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Most workshops fail in the planning, not the room. A vague agenda becomes a vague hour.
The problem
Facilitating well is a skill, and a blank agenda is where it goes wrong. People default to a loose plan, run out of time, skip the part that mattered, and leave the group wondering what the point was. Good structure is most of the job, and most people rebuild it from scratch every time.
What it is
An agenda generator plus a kit of templates. Pick the workshop type (13 to choose from, retrospectives through strategy sessions), the length, and the group size, add your objective, and it builds a structured plan you can export as a PDF. The downloadable templates cover the formats you reach for most.
Who it's for
Anyone who runs workshops or working sessions and wants them to land, without reinventing the structure every time.
How I made this
The useful part is the logic that turns a few inputs into a sensible, timed agenda, so I worked that out first. It's a design-then-build job, doable with Claude Design and Claude Code in an afternoon.
1. Work out the rule, then design it. Decide how a good session is shaped (how the time splits across input, discussion, activity and breaks), then design the kit in Claude Design (claude.ai/design, in a browser or the Claude desktop app). You can skip the design step and describe it in words instead.
2. Build it. Hand it to Claude Code (Anthropic's coding assistant, which you run from your terminal or the desktop app) with a prompt like:
Build me a single-page web tool (static, all logic in the browser, no backend)
that generates a timed plan for [the kind of session].
- Inputs: type, total length, group size, and the objective.
- Logic: split the time across [the building blocks] in sensible proportions,
then lay it out minute by minute.
- Output: a structured plan the user can export as a PDF.
- Bundle a few ready-to-use templates for the most common cases.
3. What you get. A static front end (an index.html plus a small script and stylesheet): the agenda logic runs in the browser, PDF export via jsPDF, the templates bundled in. No backend.
4. Put it online. I deployed it to Vercel (vercel.com, free at this size): connect a folder or a GitHub repo, or drag it in, and it's live on a URL in under a minute.
Get the time-splitting rule right first. Once the tool knows how a good session is shaped, generating one is the easy part.