Foundations & Influences
The resources below are the thinking tools that have been used by Venture Centre community members over the last 10 years. They have influenced the creation of the first version of the Toolkit. Each one helped us explore a different facet of venture and ecosystem design — from platform logic to stakeholder alignment, from token flows to regenerative impact models.
These are not "plug and play" templates. They're inspirations, ingredients, and provocations — collected and curated to support deeper, community-led design. Some are mainstream. Some are niche. All have something to offer.
Use them to:
- Stress-test your assumptions
- Expand your design vocabulary
- Remix and prototype faster
- Make better decisions, together
This library is living. It will grow as we learn, test, and evolve the toolkit in collaboration with others across Cardano.
Primary Canvas Examples
Foundational canvas models that have influenced our approach
Canvas Libraries
Collections of canvas tools for different design purposes
Canvas Content & How-To's
Guides and tutorials for using canvas tools effectively
Individual Canvases
Specific canvas tools for targeted design challenges
- Chris Stone's The Experiment Canvas
- Experiment Canvas by Dan Toma & Tendayi Viki
- Ownership Model Canvas
- The Operating System Canvas
- The Public Policy Lean Canvas
- The Culture Canvas
- Lean Policy
- The 8-step Process for Leading Change
- The UNITE approach to Portfolio Allocation across the 3 Horizons
- The UNITE Strategic Options Matrix
- UNITE Key Metrics for Innovation
- The UNITE Problem-Solution Fit & Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Scorecards
- The UNITE Business Intentions
- The Jobs-to-be-Done Job Journey Navigator
- The Value Disciplines triangle
- The UNITE Innovation Team Structure
- The UNITE Business Capability Map
- The UNITE Jobs to be Done Customer Promise Canvas
- The UNITE Business Model Environment Canvas
- The Cultural Canvas: User Guide
- Tokenomics canvas
- The Capability Canvas
- Team Charter Canvas
- 5 bold steps vision canvas
- The cover story canvas
- ImpactModelCanvas
- The Change Benefits Canvas
- Driver Diagram Template
- The S3 Delegation Canvas Series
- Driver Mapping
- Clarify and Develop Domains
- ProSocial World
- Practical Business Design Canvas
- Canvas for designing a commons
- Supercharge Behaviour Design Canvas
- Community Engagement Planning Canvas
- Mindful Stakeholder Engagement