Mindhive | Our Story
For 14 years, our team of ex-Oxford strategists and policy leaders have been re-thinking the think tank; perfecting engaging, diverse thinking into the most progressive problem-solving.
Mindhive – the world’s first crowdsourced consultancy – is the result.
The purpose of this innovative award-winning platform is to engage and harness the power of collective problem-solving in order to address our most pressing issues by democratising, simplifying and accelerating innovation across sectors and borders.
Mindhive was launched as a project of the global policy think tank Eidos in 2012.
Over the coming years it was recognised with numerous national and global awards for its unique capacity to provide Mindhive is inexpensive, modern, inclusionary and efficient innovation – so we can quickly get to good ideas and actionable insights.
Capitalising on demand, Mindhive launched commercially in 2019.
By January 2019 Mindhive had grown to 13,800 experts and contributors in the community, leading to a strategic decision to pivot into the world’s ‘Airbnb for Brains.’
The innovative porous border design crafted by Josephmark, responds to market demand for a clean, intuitive space to meaningfully engage with their private networks, while also being part of something bigger and contributing to the greater good.
Here’s Mindhive Founder and CEO speaking (2mins) to the vision and impact of Mindhive
Our Mission
By democratising innovation and removing barriers to insight and collaboration across borders and sectors, Mindhive is growing the ability of our members to influence and impact the issues that matter to them. By doing so we are unlocking the potential of organisations and individuals to engage with their networks and respond to the needs of the global community.
Mindhive has delivered thousands of challenges, acquired a contributor community base of 10,000+ users and 700+ Premium plans from Government, Education, Business and NGO sectors.
Mindhive brings the shared economy to problem-solving. It efficiently and quickly accesses and brings to bear otherwise latent skills and experiences, to deliver insight and innovation in addressing difficult problems.
Mindhive is a new crowdsourcing platform helping organisations gain insights into complex problems. Pinpointing The Obvious as their enemy opened up the real problem they were solving for their audience, and lead to their superpower of Collective Intelligence. It was big thought but also a powerful truth. Everything flowed from there – the power of many.
Mobilising collective intelligence, Mindhive has quickly become the future of finding answers
Mindhive uses A.I. technology to provide the right insights and match the right experts to solve real world problems.
It’s a digital business – so scaleable and is starting to be global
It’s part of democratisation of talent and capture of ideas and innovation
In short – we’re bring the shared economy to problem solving.
The world has gone non-linear, yet more often than not, we're still running a linear and analogue approach. From finding domain knowledge to the unrealised potential and value of seasoned problem solvers.
The best answers can come from the strangest places.
Customer problems MH2.0 solves
Current consulting houses are labour intensive, relationship based and expensive. Outcomes and reporting are latent and not instantaneous, insight is one directional rather than engaging, shared and collaborative.
Mindhive is the world’s first crowdsourcing platform enabling you to engage and understand your audience at scale and in real-time. It’s a scalable crowdsourcing platform built on proprietary technology enabling the disruption of all layers of the consulting industry with instant reporting, natural language processing, AI driven predictive insights, and maximised global user reach and engagement delivering diverse solutions at reduced costs, increased speed and secured on blockchain.
Our vision is to be the world’s largest and most technically enabled crowdsourcing consultancy. A scalable crowdsourcing platform built on proprietary technology enabling the disruption of all layers of the consulting industry with instant reporting, natural language processing, AI driven predictive insights, and maximised global user reach and engagement delivering diverse solutions at reduced costs, increased speed and secured on blockchain.
As Uber captures surplus drivers, providing them with a way to monetise their driving and time, MH 2.0 captures growing surplus insight through a global collaborative and engaging platform, and will provide users with a way to monetise their insight. Mindhive aims to democratise insight, making it affordable for everyone and rewarding for those who produce it. Throwing everyone into a crowd and asking them questions is easy, keeping them engaged and on topic is quite difficult. Mindhive is a venue for the meeting of minds.
A journey to collective intelligence realisation
MH 2.0 has the potential for exponential growth:
The contributor community can learn, and scale faster than they would on their own. Innovators become both stakeholders and drivers of its success.
The larger the network of third parties innovating on the platform, the harder it is for consulting houses to compete effectively.
As a complimentary product to Mindhive 3.0, the Company has set up an alpha version of an exclusive social network for abundant thinkers, codenamed Wax. The Wax app provides Mindhive with an ability to create an exclusive network of its most innovative minds. It enables instant messaging and networking.
How it works
The Mindhive platform currently enables the community to ask questions, solve problems, understand issues, obtain ideas, test solutions, and extend resources by harnessing the power of a globally connected network of minds. MH 2.0 provides a place where this expertise and these skills can be carefully curated and accessed by consumers and businesses alike. Convening the right crowd to the right room for the right conversation.
The MH 2.0 Platform vision:
As the online moderator, you can ask up to 10,000 AI matched participants, employees, partners or customers, in open-ended, multi-punch or poll questions in a public or private setting.
High performance artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms implemented to match the right people to the right discussion.
Gamification of the platform combined with the implementation of reputational design to encourage and reward insightful contribution from users.
Tokenisation, attribution and tracking of insight, its global reach and impact through the introduction of blockchain technologies.
Instant responses from participants in their own words and voting by users on their preferred insights.
Continuous analysis of responses by AI algorithms to recognise trends and help surface participant insights into useful output.
An exclusive premium social networking app for the Mindhive community.
Social and insight network for individuals and enterprise
As of 2019 there has been over 5 billion unique mobile users and these users have excess time on their hands. It has been found that even full-time workers have an average of 4.09 hours of leisure time per day, including 3.34 hours on weekdays (and 5.87 hours per day on weekends).
People who aren't employed are said to have even more than this at 6.97 hours per day. Every day, there are more of us ready to share our expertise, engage in meaningful discussion, work on our professional networks and undertake professional development activities. The global community is thirsty for meaningful ways to create impact, be rewarded and stand out from the crowd. This is proven through LinkedIn which alone captures over 600 million of these users who are interested in networking and professional development.
MH 2.0 targets these digitally enabled thought leaders by providing a platform where individuals can share and discover insights, exhibit their nous, engage around topics of interest, be rewarded for the insights and eventually for services and methodologies they create, such as professional services, workshops, and problem-solving.
Customer use cases to date can be broadly categorised into the following areas. Organisations, individuals or interested observers:
As an organisation, we want to cultivate innovative thinking and co-creation so that we’re maximising our potential and output.
Whether they be Government, academic, not-for-profit or corporate, they’re looking to:
Access to real-time expertise
Boost thought leadership
Public engagement
Increase cross-sector communication
Interested in using the platform internally and externally (especially as they may already have an internal company/org tool).
As an individual contributor, I want to consume, contribute and engage, so that I expand my professional prospects.
Individuals are currently on the platform for the following reasons:
Community and networking
Self-development
Purposeful participation
Revenue opportunities
As an interested observer, I want to monitor activity, so as to expand my professional knowledge & awareness.
Whilst not a direct customer they represent the top of the funnel. People who will orbit MindHive, dipping in to gain value from:
Access to valuable network actors
Question and challenge-based insights
Meta-level insights developed by drawing connections between and across insights that are similar in some way.
What is our competitive advantage?
Similar to other applications Mindhive can collaborate across continents through a wide range of social platforms.
The user installs the App →
User trigger events such as posting new discussions, comments, chatting etc. →
Platform collects user data →
Platform analyses the collected data in order to maximise user experience & engagement
Unique to Mindhive is the intelligent way that it convenes individuals and organisations with a network of innovative minds, provides tools for rapid insight and ideation and rewards users for their contribution. Mindhive’s tools marketplace and two-sided network model will set it apart from others in the crowdsourced consultancy and idea management market
Instead of just maximising the individual experience, the MH 2.0 platform:
Gets the right people in the room;
Gets them engaged and contributing;
Provides ways of making sense of contributions to identify insight;
Rewards engagement and contribution; and
Enables a marketplace and two-sided network model to enhance access to additional tools, capabilities and resources.
Product Community
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Next steps
Mindhive is a platform that facilitates discussion on topics that affect you – and what we can do about it.
Join a discussion and lend your voice
Mindhive is used in research, government, community groups and consultancies to canvas a wide spectrum of voices to surface sentiment, insight, and the unexpected.