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# Innovation Minds

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> Innovation Minds is an AI-first Employee Experience Platform that helps organizations build workplaces where employees feel connected, celebrated, inspired, and empowered to do their best work.&#10; &#10;Designed for modern HR teams, Innovation Minds unifies employee recognition, rewards, engagement, performance management, AI-powered goals and OKRs, continuous feedback, conversations, surveys, wellness, innovation, communication, and analytics into one seamless platform. Instead of managing multiple disconnected tools, organizations can create a single, engaging employee experience that drives participation, performance, and retention.&#10; &#10;At the heart of the platform is Wizzy, our intelligent AI copilot. Wizzy helps employees and managers write SMART goals, prepare for performance conversations, deliver meaningful feedback, uncover engagement insights, identify talent risks, and receive proactive recommendations that reduce administrative effort while improving employee outcomes.&#10; &#10;Our global Rewards Marketplace features 1,000+ digital gift cards, Amazon Direct with millions of products, branded company swag, charitable giving, experiences, and zero markup on rewards, helping organizations maximize every recognition dollar while delivering rewards employees genuinely value.&#10; &#10;Innovation Minds also simplifies complex HR processes with intelligent performance calibration, bonus planning, succession planning, real-time talent insights, and actionable analytics that empower leaders to make fair, data-driven decisions with confidence.&#10; &#10;Whether employees work from the office, remotely, or on the front line, Innovation Minds delivers a consumer-grade experience across web, mobile, Microsoft Teams, and Slack, making engagement a natural part of the workday.&#10; &#10;Trusted by organizations worldwide, Innovation Minds combines enterprise-grade security, white-glove implementation, and measurable business impact to help HR leaders increase engagement, strengthen culture, recognize great work, develop talent, and create workplaces employees love to be part of.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **4.3/5** by 15 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.3/5** | 15 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Innovation Minds

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: US$3.00
- **Pricing model**: Per User
- **Pricing Details**: Innovation Minds offers flexible, modular pricing so organizations only pay for the capabilities they need.&#10;&#10;Our Employee Experience (EE) platform starts at $3 per user/month. Additional modules can be added based on your organization's requirements for a fully integrated employee experience.
- **Target Audience**: 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Chromebook (Desktop), Android (Mobile)
- **Supported Languages**: English, French, Japanese, Spanish
- **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin and 186 more

## Features

- @mentions
- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Action Management
- Active Directory Integration
- Activity Dashboard
- Activity Tracking
- Activity/News Feed
- Ad hoc Reporting
- Agile Methodologies
- Alerts/Notifications
- Approval Process Control
- Approval Workflow
- Archiving & Retention
- Assignment Management
- Benchmarking
- Brainstorming
- Calendar Management
- Chat/Messaging
- Client Portal

## Integrations (8 total)

- Google Cloud
- Jira
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Teams
- NEOGOV
- Paylocity
- Slack
- Workday HCM

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat

## Category

- [Project Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4430/project-management/software)

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## Reviews

### "Simplifies Employee Recognition and Rewards" — 4.0/5

> **Kumaran** | *23 July 2026* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Its comprehensive employee engagement features, customization options, and seamless integrations make it easy to drive employee participation and recognition across the organization.
> 
> **Cons**: The platform has many capabilities, but the additional built-in reporting would further enhance the overall experience.
> 
> Our overall experience with Innovation Minds has been very positive. The platform provides a comprehensive solution for employee engagement by combining recognition, rewards, wellness, and social collaboration in one place. It is easy to manage engagement programs, and the rewards marketplace encourages employees to actively participate. The platform is flexible, customizable, and integrates well with enterprise systems, making it suitable for organisations. While there is a learning curve due to its extensive feature set, the overall value it delivers in improving employee engagement and workplace culture is excellent.

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### "An Employee Engagement, Alignment, and Performance Platform in One...?? YEP\!\!" — 4.0/5

> **Brad** | *31 March 2023* | Professional Training & Coaching | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: For many of us who've been around this HR/TM space for very long, we all know there are software companies that have been chasing this seeming Holy Grail of solutions which could effectively and efficiently pull together environmental scanning (i.e. surveys) with employee engagement, goal alignment/cascading, performance monitoring \&amp; feedback, and reward \&amp; recognition. We also are aware a few players have done a great job with some of these verticals, but none have done what was needed to align them all in one software offering. None, that is, until Innovation Minds came along. This is an intuitive platform which puts the control in the hands of the manager, the employee, and HR, with custom workflows which tailor its operation to the needs of my organization and managers today, while allowing total flexibility for the changes anticipated for our rapid-growth environment.
> 
> **Cons**: If there is one thing I wish I could strengthen, it would be stronger language for employees around the anonymity of employee survey data.
> 
> We've been able to improve the performance feedback process for both managers \&amp; employees, creating more of an ongoing, in-the-moment environment for providing feedback (as well as capturing thoughts or examples of specific performance/behaviors in the system), allowing for deeper/richer performance conversations which are grounded in more real-life examples. Survey data is linked to current issues within the business, and there is a heightened level of transparency around the linkage between performance and compensation.

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### ""Efficiently Manage Projects and Events with Innovation Minds : A Comprehensive Review"" — 3.0/5

> **Sreehari** | *30 March 2023* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: 1. Project Management2. Event Management3. Collaborate with 'Ideas'
> 
> **Cons**: User Profile section and Connect page can be improved.
> 
> Innovation Minds provides various business logic such as Project Management Tool, Event Management, Idea Creation and Collaboration, Work Flow Management etc. The software can be scaled up to many various number of solutions for the business logic. Sometimes the working process get confused.

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### "Review on product Innovation mind" — 5.0/5

> **Ahlad** | *29 March 2023* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Challenges and Ideas are great, Those engagement scores \&amp; Awards as well are Awesome. And It has a great-looking UI that never makes a user feel bad.
> 
> **Cons**: Make the toolbar little color full for Ideas, Challenge chat, etc...
> 
> I worked in Innovations minds as assist  Developer  as well as in  QA also, I had such a great feeling when working with \[sensitive content hidden\] the Upsmart team, and Alphind team. It was such a great opportunity to work with such an energetic group. Innovation minds feel like a Brand for me that much quality they Assure. Good work Innovation Mind

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### "Must have employee engagement platform for Hybrid Workers" — 5.0/5

> **Jheanniz** | *27 March 2023* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: It's an all in one platform. I can connect with my colleagues in a different level using one platform.
> 
> **Cons**: Would be better if there is mobile application
> 
> So far so great. They have been helping me track my tasks each day

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