Aha! Ideas vs InnoCentive

Aha! Ideas helps product teams gather feedback from customers and communities, then assess ideas by revenue potential. Teams can create custom-branded portals where unlimited portal users submit feedback and vote. Other inputs include polls, in-app idea submission, and automatic product-idea detection. Requests can be reviewed in a single view, evaluated with scorecards, and ranked by priority. Its AI assistant, Elle, can find themes in feedback, surface use cases across related ideas, and identify similar ideas for possible merging. The Advanced plan adds dynamic forms, proxy voting, CRM integrations, polls, advanced reporting, automation rules, and portal translation; CRM connections such as Salesforce and Zendesk require that plan. Essentials costs $49 a month, billed Monthly, starting at $49 per user/month with a minimum of three paid users. Advanced costs $74 a month, billed Monthly, with the same starting per-user price structure and minimum. A 30-day trial includes Advanced functionality, permits colleague invitations, and requires no credit card. Every plan includes HTTPS communications and encryption at rest. Users can export data as CSV or use the Aha! API. The product is available on web, macOS, Windows, as an extension, and through an API.

Innocentive connects organizations with registered Solvers who submit proposed solutions to innovation challenges. Solvers can take part in Prize Challenges, Scouting Challenges, or talent opportunities such as Expert and WIN Scout roles; subject matter experts pay no charge to join or respond. The Innocentive Marketplace brings together innovation data, third-party sources, start-ups and experts, while conversational AI Jen can identify technologies from one industry that may fit problems in another. Marketplace opportunities are aimed at enterprise technology scouting, accelerator and incubator cohorts, corporate venturing, supply chains and academic research partnerships. Places are limited by technology segment and country, and a company must request a place for its technology to be assessed. The free Innocentive Crowd is open to companies and individuals and gives access to live enterprise and charity Challenges. Marketplace is listed at $150 a year, billed annually, for one of five companies per country in each mapped segment, with a verified company capability and annual curation and administration. Challenge agreements set participation terms and any intellectual property transfer. Innocentive is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.