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Weave templates

Full visual drag-and-drop canvas. Drag shapes from the palette, draw arrows between them, double-click to rename, move things around — exactly like Lucidchart, draw.io or Miro. The JSON source updates as you draw.

Weave syntax reference

Data mesh
Domains own products → catalogue → consumers + governance.
Data & Schema
Search architecture
Indexer → inverted index → query path with ranker.
Architecture
SWOT analysis
Strengths · Weaknesses · Opportunities · Threats — colour-coded quadrants.
Business & Strategy
Business Model Canvas
Strategyzer's 9 blocks — partners, activities, value, customers, cost & revenue.
Business & Strategy
Empathy Map — Blank Persona
User at centre, 4 quadrants: Says · Thinks · Does · Feels.
Research & Academic
Eisenhower matrix
Urgent × Important → Do now · Schedule · Delegate · Drop.
Project & Planning
Lean Canvas
Ash Maurya's 9-block canvas for startups.
Business & Strategy
Customer journey map — stage grid
Stages × (Actions, Touchpoints, Emotions, Opportunities) — 5 stages.
Business & Strategy
Service blueprint — restaurant visit
Customer · frontstage · backstage · support, separated by lines of visibility.
Operations & Ops
Value stream map
Process boxes with cycle-time stickies; supplier → customer with information flow.
Operations & Ops
Classic flowchart (with proper symbols)
Terminator → Input → Process → Decision → Document — using the right shape for each step.
Flow & Process
Mind map (radial)
Central topic with branching ellipse sub-topics and note leaves.
Research & Academic
Network topology — router to server pool
Internet → firewall → router → switch → server pool; uses hexagons / parallelograms / cylinders properly.
Architecture
Office floor plan (schematic)
Conference rooms, open desks, kitchen, bathrooms — basic spatial layout.
Geo & Spatial
Entity-relationship diagram — orders and inventory
Customer · Order · LineItem · Product · Inventory with rounded entities + parallelogram attribute lists.
Data & Schema
Org chart — CEO to individual contributors
CEO at top → C-suite → directors → ICs (ellipse for people, rounded for teams).
Business & Strategy
Storyboard / wireframe flow
Six panels with a brief beneath each — common for UX walkthroughs.
Research & Academic
Affinity diagram (research synthesis)
Themed columns of sticky notes grouping raw interview quotes.
Research & Academic
3-tier web app (with cache + DB)
Browser → web → app → cache + Postgres. Real cylinders for DB / cache, cloud for CDN.
Architecture
Kanban board — five columns with review
Backlog / To do / In progress / Review / Done — cards as sticky notes.
Project & Planning
Scrum board
Sprint goal + stories with point estimates; standard scrum columns.
Project & Planning
AWS reference architecture
CloudFront → ALB → ECS Fargate → RDS + ElastiCache, S3 for assets.
Architecture
Modern data warehouse
OLTP + Kafka + SaaS → CDC / Fivetran → S3 lake → dbt → Warehouse → BI / ML.
Data & Schema
CI/CD pipeline — pull request to production
Pull request → tests → build → registry → staging → manual approve → prod.
Operations & Ops
UML deployment diagram
Web / app / data nodes with their artefacts and external cloud dependencies.
UML & Software
Sales pipeline (stadium stages)
Lead → Qualified → Proposal → Negotiation → Closed — sized stadiums + revenue callouts.
Business & Strategy
UML use-case (with stick-figure actors)
Two actors interacting with system use-cases — real UML actor symbols.
UML & Software
Marketing funnel (real trapezoids)
Top-of-funnel narrows to conversion. Each tier is a true trapezoid.
Business & Strategy
Pricing tiers (chevron arrows)
Free → Pro → Team → Enterprise; each tier as a chevron flowing right.
Business & Strategy
OKR tree with milestone stars
Objective → key results → initiatives; awards as stars when KRs land.
Business & Strategy
Clinical pathway (with health crosses)
Triage → assessment → labs → diagnosis → treatment, with red crosses at care points.
Operations & Ops
Live event stream (animated)
Producers → Kafka stream → consumers; the edges along the hot path FLOW like the landing hero.
AI & Pipelines
AI orchestrator (live)
User → router → tool agents → response; pulses light the active branch.
AI & Pipelines
Live checkout flow
Cart → pay → confirm; pulses sit on the active step, traffic flows along the path.
Operations & Ops
Water cycle
Ocean → evaporation → condensation → precipitation → runoff. Uses wave + cloud shapes.
Scientific Plots
Rocket launch sequence
Countdown → ignition → lift-off → MECO → stage-sep → orbit; with stars for milestones.
Operations & Ops
Swimlane process — feature request
Customer / Sales / Engineering / Support lanes — each in its own container frame.
Operations & Ops
AWS VPC (with grouped subnets)
VPC frame with public + private subnet containers; ALB, EC2 fleet, RDS, NAT.
Architecture
Microservices by domain (grouped)
Identity / Catalog / Orders / Payments domains as containers — services + DBs inside each.
Architecture
Kubernetes cluster (grouped)
Cluster container with namespace + node containers; ingress → services → pods.
Architecture
UML system boundary
Actors outside a system container; use-cases inside. Classic UML diagram.
UML & Software
Fishbone (Ishikawa) diagram
Cause-and-effect skeleton with 6M bones: Machine · Method · Materials · Manpower · Measurement · Mother Nature.
Research & Academic
State machine (order lifecycle)
Stadium states with arrow transitions labelled by events.
UML & Software
Concept map (verb-labelled)
Nodes with verb-labelled edges (e.g. 'leads to', 'causes', 'depends on').
Research & Academic
BPMN pool with message flow
Two pools (Customer / Vendor) with message arrows crossing between them.
Operations & Ops
Gantt timeline
Quarter container divided into months; task chevrons sit on rows with start/end positions.
Project & Planning
UML class diagram (compartments)
Class boxes built from a container + 3 stacked rect compartments (name / attrs / methods).
UML & Software
Sequence diagram
Vertical lifelines + ordered horizontal messages between them.
UML & Software
C4 model — System Context
Actor + System + External systems — proper C4 level-1 diagram.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Status · Context · Decision · Consequences — the canonical ADR template.
Research & Academic
Product launch — ribbon roadmap
Quarterly product launch with ribbon milestones, pentagon stages, and a shield for the security gate.
Project & Planning
Security zones — shield + octagon
DMZ → app zone → data zone with shield gates, octagon STOP-on-fail, and arrow flows.
Architecture
OKRs — heart-of-the-quarter
Central objective in a heart, key results as pentagons, supporting initiatives as ribbons.
Business & Strategy
Incident response — octagons + arrows
PagerDuty-style flow with octagon escalation gates, ribbon severity bands, and arrow-right resolution.
Operations & Ops
Customer journey — chevron + pentagon
Awareness → Consideration → Purchase → Onboarding → Retention with chevron stages and pentagon touchpoints.
Business & Strategy
ED triage — cross + octagon flow
Emergency department triage with cross for clinical assessment, octagon for STOP-and-stabilise, arrow for fast-track.
Operations & Ops
Lab experiment — heart, shield, arrows
Hypothesis-test loop with heart for the question, shield for ethics review, arrow-right + arrow-left for iterate cycle.
Life Sciences
Supply chain — arrow flow
Supplier → factory → DC → retailer → customer with arrow-right links + ribbon SLA markers + shield quality gate.
Operations & Ops
Azure N-Tier Application
Azure n-tier web app: Front Door + gateway + App Service tier + managed data services.
Architecture
Google Cloud Web Application
GCP web app: Cloud CDN + Cloud Load Balancing + Cloud Run / Compute Engine + managed data.
Architecture
Google Cloud Network (VPC)
Global GCP VPC with regional subnets, Cloud Armor, Cloud NAT and VPC peering.
Architecture
AWS VPC Network Diagram
AWS VPC: internet gateway, public subnet (ALB / bastion / NAT), private app + data subnets.
Architecture
Hybrid Cloud Architecture
On-premises data center connected over VPN / Direct Connect to cloud compute + data.
Architecture
Sprint Retrospective (Start / Stop / Continue)
Three-column team retro: what to start, stop, and continue, with sticky-note prompts.
Project & Planning
Retrospective (Mad / Sad / Glad)
Emotion-based retro capturing what made the team mad, sad, and glad this sprint.
Project & Planning
Sailboat Retrospective
Metaphor retro: wind that pushes us, anchors that slow us, rocks (risks), and the island (goal).
Project & Planning
PI Planning Board
Program-increment plan: features committed per sprint plus a ROAM risk column.
Project & Planning
Design Thinking
The five design-thinking stages — empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test — as activity columns.
Research & Academic
Weekly Schedule
Monday-to-Friday planning board with time-block cards per day.
Project & Planning
Project KPI Dashboard
Eight-tile delivery dashboard: velocity, burndown, bugs, cycle time, deploys, lead time, NPS, churn.
Business & Strategy
User Persona
Persona card: photo + name, demographics, goals, frustrations, motivations, channels, and a quote.
Research & Academic
Work Breakdown Structure
Top-down WBS decomposing a project into phases and work packages.
Project & Planning
Website Sitemap
Information-architecture tree of a website's pages and sub-pages.
Flow & Process
Fault Tree Analysis
Top-down reliability analysis tracing a service outage to its contributing failures.
Operations & Ops
5 Whys Root Cause Analysis
Iterative root-cause chain: keep asking why until the underlying cause surfaces.
Operations & Ops
Cloud Platform Stack (isometric)
Isometric platform architecture — ingestion funnel, compute cube, a processing gear, layered service mesh and a data-lake stack.
Architecture
Data Center Topology (isometric)
Isometric infrastructure — a load-balancer funnel, web/app tiers as 3-D cubes, a worker gear and stacked primary/replica storage.
Architecture
Microservices Mesh (3-D)
A service honeycomb behind an API-gateway cube, worker gears, a globe-spanning edge network and a database cluster.
Architecture
Observability Stack (3-D)
A server fleet emits metrics through a pipeline into a time-series store that powers an SLO donut chart and a global status globe.
Architecture
Series Circuit (schematic)
A simple series circuit drawn from real schematic symbols — battery, resistor, LED (diode) and capacitor sharing a common ground.
Scientific Plots
RAG + LLM Stack
Documents embedded by a neural encoder into a vector database, retrieved as top-k context for a transformer LLM that answers the query.
AI & Pipelines
Half Adder (logic)
Two 1-bit inputs into an XOR gate (sum) and an AND gate (carry) — the building block of binary addition.
Scientific Plots
Inverting Amplifier (op-amp)
A classic op-amp inverting amplifier — input and feedback resistors set the gain −Rf/Rin, non-inverting input tied to ground.
Scientific Plots
Belt & Pulley Drive
A mechanical power train — a motor turns the drive pulley, a belt spins the driven pulley into the load, with a spring tensioner.
Scientific Plots
CNN Image Classifier
A convolutional pipeline — an image through stacked conv layers and pooling, flattened into a dense network and a softmax over classes.
AI & Pipelines
Full Adder (logic)
Two XOR gates, two ANDs and an OR combine A, B and carry-in into a sum and carry-out — one bit of binary addition.
Scientific Plots
SR Latch (NAND)
Two cross-coupled NAND gates form a set/reset latch — the simplest one-bit memory element.
Scientific Plots
RC Low-Pass Filter
A series resistor and shunt capacitor to ground — passes low frequencies and rolls off above the cutoff 1/2πRC.
Scientific Plots
Non-Inverting Amplifier
Op-amp with the signal on the + input and an Rf/Rg feedback divider on the − input — gain 1 + Rf/Rg.
Scientific Plots
Transformer Architecture
Tokens are embedded, passed through a stack of transformer blocks, then projected and softmaxed into the next-token distribution.
AI & Pipelines
MLOps Pipeline
Data flows into a feature store, a training job writes to a model registry, serving pulls the model, and monitoring closes the retrain loop.
AI & Pipelines
GAN (adversarial)
A generator turns noise into fakes while a discriminator learns real from fake; the loss back-propagates to both networks.
AI & Pipelines
Gear Reduction Train
A motor drives a chain of meshed gears that steps the speed down and torque up before reaching the output load.
Scientific Plots
Hydraulic Press
A pump pressurises fluid from the reservoir; a control valve drives the piston against the load, then returns fluid to the tank.
Scientific Plots
Event-Driven Microservices
An edge network and API gateway publish to an event queue; a service mesh and worker pool consume events and persist to the database cluster.
Architecture
CI/CD Pipeline — with Monitoring Loop
Commits trigger a build and test stage, promote through staging to production, with monitoring feeding back to the next commit.
Architecture
Data Lakehouse
Sources are ingested into a data lake, curated into a warehouse, and served to BI dashboards and ML models.
Architecture
AWS — Three-Tier Web App in a VPC
Public / private / data subnets across two AZs: CloudFront and WAF at the edge, an ALB into an auto-scaled app tier, Aurora with a standby, and an async order path through SQS and Lambda.
Architecture
Event-Driven Serverless Pipeline
API Gateway to Lambda to EventBridge, fanned out over SQS queues with dead-letter handling, a Step Functions saga, and DynamoDB / S3 sinks — the shape most serverless backends converge on.
Architecture
Kubernetes Cluster Topology
Managed control plane, an application node group and a system node group, with ingress, CoreDNS, monitoring and the CSI driver — plus the registry, database and secret store the pods depend on.
Architecture