Ideawake Reviews & Product Details

Ideawake is an end-to-end idea management platform designed to increase ROI from employee, customer, and partner ideas while cutting the time it takes to manage ideas in half. We provide an easy to use, AI enabled idea management platform that makes it simple to capture, evaluate, and take action on ideas from those who know your organization best. Ideawake is a one-stop platform for innovation management, enabling organizations to run innovation challenges, hackathons, kaizen events, continuous improvement programs, and open innovation initiatives from initial idea sourcing through implementation and ROI measurement. Ideawake is trusted by organizations ranging from 100-employee startups to Fortune 500 enterprises to drive financial results, increase employee engagement, and build a culture of innovation at scale. The platform powers innovation programs in 39 countries across 17 industries, including manufacturing, technology, healthcare, financial services, retail, hospitality, and pharmaceuticals. Notable customers include US Bank, Sirius XM, Jason’s Deli, HP, Mercury Marine, and Nerolac Paints. The Ideawake platform features fully customizable workflows that guide ideas from intake through implementation and impact measurement, enabling organizations to manage the entire idea lifecycle while maintaining accountability at scale. Advanced reporting and analytics dashboards provide real-time visibility into ROI, cost savings, and portfolio performance. Enterprise-grade governance, including role-based permissions, approval workflows, and audit trails, ensures secure and compliant program management. Ideawake leverages automation and AI assistants to streamline innovation and continuous improvement processes, including AI-powered categorization, summarization, duplicate detection, and idea merging to reduce redundancy and accelerate decision-making. Robust collaboration tools including challenges, commenting, and multiple types of crowd voting drive engagement, while gamification features such as prizes and leaderboards motivate participation and foster a culture of innovation. Beyond idea submission, Ideawake provides powerful prioritization tools such as custom scorecards, along with built-in action tracking and seamless handoff to execution systems to ensure ideas translate into measurable outcomes. Designed for enterprise scalability, organizations can run multiple programs across departments while maintaining centralized visibility and control. With integrations across 50+ enterprise tools including Microsoft Teams, project management systems, and single sign-on platforms, Ideawake reduces data duplication and minimizes application fatigue. The platform is supported by an open API and built with enterprise security in mind, including SOC 2 compliant infrastructure and robust data protection standards. See how leading organizations capture, prioritize, and implement high-impact ideas. Book a demo today to experience Ideawake in action.

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Starting at $650.00

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Ideawake Demo - Collect Targeted Ideas from Your Team, Customers, or Startups

Tap into the public at large for ideas or limit access to your internal team. Embed submission forms directly into your intranet or website.

Ideawake Demo - Collaborate Around and Automatically Surface the Best Ideas

Allow participants to comment on ideas, rank entries using voting, and collaborate in real time.

Ideawake Demo - Assign Decision Makers to Evaluate Ideas on Custom Criteria

Assign internal or external stakeholders to rank solutions and aggregate their opinions into a single score.

Ideawake Demo - Assign Owners, Make Ideas Happen, and Award Submitters

After reviewing and picking the best solutions, award winning entries with cash or non-monetary prizes and assign owners to make ideas happen. Manage implementation in Ideawake or handoff ideas to the project management system of your choosing through our integrations.

Ideawake Demo - Track and Implement Ideas While Measuring the Metrics that Matter

Understand your organizations current innovation health, activity, and impact in under 30 seconds.

Ideawake is the easiest way to collect, prioritize and take action on new ideas from your team or entire organization.

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Brandon C.

Director of Data Analytics

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/10/2026

"Transparent Continuous Improvement from Ideation to Actualization"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Ideawake?

Ideawake makes our efforts directed at continuous improvement transparent from ideation to actualization. Everyone in the organization can contribute, and it leaves little room for doubt and speculation about where an initiative is in the actualization pipeline or who owns it at any given stage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ideawake?

As with any new tool, it takes some time to learn how to leverage it for maximum impact. But I have not been disappointed by its capabilities yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ideawake solving and how is that benefiting you?

When we ran our annual campaign to solicit big ideas for our organization, we would get many submissions that were identical (or nearly identical). No one could respond to submissions to get clarity or offer ideas for refinement. The process was basically over when a contributor pressed "submit". Ideawake is not just about gathering ideas but about starting a conversation at all levels of the organization. A process that had become stale and boring has been reinvigorated by the Ideawake platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

David G.

Chief Strategy Officer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/9/2026

"Ideawake: Exceptional Idea Management with a True Partnership Mindset"

5/5

What do you like best about Ideawake?

Ideawake has been an outstanding platform for capturing, organizing, and advancing ideas at scale. What truly sets it apart is not just the functionality, but the partnership mindset behind the product.

The customer support is exceptional—responsive, thoughtful, and genuinely invested in user success. The team doesn’t just fix issues; they listen, adapt, and innovate on the fly in direct collaboration with users, often turning real-world feedback into meaningful platform enhancements.

Ideawake strikes the right balance between structure and flexibility, making it easy to engage teams while still driving measurable outcomes. It feels less like software you’re “using” and more like a solution that is evolving with you.

Highly recommended for organizations serious about continuous improvement, innovation, and employee engagement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ideawake?

I'll be honest, I dislike the fact that we have been running our innovation initiatives for nearly three years, and I did not know about their product. We heard about them from another organization and decided to give them a try. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ideawake solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ideawake solves the problem of how to consistently capture, organize, and act on ideas from across an entire organization.

For continuous improvement and innovation, it gives every staff and faculty member a clear, structured way to contribute ideas, ensures those ideas don’t get lost, and creates transparency around evaluation, prioritization, and follow-through—turning input into measurable action rather than one-off suggestions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michael M.

Principal Platform Technical Architect

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/23/2026

"Flexible, Easy-to-Configure Idea Management Backed by an Excellent Ideawake Team"

5/5

What do you like best about Ideawake?

Ideawake is not only an exceptional application for idea management, but it can also be leveraged for other initiatives, such as hackathons or even initial project intake when other systems might already be in play. Along with the ease of configuration and setup, this makes it one of my personal favorite applications I’ve had the pleasure of working with. Pair that with the excellent team at Ideawake, and it’s been a win-win for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ideawake?

Quite honestly, we haven't found anything negative to report about Ideawake. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ideawake solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ideawake is currently being proposed as an intake mechanism for employee ideas, with the goal of strengthening engagement and giving employees a voice that can be seen and heard by everyone. Those ideas are then vetted and approved, and ultimately sent to our project management system as formal projects, where the execution work is carried out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Insurance

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/6/2026

"Clean, Modern Design with Well-Balanced Fonts and Images"

3/5

What do you like best about Ideawake?

The site is very clean and aesthetically appealing. I would specifically include the size, type and placement of fonts and images. It's not too busy and not too blank as to make pages seem pointless. It looks slim, sleek, and modern. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ideawake?

Our company uses this primarily to share ideas for improvement. I can definitely see what others have done, but most of the tabs lead me to other websites, which is annoying. I also can't seem to add anything new, which might not be the product so much as how my company uses it. I don't like being redirected to different websites to complete a task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sophia P.

Hub Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/25/2026

"Customizable, Multi-User Platform for Incubator Hub's Application & Selection Process"

4/5

What do you like best about Ideawake?

The team provides great support setting up and customizing the platform to meet our unique needs. They have also been responsive to building out distinct features for us. The product itself shines at streamlining and automating workflows, both externally and internally-facing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ideawake?

The analytics and reporting features can be clunky and sometimes require support from the Ideawake team to get the format we'd like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anthony O.

Associate Program Manager, Operations

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/4/2026

"Easy Team Feedback: Upvotes and Comments on Submitted Ideas"

5/5

What do you like best about Ideawake?

I love that my team can review my submitted ideas and upvote or leave their comments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ideawake?

Each stage of the idea is a little confusing on my next steps or my responsibilities for this stage. This may be an internal process to my company versus ideawake functionality though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Navaneeth H.

Director

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/3/2025

"Accelerate your innovation journey with Ideawake"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Ideawake?

Ideawake has truly been a game changer for us this year. The platform stands out for its simplicity and intuitive design, making it incredibly easy to use for both participants and administrators. Unlike other platforms, the learning curve is minimal, which has helped us scale adoption quickly. Over the past six months, we've been consistently impressed by the responsive customer support and the modern, user-friendly features. Its ability to integrate seamlessly with our existing systems has further enhanced our experience, making Ideawake a valuable tool in driving innovation across the organization." Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ideawake?

Extract detailed analytics or insights from ideation events. The navigation within the reporting features can also be unintuitive Additionally, the platform lacks filtering ideas just like excel and also idea tracking feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ideawake solving and how is that benefiting you?

What we appreciate most about Ideawake is the transparency it brings to the ideation process. Participants can view, vote on, and comment on each other's ideas, which fosters a collaborative environment. One of the key strengths of the platform is its ability to drive engagement—thanks to its built-in gamification features. These elements make ideation events more interactive and enjoyable, encouraging broader participation across teams. Additionally, the platform offers customizable workflows and stage configurations, allowing us to tailor the process to suit different types of innovation challenges. The scoring and evaluation criteria can be modified on the fly, giving us the agility to adapt quickly based on the nature of the event. These capabilities make Ideawake a powerful and flexible tool for managing innovation across the organization." Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Allison S.

Director of Engineering

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/3/2025

"Fantastic Tool Driven by Incredible Team"

5/5

What do you like best about Ideawake?

From the initial "interview" with the Ideawake team to see if they could meet our needs, I knew we'd found a partner in success rather than just another SaaS offering to spend money on. There was willingness to walk through what we hoped to get out of the tool and create a implementation which satisfied our goals. Throughout the integration process and launch, the tool itself has been solid — but it’s the team behind the scenes that has truly been amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ideawake?

There were a couple of features on the roadmap at the time of integration we were able to find temporary solutions for. This was our only hiccup and even this was resolved as soon as new features were released (which happens quite often!). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/11/2023

"Great Platform for Crowdsourcing Ideas"

5/5

What do you like best about Ideawake?

Ideawake has excellent customer service. We receive individualized instruction and troubleshooting regularly. Whenever we have questions outside of normally scheduled calls, responses are received very quickly, typically within 24 hours. The platform is very easy to use and customize to whatever our needs are for that use case. The platform integrates with SSO and our IT security. It is very customizable and the team helps us adapt the platform for our various use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ideawake?

Use on devices other than a computer (e.g., tablets or phones) can be tricky at times because there is no app. Screen size can impact ease of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ideawake solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have been able to customize Ideawake to meet a variety of needs. It is currently used to submit performance improvement ideas, which are executed and posters of the results are submitted for various symposia. The projects (and posters of results) are then judged in the platform. In-person symposia are held and winners are announced there. Those that cannot attend events can view the projects in Ideawake, which has been approved for awarding CEUs to virtual attendees. We use it crowdsource ideas and feedback/comments on a particular idea, gather staff survey data, and collect outside vendor data. The platform has been very adaptable and customizable to meet our needs. This makes us much more efficient and allows us to get feedback from employees across our enterprise, located in several different states. We have used it to judge symposia, which allows for judges to be located across the enterprise and for individuals to judge who could not attend the in-person presentations. We are getting ready to use it to recruit innovative ideas from employees and get those employees into our facilities to turn their ideas into prototypes and other real world use products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Edward U.

Associate Director

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/26/2026

"Intuitive, Easy-to-Use UI with Smooth Collaboration via Votes"

4/5

What do you like best about Ideawake?

Intuitive user interface, easy to use and no need for user manuals. Allows collaboration via votes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ideawake?

The UI is easy to use, but it can feel a little dated. Also, some button colour choices can make the text harder to read—for example, light green buttons with white text. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.