Ideas
Collect, vote on, and triage ideas through a configurable lifecycle — with RICE scoring, time-boxed campaigns, an audit log, and pipeline analytics.
MangoApps
Overview
Ideas turns scattered suggestions into a transparent pipeline. Employees submit ideas, everyone upvotes and discusses, and reviewers score them with the RICE model and move them through an admin-configurable set of lifecycle stages. Ideas can optionally be grouped into time-boxed campaigns that route to a chosen reviewer panel. A per-idea audit log records every stage move, score change, and content edit; admins read pipeline analytics (stage funnel, implementation rate, time-in-stage, top contributors) and export the current view to CSV. Every screen reads live from workspace settings and the lifecycle-stage model, so configuration propagates everywhere with no hardcoded assumptions.
Highlights
Capabilities
Submit & discuss
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Post ideas with a description and file attachments
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"Draft with AI" expands your notes into a written idea
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Duplicate detection nudges similar existing ideas as you post
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Threaded discussion with replies on every idea
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Authors can edit or delete their own idea
Voting
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One vote per person per idea
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Choose upvote or yes/no thumbs voting style
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Optional per-idea voting close date
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Searchable "see who upvoted" voter list
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Configurable upvote icon
Review & prioritization
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RICE scoring — Reach × Impact × Confidence ÷ Effort
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Impact·effort prioritization matrix
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My Review Queue scoped to each reviewer's panel
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Reviewer panels tied to recipient groups, with per-campaign override
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Sort and filter the queue by score, votes, stage, panel, or campaign
Lifecycle & pipeline
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Admin-configurable lifecycle stages — rename, reorder, recolor
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Stage categories drive Implemented / Declined metrics (no hardcoded stage IDs)
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Drag-to-move Kanban board view
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Grid, list, and board feed layouts
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Per-idea audit log of every stage move, score change, and edit
Campaigns
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Time-boxed idea campaigns around a focused theme
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Auto-derived campaign phase — scheduled, open, or closed
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Route a campaign's ideas to a dedicated reviewer panel
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AI-drafted campaign brief
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Audience gate for who can create campaigns
Analytics & reporting
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Stage funnel with implementation rate
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Real average time-in-stage, reconstructed from the audit trail
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Participation rate across active employees
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Monthly submission trend and top contributors
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Per-campaign performance (ideas and votes earned)
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Export the analytics dashboard to CSV
Administration & access
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Audience gate for who can submit ideas
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Analytics and settings restricted to app admins
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Per-event email and in-app notifications (stage change, panel routing, reply)
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Export the current idea list — with your filters and sort — to CSV
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Load and remove demo data to preview the app
Limits & Specs
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RICE formula: Reach × Impact × Confidence ÷ Effort
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Lifecycle stages per workspace: 2 to 10
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Discussion depth: One level of replies
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Analytics reporting range: All-time
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Submission-trend window: Last 6 months
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Voting: One vote per person per idea
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Mobile: Dedicated dashboard view; other screens are responsive web
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Pricing: Licensed add-on — enabled per workspace by an admin
Use cases
Resources
FAQ
Ideas is a licensed add-on and is disabled by default. An admin enables it for your workspace from the Apps Marketplace; there's no automatic rollout.
By default all employees can submit, vote, and comment. Admins can restrict submission (and campaign creation) to a specific group via an audience setting in Manage Settings; admins and reviewers can always act.
Reviewers score ideas with the RICE model (Reach × Impact × Confidence ÷ Effort). The Review Queue ranks by score and plots an impact·effort matrix so the highest-impact, lowest-effort ideas stand out. RICE scoring can be turned off if you'd rather rank purely by votes.
Yes. Admins define an ordered list of 2–10 lifecycle stages — renaming, reordering, and recoloring them. Each stage carries a category (Entry, Active, Implemented, Declined) that drives the outcome metrics, so renaming a stage never breaks reporting.
A campaign is an optional, time-boxed drive that groups ideas around a theme and routes them to a chosen reviewer panel. Its phase (scheduled, open, or closed) is derived from the start and close dates, and admins control who can create campaigns.
Surveys, polls, and ballots collect structured answers to questions you write, then close. Ideas is an open, ongoing pipeline: employees generate the options, everyone upvotes and discusses them in threaded conversation, reviewers RICE-score and move them through visible stages, and a per-idea audit log records what happened — so contributors always see where their idea went.
Yes. Every idea keeps a reviewer-facing audit log of each stage move (with the note), each score change, and each content edit, so there's a complete record of how an idea was triaged.
Yes. The Ideas dashboard has a dedicated mobile view, and the rest of the app renders responsively on a phone, so frontline employees can follow ideas, vote, and submit without a desk.
