Startup quarterly hack day
Eight pitches, four selected projects, four demo outcomes. The BoardSnap project became the source for the all-hands recap deck — the CEO pulled the pitch summaries and demo outcomes directly from the project chat.
Use case
Innovation day, fully documented — from pitch to demo.
BoardSnap is an iOS app that captures innovation day artifacts — idea pitches, team working boards, demo notes, and voting results — in one project that becomes your organization's institutional memory for every innovation cycle.
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Free to start. Pro from $9.99/mo or $69.99/yr.
The problem
Innovation days produce more whiteboard content per hour than almost any other type of work. Morning pitch sessions, afternoon team work, demo presentations, voting boards. You're generating six to ten whiteboards in a single day.
At the end of the day, all of that is on the walls. Then the walls get cleaned. The ideas that didn't get picked don't disappear — they just become inaccessible. Next quarter, someone proposes the same idea that was pitched and rejected two innovation days ago, for the same reason it was rejected, which nobody remembers.
Organizations that run regular innovation days need a systematic capture workflow. BoardSnap is that workflow.
The workflow
- Snap every pitch board
As each team presents their pitch, snap the board. Don't wait until the end of the session — capture each one at its peak clarity. All snaps go into the same Innovation Day project.
- Capture the voting board
After pitching, teams vote for projects to pursue. The voting board is a critical capture — it records the collective judgment of the organization at this moment. Snap it with vote counts intact.
- Snap working session boards
Each team working on their selected project has a board. Snap at the midpoint and again at wrap. The midpoint snap catches ideas that get cut for time in the final version.
- Capture the demo board
Each team presents what they built. The demo board shows what was actually accomplished, what remains, and what the team recommends next. Snap each one.
- Snap the final debrief board
The full-group debrief — what patterns emerged across projects, what the organization learned about its priorities, what next steps are — is the most strategic snap of the day.
- Review the full project
At the end of the day, the BoardSnap project has eight to fifteen snaps representing the full arc of the innovation day. The project AI chat can synthesize: 'What themes appeared across multiple pitches?'
What you get
A complete innovation day record: pitch summaries (problem, approach, team), voting results with winning and runner-up projects, working session progress notes, demo outcomes, and a debrief summary with organization-level insights and next steps. Each artifact is searchable and comparable across multiple innovation days in the same project.
Real examples
Enterprise innovation summit
A two-day event with sixty participants across twelve teams. Each team's artifacts were captured into team-specific projects; a master project held the plenary sessions. The full record — normally lost after the event — became a referenceable innovation library.
Frequently asked
How many snaps can I take in a single innovation day?
As many as you need. Each snap is a separate board in the project. Pro tier is unlimited. Free tier includes 30 boards per project — enough for most innovation days; Pro is better for large events.
Can multiple people snap into the same project?
Currently, projects are per-account. The designated recorder for the event manages the project and does the snapping. Pro tip: assign the BoardSnap capture role explicitly before the event starts.
What should happen with runner-up pitches that weren't selected?
Capture them anyway. Runner-up ideas are often next quarter's winning pitches. The BoardSnap project accumulates across innovation days — use the project AI chat to surface 'ideas that have been pitched more than once' when planning future events.
How do I share the innovation day record with the broader organization?
The BoardSnap output is plain text — paste the summaries into your internal wiki, all-hands slides, or company newsletter. The format is clean enough to share directly without heavy editing.
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