Introducing Boards: Manage Projects Where Your Files Live

Brault Boards are project boards built directly into your file management library. Each item on a Board is an actual file, not a task that links to a file somewhere else. You define custom properties (status, person, date, checkbox), move files through your stages, and track your creative workflow without ever leaving the place where your files live.

Boards launched as Kanban in April 2026. Since August 2026 the same board also renders as a gallery and as a table, so you can look at the work, move it forward, or fill in its facts without changing tools. The full breakdown is in Three ways to see a board: gallery, kanban, and table.

The problem: your files live in one tool, your project management in another

Most creative teams manage files in one place (Google Drive, Dropbox, a DAM) and track project progress in another (Trello, Asana, Monday). The result:

Boards solve this by making the file itself the unit of work. The file IS the card. When you move it between columns, you're changing the status of the actual asset, not a reference to it.

How do Brault Boards work?

Kanban view over your files

Every Board displays files as cards in a Kanban layout. Columns represent the values of whichever property you're grouping by: typically status (Draft, In Review, Approved, Delivered), but also person, date, or checkbox.

Drag a file from "Draft" to "In Review" and that file's status property updates instantly. No separate project management tool needed.

Custom properties on files

Each Board defines its own set of properties. These attach directly to the files in that Board:

You decide which properties matter for your workflow. A production team might use Status + Person + Date. A freelancer might use just Status.

Three views over the same board

The same Board renders three ways, and the choice is remembered per board for each person:

Filters and search behave identically in all three. Group by appears only in Kanban, since grouping into columns is a Kanban concept.

Group by any property

Switch your Kanban view instantly: group by status to see workflow progress, group by person to see workload distribution, group by date to see what's due this week. Same Board, different perspectives.

Search within Boards

As Boards grow, filter files by name, keywords, or tags. Results stay in their columns so you see filtered files in context of their status.

Use cases

Campaign asset tracking

Track every asset for a marketing campaign from creation to delivery. One Board per campaign, status columns for each stage. When a designer finishes a banner, they drag it to "Ready for Review." The marketing lead drags it to "Approved." No Slack messages needed. The Board is the source of truth.

Photo and video production

Tag files by shoot status, editor assignment, and delivery date. A photographer uploads raw files → they appear in "Uploaded." The editor drags them to "Editing." When done, they move to "Ready for Delivery." The producer sees the entire pipeline at a glance.

Brand asset governance

Track which brand assets are current, under review, or expired. A Board with Status properties like "Active," "Needs Update," and "Archived" gives the brand team instant visibility into the state of their asset library.

Real-time collaboration

Boards sync in real-time across all users via WebSockets. When a teammate moves a file to a different column, you see it instantly. No refresh needed. Multiple people can work on the same Board simultaneously.

Changes are optimistic: the UI updates immediately when you drag a file, and syncs with the server in the background. If something goes wrong, it rolls back automatically.

Published Boards

Share a read-only view of any Board externally by publishing it. The published Board carries your brand identity (logo, colors, and theme) so clients and partners see a professional, branded Kanban view of your project.

Published Boards are accessible at a public URL without requiring the viewer to create an account.

How do Boards fit into creative file management?

Boards are part of the creative asset management approach: instead of scattering your workflow across separate storage, transfer, review, and project management tools, everything lives in one library.

Combined with AI-powered search, Brault Transfer for file delivery, and white-label branding, Boards complete the picture: your files, your workflow, your brand, one platform.

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