If you’ve ever tried to work on a project with files scattered across Google Drive, notes buried in Notion, and three different AI chats open in your browser… you know the pain.

It’s the digital equivalent of juggling chainsaws while riding a unicycle — impressive if you pull it off, but mostly a recipe for disaster.

Enter Kuse — a visual, AI-powered workspace where you can drop anything in and walk away with something beautiful, structured, and usable. Think of it like your favorite whiteboard, but on steroids, and with an AI sidekick who actually understands what you’re working on.

From Figma Brainstorms to AI Partner

Xiankun Wu, the founder of Kuse, is no stranger to building products that sit at the crossroads of human creativity and artificial intelligence. He’s a Y Combinator alum (W19) from his earlier venture, rct.ai, and he admits he spends way too much time in Figma and on whiteboards.

The first spark for Kuse came from a deceptively simple question: How can humans and AI collaborate more effectively?

Instead of building “yet another chat interface,” Xiankun imagined a canvas where you could arrange your files, drop in AI conversation cards, and freely connect and combine your ideas.

That prototype was basic, but it hit a nerve. Early users started uploading not just text and images, but PDFs, spreadsheets, and videos

— using the whiteboard as their main space for thinking, not just chatting.

From Prototype to Powerhouse

Here’s where things got interesting: users began asking,

“Cool canvas… but can I make it spit out exactly what I need? Like, a polished doc, an image, maybe even a webpage?”

That request flipped the switch. The Kuse team doubled down on expanding file support, improving AI’s contextual understanding, and adding output formats that went way beyond “chatbot answers.”

Today, Kuse lets you:

  • Import almost anything — PDFs, spreadsheets, videos, slides, images, code files, and more.
  • Work visually — arrange, group, and link pieces of information in a canvas that feels like a creative playground.
  • Generate multiple types of deliverables — documents, images, videos, and web pages, all without leaving the workspace.
  • Collaborate in real-time (team mode is rolling out as we speak).

Why People Are Hooked

Without spending a dime on marketing, Kuse has attracted over 400 fast-moving teams and 200,000 professionals. That’s not small potatoes.

The roster of fans is as varied as it gets:

  • Educators organizing lessons and creating teaching materials.
  • Product managers mapping user feedback into feature docs.
  • Creatives storyboarding ideas and exporting them into client-ready formats.
  • Consultants processing client data into reports and presentations.
  • Students pulling research, notes, and images into clean deliverables.

The magic isn’t just that Kuse does a lot — it’s that it keeps everything in one visual, editable, reusable space. No more exporting, uploading, and reformatting across five different tools.

The Secret Sauce: Context

Most AI tools work like polite but slightly forgetful assistants — they’ll respond to whatever you just said, but they lose the thread if you jump topics.

Kuse flips that.

Because your files, notes, and conversations all live in the same canvas, the AI can see the full context of your work. It knows that the PDF you uploaded is your source material, that your sticky notes are brainstorming points, and that the conversation you had last week was about refining those ideas.

It’s a workspace that remembers — which means it can generate outputs that actually match your vision, not just a “best guess.”

A Workspace for the Future

Xiankun likes to say Kuse’s mission is to give people “one place for all your information and outputs.”

That might sound simple, but if you’ve ever wasted half an afternoon finding “the latest version” of something, you know it’s a game-changer.

Here’s where they’re heading next:

  • Expanding file format support — bring in anything, and Kuse will handle it.
  • Better team collaboration — think multiplayer brainstorming with AI in the room.
  • Smarter AI models that adapt to your specific workflows and preferences.
  • Even more output types — maybe one day your brainstorm will go straight into a playable prototype or a working app.

Kuse isn’t just another AI wrapper. It’s what happens when you take the mess of modern work — the scattered files, half-written drafts, random screenshots — and give it a place to live, breathe, and become something valuable.

If you’ve been feeling the “tool fatigue” of juggling Google Docs, Miro, Notion, Slack, and ChatGPT windows, Kuse is worth a serious look. You’ll spend less time chasing your own tail, and more time actually making stuff.

Stay in the loop with your AI sidekick and keep your projects in one place — because with Kuse, chaos goes in, genius comes out.

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