Brightidea now lives inside MS Teams: Meet your employees where they already are.
Great ideas show up mid-conversation, in a meeting or a quick chat with a teammate. With Brightidea for Teams, a native Microsoft Teams app, employees can capture those ideas right there, without switching tools or opening another tab.
Employees sign in with the Microsoft identity they already have, so there’s one login and they go straight to work. Five tabs cover the full loop: Submit, Activities, Submissions, Directory, and Dashboard. And native Teams notifications bring people back at exactly the right moment. Brightidea for Teams is a premium add-on for Premium Edition customers.
Activities: Know where to put a good idea
Ideas move forward when they land in the right place. The Activities tab gives employees a clear, browsable view of every active challenge and what it’s asking for.
- Search and filter: Find a activity by name, or narrow the list to what’s accepting ideas right now.
- Clear status at a glance: Every activity card shows whether it’s active or closed, and when it ends.
- One click to the brief: Each activity links straight into the details, so employees know exactly what’s being asked.
Submit: Capture the idea the moment someone has it
Good ideas are freshest the moment they arrive. The Submit tab turns that moment into a real Brightidea submission, right inside Teams.
- Title and description: A short, guided form with a live character count keeps every submission clear and quick to write.
- Category selection: Employees route their own idea to the right place from a simple dropdown.
- Draft autosave: Half-finished ideas save automatically, so employees can pick up right where they left off.
Submissions List: Keep the conversation going, not just the count
Submitting an idea is just the beginning. The Submissions List tab is where employees track progress, build on each other’s thinking, and watch ideas move.
- Search, sort, and filter: Find any submission in a activity by keyword, status, or category.
- Vote and comment: Employees can back an idea or add to the thinking right from Teams.
- Open in Brightidea: Every idea links straight to its full record for the complete picture.
Ideas submitted through Teams are standard Brightidea submissions, credited to the person who wrote them. Every existing workflow keeps working on them exactly as it does today, including evaluation, scoring, pipeline stages, and reporting. It’s a true front door into Brightidea, with every idea flowing into one pipeline.
Directory: Put a face and a focus area to every name
Great ideas often grow with a second person. The Directory tab turns Brightidea’s community into something employees can browse and connect through.
- Searchable people directory: Find a colleague by name and see their role and department.
- A real profile: See each person’s submission count, expertise, and what they want to work on next.
- Share directly: Send an activity or an idea to the right colleague without leaving the conversation.
Dashboard: See the whole activity in one view
The Submit and Submissions tabs show employees how their own ideas are doing. The Dashboard tab gives activity owners the big picture of how the whole effort is going.
- Participation trends: See how many people are engaging and how that’s changing over time.
- Submission volume: See how many ideas have come in, and how that compares to prior activities.
- See what is trending: See which categories or teams are most active, so activity owners know where to lean in.
Your best idea is now closer than ever.
The best ideas arrive in the middle of the workday. Brightidea for Teams meets people where they already are, so every idea goes straight from a conversation into your pipeline. It’s native to Teams, connected to everything you already run in Brightidea, and available now as a premium add-on for Premium Edition customers. And this is just the start.
Interested in learning more? Reach out to your Customer Success Manager for pricing and to see how Brightidea for Teams can energize your innovation activities today.
