Most Lean Canvas tools are stenographers. You write. They store. The idea dies in a Dropbox folder three weeks later.
We disagreed.
So today, Totally Lean ships three AI agents in one floating chat bubble, a pitch generator, AI polish, and six new comparison pages — all while keeping every byte of your business on your machine.
Meet the room.
Click the chat bubble. Bottom-right. Pick who’s in the meeting.
- Onboard — the patient co-founder for your first canvas. Walks you through all nine sections. Explains each one as you arrive. Twenty minutes, not a weekend.
- Explore— the curious strategist for the fuzzy idea you can’t quite articulate. Sharpens. Doesn’t lecture.
- Critic— the skeptical seed-stage investor you needed three months ago. Finds the assumption you can’t defend, then asks you to defend it.
They write stickies in your words. They never autocomplete your business plan. You approve every single line.
Every conversation persists. Browse them anytime — by agent, by date — in the dock’s history panel.
Pitches that sound like you.
Press Pitch. Pick your tone. Pick your audience. Get a 90-second spoken pitch, ready for the elevator or the cold email.
- Five tones: Founder direct. Visionary. Contrarian. Numbers-first. Story-first.
- Six audiences: Seed investor. Accelerator app. Customer. Partner email. Recruit intro. Spoken pitch.
- Thirty combinations. Each one written from the same canvas. None saved to a server anywhere.
Want it read aloud? The basic voice is free. Upgrade to a premium neural voice — Kokoro-82M, 80 MB download, one-time, fully offline — and the machine sounds like a podcaster.
Polish that respects the work.
Written something and it’s not quite right?
- Tighten — same meaning, fewer words.
- Concrete — swap vague nouns for specific ones.
- Sharpen — passive to active. Verbs that do work.
- Shorter — hard cap. You know when you need this.
New today: polish an entire section in one pass. Every sticky in Problem, Solution, or UVP — streamed side by side, accept or reject one at a time.
Nothing leaves your machine.
- Browser runs the model via WebGPU. Or bring your own Ollama daemon — auto-detects thinking-capable models like Gemma and Qwen.
- Every conversation, every pitch, every rewrite — persisted in your own browser. Not our server.
- No account. No email. No “contact sales.” Free forever, with every feature included.
If you’re wondering what the business model is: there isn’t one. That’s the whole point.
Six new ways to find us.
Six comparison pages now live and all six are linked from the footer: head-to-head against LeanSpark, Canvanizer, Strategyzer, Miro, plus a LeanSpark alternatives page and a best free Lean Canvas tools roundup. Feature matrices animate in as you scroll, because reading a 24-row spec sheet shouldn’t feel like reading a spreadsheet.
And a hundred small things.
Streams that hang no more — Web-LLM and Ollama both honor abort signals now. Agents that don’t end sessions on turn one. A two-stage stall timer that catches mid-stream hangs in 25 seconds, not 60. A test suite that went from zero to 113 passing. Dark mode that respects your theme in presentation mode.
The Pitch button used to grey out and stay grey if a generation hung. Fixed. The Ollama backend used to load with status idle and never probe. Fixed. The Critic used to declare session complete after one exchange.
The one thing to remember.
Business plans die because writing them alone is a chore.
A tool that asks the next question doesn’t let you quit.
Free. Private. Your data. Your machine. No catch.