Turn employee ideas into measurable business results
Hives is the idea management platform that organizations like Halfords and VINCI Energies use to collect, evaluate, and implement employee ideas. $12 per user per month. Live in a week.
Book a demoThe short version
Most organizations collect employee ideas through email, Slack, suggestion boxes, or scattered tools. The problem isn't a lack of ideas. It's that there's no system to evaluate them, act on them, or measure the result.
Hives replaces that chaos with a structured process. Employees submit ideas through focused campaigns tied to real business challenges. Ideas are evaluated transparently. The best ones move to implementation. Everything is tracked and measurable.
You already know the problem
If you're running an innovation program, a CI initiative, or managing R&D input from across the organization, you've likely hit the same wall:
Someone submits a suggestion. They hear nothing back. After a few rounds of silence, they stop contributing. Within six months, participation in most idea programs drops by 80%.
Leadership asks for ROI. You have submission counts, maybe a spreadsheet, but nothing that connects employee ideas to actual business outcomes. It's hard to justify budget for something you can't measure.
A shared document or email thread doesn't scale past 50 people. An enterprise platform with hundreds of features takes months to implement and your team never logs in. You need something in between.
The frontline worker has two minutes between shifts. The R&D engineer is deep in a project. The store manager is handling the lunch rush. If participating is harder than sending a text message, people won't do it.
A simple process that scales
Instead of opening a generic suggestion box, you launch a campaign around a specific business challenge. "How can we reduce waste in packaging?" or "What's slowing down our onboarding process?" Focused questions produce actionable answers.
Employees participate through the web platform, on mobile, via QR codes on the factory floor, or directly inside Microsoft Teams with our native app. No new logins, no training sessions, no adoption curve.
Every idea goes through a clear review process. Employees can see the status of their submission. Evaluation criteria are visible. Decisions are explained. This transparency is what keeps participation high after the first campaign, because people trust the process.
Selected ideas move to implementation with clear ownership and timelines. You track what was implemented, what it cost, and what business impact it delivered. That's the report your leadership team is asking for.
Built for teams like yours
You don't need another tool that takes six months to configure. Hives is designed to be live within a week and run without a dedicated admin. The interface is clean enough that a shop floor worker or a lab technician can submit an idea in under a minute. Our ease-of-use rating on Capterra is 4.5 out of 5, which matters more to us than any feature count.
$12 per user, per month. Published openly on our website. No implementation fees, no premium tiers, no per-feature charges. For a team of 500, that's $6,000/month. For 1,000 users, $12,000/month. You can build the business case today without waiting for a custom quote. Most of our competitors require two to three calls before they'll share pricing. We think that approach wastes everyone's time.
SSO integration, GDPR compliance, and data hosting in Europe. We can provide a full security datasheet within 24 hours of request. The native Microsoft Teams app means no standalone deployment headaches. Your team uses the tools they already have.
The reason most idea programs lose momentum is that employees submit ideas and hear nothing back. Hives solves this with transparent tracking. Every submitter can see what's happening with their idea, who's reviewing it, and what the outcome was. When people see their ideas being taken seriously, they keep participating.
Trusted by organizations that take ideas seriously
Halfords runs idea campaigns across 400+ retail locations in the UK, giving frontline employees a direct voice in how stores operate.
VINCI Energies connects employee insights across multiple business units and countries, turning local ideas into organization-wide improvements.
From here to running your first campaign
We answer any remaining questions from your team. Happy to run a second session tailored to specific stakeholders (IT, finance, leadership).
Account setup. SSO configuration. Your team gets access. No multi-month implementation.
Launch your first campaign. We'll help you define the right challenge question and set up the evaluation workflow.
Ideas come in. Your evaluation team reviews and selects. Employees see status updates in real time.
First results. You have data on submissions, implementation rate, and early business impact. That's the foundation for your internal report.
Pick the right next step for your team
Choose one department, one business challenge, 30 days. See how your team responds before making a wider commitment. This is how most of our customers start.
If others on your team need to see Hives in action, we'll run a session tailored to their questions, whether that's the technical setup, the business case, or how it works on the ground.
We're happy to connect you with someone in a similar industry or company size who can share their experience. No scripts, no sales setup, just an honest conversation.
Common questions
Most teams are up and running within a week. That includes account setup, SSO configuration, and launching your first campaign. There's no multi-month implementation.
$12 per user, per month. No setup fees, no premium tiers, no per-feature charges. We publish our pricing openly, which is unusual in this space. Most competitors require multiple calls before sharing a number.
The biggest reason idea programs fail is that employees submit ideas and never hear back. Hives solves this with transparent tracking. Every submitter sees what's happening with their idea. Our customers consistently report high participation because people trust the process.
Yes. We have a native Microsoft Teams app, not just a webhook or bot. Employees can submit ideas, vote, and track progress without leaving Teams. It's the same experience as the web platform, just inside the tool they already use.
GDPR compliant, data hosted in Europe, SSO integration. We can provide a full security datasheet within 24 hours of request. For enterprise clients, we support custom data processing agreements.
Most enterprise platforms in this space are complex, expensive, and take months to implement. Hives is designed to be simple enough that a shop floor worker can use it, fast enough to go live in a week, and affordable enough that you don't need executive approval for a pilot. We focus on doing the core job well rather than adding hundreds of features nobody uses.
