ClearWork generates editable process maps, flowcharts and swimlane diagrams from your documents — then goes further than any diagramming tool, by interviewing the people who run the work and tracing every step back to its source.
Point any of them at a document and you get a clean diagram of that document. But process documentation is almost always out of date — so you get a confident picture of a process nobody actually runs.
Paste a document, get a picture of that document. If the SOP is three system versions stale, if two teams do the step differently, if the real approval happens off-system — none of that is in the file, so none of it is in the diagram. It just looks finished.
ClearWork reads the same documents, then interviews the people who run the work to close the gaps, surfaces where sources conflict, and has a human confirm it — before it draws a single box. The diagram reflects the real process, not the outdated write-up of it.
A fast, wrong diagram is still a wrong diagram.
The same three steps behind everything ClearWork produces — pointed here at one output: a diagram you can stand behind.
Read your existing documents, SOPs and process maps — then send short interviews to the people who actually do the work, closing the gaps the paperwork left. This is the part no diagramming tool does.
Reconcile what the documents say against what people describe. Variations, conflicts and unknowns are surfaced separately, and a person confirms the truth before anything becomes a diagram.
Generate the process map, flowchart or swimlane from the confirmed record — role-based lanes, decision points, handoffs and the exception paths that only surfaced in the interviews. Every box traces to its source.
The diagram isn't the product — the validated knowledge behind it is. That's why the same source can also generate requirements, SOPs and user stories, all consistent with the diagram, all tracing to the same confirmed record.
Generate the first draft in seconds, then refine it however you work. Nothing is locked, and nothing is a dead end.
Ask in plain language — "split the approval step by region," "add the exception path Sarah described," "collapse these three into a sub-process." The diagram updates, and the change stays tied to its source.
Drag nodes, rename steps, reroute a branch, restyle a lane — with a mouse and keyboard, the way you'd expect. No prompt engineering required when you just want to move a box.
A diagram from any other tool is frozen the moment it's drawn. A ClearWork diagram stays connected to the knowledge behind it — when a source changes, the diagram flags itself for review instead of quietly going out of date.
Both draw diagrams. Only one goes and gets the truth first — and keeps it true afterwards.
The knowledge doesn't just sit in your diagram. It builds a shared, structured base of how real processes actually run — so you're rarely starting from a blank canvas.
Most diagramming tools treat every process as brand new. You describe an onboarding flow, an invoice approval, a month-end close from scratch — even though thousands of teams run versions of the same thing.
ClearWork builds a living knowledge base of real, validated processes. When you start a new map, it can draw on patterns already established rather than an empty page — a stronger first draft, grounded in how the work is genuinely done, that you then tailor to your own reality and confirm.
The more the base grows, the better every starting point gets. Your validated knowledge stays yours; what compounds is the shared understanding of how these processes tend to work.
What you upload and confirm — private to you
How these processes tend to run, across the community
Grounded in real patterns, then tailored and confirmed by you
Consulting firms bill by engagement, so we price by engagement. Internal teams run continuously, so we price by user.
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Yes. Upload a document and you get an editable process diagram from it — that part works the way you'd expect from any AI diagram tool.
The difference is what happens next: ClearWork can also go and interview the people who run the process to close the gaps the document left, so the diagram reflects the real process rather than an out-of-date write-up. Use as much or as little of that as you want.
Process maps and flowcharts, swimlane diagrams by role, and current-state maps with decision points, handoffs and exception paths. Because the diagram is generated from a structured record rather than drawn by hand, each step keeps the context behind it.
Both. Refine with plain-language AI prompts, or edit directly with a mouse and keyboard — drag nodes, rename steps, reroute branches. You're never stuck prompting when you just want to move a box.
Yes. Diagrams export to Visio and draw.io; documents generated alongside them export to Word and PDF. To be straight with you, we don't have native two-way sync with delivery tools yet — it's a clean export, not a live integration.
Those are excellent canvases, and they'll draw a diagram from text quickly. But they can only work with what you give them — they can't tell that your regional team does the step differently and go ask about it.
ClearWork collects the missing knowledge first, has a person confirm it, and only then draws — so you're editing a diagram that's already true, not polishing one built on an outdated document.
No. Mining tools read system logs to reconstruct what your systems recorded. ClearWork captures what the logs can't see — the judgment calls, exceptions and workarounds that live in people's heads — and turns that into the diagram. Analytics over system data isn't something we do today.
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