Outlook Business Desk
Zoho Corporation introduced Vani on October 1, 2025, a smart visual collaboration platform for modern teams. Designed to unify brainstorming, planning, and execution, Vani allows distributed teams to collaborate seamlessly in one shared digital workspace, transforming how ideas become actionable results.
Vani joins Zoho’s suite of productivity tools, emphasising visual thinking instead of conventional chat or document-based collaboration. It offers a unified digital workspace where teams can brainstorm, map ideas, sketch workflows, and execute plans, enabling smooth visual collaboration in one platform.
Vani addresses challenges by transforming thoughts into visual formats such as diagrams, mind maps, and charts. With over 60% of Gen X and Millennials favouring visual collaboration, Vani enhances clarity and accelerates teamwork.
Vani’s limitless whiteboard lets teams brainstorm freely, creating flowcharts, diagrams, and mind maps. Its AI features can instantly generate visual elements, helping overcome creative blocks and allowing ideas to grow in real time for more efficient team collaboration.
Vani also enables teams to collaborate in real time or at different times, meaning team members can contribute on their own schedule. With built-in video calls, contextual comments, voice notes, and emoji reactions, its Flow feature tracks idea progress across time zones.
Vani doesn’t stop at brainstorming like most collaboration tools. Teams can design workflows, create database tables, and monitor tasks within the platform. With ready-to-use templates, kits, and integrations with Zoho and third-party apps, ideas move seamlessly from planning straight into execution.
Vani supports different teams: marketing plans campaigns, product teams visualise roadmaps, design teams create moodboards, engineering maps system flows, and sales teams co-develop proposals. Spaces and Zones organise collaboration while providing flexibility for project-specific or individual work.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is also integrated throughout Vani, helping teams visualise ideas quickly, summarise conversations, and automate follow-up actions. By generating diagrams, condensing meeting notes, and streamlining tasks, Vani AI works as an invisible assistant that boosts productivity and keeps teams aligned.
Vani sets itself apart by combining brainstorming, collaboration, and execution in a single workflow, unlike most tools that handle these stages separately. Zoho called it a platform that enables teams to visualise ideas, work together, and move smoothly into action, transforming how hybrid teams collaborate globally.