Brainstorm with Nova
Bring an idea, a problem you keep running into, a goal, an existing product, a hypothesis, a document or simply what you know. Nova and a panel of experts help you ask the right question, look at it from several sides, and decide what deserves your time.
No sign-up to start. A free account keeps up to four scenarios.
Pick a question
Each question opens a brainstorm that is set up for it: three quick questions, then Nova answers yours. Plain words are fine.
Or start with an open question. Every starting point opens in the IPGuru app at chat.ipguru.ai, the same account you use on invent.sg.
The method
Not a fixed sequence. Start anywhere and change direction as the idea gets clearer. Nova suggests the one best next question each time.
What are you really trying to achieve, and for whom?
What exactly is the idea: the mechanism, the problem, the people and the assumptions.
What is already out there, and what is genuinely different about yours.
Where it is weak, and the changes that would make it stronger.
The cheapest useful test, and what result would change your mind.
Adjacent uses, markets and variations worth a look while change is cheap.
Lay the options side by side against the criteria that matter to you.
Decide what to pursue, what to park and what to rule out, with the reasons kept.
Context and perspective
A Theme sets what should matter. A Frame changes how Nova examines the idea. Same scenario, same conversation, a different lens.
Set priorities, values or a field of opportunity, such as climate action, accessible design or food science. Choose no theme when you want a neutral view.
Apply one analytical view at a time, such as 5W1H, SWOT, SCAMPER or Design Thinking. Free accounts have five frames; members have all twelve, and can ask their own questions.
The right minds for this scenario
Nova seats a panel matched to your idea from more than 1,100 expert and virtuoso profiles. The panel is allowed to disagree. You see where they split, why, and what evidence would settle it.
Every scenario starts with three recommended experts, with at least one industry expert and one creative virtuoso. Members can accept the team or choose their own: up to five on Pro and seven on Max.
Nova alone for a fast exchange. Synthesised for one answer that merges the team's views. Roundtable, on Pro and Max, when you want each expert's view in their own words.
Nova stays the coordinator and guide. Every decision, open question and suggestion is kept and folded into a running picture of the idea, so you can leave for a week and pick up where you stopped.
Bring in the crew
One conversation partner tends to agree with you. These tools are built to find the weak spot while fixing it is still cheap.
Each expert keeps a standing view of your idea: strengths, weaknesses, what to improve next and which competitors to watch. Any view can continue as a private conversation.
Reviewers score the dimensions that matter, explain each score, show where they split and rank the best improvements. It includes an early orientation on feasibility and novelty.
Nova proposes where to look, you approve the starting sites, and research grows the scenario's knowledge from websites, papers and your own files, with every source kept.
Your experts rehearse the objections customers may raise and show which ones your idea already answers. When a gap matters, one click designs a survey or interview guide for real customers.
Put a hard call on the table and watch two experts argue it while Nova moderates. A stress test puts the idea under pressure to find what is strongest and what needs to improve.
Signals reads the idea's value drivers and risk signals. Idea Evaluation runs checks such as a pre-mortem, a first-principles breakdown and an incumbent copycat test.
The supported features and differentiators, likely objections and answers, and what it takes to build, install, run and maintain the idea. Claims the idea cannot support are flagged.
Lay two directions side by side and merge the strongest parts into one.
Give Director one job and the checks that say when it is done. It works in loops, researching gaps and improving the Idea, until the checks pass or it reaches the limit you set.
Explore without mixing the threads
Try a product improvement, a new venture and a class project side by side. Keep what is useful, duplicate a promising branch, and delete what is not.
Each scenario has its own conversation, memory, expert team and Topic Map. Free accounts keep four scenarios. Members keep as many as they need.
Every scenario starts with a map of the topics around your idea. Members grow it with researched sources, and model knowledge stays distinguishable from researched evidence.
Expand the idea with structured methods: seven core methods on a free account and all fifteen for members.
Leave with more than a transcript
Iris writes documents from your Idea, each with an evaluation you read before you accept it. Kira and the Studio turn a description into pictures that stay consistent with it.
Concept briefs, problem definitions, gap analyses, option scorecards, high-level designs, personas and use cases, the story of the idea, an idea disclosure, and documents for your goal: a learning plan, a research plan, a grant outline, an investor pitch brief, a crowdfunding plan, an open-source release plan and more. Free accounts have 3, Member 19, Pro 31 and Max all 37. Download as PDF or Word.
Every account gets a description and a product sheet with formal and in-use pictures. Members make more pictures each month: up to 100 on Member, 200 on Pro with reference boards and 3D, and 400 on Max with concept video.
Connect IPGuru to an AI assistant you already use, such as Claude or ChatGPT, and run scenarios, turns, documents and the Director from there. It is the same account, and the same allowances and rules apply.
Our course in structured brainstorming and idea development: masterclasses, labs on your own idea, and a pack you can take to a professional, a funder or a maker.
From exploration to action
Generate the documents for your goal straight from the brainstorm. When you want a structured build, a member can turn the scenario into a project: the work carries forward into the project wizard for you to review, and the FORGE method takes it from there.
Questions
Start a temporary scenario with Nova now. No sign-up is needed until there is something you want to keep.
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