Nobody can draw and think at once
Whoever holds the pen stops taking part. Whoever talks has no picture to point at. The best ideas get said, not drawn.
Live diagrams for meetings
You talk.
You talk.
Claro draws.
Leave every design session with the diagram already drawn. Claro listens while you talk and draws the architecture, the process, the data model and the decisions, live, with what is still open and what you disagree on marked for everyone to see.
Free demo, no account needed · Nothing you say is stored on our server
Save your time and money, exponentially
Every meeting hour without Claro costs an hour of drawing afterwards. Then a round of aligning on that drawing, then redrawing, then aligning again. Claro takes away the first hour, and with it the rounds that pile up behind it.
for every hour of meeting €19a month ≈ €300of your time back 300 credits, about 3 meeting hours, at €100 an hour · measured in our own sessions · work out yours
The problem
Meetings end with agreement. Then everyone draws a different picture.
The diagram comes days later
Someone redraws the whiteboard photo after the meeting, from memory. By then it shows what one person understood, not what the room agreed.
Gaps and disagreements stay hidden
A process nobody finished, a system nobody owns, two people meaning different things by "push": they surface in the build, where they cost the most.
What changes
One picture, built while you talk, that everyone in the room can check
Everyone takes part, because everyone can see it
People engage when the picture grows while they talk: they point at it, correct it, add to it. If it shows something you didn't mean, you say so, and Claro redraws it.
Missing pieces ask to be filled in
Each kind of diagram knows what it needs. A process without an end or a system nobody supports shows dashed, so the meeting asks the next question.
Disagreement is on the table, not under it
When two people contradict each other, it turns red and stays red until the conversation settles it.
Nothing left to redraw
The diagrams and a summary are done when the meeting ends. Export them for a document, a repo or Miro the same minute.
How it works
Nobody draws during the meeting. The diagram is there anyway.
1. Talk
Press Start listening and have the meeting. Claro tells the speakers apart, in Dutch, English and eight more languages.
2. Claro models it
Every subject gets its own diagram. Small talk draws nothing. A correction repairs the diagram; a contradiction turns red until someone settles it.
3. Keep the diagrams
Export one diagram or all of them as JSON or Mermaid, ready for a repo, a document, Miro, or the next meeting.
Who it's for
For the conversations where the picture is the outcome
Architects and tech leads
Architecture reviews, integration and data flow designs, infrastructure choices. Walk out with the diagram and the open decisions, not a whiteboard photo.
Consultants
Intake sessions and workshops with a client. Hand over the model of their situation the same day, in their own words, with the gaps you still need to close.
Product, process and service owners
Process walkthroughs, support models, who owns what. Ownership gaps and unfinished steps show up while the right people are still in the room.
The diagrams
Eleven kinds of diagram, drawn the way they should be
One sentence can update several diagrams at once: "the portal runs on Azure and the platform team supports it" lands in infrastructure and in the support model. Each kind knows what it needs and asks for what is missing.
- Infrastructure
What runs where, and what connects to what.
Asks: where does it run? - Data flow
Where data comes from and where it goes, every hop in order.
- Process flow
The steps and their order, from start to end.
Asks: where does it end? - Support model
Who supports and owns what, and who to call when it breaks.
Asks: who supports this? - Organization
Teams, who is in which, roles and who reports to whom.
- Data model
The things data is about, and how many of each belong together.
- Decisions
The question, the options, the arguments for and against, and what was chosen.
Asks: not decided yet? - Timeline
Milestones and tasks, their dates and owners, and what comes first.
Asks: no date or owner yet? - Sequence
Who calls or asks whom, in order, within one request.
- Lifecycle
The states one thing goes through, and what moves it on.
Asks: how does it get out of this state? - Risks
The risks people name, as a register: owner, impact and the measures against them.
Asks: who owns it, what mitigates it? - And every other subject
Anything else gets a diagram of its own, named after what it is about. A thing in several diagrams stays one thing: rename it once and it changes everywhere.
Topics and time
A two-hour session, thirteen diagrams. Look at it one angle at a time.
Long sessions grow big. Pick a topic or a moment in time and every diagram follows: what matters stays bright, or the rest leaves the picture altogether.
Topics
Claro finds the angles the conversation keeps coming back to, and the things that show up in several diagrams. Pick one: only the diagrams it touches stay on screen, and the summary follows. Highlight fades the rest; Filter leaves it out.
Time: what was, what is, what will be
"We ran the mainframe until 2024", "since the go-live", "Kafka replaces the file drop next year": Claro records when each thing is true, worked out from the day it was said. Slide through the years, or jump to before or after the merger. The diagrams show where you came from, the current state and where you are heading.
- Years, quarters or months: the finest that fits
- Events like a go-live or a merger order things, even without a date
- A link between things that never existed at the same time turns red
More in Claro
Built for real meetings
In the room or in a call
Start listening and choose: the room around your laptop, or a Teams, Zoom or Meet call on this computer, its sound and your microphone in one stream. Speakers are told apart in ten languages, and audio that went missing (a locked screen, a dropped line) is marked, never silently lost.
Import a Teams transcript
Missed the meeting, or had it before Claro? Import the Teams transcript (.vtt or .docx) and the diagrams are drawn from it, with what was said about time read from the day of the meeting.
Share the session
Everyone joins from their own device with a link, a six-character code or a QR code. No account needed to join, and nobody gets in until you let them.
A summary that writes itself
Per diagram and across all of them: what is settled, what is disputed, what is still open, and each person's positions. Click a sentence and Claro shows the diagram it is about.
Who said what
Rename a speaker once and every diagram and summary follows. Tap a speaker to read what they said, in short.
Settled only, or what is recent
Confirmed only hides what is still vague, so the picture shows only what was agreed. Focus on recent fades everything the last stretch of the conversation did not touch.
Files that travel
Export one diagram or all: Claro diagrams to keep in git and open again, Mermaid that GitHub and Miro read, or the whole Claro session with its transcript.
On your phone too
One diagram at a time, full screen, moved with one finger. The summary is a tab of its own, and topics and time open in sheets that slide up from the bottom.
Sign in with what you use at work
Microsoft (personal, work or school), Google, GitHub or LinkedIn. If your company has to approve Claro first, Claro writes the request to IT for you.
Your meeting stays yours
Claro keeps the session in your browser, and on your account only when you save it there. Audio is never stored, and nothing is logged; the server counts usage. People who join need your OK first.
- No transcripts on the server
- Joiners wait until you let them in
- Export or start over whenever you want
Pricing
One meeting hour with Claro saves you about an hour of drawing
In our own sessions, every hour of meeting cost about an hour of drawing the diagrams afterwards, and then more rounds of aligning on them and redrawing. Claro draws while you talk, so that hour is done when the meeting ends. The calculator counts only that first hour.
€19a month
300 credits · about 3 meeting hours
For the occasional design session or workshop.
Try the demo first€59a month
1,000 credits · about 10 meeting hours
For architects and consultants with a few sessions every week.
Try the demo first€129a month
2,500 credits · about 25 meeting hours
For people whose week is mostly meetings.
Try the demo first
Every plan
- All eleven kinds of diagram, drawn live
- The summary, open points and disagreements
- Share the session with everyone in the meeting
- Export Claro diagrams, Mermaid for git, or Miro
- Extra credits when you need them: 100 for €8 (about an hour), never expiring
Questions
Before you try it
Does it work in an online meeting?
Yes. Choose "In a call on this computer" and Claro hears the call (Teams, Zoom, Meet) together with your microphone, in Chrome or Edge on a computer. Or share the session: everyone joins from their own device with a link or a code, and each voice comes in under its own name. After the meeting, a Teams transcript can be imported too.
Which languages?
Ten, Dutch and English among them, and people may switch between them. The diagrams are labelled in English.
Do we have to talk differently?
No. Talk as you normally would. Small talk and questions draw nothing; a diagram starts when someone says how things are, and a correction repairs it.
What if it gets something wrong?
Say so and it redraws, or rename or delete the thing yourself with a click. Anything not pinned down yet stays dashed, and you can hide it to see only what is settled.
Where do the diagrams go afterwards?
Export one diagram or all of them: Claro diagrams that open again, Mermaid markdown that GitHub shows as diagrams, or Mermaid on the clipboard to paste into Miro.
What happens to what we say?
The session stays in your browser, unless you save it to your account, encrypted, to open it on another device. Our server passes the audio and text to the services that transcribe and model it, and never stores the audio.
What does it cost?
Starter €19 a month for 300 credits, Pro €59 for 1,000, Power €129 for 2,500, all excluding BTW. 100 credits are about one busy meeting hour: a quiet meeting uses fewer, an imported transcript fewer still. Extra credits are €8 for 100 and never expire. The demo is free and needs no account.
You just speak, and I will draw!
Watch a design discussion turn into four diagrams and a summary, in about a minute.