Orchidea is an innovation platform for collecting, developing, evaluating and managing ideas with AI-powered tools. Organizations can run guided workshops to move participants from sharing ideas toward developing and selecting them, or time-limited challenges focused on a topic. Focused channels support ongoing idea collection for a team, site, product or service. A discussion feed with comments, reactions, mentions and hashtags gives participants ways to develop proposals, while analytics and reports provide insight into the innovation process. Native Android and iOS apps let users create and comment on proposals, take pictures and save drafts; the service is also available on the web. Single sign-on supports ADFS, Entra ID, Google, Okta and custom identity providers, while SCIM can synchronize user profiles and status. Orchidea says customer content is hosted in the EU, with US hosting available for Enterprise, and that customer data is not used to train AI models. The Free plan supports up to 15 members. Challenge costs $695.00 USD per month, includes five facilitators and has a three-month minimum subscription.
Who it is for
Orchidea suits organizations that want employees, customers or partners to contribute ideas through workshops, challenges or ongoing channels. Its Free plan is suited to groups of up to 15 members.
What is good
- Free plan supports up to 15 members.
- Workshops, challenges and channels support different collection styles.
- Native Android and iOS apps support proposal work.
- SCIM can synchronize user profiles and status.
- Customer data is not used to train AI models.
What to know first
- No free trial is offered.
- Challenge has a three-month minimum subscription.
- Challenge costs $695.00 USD per month.
Verdict
Orchidea combines idea collection and collaboration with evaluation and analytics, across web and native mobile apps. The Free plan offers a way to start, while paid plans begin with a Challenge subscription that has a three-month minimum.
Orchidea plans and pricing
All plansCompared on idea management software
- Free plan
- Yes
- Submission sources
- mixed
- Evaluation workflow
- Yes
- Idea scoring
- Yes
- Idea voting
- Yes
- Custom idea fields
- Yes
- Duplicate detection
- Yes
