Start your Brainstorm in silence

The moment someone speaks first in a brainstorm, the direction shifts.

Not because that first idea is the best — but because everyone else starts anchoring to it. Subconsciously, the group narrows around what’s already been said. Research consistently shows that groups starting with individual, silent idea generation produce better outcomes than those that jump straight to open discussion.

The catch? Running that process properly usually means switching tools, copy-pasting between shared docs and slides, or reading everyone’s sticky notes out loud. By the time you’ve collected all the input, half your meeting slot is gone.

Silent first. Together second.

Input Capture gives every participant a dedicated window — inside the meeting, on their own device — to respond in writing before any discussion begins. No extra tools. No coordination overhead. Everyone writes in parallel and submits simultaneously.

Once the input is in, AtMeety helps you make sense of it fast.

Two problems most brainstorms have

People repeat similar ideas. In open discussion, the same point gets made three or four times. The group ends up validating the obvious instead of exploring what’s actually interesting.

Everything lands in one pile. You end up with twenty-five responses. Some reflect real consensus. Some reflect genuine tension. Without structure, you feel compelled to discuss them all — burning time on things that didn’t need a conversation.

A single click on the AI analysis does the sorting. It reads all responses and shows you two things clearly:

• Where the group already agrees. Acknowledge it, move on. No discussion needed.
• Where opinions genuinely diverge. This is where the conversation belongs.

That shift — from discussing everything to discussing the right things — is where brainstorms get their time back.

Your data, always

The raw input is always downloadable as a CSV. If you prefer a different tool to process or visualize it further, it’s yours. AtMeety handles the collection and the first layer of synthesis. What happens next is up to you.

Help us make it better

Input Capture is live. We’re actively improving it based on how real teams use it in practice.

Try it in your next brainstorm or retrospective. What clicked? What felt missing? What would have made your facilitator’s life easier? Every session where a team genuinely engages with the process teaches us something.

Try AtMeety for free — and if you run a brainstorm with it, we’d love to hear how it went.