
Foresight
That's what you can expect at AnyIdea Foresight:
- You have access to millions of data such as trends, micro-trends, startups, news, scientific publications, research projects and patents.
- You identify strategically relevant ones at an early stage Trends and developments. Made possible by our over four years of development Synthesis AI.
- They can make decisions based on data and meet comprehensibly.
- Send AI scouts Go on a trip and have it scouted for you. This is how you continuously receive company-specific updates on relevant developments, completely automated.
For the first steps In our Foresight module, we have put together a simple sequence that gives you an overview of our most important functions:
1. view and save macro trends "manually"
At the beginning, we recommend that Macro Trends to look through. To do this, click on the main menu Foresight on the "Scouting" tab. Among the AI scouts, you will find generally valid macro trends. These provide a comprehensive overview of the main drivers and influencing factors of today.
Mark using the bookmark icons Macro trends relevant to you. To gain additional perspectives, we recommend adding more colleagues as managers or admins. Saved macro trends can be found in the "Focus" menu - there they are waiting to be evaluated.

2. specific scouting with AI scouts
AI scouts are ideal if you have a specific Topic or technology focus and want to identify and monitor tailored future fields and signals. The scouts search millions of data for you and show you the most relevant, data-based future fields, signals and developments. How to create an AI scout:
- In the main menu, go to Foresight
- Click on the icon scouting
- click on Add AI scout
- Enter your Scouting question one
- click on Save
It may take a few minutes to calculate the results.
Find out more about optimizing scouting results here.

3. save signals & trends
Use the bookmark icon to save relevant signals and trends and add them to Collection add. To gain additional perspectives, we recommend adding more colleagues as managers or admins.
4. evaluate relevant future fields and macro trends
In order to achieve meaningful results, it is important that several stakeholders give their assessment. You can see the trend directly in Trend detail, or in the menu Focus evaluate. There you will find all saved trends that are intended for evaluation. This is how you get there:
- In the main menu, go to Foresight
- Click on the icon Focus
- Click on one of the saved trends
- Evaluate the trend using regulators
To keep your review from being affected, other users' reviews will only be shown to you after your own
- Time to Impact
When will the trend become relevant for our company on the market? - competency
Do we have expertise in the company? - potential
What is the potential of the trend?

5. trend portfolio & radar
All evaluated trends can be found in the Focus menu item. These are used in a Trend portfolio & trend radar portrayed.

💡 Tip:
You now know which trends are most relevant to your company. Now is the time for that potential solutions and ideas to search. Here are two options:
- Even in Trend Detail, you can find micro-trends or startups that represent existing, market-related solutions that match the trend. Be inspired by what's possible!
- Find relevant stakeholders together with colleagues, customers and other relevant stakeholders innovative ideas! You can seamlessly on-trend a matching Idea campaign invest. Invite more users and be the first to inspire Ideas.
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