Concepts

The Canvasm product model in plain language — start here before the guides and reference.

Canvasm (also called Metrimap) is built on a small set of ideas. Learn these six and the rest of the product — guides, dashboards, connectors, the agent API — will make sense.

The model in one picture

Workspace  (your team's account)
└─ Canvas  (one metric map)
   ├─ Cards        outcomes, metrics, actions, hypotheses
   ├─ Relationships  typed links between cards
   ├─ Metrics      cards promoted to tracked, source-backed series
   ├─ Dashboard    widgets built from those metrics
   ├─ Strategy     actions/hypotheses with impact contracts
   └─ Visibility   groups + access tags decide who sees what

The building blocks

Organizations & workspaces

The account container your canvases and team live in.

Canvases

The metric map: cards, relationships, groups, evidence, comments.

Metrics & sources

Tracked metrics, source-backed vs calculated values, lineage.

Dashboards

Widgets and views built from your metrics.

Strategy & impact

Tie actions and hypotheses to the metrics they should move.

Groups & visibility

Give each team the right view; keep restricted numbers restricted.

Throughout these docs we model one business: a subscription company whose main outcome is monthly recurring revenue (MRR). MRR is driven by new, expansion, and churned revenue; those are driven by acquisition and activation further down. We'll grow that map as we go.

Next steps

New to Canvasm? Do the Quickstart first, then read Canvases. Ready to build for real? Head to the Guides.