Pocket innovation lab
Craft the solution you keep circling.
Here is an opportunity to walk through the door of your own pocket innovation lab — and it’s free. In about two minutes, you’ll describe a situation you’re weighing. Not a search, something that matters creatively or in your business practice. The Creative Prism Lite will refract it, making a visible spectrum to explore further. You’ll get a Lite edition report to keep in your notes. Feed it into your own AI for further exploration. Nothing you write trains AI. How that works.
Sample situations
“Defense company CEO
We’re going public and most of what we build is classified. I have to build investor confidence without being able to say what we make.
Small portfolio real estate investor
I’m trying to work out whether the apartment market in my city centre is really on an uptick, or whether I just want it to be.
Existential creative crisis
I’ve been an illustrator for twenty years and for the last three everything I make looks like something I’ve already made. It’s exactly why they hire me. Am I trapped?
Food co-op techie
I can build a shift scheduler app for our volunteers, but I can’t decide what makes a schedule fair and balanced.
What’s in a Prism Lite report?
The Prism reads and shows you what it found. The concerns underneath your words, named in your language, with the one holding up the others marked — and a question they were pointing to. It won’t answer your question. It will show you which one you’re actually asking.
What’s the Creative Prism Lite edition?
A prism doesn’t create light. It separates the rainbow already inside of it. Everything you just read came out of your own writing — your concerns, named in your words, with the one holding up the others marked. The question at the top is the one they were pointing at. That’s the whole idea: the thinking is yours, and the system is built to reveal it, not to replace it.
The free Lite Edition you’re in now is valuable, free, and a sample of what the Creative Prism Lab does. It provides a spectrum of next steps—guideposts; but it doesn’t yet help you build with it. The Creative Prism Lab opens your situation up in conversation, then puts a specialized process to work — one generating genuinely different directions, testing them, and researching what’s actually known. You come away with directions you can act on, and a map of how you got there.
Most AI hands you an answer and ends the thinking. This is built to keep yours going.
What would a Prism Lab session do with this?
Lite reads your writing, shows you a spectrum of paths to explore — it doesn’t yet help you build with it.
A Creative Prism Lab session starts in a conversation, asking questions that open your situation up, then goes to work on what you’ve said — generating genuinely different directions, optimizing them, researching what’s actually known about the domain. After about 45 to 60 minutes of work with the system, you’ll have a Prism report — actionable steps, the evidence beneath them, and a map of how your own thinking moved to get there.
Most AI hands you an answer and ends the thinking. This is built to keep yours going.
Want to try a Lab level session?
They’re by invitation while the Prism is still being built. Leave an address and I’ll write to you when there’s a place.