Lucidspark

Lucidspark is the whiteboard product from Lucid Software (makers of Lucidchart) — an infinite canvas with sticky notes, private-mode brainstorming, anonymous voting sessions, timers, the Lucid AI assistant (prompt-to-board, clustering, summaries) and bidirectional sync with Lucidchart for diagrams. Voting, timers and facilitator tools start at the Team tier; Breakout Boards and the Jira/Azure DevOps card sync are Enterprise-only. Strong enterprise posture inherited from Lucid: SSO/SAML, SCIM, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001/27701/42001, FedRAMP, IRAP, GDPR, and US/EU/AU data residency.

Lucid pitches Lucidspark as the virtual whiteboard where ideas ignite — an infinite canvas for brainstorming that hands off into Lucidchart for diagrams and into Jira for delivery.

"Move seamlessly from ideation to planning and building."

The buyer narrative is suite consolidation: Lucidspark and Lucidchart are sold as one Lucid Suite at $15/user/mo against $10/user/mo standalone, under a "trusted partner of 99% of the Fortune 500" banner. The 2026 push is Lucid AI plus an official MCP server, so Claude or ChatGPT can search boards, summarise them and generate synced Jira cards. One pricing-page footnote is worth reading before you budget: AI is free to all users today but "may be subject to a paid subscription model in the future."

Lucidspark is a solid whiteboard pick when Lucidchart is already in the stack, and it handles anonymity better than its reputation suggests — private mode hides sticky note authors until the session ends, and a facilitator can set a voting session fully anonymous. Lucid's compliance posture (SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001/27701/42001, FedRAMP, IRAP, US/EU/AU residency) is the strongest in this category, and the official Lucid MCP server is GA and shipping monthly.

The catch is where the retro features sit in the price list. Voting, timers and facilitator tools all start at the $10/user Team tier; Breakout Boards and the Lucid Cards sync to Jira and Azure DevOps are Enterprise-only. The free plan cannot run a facilitated retro at all. The structural gaps also stand: no health checks, no recurring retros, no action carryover, no cross-team rollup, and AI that clusters and summarises but never reads sentiment or trends across cycles.

Best fit: teams already paying for Lucid Suite whose security review wants a FedRAMP vendor. Thin, and back-loaded on price, as a standalone retro tool.