AI-Powered Innovation & Ideation Platform
Context
Company suffering from 45-day define & design phase cycles in SDLC, creating significant bottlenecks in feature development. Ideas from across the organization couldn't reach the intake board, would take too long to vet, or couldn't be represented well because the submitter didn't have time to flesh out an idea. This limited innovation to a small group and missing valuable insights from customer-facing teams. Traditional define & design process required extensive documentation and multiple stakeholder meetings before ideas could even be considered.
Action
Architected and launched company-wide innovation platform based on Amazon's PRFAQ (Press Release/FAQ) methodology. Built AI-powered assistants to help employees articulate ideas regardless of technical expertise, handling formatting, language refinement, and stakeholder-specific framing. Implemented intelligent idea routing to relevant teams and automated initial feasibility assessments. Can integrate platform with downstream systems via MCP servers, API endpoints, and vector databases for seamless handoff to development teams and/or agents.
Result
Increased the idea submission pool to the entire company. Increased the quality of thought-out submissions (each submission was empowered by AI to improve understandability to different contexts). Reduced idea definition & design time from 45 days to 1 hour (99.9% improvement). Now there exists a centralized idea repository that can also assist with future ideation.