Lattice for founders
Lattice is a canvas where founders lay out an argument, a pitch, a product direction, a strategy memo, as one board instead of thirty slides. Put the claim on the left and the evidence to its right, let Lattice group and connect the cards, then present it full-screen or send a read-only link someone can read in five minutes on a phone.
Open a board- The deck is thirty-four slides because a slide holds one thing, and the argument spans ten of them.
- The product idea is a doc nobody finishes, a design file nobody opens, and a recording nobody watches to the end.
- Someone asks how the model connects to the market, and the answer is on two slides twenty apart.
Lay the argument out left to right
A pitch is an argument, and an argument reads better as one surface than as a stack of pages. Start from the Pitch or Talk template: the one idea, who's in the room, the evidence, the order you'll say it in, and the ask. Drop the chart as an image, the cohort table as a PDF, a screenshot of the product, a link to the data room that unfurls into a card. Draw connections between the claim and the numbers that back it. The Series A showcase board on this site is the finished version of this idea: a fictional company's raise built as one left-to-right argument across a single canvas, the claim, the proof, the model, the market, the ask. Open it, walk through it, and copy it into your account to start from.
Argue a feature the same way
The same left-to-right shape works for a product decision. The Product Spec template sets out the problem, the shape of the fix, what you're not doing, and how you'll know it worked. Drop in the screenshots, a short video of the prototype that plays in place, the support tickets as a PDF, and a voice note from the customer call, transcribed so you can quote it. Draw a line from the problem to the exact part of the fix that answers it, so the reasoning is visible instead of implied. When the evidence pile outgrows what you can hold in your head, let Lattice sort it: it groups the cards into frames by what they have in common and links the ones that support each other, so the proof column reads as proof. Tag by status and filter to what's still open before the meeting.
Present it in the room, or send the link
In the room, presentation mode puts the board full-screen and steps through it frame by frame: the claim, then the proof, then the model, the market, the ask, in the order you'd say it. There's no toolbar and nothing to click past. Afterwards, turn on link sharing and send the board to the people who asked for a deck. It opens in a browser on a phone with no account, they read it at their own pace, and they can forward it to the partner they'd have forwarded the deck to. When a question comes back about the model, edit that frame; the link they have already shows the answer. If someone insists on an attachment, export the board to PDF. The whole thing costs nothing during public beta, and no card is asked for.
Questions
- Can someone read the board without an account?
- Yes. Turn on link sharing and the board opens read-only in any browser, on a phone or a laptop, with nothing to sign up for.
- Can I present the board like a deck?
- Yes. Presentation mode takes the board full-screen and steps through it frame by frame, in the order you laid out.
- Can I put a chart, a video, or a spreadsheet on the board?
- Yes. Images, video, audio, PDFs, and Office files all become cards on the board, and links unfurl with a preview.
- Does Lattice make slides?
- No. The board is the deliverable. Present it directly, send the link, or export the board to PDF when someone needs an attachment.
- Is it free?
- Yes, free during public beta and no card. The paid tier, Studio, is announced and on a waitlist; it's not for sale.