The map survives the workshop,the wall does not
A story mapping session ends with a wall of stickies, a photo of it, and a week to turn that into a backbone, a set of steps, and release slices somebody can commit to. Khint captures the wall while it is still up, keeps the whole workshop in one session, then one AI action drafts the map and the slices from all of it.
Story maps do not die in the workshop
they die in the transcription
The workshop itself usually goes well. Six people, three hours, a wall that finally shows the journey end to end and where the thin release could be cut. What fails is the day after, when one person has to turn a photograph of eighty stickies into something the team can work from. Half the stickies are three words that meant something in the room. The reasons live in nobody’s notes, because everyone was standing up. By the time the map reaches Jira it has become a flat list of tickets with the two axes gone, which is the one thing story mapping existed to prevent. Khint’s three pillars (Capture, Memory, Agents) attack that gap rather than the workshop: take the wall down as text while it is still up, keep it with the spoken reasons in one session, and draft from the whole thing instead of from a photo.
From a wall of stickies to a sliced backlog, in five moves
Every step runs from the same palette shortcut.
Open a session before the first sticky goes up
Start a Memorysession named for the journey you are about to map (“Checkout, autumn release”) and give it an objective in one line. Leave it active for the whole workshop and for the refinement week that follows. Every note you type, every screen you capture, and every ticket you pull lands in it as an entry, and Khint keeps a compacted working summary of the lot. The session is what lets the drafting step, two hours or two days later, see the whole wall instead of the last thing you copied.
Get the wall off the wall
A story map is built from short fragments spread across a surface, which is exactly the shape that does not survive being retyped at 6pm. Run Capture from the palette while the workshop is still live: Extract text lifts the sticky wording off a Miro board or a shared screen into text, and Capture & ask lets you question a screenshot directly when a cluster is dense. For a photo of a physical wall, the whiteboard photo walkthrough covers the same ground. Type the spoken parts too: the constraint somebody mentioned once is the reason a slice will move later.
Draft the backbone first, the details second
Save an Actionwhose prompt is the map’s shape rather than its content: the backbone of user activities in the order the user meets them, the steps under each activity, then candidate stories under each step, each one phrased from the user’s side. Select your captured notes, press Cmd+Shift+K, run it. Because the Action reads the active session’s compacted context, the aside from the morning comes back attached to the step it belongs to. In the Action editor you can describe the shape in one line and press Generate to have the prompt drafted, then Improve it in place as your team’s mapping habits settle.
Cut the release slices, and argue with the first one
The backbone is the easy half. The half that decides your quarter is the horizontal cut: which thin line of stories crosses the whole journey and still gives a user something that works end to end. Run a second Action over the drafted map that proposes a walking skeleton plus two later slices, and asks for what each slice deliberately leaves out. Treat that as a draft with the reasoning attached, not a decision: you are the one who knows which compromise your stakeholders will wear. When the ranking needs a value against effort view instead, that is feature prioritization, and it reads from the same session.
Publish the map, file only slice one
With Atlassian connected on the Integrations page, run Create pagein the palette’s CONFLUENCE section so the whole map lands where the team can find it, then create issues for slice one only: a backlog carrying three releases of stories at full detail is a backlog nobody grooms. If you map often, chain the moves into one workflow, drafting Action as step one and Confluence Create page as step two, so notes in and published map out is a single palette row. A parallel step can post the slice-one summary to Jira and Slack at the same time when the plan needs announcing.
Where mapping stops and decomposition starts
Mapping answers a horizontal question: what is the whole journey, and where can we cut a line across it that still works. It is not the same job as breaking one large item down, and the two get confused because both end with stories. When you already know the scope and need an epic turned into sized children, epic breakdown is the deliverable. When a single story in slice one turns out to be three sprints wide, story splitting is what cuts it thin. And once slice one is agreed, each story still needs its acceptance criteria before anyone commits to it. The map is the frame the three of them hang inside.
Common questions
Does Khint draw the story map as a picture?
No, and it is worth being straight about it. Khint gives you the map as structured text: the backbone of activities in order, the steps under each activity, the stories under each step, and the release slices cut across them. That is the form you paste into Miro, into a Confluence page, or into Jira as issues. Khint does have a PowerPoint diagram feature, but it turns selected slide text into one of ten consulting frameworks (process, timeline, 2×2 matrix, pyramid, and so on), which suits presenting your release sequence to a steering committee. A full two-axis story map wall is not one of those frameworks.
The workshop happened on a physical wall, or in Miro. How does that get in?
Through Capture. Open the palette and run Extract text on a region of your Miro board to lift the sticky wording into text, or use Capture & ask to question a screenshot directly, for example to read a dense cluster of stickies column by column. For a photo of a physical wall, point an Action at the image file: images are read through Capture, and the same walkthrough is spelled out on the whiteboard photo to requirements page. Either way the wall becomes text, which is what the drafting step needs.
How do I stop the map going stale the week after the workshop?
Keep the session and keep appending. The Memory session you opened for the mapping stays available, so when a story gets split in refinement or a slice moves, you add that as an entry rather than editing a wall nobody visits. With Atlassian connected, Append to page adds the change to the published map at the bottom, version-locked, so a teammate editing the same page at the same time fails the write instead of being silently overwritten. The map stops being a photo of one Tuesday.
Does my whole map get sent to the AI?
Only what you hand it. An Action reads the text you selected when you ran it, plus the compacted summary of your active Memory session if you turned that on for the Action. Khint does not watch your screen or read your apps in the background. Memory sessions live in a local database on your machine and are not synced to the cloud. If your stories carry customer names or contact details, switch on the per-Action redact option, which replaces emails, phone numbers, and similar identifiers before the text leaves your machine.
Keep the map, not just the photo
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