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Idea management platform for a company-wide program

An idea management platform is the shared place where a whole company submits, evaluates and decides on ideas. In Brainstormer that place is one company workspace with clear roles, ongoing challenges, AI that expands and scores ideas against your strategy, and a record of every decision.

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One workspace per company with goals, members and challenges
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Owner, admin and member roles with clear responsibilities
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Ongoing program, not a one-off campaign
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Self-serve setup, card payment, invitations by email

What a platform adds over a form and a spreadsheet

Most companies start collecting ideas with a form feeding a spreadsheet. It works for the first fifty ideas. Then it breaks: nobody owns the list, duplicates pile up, submitters never hear back, and there is no way to compare ideas from different departments on the same terms.

A platform fixes the structure. Every idea belongs to a challenge, every idea has a stage, every stage change is logged, and every idea is scored against the same strategic goals. People from sales, operations and engineering work in the same workspace and see the same pipeline. If you are still comparing categories of tools, the idea management tools overview walks through the options by company size.

Who does what on the platform
Role	Typical person	What they do in the workspace
Owner	Head of innovation, COO or founder	Pays, sets up the workspace, manages every setting
Admin	Program lead, HR or ops manager	Opens challenges, runs reviews, moves stages, builds reports
Member	Any employee	Submits ideas, votes, follows the stage of each idea

Setting up the company workspace

Setup takes one sitting. The owner creates the workspace, writes a short description of the company, and adds three to six strategic goals with weights, for example "reduce customer churn" at 40 percent, "lower cost to serve" at 30 and "launch a new product line" at 30. These goals are what AI uses to score every idea, so they are worth an honest conversation with leadership.

Next, the owner invites admins and members by email. Admins open the first challenges, each with a question, a description and a deadline. Members join from the invitation link and can start submitting right away. Payment is by card, and nobody needs a call to get started.

Running the platform as an ongoing program

A platform earns its place when it runs all year. A common rhythm is one or two company-wide challenges each quarter, plus smaller department challenges when a specific problem comes up. Team allows 3 open challenges at a time, while Business and Enterprise have no limit.

Inside each challenge the work is the same. AI expands short submissions into a problem, a solution, a first step and a success measure, detects duplicates and merges them with authors and votes kept, and groups ideas into themes. Admins review the shortlist, move ideas through the stages, and close the challenge with a board report. The process behind those stages is described on the idea management system page.

For facilitated sessions, the AI workshop runs one strategic question through six perspectives, and its output can be sent into a challenge as ideas.

Plans by company size

Team is $149 a month billed yearly ($1,788 a year) or $298 month to month for up to 25 members. Business is $399 a month billed yearly ($4,788 a year) or $798 month to month for up to 150 members, adding unlimited challenges, weighted goals, the board report, the admin role and the audit trail CSV. Enterprise is $999 a month billed yearly ($11,988 a year) or $1,998 month to month for up to 1,000 members, adding full workspace export, an invoice with company details and priority email support.

Yearly billing saves 50 percent. You can try one demo challenge on the homepage without an account. For the overall product, start from our idea management software page, or see pricing.

Questions

What is an idea management platform?

It is a shared workspace where employees submit ideas to specific challenges, ideas are evaluated on the same criteria, and decisions are tracked through stages. It replaces scattered forms, inboxes and spreadsheets.

How long does setup take?

The owner can create the workspace, add goals, invite people and open a first challenge in one sitting. Everything is self-serve with card payment.

Can different departments use the same workspace?

Yes. All departments share the workspace, goals and pipeline, and each challenge can target a specific team or question.

Does the platform integrate with Slack or Teams?

No. Brainstormer works in the browser, and invitations go out by email. It does not offer chat integrations, an API or single sign-on.

How many people can join?

Up to 25 members on Team, 150 on Business and 1,000 on Enterprise.