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Excalidraw

Hand-drawn-style diagrams, E2EE collab

provisional — pending verificationMITself-hostable

Arete score

5.0 / 5

Autonomy5

Return5

Efficiency5

Transparency5

ἀρετή “AH-reh-tay” — excellence: a thing being good at what it’s for. Mean of the four principle scores. How we score →

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~ Provisional — seeded estimate by a human researcher; full rubric pass pending.

Why it's listed

Excalidraw is listed in design & whiteboarding because it competes on utility: hand-drawn-style diagrams, e2ee collab. Its funding model is disclosed on the listing. Licensed MIT; pricing: free / paid plus. Technically it's lean — it runs comfortably on modest hardware, which is exactly the proof-of-work efficiency we rank for. This entry is provisional — the scores are seeded estimates pending our full manual rubric pass, and the verification date will appear here once complete.

Facts

License: MIT
Pricing: Free / paid plus
Funding model: Commercial OSS
Self-hostable: Yes — deploy difficulty: easy
Replaces: Miro
Verification: Provisional — scores are seeded estimates pending manual verification

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