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IDEASCANNER®, Your AI Agent for a  
2-10-fold increase in company value

 

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IDEASCANNER accelerates your digital transformation & sustainable innovation with artificial intelligence (AI). For this, we put your current business model to the test and make business ideas & positionings measurable for the first time. IDEASCANNER is Europe's largest privately funded research project on business success factors and has a unique and proprietary data set of critical factors for business success. According to customers: "IDEASCANNER is a must havein all phases from idea to growth", "very valuable", "an eye opener & much more effective than anything else".

IDEASCANNER Expert For Entrepreneurs

Are you planning to sell your company and aiming for a higher valuation? Do you need new products or business models, or do you must achieve higher profitability?

IDEASCANNER shows you how to increase the value of your company. Get your IDEASCANNER Expert Report:

  1. AI analysis based on unique key success factors.
  2. Identification of clear unique selling points (USPs).
  3. Highlighting of sales and profit potential for significant value enhancement.

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“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.“

R. Buckminster Fuller, American Architect & Futurist

IDEASCANNER AGENT, YOUR AI CO-ENTREPRENEUR

IDEASCANNER Agent provides business leaders & founders a digital tool. With the AI Co-Entrepreneur, you can analyse and improve business ideas at your fingertips. IDEASCANNER gives access to the expert knowledge of successful venture capitalists (VCs) so that you can get immediate answers to:

SCAN

What is the status quo of the business idea?

SCORE

What is the potential for improvement?

SCALE

How can the business idea be improved?

IDEASCANNER is used in corporate and university accelerator & incubator programmes, as well as in transfer centers. Want to learn more about this proven method and how it can help prioritize ideas and foster entrepreneurial thinking in corporate innovation & entrepreneurship education? Contact us or start your FREE SCAN now!

“IDEASCANNER is an eye opener & much more effective than anything else, a Business Model Canvas doesn’t tell you how to improve your idea.”

“You've managed to break down a complex topic into meaningful attributes and give them at your fingertips in an easy, understandable tool.”

“I love the tool and the workshop was very informative.”

“What a "Wow-effect" when the gut-feeling is challenged by the non-emotional objectivity of the scanner result.”

“Many companies are prisoners of their world of thought. IDEASCANNER helps them out of it.”

“So many valuable insights with every scan. What a transfer of knowledge in just a few minutes! Very, very helpful.”

Case Studies

Family business

The family business has been carried on from one generation to the next for decades. However, the current business model threatens the family tradition. The only competitive advantage can no longer be maintained. In addition, the next generation saw no perspective to take over the company. Through IDEASCANNER...
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Supplier

Today, an automotive supplier from Southern Germany generates approx. 80% of its turnover with the propulsion of vehicles by combustion engines. The advent of electromobility endangers the company’s core business. The supplier is therefore making efforts to establish a new line of business over the next five years...
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Education

According to CB Insights, around 70% of start-ups usually fail within 20 months despite initial sales and financing rounds in which they have raised an average of USD 1.3 million. The Lean Startup movement could not bridge this gap. The sale of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is no prove that there is a good business...
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Conglomerate

A multinational conglomerate is active in very different industries due to its broad positioning. Ideas for new business potential are collected within the group using a uniform open innovation platform. Employees can submit suggestions via the system. These are evaluated in a multistage process...
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Manufacturer

A manufacturer of premium vehicles is currently being challenged by developments in the fields of electric mobility, autonomous driving and car sharing. The know-how in combustion technology, which has guaranteed a certain unique selling proposition for decades, is quickly losing its significance...
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Customer Feedback on IDEASCANNER

IDEASCANNER is a must havein all phases from idea to growth. I am thrilled with the way the tool is easy to use, but deeply maps the many different aspects of a company’s development, stimulates discussion and even encourages team building. It’s a lot of fun to think outside the box and, most importantly, it encourages you to identify innovations.

(Finance-FEM-Lab | jumpp & J.P. Morgan)

robust, very fast to results and yet profound, helps massively, makes ideas comparable, creates a standard

(SIEMENS)

The questions that are asked by IDEASCANNER bring more to think about for both someone starting a business and for someone already running the business on how to scan, score and scale.

(University of Rwanda)

a lot of insider knowledge, based on scientific insights

(THWS)

very helpful tool that makes startup consulting a lot easier

(DENKFABRIK Hochschulen & Entrepreneurship)

very exciting tool to discuss, develop and improve an idea

University of Koblenz

Media

IDEASCANNER democratizes the expert knowledge of successful venture capitalists (VCs) with AI. The award-winning AI co-entrepreneur empowers entrepreneurs to scale also sustainable business ideas. IDEASCANNER is featured in several business books with success stories, including how to increase company value with AI.

The entrepreneurial couple behind IDEASCANNER, Melanie and Andreas G. Stütz, are well known in the media. Their personal story is one you won't want to miss. Do you want to know what the first trip around the world in a "flying car" has to do with it and how it led to the "pre-flight check for business ideas"? Contact us here!

FUTURE SHAPERS

Zukunftsgestalter Deutschlands Pioniergeschichten IDEASCANNER

SWEDISH RADIO

SZ ARTICLE

SZ-Frauen schaffen Zukunft-Melanie Stütz

FAZ BOOK SERIES

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DIGITAL PODCAST

Podcast zum Springer-Fachbuch Smarte Transformation für nachhaltiges Wachstum mit KI

INNOVATION ARTICLE

Fostering Innovation IDEASCANNER Potential

SPRINGER BOOK

Buch Smarte Transformation für nachhaltiges Wachstum mit KI

PEOPLE PODCAST

DW JOURNAL

EU COMMISSION TALK

INDUSTRY INTERVIEW

TV DOCUMENTARY

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