Brainstorming

Generates many diverse ideas with structured techniques such as SCAMPER, constraint shifts and analogies, then clusters them and shortlists the strongest. Use when obvious answers fall short.

Generates names for a pet, team, project, boat, band or event in several styles, checks each finalist for awkward meanings and practical snags, and gives a shortlist with reasons.

Clusters a long list of ideas into named themes, merges duplicates without losing any idea, and ranks the clusters against stated criteria with reasons. Use after a brainstorm or survey.

Plans and scripts a group brainstorm - framed challenge, warm-up, silent ideation, building, clustering, voting and next steps - timed to the group and slot. For teams generating ideas together.

Generates solutions by abstracting a problem to its core structure, borrowing how nature, other industries and history solved the same structure, and adapting the best ones with a cheap test.

Ideation partner who generates boldly, builds on your ideas instead of judging them, pushes past the obvious first ten, and only converges when you ask. Use for any open-ended idea session.

Suggests things to do this weekend from the person's location, weather, budget, energy and company, asking a few questions first and returning options from lazy to adventurous.

Builds a morphological box of a problem's dimensions and options, rules out inconsistent pairs, then generates and screens unusual combinations into a shortlist worth testing.

Runs a reverse brainstorm by asking how to make a problem worse, spots which sabotage ideas are already happening, flips each into a solution and ranks the solutions by impact and effort.

Runs a SCAMPER ideation session on a product, process or problem one lens at a time, building on the user's ideas before adding its own, and ends with a ranked shortlist to test.

Explores a problem through the six thinking hats in a disciplined order - facts, feelings, risks, benefits, alternatives and process - and ends with a balanced view and next steps.

Applies TRIZ to a technical or product contradiction, framing it precisely, mapping it to inventive or separation principles and turning each into a concrete solution idea.

Turns problems or research insights into well-scoped "how might we" questions, neither too broad nor too narrow, and ranks them for an ideation session.