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See a session run.

Short cuts of the product doing the thing it claims to do: people answering anonymously on their phones, the AI drafting the themes, the room renaming them, and a ranked result nobody’s name is attached to.

Product footage in these videos is the real app running a demo session with sample data. Scenes outside the app and the narration are AI-generated.

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Play the IdeaJar video: the ideajar app showing patterns that surfaced from a session

The AI drafts, your group decides

2 minutes 46 seconds

The whole loop, from one question to a report the group endorsed, in under three minutes.

The facilitator course

Play the IdeaJar video: a hall watching session patterns on the big screen, phones raised

Ep 0. Six steps in one minute

55 seconds

A session where everyone speaks, nobody is named, and the room owns the result: all six steps, one short episode per step.

Play the IdeaJar video: the ideajar dashboard with the new session button circled

Ep 1. Spark: the question your room deserves

2 minutes 38 seconds

Tell IdeaJar about your community, read the quality checks it runs on every draft, and pick a question people actually want to answer.

Play the IdeaJar video: a phone showing the session question and the one-idea-per-card composer

Ep 2. Gather: one idea per card

2 minutes 21 seconds

Open your room, share the join code, keep every card to one idea, and moderate without deleting anybody’s words.

Play the IdeaJar video: the mind map showing every idea in the round grouped by pattern

Ep 3. Emerge: patterns, honestly

2 minutes 16 seconds

Run pattern discovery, read the coverage numbers without spin, fix a grouping by hand, and see every idea in one picture.

Play the IdeaJar video: the live validation dashboard as votes arrive on four patterns

Ep 4. Validate: the room judges the drafts

2 minutes 5 seconds

Open validation, watch your room vote on the patterns, and read support and dissent without spin.

Play the IdeaJar video: research frameworks grounding the room’s own patterns

Ep 5. Enrich: scholarship after emergence

1 minute 59 seconds

Close the vote, run an enrichment your room’s votes steer, and read what the scholarship adds without letting it take over.

Play the IdeaJar video: four candidate next questions, one per evolution direction

Ep 6. Evolve and Resolve: the question grows, the loop closes

2 minutes 21 seconds

Grow the next question from the room’s own answers, generate the synthesis report, hand every participant their record, and close without deleting a thing.

Play the IdeaJar video: a paper-craft leaf falling beside a paper figure running

Human, AI, Human: the idea behind IdeaJar

1 minute 53 seconds

People ask the question, the AI drafts, people decide. The philosophy behind the whole course, shown on real product moments.

Play the IdeaJar video: a phone showing a pattern renamed by the group with the ai draft preserved

How participatory is participatory?

2 minutes 17 seconds

If people just click agree on what an AI wrote, is that participation? The ladder, the room renaming and rejecting drafts, and what one session honestly cannot do.

Play the IdeaJar video: the session overview page with its status tiles and panels

The facilitator’s control room

1 minute 38 seconds

The overview page on a real session: the state of the room, the invitations, the log that keeps your receipts, the identity-free export, and the close that keeps the results.

For leadership teams

Play the IdeaJar video: a room of people answering on their phones during a townhall

One regular meeting, one needs assessment

40 seconds

Fifteen anonymous minutes on everyone’s phones, themes the AI drafts and the room renames live, and a ranked set of priorities with no name attached to any of them.

Run one yourself.

IdeaJar is free while it is in beta. Tell us about the room you want to run and we will follow up.