Ideas that start from everything you already know.

A blank whiteboard wastes your archive. Brainstorm is an ideation canvas where an agent grounded in your programs surfaces prior art, rejected alternatives, and known constraints as you explore — so directions are pressure-tested before anyone commits a solver run to them.

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The Platform Underneath

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Brainstorm ideas board with proposed, exploring, dead ends documented, and promoted columns

Precedent found — similar trade study in a prior program, 2 linked artifacts

Constraint flagged — thermal expansion mismatch noted for solver check

Cognis / Brainstorm

What it does

Explore wide. Stay grounded.

Grounded chat

Ask what-if questions in plain language. The agent answers from your archive — with citations — not from the open internet.

Idea board

Directions crystallize into structured cards: material options, geometry concepts, open questions — each linked to its supporting evidence.

Precedent surfacing

Similar problems solved in prior programs appear alongside your ideas, including the alternatives that were tried and rejected.

Constraint awareness

Known limits — standards clauses, supplier realities, past failures — attach themselves to ideas before they get expensive.

Session memory

Brainstorms become part of the project record. The reasoning behind chosen directions carries forward into analysis and simulation.

Handoff to solvers

Promising directions promote directly into Solve & Simulate with their context attached — no re-explaining the problem.

Cognis / Brainstorm

The loop

Diverge. Ground. Converge. Promote.

Diverge

Sketch directions freely in chat and on the board. Nothing is lost; everything is attributable.

Ground

The agent enriches each direction with precedent, constraints, and prior outcomes from the knowledge graph.

Converge

Compare directions with their evidence side by side. Rejected options are kept — with the reason — for whoever asks later.

Promote

Selected directions move into the lifecycle as tracked work, carrying their full brainstorm context.

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FAQ

Brainstorm questions.

01How is this different from a chatbot?+

Brainstorm answers are retrieved from your own artifacts and cited. And the session itself becomes structured project knowledge — idea cards, constraints, decisions — instead of a disposable transcript.

02What does the agent know on day one?+

Whatever your connectors expose: PLM records, reports, simulations, standards, and any captured decisions. The more of the archive is connected, the sharper the precedent surfacing gets.

03Can rejected ideas be revisited?+

Yes — rejection is recorded with its rationale, not deleted. When conditions change (a new material, a relaxed requirement), previously rejected directions can be found and re-evaluated with their history intact.

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Stop brainstorming from zero.

A 30-minute walkthrough of Brainstorm running against a real engineering scenario.

Diverge · Ground · Converge · Promote — every idea source-linked