How Best to Edit AI Diagrams

The Problem with AI Diagrams

You've been there. You ask ChatGPT or Claude to create a diagram for your team's process flow. It spits out something decent—maybe even good—but then you realize you need to:

• Edit a few boxes because the AI misunderstood your process
• Add your team's feedback from three different people who all have opinions
• Iterate on the design as your understanding evolves
• Reference the diagram in other documents and presentations 

But here's the problem: AI-generated diagrams are dead ends. You can't edit them collaboratively. You can't iterate on them with your team. And if you want changes, you're back to prompting the AI to rebuild everything from scratch.

Non-Solutions

As a result, most teams end up in one of these frustrating workflows:

1. The Copy-Paste Dance: Generate diagram → screenshot → paste into slides → manually edit slides → repeat when changes needed
2. The Rebuild Cycle: Ask AI to remake the entire diagram every time you need a small change
3. The Tool-Switching Marathon: Use AI for ideas → recreate manually in Lucidchart or Powerpoint → lose the AI context → start over

The Solution: Editable AI Diagrams with Stravu

What if your entire team could collaborate on AI-generated diagrams in real-time, iterating together with AI until you get exactly what you need?

What if you could work on text iteratively with AI and text and leverage that into AI generated diagrams and keep your diagrams and text in synch?

That's exactly what Stravu's editable AI diagrams deliver.

Here's How It Works with Stravu

Build your context for the diagram with AI and your team

In this example, we are looking to understand the steps a feature team goes through to build a product feature. We begin by typing some bullets. 

We then use AI to complete the rest editing and approving what AI added, iterating in the text.

Use AI to create the initial diagram

We then use Stravu to create an initial diagram inline, right in the same notebook, based on the full context.

AI creates a solid starting point, but unlike other tools, this is just the beginning.

Edit the diagram directly, collaborate with your team

Click into any element and edit it directly. Move boxes, change text, adjust connections—all while your teammates see changes in real-time. No more screenshots, no more rebuilding, no more tool-switching.

Keep iterating with AI

Need to add a new process step? Ask the AI to modify the diagram while preserving your team's edits. The AI understands your existing work and builds on it rather than replacing it.

Connect Everything

Since diagrams are first-class objects in Stravu, you can reference them in your text, pull insights into tables, ask the AI questions about the diagram itself, and update the text based on the diagram. Everything stays connected and contextual.

Why This Matters for Teams

For Feature Teams: Map out your architecture diagrams and user flows  collaboratively, then iterate as you learn. The diagram grows with your understanding.

For Strategy Teams: Create decision trees and process flows that the whole team can edit and approve tied to the text and table aspects of your strategy.

For Anyone Building with AI: Stop accepting AI diagram outputs as final. Start crafting it into exactly what you need. Base your diagrams on your full context.

Harness the full power of AI by iterating on editable diagrams that are tied to your context

With Stravu's editable AI diagrams, you get:

• AI-assisted creation that gives you a strong starting point
• Real-time collaboration so your whole team can contribute
• Iterative refinement without losing previous work
• Integrated workflow that connects diagrams to your other work and context.

Stop generating diagrams you can't edit. Stop rebuilding from scratch. Start crafting visual knowledge that grows with your team.

Try Stravu today!