Templates

A new project doesn't have to start from an empty canvas. killBottleneck ships 40 ready-made templates (SWOT, PDCA, GROW, Business Model Canvas, Ishikawa, 5 Whys, …) in categories from personal life to company processes — plus your organization's templates and your own.

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Every template opens as a preview first — the project is created only when you confirm.

Three shelves

Shelf	Who sees it
Built-in	Everyone — 40 system templates, in English and Czech (following the UI language).
Organization templates	Your whole team — the company's shared playbooks.
Mine	Only you.

Your own template from a finished map

Any map is saved via More actions → Save as template… The dialog offers: a name and a description (what the process is for), a category, Save as a new template / Overwrite an existing one, Who sees the template (Organization — all members / Personal — only you), Number projects from this template, Include the tasks — deadlines are stored as "days from start" and recomputed from the chosen Start date — and Create automatically (No / Every week / Every month).

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The most powerful dialog in the app — it turns a finished map into a repeatable company process.

Sticky notes don't transfer

Notes on the canvas are not saved into a template — a template carries the goal tree and the tasks.

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A new project from a template — pick the template and the start date; deadlines recompute.

Kanban templates: the project is born with its rules

The gallery gives them their own Kanban section: the "8D Report — Kanban" and "FMEA — Kanban" templates carry a ready-made chain of automation rules — you can tell by the "includes N automation rules" badge. A project created from them opens straight as a kanban board (columns in one row): create cards under the first column, a finished card travels to the next step by itself and returns to To do. People per column are yours to add by editing the rules in the ⚡ overview (the templates deliberately carry none). Details in Automation rules:

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Projects that create themselves

A template can do two more things:

• Automatic numbering — projects created from it get names in a series ("Payroll 2026-1, 2026-2, …").
• Automatic creation — every week or month a new project is created from the template by itself. Recurring agendas (closings, reports, maintenance) appear without clicking, tasks included.

Next

• Your first map — templates in action
• Export and import — maps travel as files, too