The converge step
Idea prioritization: score, shortlist, decide
Idea prioritization turns a wall of options into a decision: score each idea on impact versus effort, cluster the wall into themes, shortlist the strongest, and pick one winner with reasons you can defend.
- Every idea scored on impact versus effort
- Clusters first, so themes compete before ideas do
- A shortlist and ONE pick, with the why written out
- Dot-voting for teams that decide together
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Challenge:
+ more on the wall
Winner
score / 10
Why
Shortlist
Sample brainstorm shown. Your challenges stay private.
Generating was never your bottleneck
Most teams do not lack ideas; they lack a Tuesday-afternoon mechanism for choosing one. The wall from last week's session sits in a photo on someone's phone, forty stickies strong, quietly expiring. Deciding is the unglamorous half of ideation and the half that pays, which is why Brainstormer treats it as a first-class step instead of an exercise left to the reader.
Press cluster and decide, and three things happen: affinity mapping names the themes, every idea gets an impact-versus-effort score, and one winner lifts out with its reasoning written in plain sentences. Runner-ups stay on a shortlist, because second place today is often the right call next quarter.
Scores you can argue with (that is the point)
The score is not an oracle; it is a position you can push against. Every winner card states why: reach, effort, dependency, risk. Disagree, drag another idea up, and the wall recalculates. Deciding well is a conversation with explicit reasons, and the tool's job is to make the reasons explicit. You stay the judge; see how the Six Hats lens feeds honest risk columns into the scoring.
Teams add dot-votes: async voting on the shared wall, so the Monday meeting starts from a scored, voted shortlist instead of a cold wall. Details on the product teams page.
From wall to commitment in one sitting
The end state of every Brainstormer session is the same artifact: named clusters, a scored shortlist, one pick with reasons, exportable to Markdown or CSV for the roadmap tool. It is the difference between "we had a great session" and "we know what we are doing Thursday".
The studio above is showing a converged wall right now. Get started from $16 per month; prioritization ships on every plan.
Questions
How are ideas scored?
On impact versus effort by default, with the reasoning written out per idea. The scores are starting positions designed to be argued with: adjust, re-vote, or overrule. The tool makes reasons explicit; you make the call.
Can my team vote on ideas?
Yes. Team plans include async dot-voting and shared shortlists, so a distributed team converges without scheduling a meeting.
From blank page to a decided direction
Plans from $16 per month. Every framework included.