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HYPE Innovation alternative for a focused, self serve idea program
A HYPE Innovation alternative fits companies that want a focused idea program instead of a full enterprise innovation suite. Brainstormer runs challenges, has AI expand and score every idea against your weighted goals, merges duplicates and produces a board report, all self serve.
Why teams look for a HYPE Innovation alternative
HYPE Innovation has been in innovation management for many years and serves large organizations with configurable programs, typically on annual contracts with pricing quoted for the scope and an implementation phase.
When the need is narrower, for example one department asking "How could we cut the time from customer complaint to fix?", a full suite can mean more setup than the question deserves. A focused tool lets the team get to decisions faster.
| The job | HYPE Innovation | Brainstormer |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Enterprise innovation management | Idea challenges, review and decisions |
| Typical buyer | Large organizations | Companies up to 1,000 members |
| Pricing | Quoted, annual contract | Published, yearly or month to month |
| Rollout | Implementation and onboarding | Self serve, same day |
| Review | Configurable workflows | AI scoring on impact, cost, risk and strategic fit |
| Strategy workshop | Depends on your program | AI workshop with six perspectives on one question |
What you get with Brainstormer
Brainstormer covers the path from question to decision. Challenges collect ideas and votes. AI expands each idea into a problem, solution, first step and success measure and scores it against your 3 to 6 weighted goals, with a written rationale. Duplicates are merged and ideas are grouped into themes.
The pipeline tracks every idea from submitted through in review, shortlisted, approved, in progress, implemented or rejected, and logs each change. The board report per challenge gives leadership a ranking, themes and a recommendation. For earlier thinking, the AI workshop runs six perspectives against one strategic question. See strategic planning workshop and Brainstormer for innovation teams.
When HYPE Innovation is the better choice
If you manage innovation across many units and regions, need integrations with your existing systems, require single sign on or want a vendor to help design the program, HYPE Innovation brings the maturity and configuration that large programs need.
Brainstormer is deliberately smaller: no API, no integrations, no single sign on, and a ceiling of 1,000 members. It is built to be quick to adopt, not to replace an enterprise suite everywhere.
Plans and pricing
Team is $149 a month billed yearly for up to 25 members. Business is $399 a month billed yearly for up to 150 members, with weighted goals, the board report, the admin role and the audit trail CSV. Enterprise is $999 a month billed yearly for up to 1,000 members, with full workspace export and priority email support. Month to month costs twice as much.
Compare plans on the pricing page or read how it works.
Questions
Is Brainstormer an enterprise innovation suite like HYPE?
No. Brainstormer is focused on idea challenges, AI review and decisions, for companies up to 1,000 members. HYPE Innovation covers broader enterprise innovation management.
Can we run several challenges at once?
Team allows 3 open challenges at a time. Business and Enterprise allow unlimited challenges.
Can we export our data?
Every plan exports ideas as CSV. Business adds the audit trail CSV, and Enterprise adds full workspace export.
How do we get started?
Create your workspace, set your goals, open a challenge and invite members by email. No call is needed.
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