BoardSnap is an iOS app that captures 10% time project pitches, idea boards, and experiment outcomes from whiteboards so the best ideas get tracked, not lost.
10% time — the practice of giving engineers or teams dedicated time for self-directed projects — generates real innovation. It also generates a lot of whiteboards: idea pitch sessions, project boards, experiment results, demo day notes.
The challenge isn't the ideas themselves. It's the institutional memory around them. Which 10% project from last quarter explored that approach to caching? Who owned the experiment that half-shipped before the sprint ended? The ideas that don't make it into a product cycle often have more value as documented learning than the ones that do.
BoardSnap captures every 10% time whiteboard so the exploration record accumulates, even when the projects don't ship.
Each person gets a section of the board for their idea: the problem, the proposed approach, and what they'd need to explore it. Keep each pitch to one section — clear scope helps BoardSnap summarize each one separately.
Every 10% project benefits from a hypothesis: 'If we do X, we expect Y.' Write it explicitly. BoardSnap reads hypotheses as the success criteria for each project pitch.
If you're selecting which pitches to pursue this cycle, dot-vote them before snapping. Vote counts become a priority signal in BoardSnap's output.
One snap of the full pitch board. BoardSnap organizes each pitch as a separate item with problem, approach, hypothesis, and vote count.
As projects run, snap the working boards. These accumulate in the same project and form a progress record — useful for demo day prep.
Demo day whiteboard notes become the official experiment log. What was built, what worked, what didn't, and what the team recommends for productization.
A structured 10% time record: each pitch with its problem statement, proposed approach, hypothesis, and priority ranking. Mid-sprint snaps become progress notes. Demo day snaps become experiment results. The full project in BoardSnap is the institutional memory for every innovation cycle.
Seven pitches across twelve engineers. BoardSnap organized each pitch separately, showed five pitches with two or more votes, and generated action items for the top three selected projects — who owns them, what they'll build, and the hypothesis to test.
Four teams presented results on a whiteboard. BoardSnap captured each team's output: what they built, whether the hypothesis held, and the recommendation for next steps. Two experiments were tracked into the main roadmap based on the demo day summary.
Yes. Keep all your 10% time snaps in a dedicated BoardSnap Project. The project AI chat can surface 'which experiments recommended productization' across all sessions. It's a searchable institutional memory for your innovation track.
BoardSnap projects are private by default. The boards and summaries stay in your account. Brand-aware AI means the summaries are calibrated to your organization's context, not generic output.
Yes. Marketing innovation days, design sprints, and business model experiments all produce valuable whiteboard content. The 10% time format applies to any organization that gives teams discretionary exploration time.
The free tier gives you one project and 30 boards — enough for a small team's 10% time sessions for a couple of quarters. Pro unlocks unlimited projects and boards for teams running continuous innovation programs.
Snap the board, ship the action items in ten seconds.