Run structured brainstorming sessions and turn ideas into decisions. Generate ideas, group them into themes, and prioritise the best ones in a collaborative workspace.
Made for Brainstorming
Brainstorming works best when everyone can think independently, contribute ideas at the same time, and move from ideation to clear outcomes. Spreo gives teams a structured flow for generating, organising, and prioritising ideas, so sessions stay focused and lead to decisions instead of open-ended discussions.
Private writing allows everyone to generate ideas on their own before seeing others, preventing early ideas from influencing the group.
All participants can add ideas simultaneously, making brainstorming faster and more inclusive for the whole team.
Ideas can be grouped into topics, helping the team identify patterns and make sense of large numbers of inputs.
The session follows a clear flow from writing to grouping to voting and discussion, helping the team converge on the best ideas.
AI-assisted grouping helps organise ideas into themes, reducing the manual effort required to sort large numbers of stickies.
Brainstorming is a session where a team generates as many ideas as possible around a topic, problem, or opportunity. The focus is on quantity first, with no judgement during the initial ideation phase.
After ideas are generated, the team groups related ideas, discusses them, and converges on the most promising ones. Brainstorming can be a standalone session or part of a larger workshop.
Teams can use a brainstorming or structured ideation template, such as Crazy 8's, to guide the session and give participants a clear structure from the start.
Participants write ideas as sticky notes in private mode during a timed ideation phase, so everyone contributes independently before seeing what others have written.
Once time is up, all stickies are revealed at the same time, filling the board with ideas from the whole team and giving everyone visibility of all contributions at once.
Ideas are organised into topics by grouping related stickies together, helping the team identify common themes and reduce the number of ideas to a manageable set.
The team votes on ideas or themes to identify the most promising directions, surfacing what the group believes is most valuable without extended debate.
The team discusses the top ideas and agrees on what to take forward, leaving the session with clear decisions and next steps rather than an unresolved list of ideas.
Brainstorming is one of several collaboration sessions teams run regularly. Explore other activities you can run in Spreo.
Plan and facilitate multi-phase sessions where teams generate ideas, discuss, and make decisions.
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Create, assign, and follow up on actions from meetings and workshops in one connected workflow.
Work together on a shared canvas to explore ideas, organise information, and align as a team.
What the teams who use Spreo every week say about it
Enno Peters
Agile Coach, Architrave GmbH
I have a hard time picturing my work as a fully remote Agile Coach without Spreo.
The contribution and alignment it brings to the teams and people I work with every day is exceptional. This tool is the best remote adaption there is for creative and collaborative whiteboard meetings, which we all enjoyed so much before the pandemic.
Thanks Spreo for this outstanding tool, which makes my daily work so much more effective and enjoyable.
Theda-Marie Howaldt
Agile Coach, Haiilo
Spreo is an integral part of our daily business - and not to forget the confetti tool - our teams love it!
We at Haiilo started using Spreo during the pandemic to connect and collaborate effectively in a remote setting.
We are now a global company with different locations and a larger team so it becomes even more important to have a tool in place that can be easily rolled-out without much user onboarding. With Spreo our teams conduct constructive workshops and meetings of all kinds and for multiple needs.
Patrice Roux-Caillebot
Consultant-facilitator - Innovation and collaborative design
I am a collaborative processes designer and facilitator, working for french organizations, both public and private.
In 2020, when face-to-face meetings had to stop because of the pandemic, I was looking for the most efficient solution to run remote workshops. And I found it!
Of all the apps I tested, Spreo is the best suited for my needs and those of my clients. It’s just the perfect tool to easily create well-designed boards and engage people online. And I can’t wait for the next features (yes, it’s still improving!) Rich and simple, performant and fun: Spreo has it all!
Manon Pavie
Product Owner, DINUM
As a Product Owner currently developing a tool for the French government, I have been and continue to be a strong advocate of Spreo. Its features are both innovative and genuinely user-centred, with a level of design quality that is consistently impressive. The support chat has also proved to be exceptionally responsive. I will continue to rely on Spreo for Scrum management and design thinking, and I even use several boards to organise my personal projects.
Veronica Onu
Agile Coach, Minsait
Spreo has been a game-changer for collaboration.
I coach many different teams as an Agile coach and I’m always on the lookout for tools that genuinely enhance collaboration and efficiency.
The simplicity of Spreo is important. I’ve experimented with other whiteboards but they were overcomplicated, whereas the teams embraced Spreo without hesitation.
I run retrospectives and interactive training sessions but also use Spreo to analyze the root causes of problems (like the 5 Whys), structure meetings with Lean Coffee, use sprint planning poker for estimation, or just for a brainstorming session to identify or solve problems.
Alexa Lautenbacher
Agile Coach
I love that Spreo is designed simple and yet offers many smart features to make workshops more valuable and effective, such as hidden content writing, easy clustering, timeboxing and last but not least the confetti cannon!
Spreo is completely free for 30 days, so why not sign up to try it out and do your part for collaboration!
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