Innovation challenge software for campaigns with a question and a deadline

Start from a result the business wants, then phrase it as "How could we" plus a measurable change. "How could we cut customer onboarding time in half?" works because it names the outcome, implies a baseline, and leaves the method open. Avoid questions that ask for a mindset ("How can we be more innovative?") or that invite people to cut someone else's budget.

Use the description to set the frame. Say who is affected, which constraints are fixed, what has already been tried, and what a strong answer would include. Two or three short paragraphs are enough. If the question is strategic and you want a wider range before opening it to everyone, run the AI workshop first and send its ideas into the challenge as a starting set.

Link the challenge to your strategic goals. On Business and Enterprise, your workspace holds three to six goals with weights, and every idea in the challenge is scored for strategic fit against them. That keeps the ranking tied to what the company decided matters, not to who shouted loudest. The innovation management software page explains how those weighted goals work across a portfolio.

A realistic rhythm is one or two challenges a quarter per business area, each open for two to six weeks. That gives reviewers time to decide before the next campaign starts and shows employees that every challenge ends with an outcome.

Team allows 3 open challenges at a time, which fits a single department or a company running a standing challenge plus two themed ones. Closed challenges do not count toward the limit, so you can run as many campaigns over the year as you like, three at once. Business and Enterprise remove the limit and allow unlimited challenges, which suits companies where several departments run their own campaigns in parallel.

Team is $149 a month billed yearly or $298 month to month for up to 25 members. Business is $399 a month billed yearly for up to 150 members, and Enterprise is $999 a month billed yearly for up to 1,000. You can see pricing for everything included in each plan.

A challenge is only finished when someone decides what happens to the best ideas. When a challenge closes, AI has already expanded each idea, scored it on impact, cost, risk and strategic fit from 1 to 10, calculated a weighted total with a written rationale, merged duplicates and grouped ideas into themes. Reviewers then move ideas through shortlisted, approved or rejected, with a note on every decision.

The board report, available on Business and Enterprise, pulls this together per challenge: the ranking, the themes, how many ideas sit at each stage, and a recommendation. You can print it to PDF from the browser, copy it as Markdown, or export CSV for your own analysis. It is the document you bring to the leadership meeting instead of a slide someone assembled by hand.

Approved ideas continue into in progress and implemented, and the audit trail keeps the record of who decided what and when. For the scoring step in detail, see idea prioritization, or read how it works end to end.