Documentation

Guides and references for students and instructors

Getting Started

Sign in, start your first progression, and understand what each stage is asking you for.

The Six Tools

What each tool in the progression is doing, what it's good at, and how to recognize when it's not working.

Recipe: Reframe

Generate five How-Might-We questions from a rough insight, each using a different cognitive move (Focus, Feel, Challenge, Borrow, Flip).

Recipe: Next Great Thing (NGT)

Run N parallel LLM calls with rotating facilitator personas to produce divergent idea candidates — a simulated Nominal Group Technique session.

Recipe: Filter

Pressure-test an idea against a purpose profile using a 4-stage cascade: Purpose → Products → Performance → Process.

Recipe: Steal like an artist

Find N 'patent neighbors' — inventions from adjacent domains whose underlying mechanisms transfer to your idea.

Recipe: Mixtape

Build a 5-track mixtape that captures what an idea feels like — a curation tool that surfaces the emotional shape of a project.

Recipe: Pitch

Generate three layered pitch outputs — X-for-Y hook, elevator, and channel-shaped draft — for a given audience and format.

Recipe: Paper House

A deterministic self-check — can you say your idea in one paragraph, under the word budget, with no markdown scaffolding?

For Students

How to use BIG Tools inside a workshop — working pace, what to promote, when to re-open a stage, and how to export.

For Instructors

Running a BIG Ideas cohort on BIG Tools — onboarding, pacing, language, and what to watch for across a group.