DBT Bureau
Pune, 5 Oct 2025
Zoho Corporation announced Vani a new brand within the company providing a new approach to workplace collaboration and creativity via an all-in-one, visual-first intelligent platform.
Vani empowers teams to move away from traditional static tools into interactive, dynamic, and value-driven workspaces, where members can brainstorm, plan, and innovate together – across whiteboards, flowcharts, diagrams, mind mapping, and video calling. Whether teams are building a product roadmap, planning their next social campaign, or co-creating a sales pitch, Vani brings everything into one shared infinite canvas – including data that lives across one’s desktop, drives, Excel sheets, and more.
“For small and medium-sized businesses, the ability to increase ease of collaboration, even a small percentage, can lead to extraordinary gains in productivity,” says Karthikeyan Jambulingam, Head of Product for Vani. “Vani provides a comprehensive set of tools for all departments within one canvas, eliminating the need for app-switching, process building, or complicated onboarding, ensuring that SMBs can seamlessly ideate and execute across all departments.”
Vani’s features include:
- An innovative Space and Zone model that brings structure to collaboration, allowing different stakeholders to work in parallel without interference while still having visibility of the big picture. A Space acts as an overall canvas for a project, while Zones are sub-canvases within the Space, used to segment work by contributor, function, phase, or more. This approach allows for ideas to evolve in isolation, then collaborate seamlessly when needed.
- A library of templates and kits to accelerate workflow and give teams the head start they need to work on a project. Templates cover strategy and planning, brainstorming and project planning. Kits address advanced elements like design diagrams, social media kits, network diagrams, and more.
- Mind mapping tools to help SMB teams quickly brainstorm, organize and connect ideas visually, removing roadblocks in turning raw ideas into structured plans.
- AI-powered capabilities weaved into everyday work, including the ability to instantly generate content and structured visuals like flowcharts and mind maps, and summary tools to quickly gain insights across entire Zones or down to specific frames, shapes, and objects.
- Native video meeting features that make collaboration seamless and intimate. Teams can start a video call, discuss, and align to quickly collaborate within the canvas, without an additional third-party application. These meetings can also be recorded for revisiting later, enabling asynchronous collaboration.
“For distributed teams, whiteboarding has always been a challenge. Vani will help teams brainstorm together, no matter where they are,” says Shashi Bellamkonda, Principal Research Director, Info-Tech Research Group. “I am especially intrigued by the video catchup feature for brainstorming – it’s a great step toward replacing traditional meetings by mimicking the spontaneous ‘office walk over’ to discuss ideas with colleagues or a team.”
With deep integrations across the Zoho ecosystem and with third-party apps, Vani becomes the center of work for all stages of a project, from ideation to execution. By reducing app switching, improving brainstorming sessions, and being the hub for visual intelligence, Vani makes collaboration clearer, more visual, and effortless, no matter the industry.
Availability and Pricing
Vani is now available globally, and offers a free plan that allows unlimited user onboarding and a Team plan at $5 per user per month – the most affordable pricing in the industry. Whether it’s a small startup or a large enterprise, Vani grows with teams with a pay-as-you-scale model.
Zoho Artificial Intelligence Differentiation
Zoho is committed to designing and incorporating artificial intelligence guided by the principles of customer privacy and value. Our generic AI models across contextual, assistive, and agentic AI, are not trained on consumer data and do not retain customer information. Zoho builds AI tools with usefulness in mind, striking a balance between providing AI technology that assists workers while right-sizing models that don’t require burdening consumers with additional costs.
