BrainVaultInnovation, managed.
Turn every idea into realised value.
Most idea software is a digital suggestion box. This is a governed, measurable innovation pipeline — from a raw thought to proven ROI — with an AI Innovation Advisor at every step. Live, multi-tenant, and engineered for African data-protection.
An innovation management system — not another suggestion box.
The difference between collecting ideas and managing them to value is the entire product. Capture is the entry point, not the point.
Collect & wait
- A digital inbox that fills up and stalls
- Votes decide merit, not consistent scoring
- No business case, no quantified value
- Pilots tracked in scattered spreadsheets
- Nobody measures whether the value was real
Govern, mature & prove
- A governed pipeline from raw thought to realised value
- An AI coach matures every idea before it's judged
- One-click business cases on deterministic, auditable figures
- Pilots run as managed projects with KPIs
- Benefits realisation tracked planned-vs-actual
Everything from capture to proven value — in one place.
Seven domains, one continuous flow: capture → mature → decide → deliver → measure → learn, wrapped by governance and intelligence.
A governed, drag-and-drop pipeline
Configurable stage gates, approval routing and escalations move every idea from Submitted to Benefits Realization.
An AI coach on every idea
Similar ideas, suggested experts and a risk signal — grounded in your own data.
Weighted, multi-criteria scoring
Consistent merit, not vote-counting. AI proposes; a human confirms.
Quantify it — then prove it
A deterministic value calculator (auditable, never AI-invented) and planned-vs-actual benefits with achievement %.
ISO 56001 evidence, automatically
A clause 4–10 readiness map that accrues evidence as a by-product of normal use.
Seven domains. One continuous flow.
Seven domains, one continuous flow — all built and live.
Capture & Ideation
Direction & Engagement
Evaluation & Decisioning
Delivery & Value
Intelligence & Governance
Open & External Innovation
The Intelligence Layer
Built for the way your team actually works.
Beyond the pipeline is the workspace people live in day to day — so we've made it effortless to own ideas, see progress, collaborate, find anything, and stay in control. Here's what's newest.
Every idea has an owner. Everyone has a queue.
Assign an owner to drive each idea forward, with an unassigned queue for triage. “My Work” gives each person one place for what they own, follow, are helping with, and need to review.
Stay in the loop
Follow any idea to get notified when it changes stage or gets a council decision.
Momentum at a glance
Stage steppers, activity timelines, progress bars and hover previews — see where anything stands without clicking in.
Every file, one place
Idea attachments and business documents, searchable and downloadable from a single hub.
Slice it any way
Sort, group, build advanced filters, save views, and update many ideas at once with bulk actions.
Talk where the work happens
A built-in Team Chat with channels and direct messages, threads, reactions, file sharing and @mentions — plus threaded discussion on every idea, and recognition that rewards people for helping develop others' ideas.
Your workspace, your rules
Deep settings with an editable permissions matrix you can reset to defaults anytime, plus roles, security and POPIA privacy controls. Create or join workspaces through a searchable directory, invite teammates by email, and push updates to Slack, Teams, Discord or Zapier — and email — via integrations. Every tool ships with an in-app “How to use” guide.
The AI Innovation Advisor.
Every user gets an AI coach throughout the journey — turning a passive inbox into an active partner that helps ideas become reality. Grounded in your organisation's own knowledge; the Advisor proposes, people decide.
Guided prompting turns a rough note into structured fields.
LLM suggests inputs; the deterministic engine computes the money.
Semantic similarity over your knowledge base.
Matches an idea to people by their expertise.
A signal from the score and stated risks.
Connects promising ideas to funder criteria.
Trust by design: grounded retrieval (not guesswork), deterministic money, human-in-the-loop on every gate, and tenant data never used to train third-party models.
ISO 56001 evidence, clause by clause.
ISO 56001:2024 is the first global certifiable standard for an innovation management system. The platform maps activity to clauses 4–10 (Plan-Do-Check-Act) to help teams assemble supporting records for human review.
Context
Knowledge base, challenge themes & strategy register.
Leadership
Policy register, council portal & recorded decisions.
Planning
Objectives, KPIs, risk register & portfolio.
Support
Roles, recognition, knowledge & collaboration.
Operation
Submission → coach → pipeline → evaluation → pilot.
Performance
Analytics, benefits, dashboards & decision logs.
Improvement
Improvement register & lessons feed back to strategy.
Review-ready
Assembled on demand, organised by clause for human assessment.
The platform supports an organisation's path to certification; certification is granted by an accredited body, not by software.
Engineered for African data-protection.
Security & access
Tenant isolation, encryption and audit logging are foundational — not bolted on.
- Role-based, tenant-scoped permissions (7 roles); enterprise identity controls are scoped per deployment
- Row-level security enforced in the database — every row carries a tenant_id
- TLS in transit, encryption at rest; append-only audit log
- Each client gets a fully isolated workspace
Built for Africa
Multi-currency value tracking (Rand default), mobile-first and voice-to-text capture, and a marketplace tuned to mining, energy, agriculture & municipal challenges.
Not a concept — it's live.
The core innovation workflow — idea capture, evaluation, pipeline, governance and value tracking — is live in production today, with the AI layer and advanced modules rolling out in stages.
Core platform
Capture, AI coach, pipeline, evaluation, council, collaboration, dashboard.
Value & engagement
Value calculator, business case, pilots, benefits, recognition, knowledge base.
Governance & AI
ISO 56001 module & the full AI Advisor — similar ideas, experts, risk.
Open & funding
Public marketplace, inventor portal and innovation funding.
Frequently asked questions.
The things evaluation teams ask first — governance, data, and how to see it working.
No software can grant certification — that's done by an accredited certification body. What the platform does is map day-to-day work to ISO 56001 clauses 4–10, so the records an auditor expects (decisions, evaluations, registers, evidence packs) are generated as a by-product of normal use.
The platform is architected for in-country data residency and can be deployed to an African cloud region (for example AWS af-south-1, Cape Town) for production — with lawful-basis capture, data-subject rights and configurable retention for POPIA, NDPA and GDPR. The current demo runs in the EU region; production residency is confirmed per client.
No. The AI Advisor works by grounded retrieval over your own workspace — it proposes, people decide — and tenant data is never used to train third-party models. The full policy is in AI data use.
Every client gets a fully isolated workspace. Isolation is enforced in the database itself — row-level security, with every row carrying a tenant identifier — alongside role-based permissions (7 roles), TLS in transit, encryption at rest, and an append-only audit log. See the security overview.
Yes — three ways. Explore the demo with no sign-up, request a walkthrough on your own challenges, or launch the live app. The core platform is live in production today, not a concept.
Plans are per workspace — current tiers are on the pricing page. SSO, MFA, SCIM and residency requirements are not standard self-service features; request a walkthrough so availability, implementation and assurance can be confirmed in writing.
Most platforms collect ideas.
This one helps ideas become reality.
Measurably, securely, and to an international standard — built for the African context. See it on your own challenges.