Stormz

Stormz is a sophisticated yet user-friendly digital platform engineered to enhance collaborative workshops, creative brainstorming, and strategic decision-making. Augmented with powerful AI features, it empowers facilitators to design and run seamless sessions for groups of any size, whether in-person, remote, or hybrid. Unlike complex digital whiteboards, Stormz focuses on structured facilitation, ensuring that participants can engage immediately with a minimal learning curve, eliminating technical frustrations and maximizing productivity.

The platform is built around the principle of controlled, step-by-step facilitation. This allows the session leader to guide the group through various activities, revealing features and content as needed. This level of control is crucial for managing large groups and ensuring that the workshop stays on track. Stormz is designed for accessibility, working flawlessly on laptops, tablets, phones, and large screens, making it a versatile choice for any collaborative setting.

How to use Stormz

Using Stormz is a straightforward process designed for efficiency. First, a facilitator designs the workshop by creating a sequence of steps, choosing from a variety of pre-built templates or creating custom activities for brainstorming, evaluation, or decision-making. Once the session is prepared, participants can join instantly using a simple link, without needing to create an account or navigate a complex interface. During the workshop, the facilitator guides the participants through each step, activating features like idea generation, voting, categorization, or budget games. AI boosters can be used to summarize ideas, generate new perspectives, or cluster contributions, significantly accelerating the creative and analytical process. After the session, all data can be easily extracted into usable formats for reporting and follow-up actions.

Core Features of Stormz

• AI Boosters: Leverage artificial intelligence to summarize discussions, generate new ideas based on existing contributions, and automatically group similar concepts to identify key themes.
• Structured Facilitation: Design workshops with a clear sequence of steps, giving the facilitator full control over what participants see and do at any given moment.
• Advanced Decision-Making Tools: Go beyond simple voting with features like the '$100 budget game' for prioritization, multi-criteria evaluation, and risk analysis to facilitate unbiased and well-informed decisions.
• Seamless Participant Onboarding: A simple, intuitive interface that requires no zooming, panning, or technical training, allowing participants to join and contribute within seconds.
• Anonymity and Randomization: Options to enable anonymous contributions and randomize the display of ideas to reduce cognitive biases and encourage honest feedback.
• Multi-Device Compatibility: Fully responsive design that works on any device, from smartphones to large interactive displays, supporting in-person, remote, and hybrid environments.
• Versatile Workshop Formats: Supports a wide range of methodologies including brainstorming, retrospectives, World Café, Open Space, focus groups, and strategic planning.

Use Cases for Stormz

Stormz is ideal for a variety of professional scenarios. Corporate trainers and agile coaches use it for facilitating retrospectives, backlog prioritization, and team-building exercises. Strategy consultants and business leaders leverage it for risk analysis, strategic planning, and designing business roadmaps. Marketing and creative agencies use it for brainstorming campaigns and conducting focus groups with clients. It's also a powerful tool for large-scale events and seminars, enabling audience engagement through interactive polls, Q&A sessions, and collaborative activities. Educational institutions and non-profits can use it to facilitate group learning and community discussions.

Advantages of Stormz

The primary advantage of Stormz is its perfect balance of powerful functionality and user-friendliness. It empowers facilitators with sophisticated tools while keeping the participant experience incredibly simple. This leads to higher engagement levels compared to more complex platforms. The structured approach ensures workshops are efficient and outcome-oriented. The inclusion of AI significantly enhances creativity and analytical depth, allowing groups to achieve more in less time. Furthermore, its features designed to reduce bias lead to more objective and robust decisions, making it a trusted tool for high-stakes collaboration.

Pricing and Plans

Stormz offers a flexible pricing structure to suit different needs, including a 10-day free trial with no credit card required.

• Free Plan: Design and test sessions with up to 2 participants.
• Starter Plan (€29/month): For small teams, allowing up to 10 participants per session with unlimited sessions.
• Pro Plan (€59/month): For professional facilitators, supporting up to 50 participants per session and includes AI boosters.
• Pro XL Plan (€119/month): For large groups, accommodating up to 200 participants per session with AI boosters and 1-on-1 support.
• Enterprise Plan: Custom pricing for companies and agencies needing 200+ participants, 3+ facilitators, and live training.

Special offers are available, with the Pro XL plan offered at no cost to educational and non-profit organizations, and the Starter plan free for early-stage startups.