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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 & Strategy For Entrepreneurs

Are you planning to sell your company and looking for a higher valuation? Do you need new products, business models or increased profitability?

IDEASCANNER shows you how to improve business continuity and increase the value of your business in the next five years. Get your IDEASCANNER Expert report, including:

  1. AI analysis against identified key success factors.
  2. Identification of unique selling points (USPs) through sustainable innovation.
  3. Reveal revenue and profit potential for significant value creation.

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Periodic table of business strategy

“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 SAAS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF ENTREPRENEURS

With IDEASCANNER Software as a Service (SaaS), we provide leaders & founders a digital tool for analyzing and improving business ideas by themselves at their fingertips. In this way, we provide 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 here for a free online demo here!

“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.”

Services

IDEASCANNER Expert

Our experts SCAN your company, startup or business idea with IDEASCANNER
  • INPUT: pitch deck, business plan or business model canvas
  • SERVICE: audit call, AI data analysis and expert triangulation
  • DURATION: ca. 5-10 working days
  • OUTPUT: IDEASCANNER Expert report incl. scores and individual feedback
  • BENEFIT: data-based status quo evaluation with suggestions for improvements
FREE PRE-SCAN

IDEASCANNER Strategy

Together with you, we develop perspectives on how to increase the value of your company
  • INPUT: success-critical attributes by IDEASCANNER Expert report
  • SERVICE: identifying and validating new opportunities
  • DURATION: 12+ months
  • OUTPUT: IDEASCANNER Strategy pitch of new business opportunities
  • BENEFIT: increase of your company value with clear evidence for business potential
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IDEASCANNER Academy

Crash Course to learn how to think smarter & make decisions like successful venture capitalists (VCs)
  • INPUT: own or sample business ideas or models to SCAN
  • SERVICE: online training with live assessment incl. SaaS
  • DURATION: 2 workshop days
  • OUTPUT: IDEASCANNER Certificate incl. SCALE sheets with improved scores, success factors
  • BENEFIT: knowledge transfer through joint idea assessment & improvement
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IDEASCANNER SaaS

Software as a service for peer-to-peer scans in corporate innovation & entrepreneurship education
  • INPUT: your thoughts on the business ideas or business models
  • SERVICE: self-assessment / triangulation with SaaS license
  • DURATION: 12+ months
  • OUTPUT: on average 10x faster idea evaluation incl. SCORE increase +20%
  • BENEFIT: evaluate, improve, prioritize business ideas & learn entrepreneurial thinking
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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.

(Univeristy 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

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...
FREE CASE STUDY

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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Management

Andreas G. Stütz | IDEASCANNER Expert
Melanie Stütz | IDEASCANNER SaaS
Andreas G. Stütz | IDEASCANNER Expert

Andreas G. Stütz | IDEASCANNER Expert

 

Andreas G. Stütz is an IT and media entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience and several patents. He studied at the University of Passau and developed the first concept for a group-wide information marketplace for the CEO of Daimler as part of his thesis.

He worked for Mercedes-Benz in Tokyo and Dresdner Bank in New York City, and founded several successful IT companies, including one for which he received the StartUp Award from Angela Merkel. With his wife, he co-piloted the first world trip in a “flying car” for the Weltflug.tv series. As an author, he used the publicity from the WELTFLUG book and movie to raise money for children’s education.

He is a part of the MunichAngels investor network, mentor at the Founder Institute & keynote speaker. He has developed the “Periodic Table of Business Strategy” and uses IDEASCANNER Expert to increase company value with artificial intelligence (AI) for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

Melanie Stütz | IDEASCANNER SaaS

Melanie Stütz | IDEASCANNER SaaS

 

Melanie Stütz is an entrepreneur, advisory board member and one of the top 50 thought leaders in AI. She started her career at Microsoft and Siemens. As part of the Weltflug.tv co-production with ARD, she and her husband were the 1st pilot couple to cross 5 continents in a “flying car”. Not only as a pilot, but also as an entrepreneur, she learned the importance of a pre-flight check.

As CEO of IDEASCANNER SaaS, the “pre-flight check for business ideas”, Melanie democratizes the expert knowledge of successful venture capitalists (VCs) with AI, fostering entrepreneurial thinking in corporate innovation & entrepreneurship education.

She is a book author & keynote speaker since 2020. As a jury member, she scans ideas and pitches, e.g. for MIT. In 2023 she became an European Climate Pact Ambassador. With IDEASCANNER, she supports the scaling of green ideas for the “Green Deal” in Europe to become the first climate-neutral continent.

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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 this, 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!

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INTERVIEW: THINK SMARTER WITH AI FOR CLIMATE ACTION

INTERVIEW: THINK SMARTER WITH AI FOR CLIMATE ACTION

Melanie Stuetz
Following the AI for Climate Action session with IDEASCANNER on “Planting Trees 2.0 – Green Entrepreneurship with AI?” at the European Climate Pact 2025 in Brussels IDEASCANNER’s CEO, Melanie Stütz, was interviewed by Marie-Louise Kristola, a renow...
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SPEAKER: AI FOR CLIMATE ACTION WITH IDEASCANNER

SPEAKER: AI FOR CLIMATE ACTION WITH IDEASCANNER

Melanie Stuetz
Imagine a future where Europe is the first climate-neutral continent, where every business decision contributes to a greener tomorrow. But what if our well-intentioned efforts, like planting millions of trees end in disappointment? Watch Melanie Stütz as speaker on AI for...
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STUDY: GENERATIVE AI RESHAPING TEAMWORK

STUDY: GENERATIVE AI RESHAPING TEAMWORK

Melanie Stuetz
AI + Humans: The Ultimate Dream Team? What if your next MVP teammate isn’t human? A groundbreaking Harvard Business School study on Generative AI just flipped the script on teamwork as we know it. The Experiment 776 Procter & Gamble professionals tackled real-world ch...
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