Stormz
Stormz AI Brainstorming tool is designed to help facilitators run brainstorming sessions enhanced with AI features. The tool includes a variety of capabilities ...
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What is Stormz?
Stormz is an AI-enhanced collaborative brainstorming and facilitation platform designed to help teams and facilitators run workshops, generate ideas, refine concepts, and make decisions. Its core purpose is to make remote or in-person ideation sessions more productive, structured, and engaging by combining classic facilitation tools (voting, clustering, comments, graphs) with AI-powered features.
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Stormz pricing
Pricing model: Freemium
Stormz uses a freemium model with paid Pro and ProXL plans. AI features (all AI Boosters such as idea generation, clustering, labeling, illustrations, Thought Pathways, etc.) are only available to Pro and ProXL subscribers. These AI features are provided as beta features and are offered 'as-is' for testing and evaluation. Basic information indicates paid plans start from around $10/month with monthly billing, but detailed price points and included features per plan are defined on the Stormz pricing page.
Stormz pros
- AI generates initial brainstorm ideas from workshop title and subtopics
- AI proposes powerful 'How Might We' questions to reframe problems
- AI expands each idea into three distinct variations
- AI refines ideas with pros, cons, first steps, and improvement suggestions
- AI clusters hundreds of ideas into themed groups in one click
- AI automatically creates concise 2–3 word labels for idea clusters
- AI generates creative illustrations to visualize intangible ideas
- AI can run fun ice-breakers to engage participants
- Thought Pathways guide participants along personalized lines of thought
- Built-in voting systems to select the best ideas quickly
- Multicriteria evaluation tools to support structured decision-making
- Graphs and charts to analyze vote and rating results visually
- Drag-and-drop tools to reorder, regroup, merge, and duplicate cards easily
- Export session data to Excel with full structure preserved
- Designed specifically for professional facilitators and workshop leaders
- Supports both remote and in-person collaborative sessions
- AI features improve over time as more ideas are collected in a session
Stormz cons
- AI features are only available on Pro and ProXL paid plans
- AI features are provided as beta and offered 'as-is' for testing
- No indication of a permanent free tier for AI Boosters
- AI outputs depend on the quality of workshop titles and subtopics
- Illustrations and generated content are AI-based and may need verification
- Beta AI features may change or have intermittent limitations
- Pricing starts around $10/month and may be higher for ProXL
- Focus is heavily on workshops and ideation, not general project management
Frequently asked questions about Stormz
What is Stormz AI and what does it do?
Stormz AI is a set of AI-powered features integrated into the Stormz brainstorming platform. It helps participants generate initial ideas, propose 'How Might We' questions, expand ideas into variations, refine ideas with pros/cons/first steps, cluster and label similar ideas, create illustrations and ice-breakers, and guide thinking via Thought Pathways, all within structured workshop sessions.
Who is Stormz AI designed for?
Stormz AI is primarily designed for facilitators, coaches, HR and L&D teams, product and innovation teams, and anyone who runs workshops, retrospectives, strategy sessions, or collaborative decision-making processes. It is built to support professional facilitation rather than casual individual brainstorming.
Do I need a paid plan to use AI features?
Yes. According to Stormz's pricing information, AI features are only available to Pro and ProXL subscribers. Free or basic accounts do not have access to the AI Boosters.
Are Stormz AI features stable and production-ready?
Stormz explicitly states that its AI features are provided as beta features. This means they are offered 'as-is' for testing and evaluation, and may evolve over time as the product team improves them based on usage and feedback.
How does the 'Thought Pathways' feature work?
Thought Pathways is an AI feature that analyzes the workshop context and a participant's initial idea to gently guide them along personalized lines of thought. It helps participants develop more robust ideas by suggesting directions, angles, or considerations tailored to the specific session and their starting point.
Can AI cluster and label ideas automatically?
Yes. Stormz AI can take a large number of submitted ideas, cluster them into thematic groups based on similarity, and automatically generate concise 2–3 word labels for each group. This one-click clustering and labeling helps facilitators quickly make sense of large idea pools.
Does Stormz AI generate images for ideas?
Yes. One of the AI Boosters can infer images from ideas and generate creative illustrations that represent intangible concepts. This helps participants visualize ideas and can also be used for ice-breakers or to make sessions more engaging.
How can I use Stormz to make decisions after brainstorming?
After generating and refining ideas, you can use Stormz's voting systems to prioritize them, and optionally apply multicriteria evaluations to compare ideas against different criteria. Results are displayed on graphs, and you can export structured data to Excel for further analysis or reporting.
What happens to previously submitted ideas when AI generates new content?
Stormz AI features take into account previously submitted ideas within the session. This context improves the relevance of new idea suggestions, variations, refinements, and clustering, ensuring that AI output builds on what has already been contributed rather than working in isolation.
Can I use Stormz for sessions that are not purely brainstorming?
Yes. While brainstorming is a core use case, Stormz supports full session design from start to finish, including planning activities, collecting feedback via quizzes or surveys, voting, multicriteria decision-making, and exporting results. It is suitable for retrospectives, strategy workshops, innovation sessions, and other structured collaborative meetings.