For agencies

Idea management for agencies that sell thinking

Idea management for agencies means two programs in one workspace. Your people submit ideas that improve how the agency runs, and your team runs focused challenges for clients, with AI expanding and scoring every idea and a clear record of what was decided.

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Internal challenges on delivery, margins, hiring and new services
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Client challenges with a question, a deadline and a scored shortlist
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AI scores each idea against the goals you set, with a written rationale
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Board report per challenge to hand to leadership or a client

An idea program for the agency itself

Agencies are full of people who spot problems first: the account manager who sees the same scope creep on every retainer, the designer who knows which review step wastes a day, the strategist with a service line nobody has priced yet. Those observations usually end up in a chat thread and disappear.

A Brainstormer workspace gives them a home. Open a challenge such as "How could we cut the time from brief to first concept by a third?" or "Which new service could we sell to our existing retainer clients next year?", set a deadline, and invite the team. Members submit ideas in two sentences, vote on each other's ideas, and see where each one stands in the pipeline.

You describe the agency and set three to six strategic goals with weights, for example margin per project, client retention and new service revenue. Every idea is scored against those goals, so the shortlist reflects what the partners actually care about rather than who spoke last.

How agencies usually handle ideas, and what changes in a workspace
Task	Slides, email and chat threads	Brainstormer workspace
Collecting ideas from staff	Scattered across channels, lost after a week	One challenge per question, every idea in one list
Turning a one-liner into something usable	Someone rewrites it by hand	AI adds problem, solution, first step and success measure
Choosing what to pursue	Loudest voice in the meeting	Impact, cost, risk and strategic fit, weighted by your goals
Showing the outcome	A deck built the night before	Board report with ranking, themes and a recommendation
Proving what was decided	Memory	Audit trail of every stage change (Business and up)

Running idea challenges for clients

Many agencies sell workshops and innovation sprints. The hard part is not the session, it is what happens after: a wall of sticky notes, a photo, and a follow up email nobody reads. A challenge in your workspace turns that into a scored, sorted list with a recommendation.

A typical pattern is to open a challenge per client question, invite the client stakeholders as members for the length of the engagement, and use AI starter ideas so the first session never begins with a blank page. Duplicates are found and merged with authors and votes kept, and ideas are grouped into themes you can present.

At the end, the innovation workshop tool and the board report do the heavy lifting. You print the report to PDF from the browser or download Markdown and CSV, then add your own point of view on top. The client sees a documented process, not just a brainstorm.

Keep in mind that members count against your plan limit, so size the plan for your staff plus the client teams you expect to host at the same time.

The AI workshop for pitches and strategy questions

When a pitch or a planning day needs fresh angles fast, the AI workshop puts one strategic question in front of six standing perspectives: Optimist, Skeptic, Customer, Engineer, Marketer and Visionary. Each one argues from its own position, which surfaces risks and angles a single brainstorm tends to skip.

The results are not stuck in a separate document. You can send workshop output straight into a challenge as ideas, where the team votes, AI scores them against the goals, and the best ones move to shortlisted. For structured techniques your strategists already use, see the six thinking hats tool and SCAMPER brainstorming.

Which plan fits an agency

Team costs $149 a month billed yearly ($1,788 a year) or $298 month to month, for up to 25 members and 3 open challenges at a time. It suits a small studio running one internal challenge and a couple of client challenges.

Business costs $399 a month billed yearly ($4,788 a year) or $798 month to month, for up to 150 members with unlimited challenges, weighted strategic goals, the board report, an admin role for your program lead and an audit trail CSV. Most agencies that run client work through the workspace land here, because client challenges add up quickly.

Enterprise at $999 a month billed yearly adds up to 1,000 members, full workspace export and an invoice with company details. Everything is self-serve: see pricing, start your workspace and invite the team.

Questions

Can we run challenges for several clients in one workspace?

Yes. Each challenge has its own question, description and deadline, and you can run as many as your plan allows: 3 open at a time on Team, unlimited on Business and Enterprise. Client stakeholders join as members.

Do client members count toward the member limit?

Yes. Everyone you invite is a member of the workspace, so plan for your staff plus the client people who will be active at the same time.

Can we give clients a report at the end?

Yes. Business and Enterprise include a board report per challenge with the ranking, themes, stage counts and a recommendation. You can print it to PDF from the browser or download Markdown and CSV.

Can we try it before paying?

Yes. There is one demo challenge with AI ideas on the homepage that you can try without an account, and paid plans start at $149 a month billed yearly.