser view for triage and weekly planning. - Dashboard for a quick read - See status, blockers, recent activity, and links to the canvases behind the update, the view a manager can open before asking the team for a recap. - See launches, reviews, handoffs, and milestones on the dates they happen, then open the related work from the same project. - The card is the canvas. There is no somewhere else. - Every project card opens into the full canvas where the brief, references, files, comments, and work in progress live. Status and substance stay connected instead of being managed in separate tools. - Every card carries the context around it. - Cards in ALLO show which project the work belongs to, which goal it supports, who owns it, when it is due, and which canvas holds the work. - Open a card to see its owner, due date, status, tags, linked goal, and canvas preview. You do not have to hunt for the file or ask what the status means. - Card detail: project name (linked), goal it ladders up to (linked, with progress bar), owner (avatar), due date, tags, and a thumbnail preview of the canvas inside. - Track the project without hiding the work. - Start a project, choose the view your team needs, and open every card into the canvas behind it. ## Goals Source: https://allo.io/product/goals/en - See the work behind the goal. - ALLO connects objectives and key results to the projects and canvases delivering them, so a progress update can lead directly to the work, not another paragraph written for the meeting. - Goals are available on paid workspace plans. - Goals stay useful when they stay near the work. - A goal in a separate spreadsheet or performance tool is easy to forget during the week. In ALLO, the goal remains connected to the project it is meant to guide. - Keep the direction beside the evidence. - When a team changes course, the objective it serves and the work that led there remain connected. Weeks later, people can see more than a progress number. They can open the project and understand what moved. - For the people who have to report up. - A lead can see how current work connects to the quarter's priorities without chasing every owner for a separately formatted update. - Open the goal. See the work. Open the work. See the goal. - Most OKR tools show the percentage. ALLO lets you open the evidence behind it. - Each key result can connect to one or more Projects or Canvases, and the link works both ways. From the goal, open the related project materials. From the Canvas, see which goal they support. - Direction and execution no longer need separate decks to explain how they relate. - Tree, snapshot, or list. Same goals, different conversations. - Use a hierarchy to see company, team, and individual goals. Use a snapshot to check where things stand now. Use a list to sort and review details. The data stays the same while the view changes for the meeting you are in. - Open a goal. The canvas where the work lives is one click away. - A user drags an Excel file onto an empty Goals page. The file shimmers as it's read. The Goals view populates with the imported OKRs in tree view, structured properly. Coming-soon badge in corner. - For ops, founders, and team leads, not employee scoring. - ALLO Goals connects direction to visible work. It is not a compensation, performance review, or HR system. Use Lattice, 15Five, or your HR platform for formal people processes. Use ALLO when leaders need to see what the team is actually doing against the goal. - See the picture behind the percentage. - Create the goals, connect the projects and canvases, and give every progress update a path back to the work. - Free to start. No credit card. ## AI Studio Source: https://allo.io/product/ai-studio/en - Turn private AI work into shared work. - AI Studio creates from selected files, links, notes, voice, and canvas objects. The result appears beside the material that shaped it, where the team can inspect, change, and share it. - AI Studio turns canvas source material into a webpage beside it. - A useful AI result needs a visible trail. - The question is no longer whether AI can make a first version. It can. The harder questions are what it used, what it missed, who checked it, and whether another person can understand the result. ALLO keeps that context around the output. - Make from the work. Keep the result with the work. - AI Studio is for material that should move beyond one person's screen. Select the inputs, create a new canvas object, and leave it where the project can continue. - Start with the material already on the canvas. - Select notes, files, images, tables, links, earlier drafts, or generated results. Add direction for audience, format, tone, and constraints. - Create a canvas object, not a buried answer. - Ask for a document, image, table, audio file, or webpage-style result. Move it, edit it, comment on it, compare it, or remove it like any other part of the project. - Check the draft before you share it. - Open the result beside its sources. Check facts, tone, permissions, audience, and fit while the material that shaped it is still visible. - Use AI Studio when the output matters outside your screen. - Private chat is fine for disposable exploration. When the result will be reviewed, handed off, reused, or shown to a client, it belongs where other people can see what it is and where it came from. - Turn loose inputs into a first version. - Create briefs, meeting notes, summaries, proposals, checklists, and comparison tables from selected files, notes, URLs, and transcripts. - Explore directions beside the references. - Generate image concepts, campaign graphics, layout ideas, and variants while the brief and source material stay in view. - Create a handoff people can inspect. - Build webpage-style previews, client-facing drafts, or project structures from spreadsheets, meeting notes, PDFs, and exports from Trello, Asana, or monday. - AI Studio is not another private chat. - ALLO separates making a new object, asking about existing material, and continuing the work with other people. - Create new work from selected material. - Use AI Studio to turn project material into a document, image, table, audio file, webpage, or project outline. - Ask about one existing object. - Use Object Chat to summarize, critique, explain, rewrite, or edit a specific note, file, image, table, audio clip, link, or generated result. - Leave useful results where the team can continue them. - Keep the result on the canvas with the sources, comments, and surrounding project instead of making teammates enter your private conversation. - Learn the flow before AI work leaves the project. - Use these guides to choose source material, create useful outputs, check results, manage credits, and turn imported material into a project draft. - Create content with AI Studio - Choose source material, describe the result you need, and create a canvas object the team can continue working with. - Point to one object and ask ALLO to summarize, critique, explain, rewrite, or edit it in place. - Review AI results before sharing - Check facts, format, tone, permissions, audience, and source material before the result travels beyond the project. - Import and create projects with AI - Turn a spreadsheet, PDF, meeting note, Trello export, Asana export, monday export, or prompt into a project draft the team can organize. - How is AI Studio different from ChatGPT or another AI chat? - Chat is useful for individual exploration. AI Studio creates canvas objects from project material, so teammates can see the result beside its sources and continue the work without entering the original conversation. - What source material can AI Studio use? - AI Studio can use prompt text, selected canvas objects, uploaded files, pasted HTTPS URLs, and voice input. The result appears on the canvas as its own object. - Can teams trust AI Studio results automatically? - No. Treat every result as a draft. Check facts, permissions, tone, audience, and fit before the output is shared or used outside the project. - When should a team use ALLO instead of a private AI tool? - Use ALLO when a result needs to be seen, understood, changed, or reused by other people. Use private chat for temporary exploration that does not need to enter the shared project. - Do not leave useful AI work in a private chat. - Create from the project, put the result on the canvas, and share it with the context intact. ## Client review Source: https://allo.io/use-cases/client-review/en - Let clients review the work, not the recap. - Send one canvas with the files, options, notes, and project context. Clients comment where they mean, and your team stops translating screenshots, emails, and call notes back into the work. - A comment should land on the thing it changes. - Client feedback often arrives as a screenshot, a chat message, a call note, or a vague email. In ALLO, the comment can sit beside the file, image, page, or object it refers to, so the team can act without decoding the reference first. - Run client review from the project itself. - Use ALLO for campaign assets, creative concepts, product content, decks, references, moodboards, and evolving files that need client input before the team moves. - Share one readable canvas. - Send the project in one view instead of a recap deck, a Drive folder, and a separate list of links. - Collect precise feedback. - Reviewers comment near the file, mockup, image, sentence, or note they mean, so the team spends less time guessing. - Keep the next version beside what changed it. - Let the new direction sit beside the earlier option, client comment, and note that led to the change. - A reply only helps if the team knows what it refers to. - "Looks good" or "use the second one" is clear in the moment and ambiguous later. Keep the relevant version, feedback, and next step together so the team knows what the client saw and what should happen now. - Why ordinary review breaks. - The task tracker holds the status. Chat holds the question. Drive holds the files. A deck tries to explain it all. ALLO makes the work itself the review surface. - Canvas with files, references, comments, and current direction together - Deck, folder, chat, and task tracker split apart - Placed beside the file, image, page, or object it refers to - Arrives as screenshots, copied links, email replies, and meeting notes - Current and earlier work can sit beside the feedback that changed it - File names and folders carry too much of the meaning - Scoped access to the canvas or project the client needs - Extra seats, exports, loose links, or access to the wrong system - Files, comments, and next steps stay with the project - The team rebuilds the outcome somewhere else - Set up access before you send the review. - A client review works when comments stay attached, permissions are clear, and outside reviewers can enter the specific work without becoming full workspace members. - Give feedback with comments and mentions - Put feedback on the object or page it refers to, mention the person who needs to act, and resolve the thread when the next step is clear. - Choose view, comment, or edit access before sending the link so each person can do their job without touching work they should only inspect. - Let outside reviewers open a shared canvas with scoped permission instead of becoming workspace members. - Invite external collaborators - Give clients, contractors, partners, or temporary reviewers the smallest access that lets them work with the specific project. - Can clients leave comments in ALLO? - Yes. Shared reviewers can comment where permissions allow. Feedback stays near the file, image, deck, or canvas object it refers to instead of becoming another disconnected message. - What kind of client work fits ALLO? - ALLO fits visual and file-heavy work: design concepts, campaign assets, product content, decks, references, briefs, and evolving files that need feedback before the team continues. - Does ALLO replace email with clients? - Not completely. Email can still handle notifications, summaries, and formal communication. ALLO should be the place where the client sees the work and leaves feedback on it. - How is this different from sending a deck? - A deck explains the work at one moment. An ALLO canvas remains open as files, comments, and next steps change, so the team does not have to make a new presentation for every round. - Stop turning client feedback into detective work. - Put the work and the client's comments on one canvas so the next version starts with shared context, not another interpretation. ## For design teams Source: https://allo.io/use-cases/design-teams/en - It feels like working on a single page, but without ever getting lost. Everything we need lives where we put it. - We send clients one link and they get the whole picture. No more "let me put together a deck." - Sharing with a broader audience used to mean rebuilding the project. Now it's just a URL. - Stop making a second deck for the review. - Bring the brief, references, design frames, versions, and feedback onto one canvas. Share the project in the order people should understand it, then let comments land on the work. - Free to start. No credit card. - Send the project, not a pile of links. - A reviewer should not need a guided tour before every round. Put the canvas in the order you want it read, then keep comments beside the mockup, image, note, or file they refer to. - Make every round visible. - First concepts, hard revisions, and the direction that survived should not disappear into separate folders and threads. Keep the path visible so people can see how the work got here. - Keep the chosen direction beside the design. - The comment that changed the hero, the reference that settled the mood, and the reason one direction moved forward should remain beside the design they shaped. Weeks later, the answer is still readable. - Present from the place you worked. - The canvas used to collect references, compare versions, and resolve feedback can also be the view you share. No second deck just to explain the project. - A review should not become a remake. - Design teams do not need another place to draw screens. They need a review view that brand, leadership, clients, and delivery teams can understand without another presentation. - ALLO keeps the brief, references, frames, comments, and earlier directions visible together, so each reviewer can read the project instead of requesting the same recap. - Five tools make five partial stories. - The brief in a document, frames in Figma, files in Drive, feedback in chat, and a Loom for the client each explain one piece. ALLO gives the project one readable surface. - Create in Figma. Share the project in ALLO. - Figma stays where design execution happens. ALLO gives those frames their surrounding context: references nearby, the brief in view, feedback beside the work, and the current direction clear to people outside the design file. - One link. The work, the reason, and the comments together. - Clients should not need to learn your process. - A good review starts with the work, not tool training. Share the canvas with the right access, give it a clear reading order, and let feedback stay attached to the thing it refers to. - What changes when the review gets cleaner. - Representative feedback from design-team workflows. - Make the work easier to review. - Put the brief, frames, versions, and feedback on one canvas, then send the review from there. ## For ecommerce Source: https://allo.io/use-cases/ecommerce/en - Campaign review breaks when options multiply. - Ecommerce teams can produce more images, copy, and variants than a thread can carry. ALLO puts the brief, product details, options, feedback, and final files on one canvas people can review together. - Compare options without opening ten tabs. - A folder makes every asset feel separate. Put the brief, product details, image variants, and copy across the canvas so patterns, weak options, and strong directions are easier to see. - Bring every reviewer to the same campaign. - Design, brand, ecommerce, legal, and leadership can review the same canvas with the same product facts and creative options. Comments stay beside the asset or claim they change. - Leave the review with the asset and the reason. - The goal is not more production. It is a launch owner who knows which version to use, what still needs to change, and where the decision came from. - Free to start. No credit card. - A campaign review needs three things in view. - A campaign can look organized until review starts. - The brief is in a document, shots are in a folder, brand feedback is in chat, legal notes are in email, and the final file name still looks like a guess. - ALLO puts the campaign on one canvas: brief, references, variants, copy, feedback, legal notes, and final files arranged in the order the team needs to read them. - A single ALLO canvas, scrolling from brief to hero variants, copy options, approval comments, legal notes, and final assets. - Review notes stay with the creative. - Put the brand comment beside the hero image. Put the legal note beside the claim. Put the current direction where the launch owner will find it. - Every campaign gets a canvas. The campaign board stays clean. - See every campaign without opening every folder. - Projects shows active campaigns by stage, owner, date, and status. Each card opens into the canvas where the actual review happened, so the board tracks progress without hiding the work. - When the direction is clear, the final file should be obvious. - The person moving work into an email platform, ad account, marketplace, or storefront should not need to search chat for the latest answer. Keep the file beside the comments and context that made it current. - Share the campaign before it becomes a file dump. - Put the brief, variants, copy, feedback, and final files on one canvas the launch team can follow. ## For education Source: https://allo.io/use-cases/education/en - Make the learning process visible. - ALLO gives project-based learning, design thinking, capstones, and action learning a shared canvas for research, drafts, critique, reflection, and final work. Students can show how the work developed, not only submit the last file. - For project-based classes, studios, workshops, and campus teams. - These methods assess the process. Most tools keep only the final file. - Project-based learning, design thinking, and action learning ask students to investigate, try, receive feedback, revise, and reflect. A submission box sees the end and loses most of what happened before it. - Sustained inquiry stays visible. - Research, sources, screenshots, interviews, field notes, and questions accumulate on the canvas as the project develops instead of remaining in personal folders. - Critique and revision stay connected. - Feedback sits beside the draft it refers to, and the next version can sit beside the previous attempt. Students can see and explain what changed. - Reflection has something concrete to point to. - Reflection becomes more specific when students can refer to the actual attempt, comment, revision, and choice instead of writing from memory. - The LMS runs the course. ALLO shows the learning as it happens. - Use the LMS for enrollment, announcements, grades, deadlines, and official course material. - Use ALLO when students need to collect sources, compare ideas, build shared work, receive feedback, and present the process together. - From the driving question to the public product. - A real project leaves a trail: the question, research, early ideas, failed attempts, critique, revisions, and final work. ALLO keeps that arc visible on one canvas, so the outcome can be understood through the thinking that produced it. - Run the studio wall, not a file exchange. - Design thinking moves through empathy, definition, ideation, prototyping, and testing. Each stage creates material that needs to be compared and connected. ALLO gives the class a shared surface where ideas can multiply, move, and converge with comments on the exact note, sketch, or frame. - Use ALLO with the tools your campus already has. - Keep Canvas LMS, Moodle, Google Classroom, Blackboard, or your campus platform for official administration. Use ALLO for the visual and collaborative work those systems are not designed to show. - Students should be able to return to the path, not only the final file. - A useful portfolio shows more than polish. It shows the attempts, feedback, changes, and learning between them. ALLO keeps that path available for students, teammates, instructors, and assessors to revisit. - Built for methods that grade the making. - When a course asks students to make something for a real audience, the process deserves a place alongside the result. - Put the driving question first, sustained inquiry through the middle, and the public product at the end. Students and assessors can follow the full arc. - Keep empathy research, ideas, prototypes, and testing feedback beside the directions they produced, so convergence can be seen rather than merely claimed. - Keep the real problem, the action taken, the result, and the reflection visible to the whole team as the cycle repeats. - Teach the process. Keep the proof. - Give every project a canvas for the research, attempts, critique, reflection, and final work, and finish the course with something worth revisiting. - Education plans are available for schools, classes, and workshops. ## For game studios Source: https://allo.io/use-cases/game-studios/en - Keep creative direction visible after production starts. - Use ALLO for the references, concept art, story material, and feedback around a game. The direction remains readable when new people join, production raises questions, or the team needs to share a milestone. - Give the game a shared surface before it exists. - Moodboards, character sheets, environment references, key art, story beats, and production notes need room to sit together before they become tasks, assets, or files in the build. - Let every discipline see the same direction. - Art, narrative, design, audio, production, and marketing can look at the same canvas and understand what has been chosen, what remains open, and which references the work is meant to follow. - Production tools stay for production - ALLO is not version control, an engine, or a build pipeline. Keep Perforce, Git, and the engine for the build itself. Use ALLO for the creative context and direction that feed them. - Free to start. Built for indie and mid-size studios. - The pre-production wall should not die in week two. - A whiteboard can be enough for kickoff. The problem starts later, when production raises the same questions and the reference board has become a stale link. - ALLO keeps the canvas useful past pre-production. The moodboard, source references, AI explorations, notes, and chosen directions are still readable when a new artist joins or an old assumption is challenged. - One picture for every creative discipline. - Concept artists, modelers, animators, audio designers, narrative leads, producers, and marketers all need the direction to remain legible. ALLO keeps references, concepts, feedback, and plans in the same visual space. - The reference wall is still there when the build starts arguing back. - AI concepts need the references beside them. - Generated concepts are only useful if the team can compare them with the brief, source references, and notes. Put them on the canvas where the art lead can judge the direction, not only the image. - See the AI credit balance before you generate. - AI actions use workspace credits, and Billing shows the current balance before anything runs. Teams can explore directions while admins retain visibility into usage. - Share the milestone without sending a file dump. - Publishers, contractors, and outsourcing studios can open the canvas with scoped access. They see the material and direction they need without entering the entire workspace. - Make pre-production useful after pre-production. - Keep references, concepts, feedback, AI explorations, and current direction on one canvas the team can return to. ## ALLO vs Miro Source: https://allo.io/vs-miro/en - Miro gives teams a powerful canvas. ALLO gives the project a readable shape. - Miro is a broad platform for workshops, diagrams, planning, and AI-assisted collaboration. ALLO is more focused: arrange the files, drafts, feedback, and project context so another person can open one canvas and understand the work. - A workshop board is easy to start. The harder part is making it useful later. - Miro is fast and flexible when a group is exploring together. The problem is not the infinite canvas itself. The problem starts when raw workshop material becomes the project handoff. Someone who missed the session still has to find the relevant frames, understand what changed, and work out which material matters now. - ALLO gives ongoing visual work a reading path. - Use a freeform whiteboard when the team needs open space. Use a page canvas when the work needs sequence. Connect that canvas to the project, then share the part people need to understand instead of asking them to navigate the history of the board. - Both products bring AI onto the canvas. They organize the result differently. - Miro is building a broad AI collaboration layer for generating, transforming, and organizing work across the board. ALLO keeps generated documents, images, tables, audio, and webpages beside the files and references that shaped them, so the output becomes part of a shared project rather than another private answer. - More output makes shared context more valuable. - When every participant can produce more drafts and directions, the team does not need another place to generate. It needs a view that shows what belongs together, what changed, and what another person should look at first. - Miro is the more complete general-purpose visual collaboration platform. Choose ALLO when the recurring problem is turning evolving, file-heavy work into a project another person can open and understand. - Choose Miro when facilitation and breadth matter most. - Miro is the stronger choice for large workshops, design sprints, diagramming, voting, timers, breakout activities, and teams that want a mature visual platform with a broad template and integration ecosystem. - Miro also supports structured work through Kanban, Table, and Timeline formats. Do not choose ALLO on the outdated assumption that Miro is only a sticky-note board. - Choose ALLO when the work must remain readable after the session. - ALLO is focused on file-heavy visual projects that continue across days or months. The brief, references, drafts, AI output, comments, and current direction can stay together on a canvas connected to the project views the team uses to track the work. - Page canvases and freeform whiteboards - Infinite boards with frames and multiple canvas formats - Kanban, Timeline, List, Calendar, and Dashboard project views - Kanban, Table, and Timeline formats on the board - Project views connected directly to canvases - Structured planning on the board, plus integrations and connected workflows - Native Goals connected to projects and canvases - Not a core goal-management system; usually handled with templates or integrations - Native project calendar view - No dedicated project calendar; teams use timelines, templates, or integrations - Files are supported inside a broader collaboration platform - Available, but not the main product depth - Plan- and permission-based canvas sharing - Visitors and guests with access depending on plan and board settings - Create project objects beside the sources and people who need them - Broad canvas AI for generation, transformation, agents, and workflows - Ongoing visual projects that need a clear shared view - Workshops, diagramming, planning, and broad visual collaboration - Use Miro when the session needs a facilitator. Use ALLO when the project needs to explain itself. - Already using Miro? Move the material that still matters. - ALLO does not currently offer a one-click Miro importer. Teams usually bring over the brief, selected references, unresolved questions, and files that need to stay visible as the project continues. - Should we replace Miro entirely? - Not when workshops, facilitation, or diagramming are central to the team. Miro can remain the live collaboration tool, while ALLO holds the ongoing visual project that people need to revisit and share afterward. - Can ALLO match Miro's voting, timers, and facilitation tools? - No. ALLO supports live collaboration, comments, and reactions, but it does not match Miro's depth of workshop activities, voting, timers, and facilitation patterns. - How should we compare pricing? - Check the current plans on both sites and compare the workflow you actually need. Miro pricing reflects a broad collaboration platform. ALLO plans combine workspace creation, sharing permissions, project history, storage, administration, and optional AI capacity. - Can clients access ALLO canvases without learning the whole product? - Yes, when the selected plan and sharing settings allow it. Arrange the canvas before sending the link so the client sees a clear body of work rather than the raw history of the team session. - Give the project a shape people can follow. ## ALLO vs Notion Source: https://allo.io/vs-notion/en - Notion organizes the workspace. ALLO arranges the work people need to see. - Notion is a powerful AI workspace for docs, knowledge, databases, projects, and agents. ALLO is built for a narrower problem: keeping visual material, files, feedback, and project context visible together on a canvas. - A document can describe the work. It cannot always show the work. - Notion is excellent when people need to read a brief, search company knowledge, or update structured information. Visual work becomes harder when the reader must open links, scroll between sections, and remember how each file relates to the others. ALLO gives that material a shared visual surface. - See the options together, not one block at a time. - Put the brief beside the drafts. Keep references near the direction they inspired. Compare versions without moving between pages and attachments. The layout itself tells the reader what belongs together and what deserves attention first. - Notion is the broader and more capable knowledge workspace. ALLO earns a place when the work becomes difficult to understand as pages, database rows, links, and attachments. - Notion is the better home for knowledge and structured work. - Choose Notion for wikis, internal handbooks, written documentation, meeting notes, relational databases, project databases, enterprise search, and AI agents that work across pages and connected information. - Notion also supports files, comments, sharing, timelines, project management, media, and AI-assisted creation. ALLO should not be sold by pretending those capabilities do not exist. - In ALLO, the arrangement of files is part of the explanation. - In Notion, files and media live inside pages and database items. That is useful when the page is the main object and the media supports the written record. - In ALLO, the material can become the surface itself. Spread out references, place drafts beside them, keep feedback next to the object it concerns, and arrange the canvas so another person can understand the project without reading the conversation that produced it. - Native page canvases and freeform whiteboards - No native spatial canvas; content is organized through pages, blocks, databases, and views - Files, media, notes, and generated objects can form the project surface - Files and media live inside pages and database items - Real-time collaboration on pages, not a spatial multiplayer canvas - Native project views connected to canvases - Database-based board, timeline, list, calendar, chart, and other views - Yes; the project card opens into the visual work - A database item opens as a Notion page - Native Goals connected to projects and canvases - Usually built with databases, templates, and relations - Not a full company knowledge base - Limited structured project and goal data - A core strength with relations, rollups, formulas, and multiple views - Create and work with documents, images, tables, audio, and webpages on the canvas - Agents, search, writing, research, meetings, databases, and connected workspace knowledge - Plan- and permission-based project and canvas sharing - Page guests and public links with permission controls - See current Notion plans - Visual, file-heavy work that benefits from spatial comparison and sharing - Knowledge, documentation, databases, structured projects, and agent workflows - Use Notion to organize what the company knows. Use ALLO to show the visual work in progress. - Where teams add ALLO beside Notion. - Campaign and design review - Keep the written brief, campaign database, and operating notes in Notion. Use ALLO when references, creative directions, files, and feedback need to be reviewed together on one visual surface. - Video, game, and product pre-production - Use Notion for specifications and written documentation. Use ALLO for mood boards, concept directions, reference walls, and material that needs to be compared spatially. - A Notion page is easy to share when the deliverable is a document. ALLO is useful when the client should see an intentionally arranged body of visual work without navigating a workspace page and its linked databases. - Leadership review of visual work - Keep the operational record in Notion. Share an ALLO canvas when leaders need to review the current files, feedback, and direction together. - Already using Notion? Keep it. - ALLO does not need to become your company wiki or replace the databases that already run the team. Use Notion for knowledge and structured information. Add ALLO only where the work becomes difficult to understand as pages, rows, links, and attachments. - Move the projects where visual material keeps escaping into Drive, Figma, chat, slides, and separate review decks. ALLO does not currently offer a one-click Notion importer, so bring over the brief and material that should remain visible together. - Should we replace Notion entirely? - No, not when Notion is working well for docs, wikis, databases, projects, or agents. ALLO is a focused addition for visual projects that benefit from a shared canvas. - Can ALLO build relational databases like Notion? - No. ALLO has structured Projects and Goals, but it is not designed to reproduce Notion's relational database system, formulas, rollups, and knowledge architecture. - Can ALLO replace Notion for wikis and internal documentation? - No. Keep Notion, Confluence, or another knowledge platform for company documentation. ALLO is for visual project work, not for becoming the central corporate wiki. - How do the AI products differ? - Notion offers a much broader AI workspace with agents, search, research, meeting support, databases, and connected knowledge. ALLO's AI is narrower and canvas-oriented: generated objects stay beside the files and references the team will use to understand and share the project. - How should we compare pricing? - Check the current plans on both sites. Compare the full workflow rather than one seat price: knowledge and database depth in Notion, versus canvas creation, project sharing, history, storage, administration, and optional AI capacity in ALLO. - Can clients access both products? - Yes. Both support external sharing with permission controls. Choose based on the recipient experience: a page and database structure, or a visual project deliberately arranged on a canvas. - Keep the knowledge in Notion. Give the visual work a canvas. ## ALLO vs Asana Source: https://allo.io/vs-asana/en - Asana runs the workflow. ALLO shows the body of work moving through it. - Asana is excellent at requests, ownership, dates, dependencies, automation, reporting, approvals, and proofing. ALLO is for projects where many files, references, drafts, and comments need to remain visible together, not opened one task at a time. - A status can tell you where the work is. It cannot always show you what the work means. - Asana can show the owner, due date, dependency, status, attached files, proofing feedback, and an approval state. The gap appears when a reviewer needs to compare many references, drafts, and comments in one view rather than open one task after another. - Asana is the more complete work-management platform. ALLO is the more focused visual surface for projects that lose meaning when reduced to tasks, attachments, and status fields. - Choose Asana when process depth matters most. - Asana is the stronger product for structured intake, forms, owners, dependencies, rules, handoffs, portfolios, resource planning, status reporting, formal approvals, and repeatable workflows across teams. - Asana also supports point-based proofing on supported images and PDFs. Do not choose ALLO because someone told you Asana cannot collect creative feedback or record approval states. - In ALLO, the project card opens into the shared visual context. - An Asana task is the right object when one unit of work needs an owner, date, checklist, discussion, proofing note, and clear next action. - ALLO fits when the unit is larger than one task: a campaign direction, design review, reference wall, client update, or pre-production space where people need to take in many connected objects at once. - Native project views connected to canvases - Mature list, board, calendar, timeline, Gantt, portfolio, and reporting views - A task opens into task details with files, comments, and workflow data - Native page canvases and freeform whiteboards - No native freeform project canvas - Files and visual material can become the project surface - Files are attached to tasks; supported files can use proofing - Native Goals connected to projects and canvases - Native Goals connected to projects and reporting, without an ALLO-style canvas link - Usually assembled through files, tasks, or connected creative tools - Plan- and permission-based sharing - Guest and project permissions vary by plan and organization settings - Visual projects that must be understood as a whole - Repeatable processes, cross-team execution, routing, and operational scale - Use Asana to make the workflow reliable. Use ALLO when the work cannot be understood one task at a time. - Use Asana to route the work. Use ALLO to share the work people need to see. - A team can keep requests, owners, deadlines, dependencies, and portfolio reporting in Asana while using ALLO for the campaign review, design direction, reference-heavy project, or client-facing visual update that needs one shared view. - Does ALLO have automation rules like Asana? - No. Asana is substantially stronger in forms, rules, routing, dependencies, portfolio management, resource planning, and workflow automation. Keep Asana when those systems are central to the operation. - Can ALLO replace Asana for a marketing or design team? - It can replace a lightweight setup when the team's main problem is sharing and reviewing visual project work. Keep Asana when structured intake, automation, dependencies, portfolios, formal approval tasks, or resource management are essential. - How should we compare pricing? - Check the current plans on both sites. Compare the workflow you need, not only the seat price: Asana's process depth and automation versus ALLO's canvas-centered projects, sharing, history, storage, administration, and optional AI capacity. - Let the workflow track the work. Let people see it too. ## ALLO vs monday Source: https://allo.io/vs-monday/en - monday gives organizations a configurable work platform. ALLO gives visual projects a simpler center. - monday.com manages processes, portfolios, dashboards, documents, automations, and AI workflows. WorkCanvas also adds visual collaboration. ALLO is intentionally narrower: project views connected to canvases where the actual visual work remains readable and shareable. - A platform can show every workflow while the files and drafts stay elsewhere. - monday.com is designed to model many processes across an organization. That breadth is useful. The question for a visual team is whether the status board is also the view a reviewer needs when they open the project. ALLO starts from that shared view of the work itself. - monday.com is broader, more configurable, and stronger for operational scale. ALLO is narrower and easier to adopt when the main problem is making visual project work understandable and shareable. - Choose monday.com when the workflow must be deeply configurable. - Custom columns, automations, forms, cross-board reporting, portfolio oversight, resource views, Workdocs, integrations, and AI workflows make monday.com the stronger choice for process-heavy operations at scale. - monday.com also offers WorkCanvas with connections to monday boards and items. It is no longer accurate to claim that monday.com has no visual canvas. - ALLO makes the canvas native to the way the project opens. - In monday.com, boards and items remain the operational center, while WorkCanvas adds a connected visual surface. That is a strong setup for organizations already building their operating system on monday.com. - In ALLO, the card opens directly into the brief, references, files, drafts, AI output, comments, and reading flow. The team does not have to design a separate board-and-canvas system before the project becomes shareable. - Native project views connected to canvases - Mature boards, timelines, lists, calendars, dashboards, portfolios, and product-specific views - Native page canvases and freeform whiteboards - WorkCanvas, available with monday integrations and board-item connections - Yes; the project card opens into the visual work - An item opens into item details; WorkCanvas is a connected visual surface - Files and visual objects can form the project surface - Files live in items and docs, with visual work also possible in WorkCanvas - Possible through WorkCanvas rather than the default board model - Native Goals connected to projects and canvases - Goals can be modeled through boards, dashboards, and templates; not the same native canvas relationship - Plan- and permission-based sharing - Access varies across monday products, boards, WorkCanvas, and plan settings - See current monday.com and WorkCanvas plans - Teams wanting a focused visual project center - Organizations standardizing many configurable workflows on one platform - monday lets you design the operating system. ALLO gives the visual project a place to live without designing one first. - Use monday.com for the operating model. Use ALLO when the visual project needs less machinery. - For sales, service, operations, portfolio management, resource planning, and highly customized workflows, monday.com is usually the stronger answer. ALLO fits when the recurring problem is simpler: arrange the work so another person can open one link and understand it. - Can ALLO match monday.com's custom fields and automation? - No. monday.com is substantially stronger for configurable fields, cross-board automation, portfolio reporting, resource planning, and process design. ALLO is intentionally narrower. - How should we compare pricing? - Check current pricing for monday.com, WorkCanvas, and ALLO. Compare the total setup you need: a configurable operating platform with connected products, or a focused visual project model with sharing, history, storage, administration, and optional AI capacity. - Choose less platform when the work only needs a clear place to live. ## ALLO vs Jira Source: https://allo.io/vs-jira/en - Jira turns defined work into software delivery. ALLO helps visual work become clear enough to hand over. - Jira is built for work items, backlogs, sprints, dependencies, and engineering delivery. Use ALLO before or alongside Jira for references, concepts, campaign material, stakeholder feedback, and creative direction. - A work item is useful once the work can be described clearly. - Jira is excellent when a team has a defined outcome, owner, priority, workflow, and delivery conversation. It is less natural while people are still comparing visual directions, collecting references, or trying to show a non-engineering stakeholder what the project means. - The Atlassian stack is more complete for product and engineering organizations. ALLO is a focused visual layer for teams that need a simpler way to share the work before or beside delivery. - Choose Jira for engineering delivery. - Jira is the stronger product for backlogs, sprint planning, issue types, custom workflows, dependencies, releases, engineering reporting, and software delivery at scale. - The wider Atlassian platform also includes Jira Product Discovery for ideas, insights, prioritization, and roadmaps, plus Confluence Whiteboards for visual collaboration connected to Jira work items. Do not compare ALLO against Jira as though Atlassian has no discovery or canvas tools. - Use ALLO while the visual context is still the work. - A campaign direction, game reference wall, design exploration, brand review, or client-facing creative project contains relationships that do not fit naturally into fields and issue descriptions. - Keep that material on an ALLO canvas. When the direction is clear enough to become defined execution work, move the resulting tasks into Jira without losing the visual source context behind them. - Native project views connected to canvases - Mature boards, timelines, plans, filters, and reporting for delivery work - Native page canvases and freeform whiteboards - Not native to Jira itself; Confluence Whiteboards provides a connected canvas in the Atlassian stack - A Jira work item opens into issue details - Not designed as an engineering system - Limited project coordination - Usually handled through attachments, Confluence, whiteboards, or connected creative tools - Native Goals connected to projects and canvases - Not core Jira; goal and strategy capabilities exist elsewhere in the Atlassian platform - Plan- and permission-based sharing - Access depends on Jira and Atlassian product permissions and plan settings - See current Jira and relevant Atlassian product plans - Visual and cross-functional work before or beside execution - Product and engineering planning, issue management, and software delivery - Keep Jira for the work item. Keep the visual context somewhere people can still see it. - Keep Jira where delivery happens. Use ALLO before the visual work is flattened into issues. - The cleanest setup is often upstream and downstream: ALLO for the visual brief, references, directions, and stakeholder review; Jira for the defined work items, engineering workflow, and release process that follow. - Can ALLO replace Jira for an engineering team? - No. ALLO is not a sprint, issue, release, or software-delivery system. Engineering teams should keep Jira or the delivery platform that already runs their work. - We are a non-engineering team using Jira. Can we move? - Often, but not automatically. A marketing, design, content, or game team may need less workflow depth and more visual context. Keep Jira if the team depends on shared enterprise workflows, reporting, or engineering handoffs. Consider ALLO when the work is repeatedly rebuilt in decks, folders, and chat just so someone can understand it. - How should we compare pricing? - Check the current Jira, Confluence, Jira Product Discovery, and ALLO plans relevant to your setup. The real comparison is the stack required for your workflow: engineering delivery depth, or a focused visual project surface for cross-functional work. - Define the work visually. Deliver it in Jira. ## About ALLO Source: https://allo.io/resources/about/en - In 2014, work was moving into feeds. We kept building a canvas. - The obvious bet was smaller screens, faster streams, and more notifications. We went the other way. BeeCanvas gave teams a shared surface for briefs, references, sketches, files, feedback, and unfinished thinking: the work that could not be reduced to a thread. That is still why ALLO exists. - Briefs, storyboards, product shots, and AI drafts arranged as one project people can follow. - B Dash Camp, Kyoto, 2015. An early BeeCanvas presentation before the product's public launch. - San Francisco, 2022. ALLO meeting a wider market as remote collaboration became normal. - The interfaces changed. The hard part did not. - Mobile made software personal. Chat made communication immediate. Remote work made digital collaboration unavoidable. Generative AI made creation dramatically faster. Through every shift, teams still had to turn scattered activity into work other people could understand. - Most software was moving toward smaller screens, faster streams, and more notifications. We built for the wall: a shared surface where people could spread out the raw material before it became a clean task or finished file. - 2020. Communication moved online. The work was still fragmented. - Teams could meet on video and talk in chat, but the project itself remained split across files, screenshots, links, documents, and presentation decks. The missing layer was not another conversation. It was a shared view of the work. - 2023. AI made the gap larger. - Generative AI made it possible for every person to create more drafts and options inside private conversations. That increased the need for a place where useful results could leave the chat, meet the project context, and become understandable to the team. - What we are building now - ALLO is not a whiteboard with an AI button added. It is a visual collaboration product designed to turn project material into a shared view that people and AI can work from together. - Gather the raw material. - Projects rarely begin as clean tasks. They begin as briefs, research, screenshots, references, incomplete ideas, conversations, and files from different tools. ALLO gives that material room to become understandable. - Make the structure visible. - Position, grouping, size, sequence, and relationship can communicate what a message cannot. A canvas lets the team show how the pieces fit together instead of explaining the structure again and again. - Bring AI into shared context. - Useful AI work should not remain trapped inside one person's conversation. ALLO lets people create from project material and put the result back on the shared canvas where the team can see and continue it. - I did not start ALLO from a market map. I started from a belief about how people think. Before an idea becomes a sentence or a task, people collect fragments. They sketch, compare, move things around, notice relationships, reject one direction, and follow another. Sparks of Genius gave me language for something I had felt for a long time: serious thinking often begins before it becomes linear. That belief became BeeCanvas in 2014. - At the time, the software world was moving toward feeds. Mobile and social products made information smaller, faster, and more continuous. That was useful for communication, but I did not believe every kind of work should be reduced to a stream of messages. Over the next decade, the market changed around us. Remote work made digital collaboration normal. Project tools became larger platforms. Chat became the default interface for both teams and AI. The canvas itself also became common. - That means ALLO cannot win simply by putting files and comments in one place. Every large platform can say that. The harder and more important job is to help a team turn unfinished, scattered work into something another person can open and understand. AI makes that job more urgent. It creates more drafts, images, documents, and options than teams had before, but most of that work begins in private chats. The output may be fast, yet the team still has to understand where it came from, how it relates to the brief, what changed, and what should happen next. - We are building ALLO for that moment. Not to replace every message, specialist tool, or workflow. To give the work a shared form when a thread is no longer enough. - The mission is still the same. - Help people turn work in progress into something others can understand, contribute to, and carry forward. That was the reason to start in 2014. It remains the reason to keep building.