Business Model Canvas Template PDF

Fill in the canvas below, pick A4 or A3 in the bar, and download one landscape page.

Business Model Canvas

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Key Partners

Who are your key partners and suppliers?

    Key Activities

    What key activities does your value proposition require?

      Key Resources

      What key resources does your value proposition require?

        Value Propositions

        What value do you deliver, and which customer problem do you solve?

          Customer Relationships

          What relationship does each customer segment expect you to keep?

            Channels

            Through which channels do your customer segments want to be reached?

              Customer Segments

              Who are your most important customers?

                Cost Structure

                What are the most important costs in your business model?

                  Revenue Streams

                  What are customers really willing to pay for, and how?

                    One page, always

                    A Business Model Canvas is one page by definition — the point of it is that the whole model is in view at once. So the PDF never paginates. Whatever you have written is scaled by a single factor to fit one landscape sheet. If that scale pushes the note text below 7pt you still get the file, and the page tells you so, so the decision to move to A3 happens before you print rather than after.

                    The text is real text, not an image of text: it is searchable, selectable, and it stays sharp at any zoom. The file embeds no fonts, so it is a few kilobytes and opens anywhere.

                    A4 or A3

                    SheetSize, landscapeUse it for
                    A4297 × 210 mmA canvas of three or four notes a block, printed on any office printer
                    A3420 × 297 mmA full canvas, or one people will write on — twice the area, so type stays larger

                    Printing it well

                    1. 1

                      Decide blank or filled

                      Download it empty as a workshop handout, or fill the canvas here first and print the result.
                    2. 2

                      Pick the sheet

                      A4 for a personal copy, A3 for a wall or a table people will stand around and annotate.
                    3. 3

                      Print at 100%

                      Turn off "fit to page" and "shrink oversized pages" — the canvas is already sized to the sheet.
                    4. 4

                      Check the margins

                      The PDF leaves a 12mm margin, inside the non-printable edge of every common home printer.

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                    Questions about the PDF version

                    No — it is a finished page, not a form. Type into the canvas above and download again; that is one click and it always matches what you see. To annotate afterwards, use the comment tools in any PDF reader.

                    It means the canvas no longer fits the sheet at readable size. Switch A4 to A3, shorten the longest block, or use the Word file, which reflows onto more than one page when it has to.

                    Not yet — the bar offers A4 and A3. A4 landscape prints on Letter with a small white band at one edge, which is harmless for a canvas.

                    Yes. It is drawn from the same block geometry and the same template colours, so the sheet is the canvas above, scaled to paper.