ideapi was initially purposed for the advertising and communications industry, which has a strong need to collaborate better on creative briefs and ideas. We’ve been thrilled to hear that ideapi has since been adopted by other industries with similar collaboration needs.

This post will give a quick overview of how ideapi could be used for anyone that needs to collaborate on documents and discuss ideas.

So, who is ideapi for?

  • Marketing & advertising

    Create the template you need. Creatives, planners, account handlers, partner agencies and clients can create, collaborate and approve briefs and ideas. Store all your briefs and brief templates in one place.

  • Teachers & students

    Set assignments (by creating templates), allow students to respond by creating a brief based on the template. Collaborate with students on submitted assignments, discussing each answer in place. Use ideas to add external documents to the assignment

  • Contract lawyers

    Create structured templates for your legal documents. Collaborate easily on the detail with clients and colleagues; anywhere and anytime, secure, access.

  • Copywriters

    Receive your brief and create your copy. Keep all your work in one place. Collaborate with others, ask the client questions, keeping all your communication in one place.

  • Graphic designers

    Communicate more easily with clients to ensure clearer briefs. Keep all your briefs and ideas in one place. Inform the customer when work is ready for review, manage the process of selecting design candidates.

  • Estate agents

    Allow clients to fill out their own property brief online, refine their responses using the in document collaboration. Submit possible properties matching their criteria as ideas for the client to accept or reject.

  • Recruitment consultants & headhunters

    Manage all client briefs and submit your candidate CVs for review - all in one system.

  • Wedding/Event planners

    Discuss and plan each stage of your clients’ weddings and submit suggestions for different aspects of the event.

  • How are you using ideapi?

    We are sure that many other companies and individuals will love using ideapi to make document creation and collaboration easier. We can’t wait to hear how you are using ideapi, and what suggestions you have for making it better - we want to hear it! Let us know at feedback@ideapi.com.

Upcoming Features

Just to get you excited, we have a couple of imminent features that we are very excited about:

  • Even easier document creation with inline editing: Currently, briefs are created from templates, of which you can have as many as you like. Inline editing will not only allow you to edit individual sections of your document, but will allow you to build a document from scratch. More information will be published once the feature goes live.

  • Take control of your email notifications: At present, each update to a brief section or idea results in a email notification to everyone collaborating on that brief or idea. Email Notification Control will allow users to decide whether or not to send notifications at the point of updating - we understand that not everyone likes receiving emails about small updates - this change will put the power in your hands.

More news soon.