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Product·Mar 18, 2026·5 min

Why I bet the company on an infinite canvas (and not a chat box)

A short essay on graph-shaped problems, the limits of conversational UI, and the underrated act of seeing your work.

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Raghav Joshi
Founder · Macro
Why I bet the company on an infinite canvas (and not a chat box)

Every AI tool I've used in the last two years is a chat box. The chat box is a UI well-suited to questions, where the answer is a single thing and the conversation is the workflow.

Performance marketing is not that shape.

The work is graph-shaped.

Campaigns branch into platforms. Platforms branch into audiences. Audiences branch into creatives. Each leaf has performance metrics. The team needs to see the whole thing.

Chat compresses the graph into a thread.

The fundamental loss in chat-based AI is that you can't see the structure. You can't compare two branches side by side. You can't walk back to a prior state without scrolling.

So I bet on the canvas. I'm 18 months in. I'd bet again.

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Raghav Joshi
Founder · Macro
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