You have tried Excel sheets and SharePoint forms. Hives keeps every idea visible from the first submission to the final decision, without adding more admin.
12h
Admin time saved weekly
89%
Of ideas reach a decision
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“How do we cut the cost of our most frequent maintenance tasks?”
Ideas come in
Ideas from the people doing the work
One workflow
Every idea gets an owner and a next step
Clear outcome
Decided, and everyone who contributed can see why
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How it works
You asked for ideas, and people delivered. Then the ideas went into a spreadsheet, the review meeting got pushed, and the whole thing quietly faded. Not because people ran out of ideas. Because nobody could see what happened to them.
The fix isn't more effort. It's a system where every idea stays visible, from the first question to the final decision. In Hives, that's four steps:
Step 1 · Collect
Create a challenge around the thing you actually want solved and share it where your people already are: a link in Teams, an email, a QR code on the breakroom wall. Answering takes two minutes, from a desk or from a phone on the line, and every answer lands in one place. You set the pace, too. Keep a channel always open, or run a focused two-week challenge for one team and close it when you're done.
Step 2 · Organise
The moment an idea arrives, it's in a workflow. You see what's new, who's on it, and what happens next, all in one view. Triage a week's worth of ideas over a coffee: move the strong ones forward, park the maybes, give the rest a clear answer. What used to be an afternoon in a spreadsheet becomes a routine, not a project.
Step 3 · Analyse
AI reads across your ideas so you don't have to. Summaries of each submission, trends across hundreds, reports built from real activity. When someone asks what came out of the program, you open a page: ideas implemented, value created, people engaged. In seconds, not spreadsheets.
Step 4 · Engage
The moment an idea moves, the person behind it knows. Who's reviewing it, where it stands, what was decided. You never write a status email, and nobody's idea disappears into a void. That's what keeps people contributing round after round, and how a campaign becomes a culture.
Here's what actually changes. Decisions stop being built on assumptions and secondhand summaries, and start being built on real input from the people who know the work best. In their own words, in context. That's when things start moving: challenges get solved that never even had a name in the boardroom, and improvements show up in places leadership didn't know to look.
Try it. You'll be surprised by what your organisation already knows.
Simple to start. Powerful enough to scale.
Connect Hives to Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace and the tools your teams already use. No extra logins.
Ideas don't wait for a desktop. Submit, vote, and comment from any device, anywhere.
Let AI spot duplicates, surface trends, and highlight the ideas with the most potential.
From shop floor to boardroom in one scan. Make it effortless for anyone to contribute.
Where to start
Innovation, continuous improvement, R&D: the same Hives, seen from the job you actually do.
Pricing
Choose a plan that fits your business needs and budget. No hidden fees, no surprises, just straightforward pricing for powerful idea management.
Billed annually, starts at
€6956,995 kr£695$795/month
Best for teams under 500 employees.
Transition from forms and messy spreadsheets to a structured, central hub for every great idea.
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Billed annually, starts at
€1,49514,995 kr£1,495$1,695/month
Best for mid-sized to large organisations.
Designed for larger organisations looking to scale engagement and unlock powerful automation features.
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Billed annually, starts at
€1,99519,995 kr£1,995$2,295/month
Includes dedicated account management.
Customized and dedicated support for organisations that need unlimited scale and enterprise-grade security.
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Testimonials
Our users love how Hives.co simplifies their processes and streamlines operations.
“Hives.co stood out to us from day one thanks to their easy-to-use interface. We are very happy to work with Hives.co to collect and realise the ideas from our colleagues throughout the Halfords Group.”
“Hives.co has exceeded expectations and is visually appealing and accessible as a tool. For us, it has become more than just a technical solution; rather, it's a process and development support in how we improve.”
“We like how simple Hives keeps it, rather than having thousands of settings and features. Instead, everything was well thought out which made it easy and quick to get started.”
“Hives.co not only makes it easy to collect and sort ideas, but also fun. I don't think there's any tool on the market that's simpler than this.”
Guides and articles
Practical tips on idea management, and real examples of how others have succeeded.
MMartin Smith30min ago · Everyone
Great idea! We will start looking at this next week.