The full journey

From a thought to a decision your team respects.

Walk through what actually happens when an idea enters Sparqbox. Every step, live, working, shown on this page.

Capture
Evaluate
Decide
Act
Thirty seconds

The whole loop, end to end.

Submit, AI review, human score, decision, feedback. Every step in the page below — but here it is in one breath.

01 / Capture

How ideas enter the system.

Guided submission, AI-assisted sharpening, and duplicate detection before you even submit. No vague text boxes, no lost emails, no 12 versions of the same idea.

AI brainstorm
Session · 02:14
What's the idea?
DK
We waste time in meetings.
Got it. What specifically? A particular meeting type, or all of them?
DK
Mostly the Monday syncs. 45 minutes and nobody leaves with actions.
Good. And what would fix it?
DK
Make them 15 minutes. Standing. Action items written live.
Here's a draft submission based on your answers:
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Structured draft
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DRAFT-2026-0213
Convert Monday syncs to 15-min standing meetings with live action items
Operations
Replace the current 45-minute seated Monday syncs with 15-minute standing format. Action items captured live in shared doc during the meeting. Rotating facilitator per team.
Expected benefit
Save ~30 min / person / week
Estimated effort
Low
Submitter
Dennis Koopman · Product
Submitted at
Apr 14 · 09:42
Duplicate detectionCatching overlap before the submit button even lights up.
2 similar ideas detected· on submit
Semantic match
Your draft
Shorten the weekly Monday standup and make it outcome-focused
The Monday 45-minute sync is too long and rarely produces clear action items. Propose a shorter, standing format with live notes.
IDEA-2026-021387% similar
Convert Monday syncs to 15-min standing meetings with live action items
Dennis Koopman · Product· 14 supporters
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IDEA-2026-016862% similar
Replace recurring status meetings with async updates in Slack
Sanne Bakker · Engineering· 9 supporters
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Based on semantic similarity, not keyword matching. Your idea, their team, your support.
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02 / Evaluate

AI reviews first. Humans confirm.

The AI scores the idea against your weighted criteria in seconds. Human reviewers then score independently. Totals are deterministic math, not an opinion.

Approved
IDEA-2026-0042
Implement Sparqbox as our idea management tool
Category · Process improvement
Approved
Impact on productivity
w 0.30
Cost vs. benefit
w 0.25
Feasibility
w 0.25
Strategic fit
w 0.20
Weighted total
5.0 / 5.0
Same criteria every time · Same math every time · Same answer every time
Criterion
Sparqbox AI
First reviewer
Total4.6
MVMarieke van den Berg
Operations
Total4.6
YOYou
Live — scores from above
Total5.0
Impact on productivity
Score5/ 5
Score5/ 5
Score5/ 5
Cost vs. benefit
Score4/ 5
Score5/ 5
Score5/ 5
Feasibility
Score5/ 5
Score5/ 5
Score5/ 5
Strategic fit
Score4/ 5
Score3/ 5
Score5/ 5
AISparqbox AI4.6
MVMarieke4.6
YOYou5.0
Impact on productivity
AI5/5
MV5/5
YO5/5
Cost vs. benefit
AI4/5
MV5/5
YO5/5
Feasibility
AI5/5
MV5/5
YO5/5
Strategic fit
AI4/5
MV3/5
YO5/5
Sparqbox AI's note

Strong operational play: clear scope, measurable outcome, existing team can lead. Feasibility is the driving criterion.

Marieke's note

Onboarding overhead is the only real risk. Pilot this in one team first and strategic fit lifts considerably.

You's note

Change any score above. This column, the totals, and the overall decision all recalculate live.

Overall result
AI 4.6  ·  Marieke 4.6  ·  You 5.0
4.7 / 5.0Approved
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03 / Decide

Automatic decisions. Plain-language feedback.

Thresholds fire the decision. The submitter gets a real answer — why it was approved, why it was rejected, which criteria were strongest. No silence, ever.

IDEA-2026-0213Monday syncs → 15-min standing meetings
Approved · auto-fired
Submitted
Apr 14 · 09:42
In review
Apr 14 · 09:43
AI reviewed
Apr 14 · 09:43
Scored
Apr 15 · 14:20
APPROVED
Apr 15 · 14:20
In implementation
next →
Score 4.1 / 5.0Threshold metDecision loggedSubmitter notified
Todennis@meridian.nl
SubjectYour idea has been approved

Your idea "Convert Monday syncs to 15-min standing meetings with live action items" has been APPROVED with a weighted score of 4.1 / 5.0.

Strongest

Strongest criterion: Feasibility (5.0/5.0) — the change is operational, not technical.

Weakest

Weakest criterion: Strategic fit (3.0/5.0) — reviewers noted this doesn't directly tie to Q2 OKRs, though the time savings compound.

AI

AI assessment: "A pragmatic, immediately-actionable idea with minimal implementation cost. Recommended."

Reviewed by: Marieke van den Berg, Hans de Vries, Sparqbox AI.

Auto-generatedNot AI-writtenDeterministic per your scoring criteria
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04 / Act

Decisions that become execution.

Approved ideas move to implementation with an assigned owner, milestones, and a closing loop back to the submitter when it ships. Nothing gets approved and forgotten.

IDEA-2026-0213 · owner Dennis Koopman
Monday syncs → 15-min standing meetings
In implementation
Pilot new meeting format with Ops team
Marieke van den Berg · Operations
Done · Apr 17
Collect 1-week feedback from pilot participants
Hans de Vries · Innovation
Done · Apr 24
Roll out company-wide if pilot feedback is positive
Dennis Koopman · Product
Target · Apr 30
Submitter will be notified on completion. Loop closed.
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The outcome

What changes when every idea gets an answer.

The numbers companies report after their first quarter on Sparqbox.

4×

more ideas submitted per employee

96%

of submitters receive feedback within 7 days

0

ideas lost in email threads

Based on pilot customer reporting. Your results will vary.
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Process

From submission to answer

Every idea moves through the same five steps. No idea skips a step, and no idea stops without a response.

  1. Submit

    An employee submits an idea with a title, the problem it solves, and the expected benefit. The form is short by design, so people actually use it.

  2. AI first review

    An AI reviewer scores the idea against the criteria for its category and writes a first read. It recommends. It never decides.

  3. Human weighted scoring

    Reviewers score the idea from 1 to 5 across weighted criteria. The weights sum to one, so every idea is measured the same way.

  4. Automatic decision

    The weighted total drives an automatic decision: move forward, discuss, or decline. The math is fixed, so the outcome is consistent and defensible.

  5. Mandatory feedback

    Every idea gets a written answer before it closes. This is the promise the product is built on: every idea deserves an answer.

What this costs

Everything you just saw, on any tier.

Every feature on this page (AI brainstorm, AI first review, weighted scoring, automatic decisions, feedback emails, full status timelines) works the same way on Starter, Growth, and Scale. Pricing scales with your company, not with your features.

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Common questions

Questions about how Sparqbox works.

Each idea is scored against the criteria set for its category, on a 1 to 5 scale, weighted into a single total. The weights always sum to one, so scores are comparable across ideas.

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