SKILL FILE

Ideation Sprint with AI

Run a structured 2-hour collaborative ideation workshop that produces 30+ ideas and a top-3 shortlist. Replaces chaotic brainstorm meetings with a tight, time-boxed sprint that ends with decisions.

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WHAT YOU GET

What this skill file teaches Claude

Drop one markdown file into your repo. Claude Code learns how to run this entire workflow.

1

Sharpened HMW question

Pushes you from "improve onboarding" to "how might we get a marketing manager to first campaign in under 10 minutes, without sales help." Sharp question, sharp ideas.

2

Multi-prompt divergence

3 to 5 reframing prompts (worst day, 10x version, $0 constraint, steal shamelessly) that cover the design space and stop everyone producing the same idea.

3

Silent ideation structure

Avoids the HiPPO effect (highest paid person's opinion wins). Silent rounds first, share after. Recovers the 60% of ideas group brainstorming loses to social pressure.

4

Dot voting with stated criteria

Votes locked to a stated decision criterion (e.g. "highest impact at lowest cost"), so the shortlist defends itself afterward.

5

Facilitator script

Exactly what to say at each transition, ground rules, tie-break logic. Means a non-expert can run the sprint.

6

48-hour post-sprint plan

Writeup owner, shortlist destination, next-skill handoff (assumption audit, experiment design, brief). Stops the sprint dying in the photo of the wall.

USE CASES

What you can build with this

New feature direction

Research surfaced a clear problem. Now you need a shortlist of solutions to test. Run a sprint to generate the candidate set.

Stuck team unblock

The team has been arguing about a problem for two weeks. Run a structured sprint to break the deadlock with fresh ideas and a voted shortlist.

Stakeholder inclusion

Sales / support / customer success want input on roadmap. Sprint format gives them airtime without letting them dominate.

Pre-build creative reset

Before locking the PRD, run a quick sprint to make sure you haven't missed an obvious cheaper / better approach.

COMPLETE SKILL FILE

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Everything above is 80% of the skill file. Download the complete version with full implementation details, agent prompts, and ready-to-run scripts.

FAQ

Common questions

30 minutes is enough to generate ideas. It's not enough to diverge, cluster, develop, vote, and shortlist. Most short brainstorms skip the convergence steps and that's where the value is. 2 hours is the minimum to do the full loop. If you only have 30 minutes, run a divergent round and schedule a follow-up convergence session.
4 to 8 is the sweet spot. Below 4 and you don't get enough divergent thinking. Above 8 and you lose airtime per person and the sprint runs long. If you have to include 10+, split into two rooms and merge shortlists at the end. Don't squeeze 15 people into one session.
A designer helps but isn't required. The sprint is structured enough that engineers, PMs, customer success people, and founders can all contribute equally. What you do need is mixed perspectives — 1 person from product, 1 from engineering, 1 customer-facing, 1 from leadership covers it. Don't run a sprint with only PMs in the room.
Lock the voting rules before the sprint starts. 3 dots per person, vote based on stated criteria, facilitator breaks ties using a tie-break rule defined in advance (usually "cheapest test path"). The point of having rules locked beforehand is to avoid the meta-argument about how to argue. The sprint produces a shortlist even if not everyone is thrilled with it.
Smaller and faster. A Design Sprint is 5 days. This is 2 hours. The 2-hour version covers divergence and convergence on ideas, not prototyping and testing. Think of it as Day 1 of a Design Sprint, run standalone. After the sprint, you'd usually run `/assumption-audit` and `/experiment-designer` on the top ideas, which is roughly what Day 2-5 of a Design Sprint covers.
Yes. Miro and Figjam both work for the sticky-note format. Silent ideation is actually easier remote (everyone types in parallel). The harder part remote is keeping energy up across 2 hours, so build in a 10-minute break and turn cameras on for the convergence rounds.
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