Brainstorm with Nova

One starting point.
Better possibilities.

Bring an idea, a goal, an existing product, a hypothesis, a document, or simply what you know. Nova helps you ask the right question, explore useful directions, and decide what deserves a closer look.

The live Brainstorm workspace opens on chat.ipguru.ai, where each scenario keeps its own conversation, memory, expert team, and Topic Map.

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A luminous idea core branching into several connected invention scenarios and knowledge paths
Illustrative starting pointmergeSynthesised
I want to make a bicycle helmet fold flat without weakening the protective shell.
Question: Is this an invention?Frame: 5W1Harrow_forward Explore
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Start before everything is clearA sentence is enough to begin.
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Try several scenariosEach branch keeps separate memory.
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Move forward when readyTransition any useful scenario into a project.

Start with almost anything

You do not need a polished invention

Brainstorming works best when the starting material is real, even if it is incomplete. Choose a focused live entry point below and Nova turns what you bring into a focused scenario and one useful next question.

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An idea

Clarify the mechanism, the problem, and what may be genuinely different.
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An existing product

Find improvements, hidden invention candidates, and the next version worth building.
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A hypothesis

Define the claim, evidence, falsifier, and cheapest useful test.
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A goal or challenge

Turn an outcome into possible approaches, constraints, and decisions.
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A document or CV

Use your expertise, experience, credentials, and recurring problems as discovery signals.
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A science or learning question

Shape a safe, measurable experiment or an open invention challenge.

QUESTION?

Choose the question that moves the idea

QUESTION? is a map of useful questions, not a fixed sequence. Start anywhere and change direction as the scenario becomes clearer.

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What exactly is the invention?

Clarify the mechanism, problem, people, assumptions, and feasibility.

Context and perspective

Change the view without losing the idea

A Theme gives the scenario context. A Frame changes how Nova examines it. They work together, but they do different jobs.

Theme

What should matter here?

Set priorities, values, or a field of opportunity. No theme is always available when you want a neutral view.

Context: Neutral exploration, with no added priority.
Frame

How should we look at it?

Apply one analytical view at a time while keeping the same scenario, conversation, and center topic.

Active view: Who, what, when, where, why, and how.

The right minds for this scenario

Nova recommends a complementary team

The topic, question, Theme, and Frame all shape who can help. Every scenario receives three recommendations with at least one Expert and one Virtuoso.

Free users receive a fixed recommended team and can begin immediately.
Members can accept the team or choose eligible experts from the library.
Nova remains the coordinator, synthesiser, and guide for the next question.
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EXPERT · BRONZEConsumer Product DesignerGeometry, form, and product development VIRTUOSO · SILVERGrand Tour CyclistReal-world fit, folding, and daily use EXPERT · BRONZEConsumer Product Safety & Compliance ManagerProtection, testing, and compliance

Three response modes

Choose how the team can think with you

These illustrative response patterns show how the live app can start with one direct synthesised answer, Nova alone for speed, or a roundtable when distinct viewpoints matter.

Synthesised response illustration
Consumer Product DesignerExpert contribution

The hinge and lock must allow flat storage while creating a continuous protective shell.

Grand Tour CyclistVirtuoso contribution

The fold matters only if it is quick, compact, glove-friendly, and comfortable every day.

Consumer Product Safety & Compliance ManagerExpert contribution

Every locked cell needs repeatable impact and retention performance across the full shell.

Nova merges all three contributions
NOVA, SYNTHESISING 3 AGENTS

The strongest direction combines a clear mechanism with a measurable safety effect.

The team agrees that the linked cell geometry is the candidate core. Define the lock, the impact-load path, and the failure condition before comparing it with known folding structures.

ConfirmedChanges between flat and rigid states
AssumedRepeatable impact performance
MissingLock geometry and failure data
Nova: The useful tension is clear. The next design must connect daily usability with a verifiable continuous load path.
One best next question: What part physically prevents the cells from rotating back under impact?

Why brainstorm here and not with a chatbot?

A chatbot gives you words. A brainstorm here gives you a working idea. The difference is not the conversation; it is everything the conversation is connected to.

A chatbot forgets you between sessions.

Your idea lives here. Every decision, open question, and suggestion is kept, organized, and folded into a running picture of the idea that sharpens with each session. Leave for a week and pick up exactly where you stopped.

A chatbot is one voice that tends to agree with you.

You get a panel matched to your idea from more than 1,100 expert profiles, and the panel is allowed to disagree. Disagreement is the product. You see where the reviewers split, why, and what evidence would settle it.

A chatbot answers the question you asked.

This one works the questions you did not ask. Coverage tracking shows which sides of the idea are still unexamined, and every consultation ends with the one thing to do next.

A chatbot will invent a survey result if you let it.

We never present rehearsal as evidence. What the model knows is labeled as model knowledge, anticipated customer objections are labeled as anticipated, and one click turns them into a real survey or interview guide you can take to real customers.

A chatbot leaves you a transcript.

You leave with deliverables: a scored idea, expert reports, a product sheet and images, and a record of decisions with the reasoning behind them. When the idea is ready, the scenario becomes a project.

Ideas do not fail from a lack of words. They fail from unexamined weaknesses, invisible competitors, and evidence nobody collected. The whole workspace exists to make those three problems impossible to ignore.

Your idea gets a standing panel

Nova seats a panel of experts around your idea, and each one keeps a standing view of it: what is strong, what is weak, what to improve next, and which competitors to watch. The views refresh as your idea grows, and any of them can continue as a private conversation.

Find an expert

Nova searches more than 1,100 expert profiles and shows the ten best matches for your idea, each with a score and a plain reason it will help. You stop guessing who to ask for a materials, regulatory, or market question.

The quality of a brainstorm is set by who is in the room, so the room picker comes first.

Expert perspectives

Each expert examines strengths and weaknesses, improvements, trade offs with a clear stance, and the state of the art with honest labels. You get verdicts that trace back to your idea or the expert's field.

Most weak ideas are weak in one fixable place. A standing perspective finds it while fixing it is still cheap.

Customer voice

Your experts rehearse the customer challenges and objections you may face, then show which ones your idea already answers. When a gap matters, one click designs a survey or interview guide to close it with real evidence.

Hear the hardest objection in private first, while you can still do something about it.

Bring in the crew

Nova's crew reviews the idea as a team, with any expert you invite. One conversation partner flatters. A review panel finds what you missed.

Critique my idea

Reviewers score the dimensions that matter, explain each score, show where they split, and rank the best improvements. You also get a first orientation check on patentability, feasibility, novelty, and non obviousness, with what would resolve each flag.

It is an early look at useful questions, not legal advice.

Sales view

See the supported features and differentiators, likely objections and answers, and what it takes to build, install, run, maintain, and replace the idea. Claims your idea does not support are flagged instead of polished.

If it can be sold honestly, you leave with the start of the pitch. If not, you learn while change is cheap.

Debate

Put the hard call on the table and watch two experts argue it while Nova moderates. Choose the question, steer each round, interrupt, then keep what they agreed on, what stayed open, and the evidence that would settle it.

A staged debate lets you hear both cases at full strength before you record the decision.

Everything the panel says is grounded in your idea and the expert's profile. Industry claims are always labeled when they come from the model's own knowledge, and nothing is ever presented as customer research unless real customers said it. That discipline is the point: a brainstorm you can trust is worth ten that flatter you.

Explore without mixing the threads

Every scenario remembers only its own path

Try a patent direction, a product improvement, and a career idea side by side. Keep what is useful, duplicate a promising branch, and delete what is not.

InventionActive now

Folding helmet core

Clarifying the lock geometry and impact-load path.

5W1HNo theme12 turns
ProductYesterday

Serviceable display cassette

Ranking improvements to cleaning time and temperature recovery.

SCAMPERFood science8 turns
Experience2 days ago

Low-cost lab traceability

Connecting field maintenance experience with a neglected lab workflow.

Design ThinkingNo theme6 turns

Free accounts can retain four active scenarios. Members can create as many as they need.

Scenario knowledge

Start with a map, then add evidence

Every scenario begins with a Topic Map from model knowledge. Members can review canonical sites and build a grounded knowledge base from captured source material.

Members

Grow the map with canonical sources

Review where Nova proposes to look. Useful PDFs and webpage summaries discovered during research are captured automatically with their source origin.

Identify the starting sitesNova proposes a focused canonical set.
Review before researchYou approve the starting set and can suggest URLs.
Capture useful materialDocuments and summaries grow the scenario knowledge.
Keep source origins clearModel knowledge and researched evidence stay distinguishable.

Made for curious people

Different starting points, the same disciplined exploration

Founders
Product teams
SME owners
Students
Teachers
Career changers

From exploration to action

When a scenario is ready, transition it into a project

The work carries forward for review. You keep the scenario and start the existing project journey with a stronger brief.

Brainstorm scenario

A direction worth pursuing

Question, Theme, Frame, expert team, assumptions, evidence, next tests, and linked Vault material.

IPGuru project

A reviewed starting brief

Open the normal project wizard, adjust every field, then begin FORGE when you decide to proceed.

Questions

Before you start

Do I need an account to try it?add
No. You can begin in a temporary anonymous space. Create a free account from chat when you want to keep the work.
Is a brainstorm scenario already a project?add
No. It is a separate exploration space. When you are ready, you can transition it into the existing project wizard and review everything before creating a project.
Can I explore more than one direction?add
Yes. Each scenario has separate conversation history and memory. Free accounts can retain four active scenarios, and members can create unlimited scenarios.
What happens to an uploaded document?add
Documents are managed by the Vault. The interface shows whether a file is temporary or retained and gives you the appropriate Vault action when you want to discard it.
Does Nova decide whether something is patentable?add
Nova gives a calibrated early assessment, identifies what is promising or missing, and helps you define the next useful step. It does not replace legal advice or a full prior-art examination.

Bring the rough idea. Leave with a better question.

Start a temporary scenario with Nova now. No signup is needed until there is something you want to keep.

Brainstorming is the first thing switched on in the beta. See what is live.

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Temporary and anonymous. Four scenarios with a free account.