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Digital Lenses
Negative Space, Thinking Sideways, Thinking Backwards, ReThinking and Parkour, available as in-product tools that provoke stronger original thinking.
Built on Adventurous Thinking
AI optimizes for speed. Xpollinate optimizes for originality.
A governed enterprise platform for capturing, protecting, developing and curating human-originated ideas before AI flattens them.
Ideas are securely shared across the business and developed at speed using proprietary innovation frameworks, while preserving provenance, contribution and ownership. Human ingenuity becomes a protected innovation asset, not a lost input or unmanaged prompt.
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Solar co-op for apartment renters
Renters buy shares in nearby rooftop solar and get credits on their power bill. No installation, no lock-in.
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01Community solar subscriptions
02Green energy credit marketplace
03Landlord solar leasing platform
What makes yours different?
AI assessment
Solar co-op for apartment renters
Market innovation
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Market Development · proven tech, new market
Innovation is a team game, and ideas are being flattened.
Organizations are bursting with untapped creativity: ideas buried in emails, side conversations and forgotten notebooks. Without a unified way to share, test and evolve those ideas, many never see the light of day.
Worse, employees now pour raw ideas into ungoverned AI chats with no provenance, no ownership and no compounding. Xpollinate creates a space where every idea has a chance to grow, and where originality is protected as an enterprise asset.
From individual idea to shared innovation.
Three steps from a half-baked thought to a governed, co-created innovation asset.
01Log ideas
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Log ideas
Capture your idea, even half-baked. Use optional AI prompts to push it further, without surrendering ownership.
02Analyse & differentiate
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Analyse & differentiate
Compare with a knowledge base; see what's been done before, and define your unique angle.
03Map & co-create
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Map & co-create
Place your idea on the innovation quadrant. Invite feedback, review comments, use AI to fold them into the idea, and turn contributors into collaborators.
Abstract innovation becomes measurable and actionable.
We're building a culture where contributions matter, not just visibility. Everyone's voice can help shape what grows.
Drag the dot to position an idea across market and technology unknowns, from incremental 10% improvements to moonshot 10X bets.
Innovation Quadrant
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Innovation Positioning
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Product Development
Disrupting established markets with breakthrough technology.
Example innovations in this quadrant:
- AI-powered design tools
- Blockchain finance
- IoT manufacturing
Adventurous Thinking, built into the platform.
Sally's Adventurous Thinking methodologies are baked into Xpollinate as a digital toolkit. Users can stretch, reframe and iterate on ideas with the same Five Lenses Sally teaches in workshops, translated into guided product workflows.
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Stretch ideas on demand
Iterate beyond the first draft. Use the same possibility-thinking prompts Sally teaches to push ideas into bearable discomfort, where better options appear.
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Workshop skill, platform habit
Workshops build the muscle. Xpollinate keeps the practice inside daily work so originality compounds across teams, not only in the room.
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Same methodology, scaled
A governed translation of Adventurous Thinking for hundreds or thousands of employees, without diluting the frameworks used at NASA and Sony.
Provenance, contribution, ownership.
Enterprise buyers need more than a suggestion box. Xpollinate is built for controlled communities, clear ownership and auditable idea evolution.
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Provenance
Track where an idea came from and how it evolved over time. Versions, merges and decisions stay visible.
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Contribution
When a suggestion is accepted, AI can merge that insight into the idea and the commenter becomes a collaborator.
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Ownership
Ideas live in your controlled community. You decide who can view, comment or collaborate.
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Security
Human originality stays inside your governed perimeter, not lost to unmanaged prompts.
Collaboration, not competition.
In most idea platforms, feedback remains detached. With Xpollinate, comments can become part of the idea. When an idea owner accepts a suggestion, AI merges that insight into the idea, and the commenter becomes a collaborator.
Inclusive · Collaborative · Transparent · AI-assisted · Balanced across moonshots and incremental improvement.
Designed by Sally Dominguez, futurist, inventor, educator.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sally Dominguez is a multi-award-winning Australian inventor, designer, futurist and educator. Her frameworks, Adventurous Thinking and EPIC Resilience, inform how Xpollinate designs for collaboration, creativity and growth in complex systems.
Xpollinate's tools are digital translations of Adventurous Thinking lenses used at NASA and Sony, not generic brainstorm prompts. Workshops train the skill; the platform embeds it in daily work.
Behind Xpollinate's culture of innovation is a lifelong commitment to inclusive creativity.
Frequently asked questions.
What kinds of organisations can use Xpollinate?+
From small teams and community groups to large enterprises, wherever idea-sharing and originality matter.
Is AI replacing human insight?+
Not at all. AI in Xpollinate is a tool to spark insight, map relationships and merge contributions, always with people in the loop.
How secure and private are our ideas?+
Ideas live in your controlled community. You decide who can view, comment or collaborate.
What happens after collaboration?+
Idea owners can accept contributions, evolve the idea, track versions, and decide next steps such as prototyping, pilot, funding and beyond.
How does this relate to Adventurous Thinking workshops?+
Workshops train the skill; the platform embeds it in daily work. Many clients do both: high-touch teaching with Sally, then scale across hundreds or thousands of employees with Xpollinate.
Where ideas grow, together.
Bring your team, community or organisation into a space where ideas can be shared, nurtured and scaled, and where human originality is treated as a protected asset.
Book a platform demo with Sally.
Tell us about your organisation and what you're hoping to explore. We'll follow up with demo time options.