69 proven creative problem-solving techniques. Each one is taught in plain language, drawn as a clear visual and paired with a ready-to-run AI prompt that coaches you through it step by step.
Creative problem solving is a disciplined way to get from a messy challenge to a workable solution. It alternates two kinds of thinking: diverging, where you generate many options, and converging, where you choose wisely.
AI changes the economics of both. Options are now nearly free, so framing and judgment become the scarce skills. This site teaches both.
Techniques refined over seventy years of creativity research and practice, from Osborn's brainstorming to de Bono's Six Hats and Altshuller's TRIZ.
Language models generate, provoke, role-play and critique at a speed no workshop can match. Every tool here shows you how.
You frame the problem, choose what matters and own the decision. The tools keep AI in its lane.
Every challenge moves through the same rhythm: open up, then narrow down. Each stage has its own set of tools. Pick a stage to see them.
What's the real problem?
Explore the situation, question assumptions and frame a challenge worth solving.
What could we do?
Generate many varied, surprising options, and hold off judging them for now.
What should we do?
Compare, score and shortlist the ideas that deserve your time and money.
How do we make it happen?
Plan the steps, win support and spread the idea to the people who must adopt it.
How do I get unstuck?
When energy fades or thinking jams, short resets bring back creative flow.
Every tool is an element: color shows its stage, the icon shows whether it's best solo or in a team. Hover any tile to see what it does and the role AI plays in it, then click to open its full page and AI prompt.
Each tool page follows the same five beats, so once you've used one you can pick up any of the others in about ten minutes.
The tool in plain language, with a visual you can sketch on a whiteboard.
The thinking science behind it, so you know when to use it and when not to.
Step-by-step instructions, facilitator tips and a fully worked example.
What you do, what the AI does, and the moves that get the most out of it.
Fill in your challenge and copy a coaching prompt into any AI assistant.
The tools work with or without AI. These rules make sure AI makes your thinking better, not lazier.
AI can produce a hundred options in seconds. It can't know which one matters to your students, your team or your community. That judgment is your job.
“Use AI to widen the funnel. Never let it choose for you.”
Ask for quantity first and judge afterwards. Judging too early kills ideas, whether they come from people or from AI.
Generic prompts get generic ideas. Name the audience, the constraints and what you've already tried.
Ask AI to attack your favorite idea. A partner that never gets tired is also a critic that never gets tired.
Every tool ends in an experiment you can run this week, not a plan you'll never start.
Pick your situation, learn one tool in ten minutes, then let your AI coach you through it.