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Innovation consulting software for client idea programs

Innovation consulting software gives you one place to run a client idea program: challenges, employee ideas, AI scoring against the client strategy, a decision pipeline and a board report. You run the engagement, the workspace keeps the evidence of how every decision was made.

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Set the client goals and weights, and every idea is scored against them
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Challenges with deadlines keep a program moving between workshops
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Stage changes are logged with who, when and a note
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Board report with ranking, themes and a recommendation

Why consultants need more than a workshop deck

A good innovation workshop produces energy and a long list. The engagement is judged on what happens next: which ideas were chosen, why, and whether anyone moved them forward. Without a system, that story lives in spreadsheets you rebuild for every client.

A Brainstormer workspace carries the program from the first question to the final readout. You set up the client workspace with a company description and strategic goals, open challenges such as "How could we reduce warehouse picking errors this year?", and invite the client team. Their ideas arrive in one list, each one expanded by AI into a problem, a solution, a first step and a success measure.

Because the scores are tied to the goals the client leadership agreed on, the shortlist is defensible. Each score comes with a written rationale your review panel can challenge and adjust in the discussion.

Where the workspace fits in a typical innovation engagement
Engagement phase	What you do	What the workspace does
Kickoff	Agree strategy and success criteria with leadership	Stores 3 to 6 strategic goals with weights
Discovery workshop	Frame the questions that matter	AI workshop with six perspectives, output sent into a challenge
Idea campaign	Invite staff and set a deadline	Collects ideas, expands them, merges duplicates, groups themes
Evaluation	Run the review panel	Impact, cost, risk and fit scores with written rationale
Readout	Present recommendations	Board report per challenge, PDF, Markdown and CSV

Workshops that feed the pipeline

Consultants bring method. The workspace brings continuity. The AI workshop runs one strategic question through six perspectives (Optimist, Skeptic, Customer, Engineer, Marketer, Visionary), and you can send the results into a challenge as ideas so they sit next to the employee submissions and go through the same scoring.

If you run formal sessions, pair the workspace with the formats you already use. Our guides to design thinking workshops and strategic planning workshops show where scoring and the pipeline fit into each format, and idea prioritization explains how the weighted score works.

A decision trail the client can trust

Every idea moves through submitted, in review, shortlisted, approved, in progress, implemented or rejected. Each move records who made it, when, from which stage to which, and a note. On Business and Enterprise you can export that audit trail as CSV and attach it to your final report.

That matters when the program outlives your engagement. The client admin can keep running challenges after you hand over, with the same goals, the same stages and the history of every decision you made together.

Enterprise adds a full workspace export, so the client keeps a complete copy of the program data when the engagement closes.

Who pays and which plan to choose

There are two common setups. The client buys the workspace and adds you as an admin, which keeps ownership and data with them. Or you run a workspace for a smaller client inside a fixed-fee engagement and hand it over at the end.

For a program with a handful of departments, Business at $399 a month billed yearly ($4,788 a year) gives up to 150 members, unlimited challenges, weighted goals, the board report and the audit trail CSV. Larger rollouts with up to 1,000 members use Enterprise at $999 a month billed yearly. A small pilot with up to 25 people fits Team at $149 a month billed yearly.

No call is needed at any point. See pricing or read how it works, then start your workspace.

Questions

Can I manage several client programs?

Each client normally has its own workspace with its own goals, members and data. That keeps strategies and ideas separate between clients.

Can the client keep the program after the engagement?

Yes. The client can own the workspace from day one, or ownership can stay with them after you leave. The goals, challenges, ideas and decision history stay in place.

How is an idea scored?

AI rates impact, cost, risk and strategic fit from 1 to 10, then calculates a weighted total using the weights of the company goals, and writes a short rationale. Your panel makes the final call through the pipeline stages.

Does it replace facilitation?

No. It removes the manual work around facilitation: collecting, rewriting, deduplicating, scoring and reporting. The framing, the conversation and the judgment stay with you.