Start with the problem. Opportunities follow.

An AI-native innovation system runs innovation as a continuous function rather than an occasional event: AI agents listen for problems, frame them, grade the opportunities and develop the ones that earn it, across a whole organisation if you want. It covers the three things every innovation programme needs: opportunity discovery (turning problems and market signals into framed, graded opportunities), assessment (testing them against evidence and independent judgment) and realisation (building the ones that hold).

Ainna is one, built on The Innovation Mode methodology. Anyone can bring a problem or a rough idea; the Judge grades the concept against a published framework and shows its reasoning; the people whose judgment you trust sit on the Panel; and the strongest opportunities surface into a portfolio, each with the deck, PRD and one-pager attached. It isn't a chatbot and it isn't a slide generator. It's the system that turns raw thinking into decisions you can defend.

Anyone who has to turn an idea into a decision someone will act on, and any company that wants to innovate faster than it used to. Founders grading a concept before they commit six months to it. Product managers building the case for what to build next. Heads of innovation who need a steady flow of well-framed opportunities instead of a once-a-quarter scramble.

What unites them is the same need: rigorous thinking at speed, without a six-figure consulting budget or weeks of waiting. Ainna scales from one person with one problem to an organisation running innovation as a function.

Good. Start with a problem instead: one from the Index, or one of your own. The strongest opportunities often begin as a problem with no solution attached.

From the World Radar. Ainna listens to public reporting, continually, and frames the problems worth solving to one standard; some are framed by Ainna's innovation team from conditions most people will recognise. Every entry says which, and news-backed entries link the reporting they were drawn from. Never from users: what you bring to Ainna is private to you and is never published, not on the Index, not anywhere.

You start a conversation and the system does the structured work. Bring a hunch, a problem or a half-formed concept: Ainna frames the problem, opens the solution space, sizes the market, maps the competition, profiles the personas and puts the concept before the Judge: a grade across ten dimensions with the reasoning shown, the one thing holding it back named, and the recommended next move. What took an innovation team weeks takes minutes.

The grade isn't the finish line. The experts you invite assess the same opportunity independently, you iterate as your thinking sharpens, and what survives becomes a defensible case, with the pitch deck, PRD and one-pager to carry it. What doesn't survive fails here, where failure is cheap.

Every concept gets a grade built from ten dimensions across two lenses, one for the problem and one for the solution, each scored with its justification, so the letter always comes with the reasoning behind it, and the single dimension holding the grade back is named. Alongside, holder fit rates the opportunity against your Innovation Agenda: whether it matches the focus you have set and the assets you actually hold.

The model evolved from the assessment model published in The Innovation Mode, which grades on nine dimensions; what runs in Ainna goes considerably further at ten across two lenses, and it is configurable: a product team and an IP team can weight the dimensions differently, because what matters depends on the decision you're making. The letter follows from the scores. The verdict (proceed, reframe, or stop) is a judgment, and you can appeal it with new evidence. Appeals are free, always.

Yes, if it is. You get the reasoning, and the one thing that would change the grade. An encouraging answer would be worth nothing to you.

An idea is worth building when it solves an important problem, for a real and reachable user, in a way you can actually deliver, with enough demand and strategic fit to matter, and the only way to know is to assess it honestly before you commit. Many ideas fail not because they were bad, but because they were never properly framed, or were judged in the wrong context by the wrong people.

Ainna gives you that honest read fast: the problem framed, the market sized, the competition mapped, the concept graded across ten dimensions plus fit to your Innovation Agenda, then the people you trust weigh in. You get a clear signal: take it forward with evidence behind you, or pivot before you've spent real resources on the wrong bet.

The trustworthy unit isn't the AI alone; it's Ainna plus the people you bring. Not human-in-the-loop, where a person checks what the machine decided: human-at-the-core, where the person does the work and the AI makes them better at it. You frame the problem, you open the solution space, your experts grade the concept, you decide.

The Panel is how they take part: co-founders, advisors, specialists, even target customers assess the same opportunity independently: they don't see the Judge's grade until they have given their own. Where their judgment and the Judge's diverge, Ainna shows the disagreement rather than averaging it away. The AI is the analyst and the honest second opinion; you and your experts are the decision-makers. The Panel comes with Pro, Team and Enterprise.

Agentic AI for innovation means AI that doesn't just answer prompts but acts: perceiving signals, making assessments and taking steps through the innovation process on its own. Applied to a company, it can listen continually for problems, frame and grade opportunities as they arrive, orchestrate independent assessments and route the strongest concepts to the right team, always on instead of waiting for the next workshop.

Inside Ainna this is what runs today: the World Radar listens to public reporting and frames what it hears; the Judge grades each concept against a published framework and writes its narrative; AI personas pressure-test an idea from an investor's or a customer's point of view; and the system shows where assessments disagree so people can resolve it. The agents handle the scale and the speed. People decide what's worth fighting for.

A general-purpose assistant is one small piece of the puzzle. It gives you ideas and prose, a small part of the work, then leaves you to be the strategist, the analyst, the formatter and the reviewer. Ask it to size a market and you get plausible numbers with no method; ask for a competitive map and you get a list, not an assessment. And it tends to agree with you.

Ainna is an innovation partner, not an assistant, and it runs the whole method. It frames the problem, opens the solution space, sizes the market against a defensible model, grades the concept on a published framework with the reasoning shown, maps the competition, profiles realistic personas, brings the people you trust in to challenge the result, and hands you a branded pitch deck, PRD and one-pager that are yours to keep, from one body of work, in minutes. Generic AI reacts to your prompts. Ainna is not on your side; it's on the problem's side.

The Innovation Mode is a methodology for running innovation as a disciplined, repeatable function: from spotting problems worth solving, to assessing the opportunities with evidence, to building the ones that earn it. It was published by Springer Nature in 2020 and rewritten for the AI era in 2026, and it is the framework Ainna is built on rather than a thin layer over a language model.

In practice it gives the work a backbone: a structured way to frame problems, a multi-dimension model for grading opportunities, the human-at-the-core principle so AI sharpens judgment instead of replacing it, and a portfolio view where the strongest ideas compete on consistent criteria. Anyone can wrap an AI in a prompt. A published innovation system is what makes the output rigorous, and hard to replicate.

The Innovation Graph is the central innovation store in The Innovation Mode methodology: an evolving network of problems, ideas, assessments, insights and market intelligence, where every item is linked to the others it touches. Ideas from every source live in it with their attribution and provenance, de-duplicated and framed the same way, so they stay discoverable long after the session that produced them.

The links are what make it a graph rather than a database. AI maintains them from the semantic relationships between items: one idea extends another, two overlap far enough to be duplicates, two compete by solving the same problem differently, or two complement each other by addressing different parts of it. That structure is what lets an idea from a January brainstorm surface again in a March hackathon, and what lets AI propose combinations nobody thought to look for. It is how innovation stops being episodic and starts accumulating.

An Innovation Agenda is a clearly stated focus for innovation, linked to your strategy: the themes you will invest in, the outcomes you are after, and the targets that count. It is the reference every idea gets measured against, which is what makes two opportunities comparable rather than two opinions.

You do not need one to start. Bring a single problem and Ainna will frame and grade it straight away. The agenda becomes useful the moment you have more than one idea in play, because holder fit scores each opportunity against the focus you have set and the assets you actually hold. Ainna challenges and sharpens the agenda the same way it challenges an idea, and it is versioned, so you can see which version an assessment was graded against.

Yes. It's one instrument at three scopes. The World Radar is what you see on this page, free. The Market Radar, in the Team plan, is tuned to the sectors, themes and geographies you set, and lands what it finds in your portfolio, graded. The Corporate Radar, in Enterprise, is tuned to your innovation agenda and fed by your own people as well as the news. Both are private to you; nothing from them is ever published.

You don't need a template. Ainna writes the PRD for you, formatted and visual, from the work you've already done. Once an opportunity is framed and graded, it produces a complete Product Requirements Document as an editable DOCX: the problem and goals, target personas and user journeys, requirements, and an implementation outline, laid out with your branding and contextual visuals rather than a blank outline you have to fill in.

The same body of work also yields the pitch deck and the one-pager, so the story stays consistent across every format. Everything exports fully editable and yours to keep, so bring your own judgment to the numbers and claims, and it's ready for stakeholders. A static template gives you a shell; Ainna gives you the substance, already written.

Three plans: Starter, Pro and Team. Every plan includes the full strategic conversation, the Judge's grade with its reasoning, personas, and the market and competitive analysis. Starter gives you a limited number of Opportunities and Brainstorms, with no credit card and no time limit. Pro adds the Panel for bringing your own experts into the assessment, and full document generation and download for an individual. Team adds seats and a shared workspace, an Innovation Agenda every idea is graded against, the Market Radar tuned to your market and a ranked portfolio. Paid plans start at $99 per month, annual billing saves up to 25%, and there are no hidden fees and no lock-in; larger organisations move to Enterprise.

An Opportunity is one problem taken all the way through: framed, opened, graded and documented into a complete 360-degree view. A Brainstorm is one round of opening the solution space against a framed problem. Your plan sets how many of each you can use; on paid plans the allocation resets monthly. Refining or re-grading an Opportunity you've already started never uses another one.

Yes, and you should bring a real problem, not a toy one. The Starter plan gives you the full strategic conversation and a real grade from the Judge with its reasoning, with no credit card and no time limit. This isn't a demo running on sample data; you frame your own problem and see exactly how it holds up.

Start with a rough concept and let Ainna drive the framing, or hand it something you've already been chewing on and watch it get sharper. When you want the editable files or your own experts in the assessment, Pro unlocks full document generation and the Panel. Everything you created on Starter is still there.

Because the work has a shape: you use Ainna hard while a problem is open, then you go build. That's the point. We'd rather you ship than renew.

Yes. Ainna Fellows. Bring people who take problems seriously into the work, and it pays both ways: more Opportunities on your side, a head start on theirs. Your invite link appears after sign-in, with the terms.

The ideas, strategies, analysis and substance in everything Ainna generates belong to you, to use for your own business purposes: investor pitches, internal alignment, engineering handoff, team templates. Downloaded files are yours to keep whatever happens to your plan. The one boundary is the methodology itself: the frameworks and document structures embedded in the outputs remain The Innovation Mode's, so they can't be repackaged or resold as templates, and agencies producing client deliverables need a commercial licence.

On privacy, the answer is direct: your content is never used to train AI models, never shared with other users, never sold, and never published, not on the Index, not anywhere. Your work is seen only by you, by your teammates when you make an idea discoverable or ask for their assessment, and by the people you invite to your Panel. Your account is hosted in EU data centres under GDPR. Generated documents aren't stored on our servers; each one is rendered when you download it, and you can regenerate it any time the Opportunity exists. Your ideas and analyses stay in your account, on any plan, until you delete them; a free account with no login for 12 months is deleted after 30 days' notice. Export anytime, delete any idea in one click, and close your account whenever you choose. Delete means delete.