A practical guide to Miro integrations with GPT-Image-1-Mini (2025)

If your team works remotely, chances are you've spent a good amount of time on a Miro board. It’s the go-to for visual collaboration. But what if you could pair its infinite canvas with an AI that generates images for you? Suddenly, your brainstorming sessions could spit out actual visuals in seconds.

This guide is all about the practical side of setting up Miro integrations with GPT-Image-1-Mini, a cost-effective AI model that's great for churning out creative assets. We'll walk through what these tools are, the different ways you can connect them, and some real-world examples of how product, marketing, and support teams can use them. Most importantly, we'll talk about what to do after the visuals are created, and how to make that knowledge actually useful for your team and your customers.

Understanding the tools

Before we get into the nuts and bolts of integrations, let's get a quick rundown of the two tools we're talking about connecting.

What is Miro?

Miro is that online whiteboard you've probably seen everywhere. It’s a digital canvas where teams can throw up sticky notes, sketch out diagrams, build mind maps, and drop in documents. It's a lifesaver for everything from agile meetings to design sprints, especially when everyone's not in the same room. Its real magic is in helping turn a mess of ideas into a clear, organized plan.

What is GPT-Image-1-Mini?

GPT-Image-1-Mini is one of OpenAI's newer, budget-friendly image generation models. It's not trying to be a digital Picasso. Instead, it's built for speed and getting a lot of images done cheaply. It’s an API-first tool, which just means it’s designed from the ground up to be plugged into other apps and workflows.

It’s a solid choice for teams that need to:

• Create a bunch of different images for A/B testing ads.

• Quickly whip up thumbnails for videos or blog posts.

• Produce concept visuals for prototypes and storyboards.

It can handle text-to-image generation, image editing, and in-painting, all for way less than the bigger, more powerful models. This makes it a really accessible option for everyday creative work.

3 ways to set up the integration

So, how do you actually hook up Miro with an image generator like GPT-Image-1-Mini? It’s not quite a one-click affair. You’ve got a few options, depending on how technical you want to get, what your budget looks like, and what you need to do.

1. Use Miro's built-in AI

Miro has its own AI tool baked right in, called Miro AI. While it's not GPT-Image-1-Mini, it gives you a good starting point for AI-assisted creation without ever leaving your board.

Miro AI can generate images, group sticky notes, build diagrams, and summarize text from simple prompts. This is definitely the easiest route since there's no setup involved. The catch is that it runs on a credit system tied to your Miro plan. If you're generating a lot of images, those credits can get used up pretty fast, and it doesn't offer the same level of customization as connecting directly to an external API. It's a great place to start, but you might find its limits sooner rather than later.

2. Use a no-code automation tool

If you want more power and flexibility but don't want to mess with code, a no-code automation platform is your best bet. Tools like Albato, Integrately, or n8n can act as a bridge between Miro and thousands of other apps, including OpenAI's models.

The general idea works like this:

1. You pick a trigger: This is an event in Miro that kicks off the automation. For example, creating a new sticky note that starts with "generate image:".

2. You set up an action: The trigger takes the text from your sticky note and sends it over to the GPT-Image-1-Mini API.

3. The result comes back: The newly generated image is sent back to your Miro board and pops up as a new element.

This approach gives you a lot more control and is usually cheaper for high-volume image generation since you're paying for API usage directly. The only real downside is that you'll have another subscription to manage, and the initial setup is a bit more involved.

3. Build a custom app

For total control, you can build a custom Miro app using the Miro Developer Platform. This means rolling up your sleeves and writing some code to create an app that lives in your Miro sidebar and talks directly to the GPT-Image-1-Mini API.

As one of Miro's engineering blog posts explains, you can create a custom panel where your team can select sticky notes, type a prompt, and have AI-generated content or images placed right back on the board. This option gives you a perfectly tailored experience but does require a developer and some ongoing maintenance. It’s the best choice if your team has a very specific workflow that off-the-shelf tools just can't handle.

Practical use cases

Alright, once you've got this integration running, what can you actually do with it? It’s about more than just making cool-looking images. Here are a few practical examples for different teams.

For product teams doing rapid prototyping: Imagine you're outlining a new user flow with sticky notes in Miro. Instead of jumping over to Figma to build rough mockups, you could have the integration instantly generate a visual for each screen right there on the board. This would let you iterate and get feedback from stakeholders way faster.

For support teams creating help center visuals: Support teams often map out knowledge base articles in Miro. With an AI integration, they could write an outline and, at the same time, generate diagrams or illustrative icons for each step. Everything would be ready to export and drop into the final article.

For marketing teams brainstorming campaigns: A marketing team can use Miro to brainstorm ideas for a new social media campaign. The best sticky notes can be instantly converted into visual concepts for posts, different ad variations for A/B testing, or even a mood board to set the campaign's visual tone.

For content creators building storyboards: Whether you're making a YouTube video or a short film, you can map out your scenes on a Miro board. The integration could then generate a quick storyboard, helping you visualize the story and camera shots before you start filming.

The missing piece: Automated support

Making visuals in Miro is a great first step, but it’s only half the story, particularly for customer support teams. Those awesome diagrams and helpful images you create are just sitting there on a board. An agent still has to hunt them down, figure out which one to use, and then send it to a customer. That's where things can get clunky.

The problem is that Miro is a space for collaboration, not a system for delivering knowledge. All the valuable information your team creates stays locked inside a board. How do you get that knowledge into your help desk, your internal chat, and in front of your customers instantly and automatically?

This is where a dedicated AI platform for support comes in. While a Miro integration with GPT-Image-1-Mini helps you create knowledge, you need another system that can put that knowledge to work. You need something that can:

• Bring all your knowledge together: Connect to the places where your final docs live, like Confluence, Google Docs, or your help center.

• Learn your business: Train on your past support tickets and conversations to understand your company's voice and common problems.

• Automate workflows: Use all that combined knowledge to answer customer questions on its own, draft replies for agents, and sort tickets without a human having to touch them.

Basically, you need a way to bring all the knowledge you've worked so hard to create to life.

Bridge the gap with eesel AI

This is the exact gap eesel AI was designed to fill. It acts as a smart layer that connects all your scattered knowledge sources to your support channels. It turns those static documents and visuals into something that can actively help your customers and team.

While Miro and GPT-Image-1-Mini are for creating content, eesel AI is for activating it. It plugs into your knowledge bases (like Confluence, Google Docs, Notion) and your help desk (like Zendesk, Freshdesk, or Intercom), and even your Slack to:

• Run an AI Agent that can handle and resolve frontline support tickets on its own.

• Act as an AI Copilot that helps your human agents by drafting instant, on-brand replies.

• Let your team ask questions internally and get answers from company knowledge without ever leaving Slack.

Unlike a lot of other platforms that can take months to set up, eesel AI is self-serve, so you can get it up and running in minutes. You can even simulate how it would perform on your past tickets to see how it'll do before you go live, giving you a predictable results from day one.

Pricing overview

Curious about the cost? Here's a quick breakdown of the pricing for the tools we've talked about.

Miro pricing

Miro has a few different plans, and the amount of AI credits you get depends on the tier.

Plan	Price (Billed Annually)	Key Features
Free	$0	3 editable boards, 5,000+ templates, 10 Miro AI credits/month per team
Starter	$8/member/month	Unlimited boards, unlimited visitors, 25 Miro AI credits/month per member
Business	$16/member/month	Unlimited guests, SSO, advanced diagramming, 50 Miro AI credits/month per member
Enterprise	Custom	Enterprise-grade security, centralized management, 100 Miro AI credits/month per member

GPT-Image-1-Mini (OpenAI) pricing example

The pricing is based on tokens and is pretty competitive. To give you an idea, generating a standard 1024x1024 image with a similar OpenAI model like DALL-E 2 costs about $0.02. GPT-Image-1-Mini is meant to be even cheaper, likely costing less than a penny per image.

eesel AI pricing

eesel AI has straightforward, feature-based plans without any weird per-resolution fees.

Plan	Monthly Price (Billed Annually)	Key Features
Team	$239/month	Up to 1,000 AI interactions/mo, train on docs/website, Copilot, Slack integration.
Business	$639/month	Up to 3,000 AI interactions/mo, train on past tickets, AI Actions, bulk simulation.
Custom	Contact Sales	Unlimited interactions, advanced actions, multi-agent orchestration, custom integrations.

Final thoughts on Miro integrations with GPT-Image-1-Mini

Hooking up Miro with an AI image generator like GPT-Image-1-Mini can seriously speed up your team's creative process. It makes going from an idea to a visual much quicker, whether you use Miro’s own AI, a no-code tool, or build a custom app.

But remember, creating the content is just the beginning. To really get the most out of it, you need a way to put that knowledge to work. By pairing your creative process in Miro with a support automation platform like eesel AI, you can create a complete system that not only helps you generate great ideas but also uses them to provide top-notch support.

Ready to see how you can put your knowledge to work? Start your free eesel AI trial today.