Elevating virtual idea generation to an art form.

ideation tools designed specifically for the advertising Business

Teams working remotely? With Ideasicle X, creativity knows no distance.

Founded in 2010, we have leveraged our deep experience in the advertising business to develop a sophisticated, but easy to use, web application exclusively for agency teams working remotely. It brings the entire creative process agencies are familiar with online.

Choose IX Original or IX Embedded to tap into the platform's power on your own, or let us take the reins with IX Concierge. Need freelance talent? IX Freestyle connects you with our top Ideasicle Experts.

No other company offers this level of innovative, research-backed virtual idea generation for the ad biz. Scroll down to learn more, or click that yellow button to contact the guy behind it all.

With Ideasicle X, nothing is unthinkable.

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Our PROPRIETARY WEB APP FACILITATES ENTIRE VIRTUAL IDEA GENERATION PROCESS.

Subscription-based service gives customers a powerful online Command Center.
Recruit teams of pre-vetted teams of 4 Ideasicle Experts for unlimited idea projects per month.
Monitor ideas as they are posted, pay the teams when it’s over.

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BRANDED, VIRTUAL ACCESS TO TEAMS OF YOUR OWN MAKING.

A subscription-based “enterprise” solution offering multiple online Command Centers for your company.
Brand the interface, make it yours.
Upload employees and/or freelancers for easy recruiting.
Assign Command Centers to agency leads, monitor their activity, centralize billing.

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FULL-SERVICE IDEA GENERATION: BRIEF US AND WE TAKE IT FROM THERE.

We run the idea projects for you using the IX Original platform to tap into our I deasicle Experts.
We recruit the teams, brief them, and monitor their ideas.
We then curate and present 10+ ideas in a polished presentation. We also provide access to all the raw ideas afterward.
One or two rounds of ideas.

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HIRE IDEASICLE EXPERTS FOR TRADITIONAL FREELANCE PROJECTS.

Call and brief us on your project.
We will help you choose the perfect talent from our Ideasicle Expert roster for the jobs.
Ideasicle X maintains 1099 relationships with talent. That means you deal with one vendor (us), but have access to 40+ pre-vetted talent.

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Stephanie Green, AirSculpt CMO, tells us how much she loves Ideasicle X — Stephanie Greene, AirSculpt CMO

regarding our concierge service:

"The speed at which the ideation happens and, more importantly, the QUALITY of the ideas is unlike anything I've seen in an agency partner."

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The best ideas happen in the wild, not in a brainstorm.

Ideasicle X is designed around this one truth.

When the entire idea project is virtual like they are with Ideasicle X, your team can post ideas from anywhere. So now your teams can be as remote as they want. Because that’s where the ideas are anyway.

Man in a kayak on a lake with mountains in the background. "Ideas happen out there, in the wild."

A woman stops riding her bike to post an idea on her phone. "Ideas happen out there, in the wild."

"Ideas happen out there, in the wild." Man on a bench posting an idea on his phone and an explosion of colorful flowers coming out of his head.

Person at the end of. dock posting ideas. "Ideas happen out there, in the wild."

"Ideas happen out there, in the wild." woman stopped on the sidewalk posting an idea on her phone.

An asian woman sits in a cafe posting an idea on her phone. "Ideas happen out there, in the wild."

10 years of research: virtual idea generation is better

The admittedly unexpected ways virtual collaboration accelerates idea generation

Access exactly the right talent.

Sometimes the right people for an idea project aren’t in the building. With IX Original, users have access to all of our Ideasicle Experts. With IX Embedded and IX Concierge, the user has access to anyone in the world, be they our Ideasicle Experts, their own freelancers, or even employees, to be on the creative team. When it’s virtual, you always have the right people.

Eliminate unconscious bias.

Fact is, our personal biases can affect how we perceive other people’s ideas. But when it’s virtual, there are no unconscious biases that get in the way of the team’s creativity because everyone is effectively reduced to a typeface. So it’s all about the ideas unhindered by any biases.

creativity can happen naturally.

There’s no telling when creative inspiration will strike. And it’s not likely to strike within the tight window of an in-person brainstorm. But when the team is working virtually, they simply pull out their phones, post the idea from wherever they are, and the rest of the team is pinged and invited to improve.

Online disinhibition lessens creative fear.

An in-person brainstorm can be intimidating. But less so when it’s virtual. Online disinhibition, or the lack of restraint one feels when communicating online, is horrible for the vitriol of social media, but amazing for creativity because the teams are fearless with their posts.

4 is the magic number on a virtual team.

Who knows what the right number is for an in-person brainstorm? But we have evidence that four is the ideal number of creative people on a virtual creative team. Any more than that and they tend to clam up and feel like they’re on stage. Any fewer and we don’t get the exponential numbers of ideas.

Yes, virtual idea generation doesn’t have to be a hinderance. With Ideasicle X, it’s an accelerant.

Man posting an idea to Ideasicle X from his phone.

Woman at home posting an idea to Ideasicle X from her laptop.

A black woman on her couch smiling as she reviews idea generation on her laptop.

A man is posting ideas to Ideasicle X from his laptop in a city cafe.

Popular idea projects

Below are the types of projects our platform sees most frequently. As a rule of thumb: if you wouldn’t give a project to a committee (like writing a script or designing a brochure), it’s not for an Ideasicle X team. But when you need a burst of “big ideas,” our four-member teams excel at posting, building, and riffing off each other’s concepts.

Click below to learn more about each project type.