AI brainstorming partner
AI brainstorming tool that gets you from stuck to decided
Give Brainstormer one challenge. It generates dozens of genuinely different ideas, runs SCAMPER, Six Thinking Hats and mind maps for you, then clusters everything and picks a winner with reasons. Blank page to best idea in minutes.
No credit card needed. Your challenges stay private.
Built for founders, marketers and product teams who have to leave the room with a decision
Dozens of ideas, clustered into themes, scored and narrowed to one pick with reasons. SCAMPER · Six Hats · Mind maps
Challenge:
+ more on the wall
Winner
score / 10
Why
Shortlist
Sample brainstorm shown. Your challenges stay private.
One challenge in, a decided direction out
SCAMPER Six Hats Mind maps Affinity clustering
No credit card needed to try it
The short answer
What is an AI brainstorming tool?
An AI brainstorming tool produces the ideas itself instead of handing you a blank canvas to fill. The useful ones do three things a whiteboard cannot: they force the ideas to be genuinely different rather than ten rewordings of your first thought, they run structured ideation methods over your actual problem, and they narrow the wall down to a decision.
Brainstormer is built for that whole loop. Give it one challenge and about thirty seconds later there are dozens of directions on the wall, each tagged with the angle it came from. It runs SCAMPER, Six Thinking Hats, mind maps and reverse brainstorming on request, clusters everything into named themes, scores each idea on impact against effort, and lifts out one winner with the reasoning written in plain sentences.
The difference from a chat assistant is the shape of the output. A chat gives you a conversation and agrees with whatever you suggest. Brainstormer gives you a wall you can defend in a meeting: themes, scores, a pick, and the reasons behind it. See how it compares with ChatGPT for brainstorming, or how it stacks up against the whole field in our best brainstorming software roundup.
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| What it does | Turns one challenge into dozens of different ideas, then clusters, scores and picks a winner |
| Methods it runs | SCAMPER, Six Thinking Hats, mind mapping, reverse brainstorming, affinity clustering |
| Time to a full wall | About 30 seconds. Minutes to a clustered, scored pick |
| Who it is for | Founders, marketers, product teams and agencies |
| Pricing | Solo $16/mo, Pro $39/mo, Team $99/mo for 5 seats, Enterprise custom |
| AI limits | Unlimited brainstorms. No credits to ration |
| Exports | Markdown, PNG and CSV |
| Free plan | None. No credit card needed to try the studio above |
Last updated August 2026
A partner that diverges wide, then actually decides
Chat bots hand you a list. Whiteboards hand you a blank. Brainstormer runs the whole arc: spark, structure, cluster, winner.
Never start from a blank page
Ten genuinely different directions in the first thirty seconds, each tagged with the angle it came from: invert it, borrow from retail, remove the step, make it social. Not ten rephrasings of the same idea.
Idea generatorReal frameworks, run for you
SCAMPER, Six Thinking Hats, mind maps, reverse brainstorming and Crazy 8s are built in. You do not facilitate them or even learn them: one click and the method runs over your challenge.
SCAMPER brainstormingIt builds on YOUR ideas
Drop your half-formed idea on the wall and Brainstormer says yes-and: it extends, twists and strengthens your thinking instead of replacing it. The best idea in the room is still allowed to be yours.
Brainstorm with AIEnd with a decision, not a pile of stickies
Ideas cluster into named themes, get scored on impact versus effort, and one winner is picked with the reasons written out. From blank page to a decided direction in minutes.
Affinity mapping toolThree steps. One decided direction.
1 Drop in your challenge
Type the problem the way you would say it out loud: "grow newsletter signups", "name our agency", "reduce churn". No prompt engineering, no blank canvas. Brainstormer asks one or two sharpening questions if the challenge is vague, then gets to work.
Brainstorm with AI2 Diverge with real frameworks
Dozens of genuinely different ideas deal onto your wall, each tagged with the angle it came from. Flip the same wall through SCAMPER, Six Thinking Hats or a mind map with one click, and add your own notes: the AI builds on them instead of talking over them.
SCAMPER brainstorming3 Converge: cluster, score, pick
One click groups the wall into named clusters, scores every idea on impact versus effort, and lifts a winner with the reasons written out. You walk away with a shortlist and a decided direction, not a pile of stickies to sort later.
Idea prioritizationIf it starts with "we need ideas", it fits
Real challenges people ran this month. Every one ended in clusters, a shortlist and a pick.
Marketing
Grow newsletter signups
Creative
Name the new agency
Founder
Reduce churn in month two
Product
Next feature for the fitness app
Strategy
Reposition against the giant
Marketing
Q4 campaign for a boring category
Content
Turn the webinar into 20 assets
Product
Make onboarding feel like a win
Where do you sit?
A whiteboard holds ideas. A chat lists them. This decides.
| The job | Miro / Mural | ChatGPT | Brainstormer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Generates the ideas | You and the room do | Yes, but look-alikes | Dozens, angle-tagged |
| Runs SCAMPER / Six Hats | Templates you facilitate | If you police it | One click |
| Builds on your ideas | Holds what you write | Restate each time | Yes-and mode |
| Clusters, scores, picks | Manual sorting | No converge step | Named clusters + a pick with reasons |
| Price for one brainstormer | Per-seat suite + AI credits | $20/mo generalist | From $16/mo, all in |
Full comparisons: Miro alternative, Mural alternative, the 5 best brainstorming tools.
You might be thinking...
"Isn't this just ChatGPT?"
ChatGPT gives you one thread of similar ideas; this forces diversity, runs real frameworks, and converges to a scored pick.
"The ideas will be generic."
Angle tags force different mechanisms, and yes-and mode builds on YOUR ideas. You stay the judge.
"My challenge is confidential."
Private by default, never used to train models, deletable on request. Agencies run client work here.
What does "we need ideas" cost you now?
A brainstorm workshop is people times time times salary, before the follow-up meeting where the actual decision happens. Put your numbers in.
Teams standardize on Brainstormer so every brainstorm is captured, clustered and decided in one place instead of dying in chat threads. Enterprise adds SSO, roles, an SLA and a security review; see pricing or talk to sales.
◇ Workshop cost calculator
Per workshop
90 min + follow-up share, loaded cost
Per year
in payroll hours alone
Brainstormer Pro
$468/yr
cheaper than the workshops it replaces
Every session ends like this
Named clusters. A scored shortlist. One winner with the why written out. This is the artifact you walk into Monday with.
Built for the people who have to decide
Founders without a room
You need a sounding board at 11pm and there is nobody awake to be one. Put the decision in, get genuinely different directions back, each tagged with the angle behind it, and end on a pick you can defend to an investor.
Brainstorming for foundersMarketers on a quota
Campaign angles and content ideas on a weekly clock. Generate the wall, cluster forty angles into the three or four pillars actually hiding in them, and leave with the first piece per pillar chosen and reasoned.
Brainstorming for marketersProduct teams that must decide
Feature ideation that usually costs a 90-minute workshop plus a follow-up meeting. Run it async on a shared wall, dot-vote the shortlist, and start the meeting at the decision instead of the blank page.
Brainstorming for product teamsOne skipped workshop pays for a year
All plans are billed yearly, include every framework, and end in decisions. No seats you don't need.
Solo
One brain that needs sparring
$16 /mo billed yearly
- Unlimited brainstorms
- All frameworks: SCAMPER, Six Hats, mind map, reverse, Crazy 8s
- Clustering and winner picks with reasons
Pro
Serious operators: founders, marketers, PMs
$39 /mo billed yearly
- Everything in Solo
- Deep-dive runs with twice the idea depth
- Builds on your ideas (yes-and mode)
Team
Up to 5 seats, one shared idea library
$99 /mo billed yearly
- Everything in Pro
- 5 seats included, extra seat $15 per month
- Shared workspaces and idea library
Rolling it out to a whole org? Enterprise adds SSO, roles and permissions, an SLA and a DPA. Talk to sales.
Fair questions
The honest boundary up front: the AI suggests, structures and challenges. You judge and decide.
Is this not just ChatGPT with extra steps?
No. A chat thread gives you one linear list of ideas that tend to sound alike, and they die in the scrollback. Brainstormer forces diversity with angle tags, runs structured frameworks like SCAMPER and Six Thinking Hats over your challenge, puts everything on a visual wall, then clusters, scores and converges to a shortlist and a pick with reasons. Different job: not "give me ideas" but "get me from stuck to decided".
Will the ideas be generic?
Some ideas in any brainstorm are obvious, and that is fine: the obvious ones prove the wall is honest. The frameworks and angle tags force genuinely different directions (invert it, borrow from another industry, remove the step, exaggerate it), and yes-and mode builds on your ideas instead of replacing them. You stay the judge: Brainstormer widens your thinking and speeds up your decision, it does not pretend to know your business better than you do.
Is my challenge confidential?
Yes. Your challenges and ideas are private by default, are never used to train models, and you can delete them at any time. Agencies and product teams use Brainstormer for client and roadmap work for exactly this reason.
How is this different from Miro or Mural?
Miro and Mural are excellent whiteboards, but they are canvases: you bring the method, the facilitation and the energy, and the AI assist is bolted onto a blank board. Brainstormer is the partner, not the canvas. It generates the ideas, runs the framework, clusters the wall and converges to a pick. See the honest comparison on our Miro alternative page.
How much does it cost?
Solo is $16 per month billed yearly, most people pick Pro at $39 per month, and Team is $99 per month for 5 seats with shared libraries and voting. Enterprise adds SSO, roles, an SLA and invoicing. There is no free plan; the interactive brainstorm on this page is the test drive.
Can my whole team use it?
Yes. The Team plan has shared workspaces, a common idea library, async dot-voting and a facilitator mode for live sessions, so a distributed team can diverge on their own time and converge together. Enterprise adds SSO, roles and permissions, an SLA and procurement-friendly invoicing.
Do I need to learn SCAMPER or Six Thinking Hats first?
No. Pick the framework from a menu and Brainstormer runs the method over your challenge: it applies each SCAMPER operation, argues each hat, or draws the mind map for you. Using the tool is also the fastest way to learn how the techniques think.
Your next good idea is one challenge away
Type the problem the way you would say it out loud. Walk out with clusters, a shortlist and a pick with reasons.
No credit card needed. Your challenges stay private.