ISO 56001-aligned · AI-native · Built for Africa

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.

20 modules All 4 phases live Multi-tenant SaaS POPIA-aware
Evaluation score
87/100
Realised value
R 1.7m
85% of planned · reconciled
brainvault.thegrowthsystem.co.za/pipeline
Submitted 3
Solar pre-heat for boiler feedwater
Anon
Self-service leave kiosk
T. Mok…
Evaluation 2
Digitise monthly statements
Finance87
Pilot 1
Predictive maintenance — haul trucks
Ops79
Benefits 1
Paperless onboarding
HR91
The core idea

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.

Conventional idea tools

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
The BrainVault platform

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
The product

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.

Pipeline · M4

A governed, drag-and-drop pipeline

Configurable stage gates, approval routing and escalations move every idea from Submitted to Benefits Realization.

Submitted → Screening → Evaluation7 stages
Business Case → Pilot → Implementation
Benefits Realizationvalue loop
AI Advisor · M20

An AI coach on every idea

Similar ideas, suggested experts and a risk signal — grounded in your own data.

Similar ideas 3 found
Suggested experts 2
Risk signal watch
Evaluation · M5

Weighted, multi-criteria scoring

Consistent merit, not vote-counting. AI proposes; a human confirms.

Strategic alignment
Financial value
Feasibility
Value & Benefits · M6 / M10

Quantify it — then prove it

A deterministic value calculator (auditable, never AI-invented) and planned-vs-actual benefits with achievement %.

Planned annual valueR 2.0m
Actual realisedR 1.7m · 85%
Governance · M19

ISO 56001 evidence, automatically

A clause 4–10 readiness map that accrues evidence as a by-product of normal use.

C4C5C6 C7C8C9C10
The 20 modules

Seven domains. One continuous flow.

Each module keeps its number from the product vision. All built and live.

A

Capture & Ideation

Get every idea in — and make each one better.
M1 Idea SubmissionM2 AI Idea CoachM13 Knowledge BaseM14 Collaboration
B

Direction & Engagement

Point innovation at priorities; reward contribution.
M3 Challenge ManagementM11 Recognition & Rewards
C

Evaluation & Decisioning

The rigour layer.
M5 Evaluation EngineM6 Value CalculatorM7 Council PortalM8 Business Case
D

Delivery & Value

Implement — and prove the value was real.
M4 Innovation PipelineM9 Pilot ManagementM10 Benefits Realization
E

Intelligence & Governance

Activity → insight → audit-ready governance.
M12 Capability DashboardM18 AnalyticsM19 ISO 56001
F

Open & External Innovation

Beyond the organisation's walls.
M15 Open MarketplaceM16 Inventor PortalM17 Innovation Funding
G

The Intelligence Layer

Module 20 — the defining differentiator.
M20 AI Innovation Advisor — woven through every module: refine, estimate value, find prior art, recommend experts, predict risk
The everyday experience

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.

Ownership & My Work New

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.

Owned by you3
Awaiting your evaluation2
Following4
Follow ideas New

Stay in the loop

Follow any idea to get notified when it changes stage or gets a council decision.

★ Following on
Moved to Pilot now
Glanceable progress

Momentum at a glance

Stage steppers, activity timelines, progress bars and hover previews — see where anything stands without clicking in.

Digitise statements
Paperless onboarding
Files & Media New

Every file, one place

Idea attachments and business documents, searchable and downloadable from a single hub.

Proposal.pdf idea
Strategy.docx advisor
Powerful Ideas table

Slice it any way

Sort, group, build advanced filters, save views, and update many ideas at once with bulk actions.

Group by stage
Saved view: “My team”
Collaboration

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.

#innovation 12 online
@judith mentioned you
+8 pts · helped develop an idea
Control & integrations

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.

PermissionsDirectoryWebhooksEmailGuides
The differentiator

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.

Refine & structure

Guided prompting turns a rough note into structured fields.

Estimate value

LLM suggests inputs; the deterministic engine computes the money.

Find prior art

Semantic similarity over your knowledge base.

Recommend experts

Matches an idea to people by their expertise.

Predict risk

A signal from the score and stated risks.

Suggest funding

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.

Standard-aligned by design

ISO 56001 evidence, clause by clause.

ISO 56001:2024 is the first global certifiable standard for an innovation management system. The platform maps to clauses 4–10 (Plan-Do-Check-Act) so day-to-day use generates the records an auditor expects.

Clause 4

Context

Knowledge base, challenge themes & strategy register.

Clause 5

Leadership

Policy register, council portal & recorded decisions.

Clause 6

Planning

Objectives, KPIs, risk register & portfolio.

Clause 7

Support

Roles, recognition, knowledge & collaboration.

Clause 8

Operation

Submission → coach → pipeline → evaluation → pilot.

Clause 9

Performance

Analytics, benefits, dashboards & decision logs.

Clause 10

Improvement

Improvement register & lessons feed back to strategy.

Evidence pack

Audit-ready

Assembled on demand, organised by clause.

The platform supports an organisation's path to certification; certification is granted by an accredited body, not by software.

Secure & compliant first

Engineered for African data-protection.

Security & access

Tenant isolation, encryption and audit logging are foundational — not bolted on.

  • Single sign-on, MFA & role-based, tenant-scoped permissions (8 roles)
  • 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.

POPIA & data residency. South Africa's POPIA restricts cross-border transfers (Section 72), with fines up to ZAR 10 million. The platform is architected for in-country data residency — deployable to an African cloud region (e.g. AWS af-south-1, Cape Town) for production — with lawful-basis capture, data-subject rights and configurable retention, and the same controls available for Nigeria's NDPA and the EU's GDPR. (The current demo runs in the EU region; production residency is configured per client.)
Build status

Not a concept — it's live.

All four phases of the build plan are deployed and running. A basic AI coach shipped in Phase 1; the full Advisor and governance landed in Phase 3.

Live
Phase 1

Core platform

Capture, AI coach, pipeline, evaluation, council, collaboration, dashboard.

Live
Phase 2

Value & engagement

Value calculator, business case, pilots, benefits, recognition, knowledge base.

Live
Phase 3

Governance & AI

ISO 56001 module & the full AI Advisor — similar ideas, experts, risk.

Live
Phase 4

Open & funding

Public marketplace, inventor portal and innovation funding.

Technology
Front end
Next.js + TypeScript
Database
PostgreSQL + RLS
AI search
pgvector / trigram
Platform
Supabase · Vercel

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.