Retrospective Generator

Drive Improvement with Smarter Retrospectives

Make sprint retrospectives more collaborative and effective with Creately’s AI-powered retrospective generator.

AI-generated templates tailored to standard retrospective formats.
Real-time collaboration with support for comments, reactions, and editing.
Action tracking tools to assign owners, set deadlines, and follow up on key takeaways.

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Over 10 Million people and 1000s of teams already use Creately

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AI Retrospective Generator

Reflect, Analyze, and Ready to Drive Improvements

Enter details of your recent project/sprint and click ‘Generate’
Watch Creately build a comprehensive retrospective with insightful feedback.
Collaborate, edit/change, and complete your project review—all within one canvas.

Why teams love Creately’s AI Retrospective Generator

Save time – Automate retrospective analysis, reducing manual effort by 90% and allowing teams to focus on actionable improvements.
Uncover hidden trends – Detect patterns in team performance and collaboration that traditional retrospectives might overlook.
Privacy-first – All data remains within Creately, ensuring security with no third-party retention.
Multi-lingual support – Works seamlessly across multiple languages, making it ideal for diverse, international teams.
Objective insights – AI-driven clustering highlights key takeaways, ensuring balanced feedback from all team members.

Used by Over 10 Million people and 1000s of teams

A Comprehensive Tool for Visual Collaboration and Diagramming

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Small-Business

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Creately: A smart choice for expressing ideas over diagrams

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Software Engineer

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Small-Business

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Tech Lead Security

Easy to use

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Initial Implementation

Great AI features

AI Modelling capability. It gives Prompt examples so user can learn how to create effective prompts

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Business Manager

ACCELERATE

Complete Your Retrospectives in Seconds

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As easy as telling the AI the retrospective what you need with a simple prompt.
Auto-generate retrospective boards based on team inputs or project summaries for quick review.
AI-assisted retrospective templates for popular sprint frameworks like Mad-Sad-Glad, Start-Stop-Continue, Sailboat, 4Ls, Quick retrospective, and more.
Spot trends and takeaways your team might overlook with smart clustering.

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VISUALIZE

Adapt Retrospectives to Suit Your Team’s Needs

Drag-and-drop interface for building and modifying retro boards to your preferred branding style.
Customize, save, and reuse your favorite templates for recurring retros.
Connect a retrospective to your workflow or project documentation on the infinite canvas.
Access your retro board from anywhere with seamless integration with tools like Jira, Confluence, Slack, and more.

COLLABORATE

Transform How Teams Reflect and Turn Insights into Actions

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A real-time collaborative workspace with multi-user editing, comments, and reactions to run interactive sessions.
Anonymous input mode to encourage honest feedback when teams reflect on past projects.
Voting and prioritization tools to surface the most critical issues surfaced through the retrospective generator.
Integrated action items, @mentions to assign tasks, and task tracking to ensure follow-through.

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Generate a Retrospective Book a Demo

A retrospective generator is a visual tool that helps teams quickly create structured retrospectives. These generators use artificial intelligence to automate the process of setting up a retrospective session by providing predefined templates, formats, and suggestions on how to fill a template. Creately’s retrospective generator can be used for getting AI-powered insights based on your context, with prebuilt template formats for Mad-Sad-Glad, Start-Stop-Continue and Quick retrospectives. This allows you to streamline retrospective meetings, especially when your team needs to keep discussions focused and efficient.

How to Use Creately’s AI Retrospective Generator

Select Your Retrospective Template

Browse our retrospective template library to pick a proven technique such as Mad-Sad-Glad, Start-Stop-Continue, Sailboat and Quick retrospectives based on what you need. You also have the option in Creately to create your own bespoke template.

Gather Retrospective Data and Fill Template

To gather data for a retrospective, start by defining the scope—such as the sprint, project, or team involved—and clarify the goals. Then gather qualitative feedback through anonymous surveys. Map the feedback visually in Creately’s retrospective template to cluster feedback and identify recurring patterns. Finally, prioritize top insights and action items. If you want to save the trouble of doing this manually, simply use Creately’s retrospective generator.

Enter Prompt for the Retrospective Generator

Simply enter a brief description of what you need the retrospective for, and Creately’s AI retrospective generator will produce a standard template in the format of your choice. The generated template will have main fields like ‘What went well’, ‘What didn’t go well’, and ‘Action Items’ automatically filled to suit your context.

Customize the Retrospective to Your Work

Now you can add, remove, or rename columns to match your reflective process and edit the AI-generated text to match your past projects. You can also customize colors, and fonts to suit your brand. Additional notes or attachments can be added for crucial context.

Gather Team Input, Reflect and Refine in Real-Time

Enable asynchronous or real-time collaboration by sharing a link. Team members can add digital sticky notes with comments, attach emojis, and vote on key items directly on the canvas. Start discussions based on topics suggested by the retrospective generator and gather team feedback for reflection.

Visualize and Analyze Feedback

Leverage AI-powered visual intelligence to transform raw feedback with automated grouping based on identified themes, sentiment and tags. Highlight recurring challenges and roadblocks using the AI-generated insights.

Track Actions and History

Assign clear follow-up tasks with owners and due dates directly on the canvas. Generate flowcharts and kanban boards with action items auto-created by the retrospective generator. Maintain version history to compare past retrospectives, track progress, and analyze trends over multiple sprints.

Export & Share Online

Once the retrospective is completed, you can export it to PDF, PNG, or JPEG formats and share permissioned links with internal teams and external partners. You can even create slideshows from within the workspace.

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Generate Your Retrospective Instantly with These Templates

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Sailboat Template

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FAQs about the Retrospective Generator

How does a retrospective generator work?

A retrospective generator uses artificial intelligence to generate a structured retrospective template based on team input and project data. By entering project or sprint details as a prompt, the user can generate a ready-to-use retrospective in the format of their choosing with categorized insights and action items.

What are the benefits of using a retrospective generator?

It saves time, keeps discussions focused, and ensures continuous improvement in Agile teams.

What are the different types of retrospective templates that can be generated?

Creately supports a rich variety of retrospective templates such as Mad-Sad-Glad, Start-Stop-Continue, Sailboat, 4Ls, and Quick retrospective which can be generated and customized to fit different team needs.

Can a retrospective template be customized in Creately?

Yes! Creately allows you to customize, letting teams adjust the layout, style, and format of a retrospective template using its contextual toolbar. You can also perform AI-assisted grouping, and add interactive elements like sticky notes for more context.

What is a quick retrospective and is it related to agile development?

A quick retrospective is a streamlined version of the standard Agile retrospective. In Agile development, retrospectives are meetings where teams reflect on their recent work to identify what went well, what didn’t, and how they can improve going forward. A quick retrospective keeps this process efficient and focused, often lasting 15–30 minutes instead of the usual hour.

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