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, magic sort, board summaries) and bidirectional sync with Lucidchart for diagrams. Free and Individual get static dot voting only; the timer, private voting and facilitator tools start at the Team tier, and Breakout Boards plus the Lucid Cards sync to Jira/Azure DevOps/monday.com are Enterprise-only. Strong enterprise posture inherited from Lucid: SSO/SAML, SCIM, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001/27701/42001, FedRAMP Moderate, IRAP PROTECTED, 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.

"Brought to you by Lucid, trusted partner of 99% of the Fortune 500."

Through 2026 the pitch has moved from whiteboard to platform. Enterprise now folds Lucidchart in behind a "universal canvas", airfocus sits alongside both after the acquisition, and Enterprise Shield, Cloud Accelerator and Process Accelerator are sold as paid add-ons on top. The AI story leads with the official MCP server: Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and Codex can search boards, summarise them and generate synced Jira cards. Bundled, Lucidchart plus Lucidspark is $15/user/mo against $10 standalone. One pricing-page footnote to budget around — AI is free to all users today but "may be subject to a paid subscription model in the future."

Lucidspark handles anonymity better than most whiteboards, and better than its own reputation suggests: private mode hides sticky note contents and authors on every plan, free included, and the facilitator can choose to keep authors hidden permanently. Team adds private voting, a timer and facilitator controls. Lucid's compliance posture — SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001/27701/42001, FedRAMP Moderate, IRAP PROTECTED, US/EU/AU residency — is the strongest in this category, and the official MCP server is GA on every tier.

The catch is where the retro features sit in the price list. Free and Individual get static dot voting and nothing else facilitator-shaped; the timer and real voting sessions start at $10/user Team; Breakout Boards and the Lucid Cards sync to Jira, Azure DevOps and monday.com are Enterprise-only; audit logs need the paid Enterprise Shield add-on on top of that. The structural gaps stand too: no health checks, no recurring retros, no action carryover, no cross-team rollup, and AI that sorts 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.