Is the Lean Canvas tool free?

Yes. It is completely free, with no signup and no paywall. Your work autosaves in your browser.

What is a Lean Canvas?

A Lean Canvas is a one-page business plan with nine boxes covering the problem, customers, value, solution, channels, revenue, costs, key metrics, and unfair advantage. It was adapted by Ash Maurya from the Business Model Canvas.

Can I use it for a niche business?

Yes. The Lean Canvas asks universal questions every business answers, so it works for any idea no matter how niche or unknown.

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Tool 02StartupPrivate: saves on this device

SproutplanYour whole business on one page.

Nine boxes of a lean canvas. Fill them in the numbered order rather than left to right, because each one answers the last. It saves as you type.

0 of 9Start with the problem

Fill all nine boxes, then finish the canvas.

Clear the whole canvas?

All nine boxes will be emptied on this device. There is no undo, and nothing is stored anywhere else.

Canvas filled in?

Get the guides on validating it. One email a week, no more.

One click to leave. Never shared.

The founder's toolkit

Four templates and a priced benchmark.

Everything scattered across the site, in one download, kept current.

XLSXTool pricing benchmark8.5 KB
PDFBusiness plan template8.0 KB
PDFLean canvas template6.6 KB
PDFSOP template4.7 KB

The zip arrives in one email, straight away.
Then one email a week, only when something new is published.
Leave in one click. The address is never shared or sold.

The three tools on this site ask for nothing and never will. This download is the exception, because it is the only thing here that has to be kept current: the benchmark is repriced every quarter, and a stale price is worse than none.

Your canvas, in the order it should be read