Ideate with Idea Generation agent

Idea Generation is an agent that's premade by Google. Its goal is to help with innovation and problem-solving for enterprise users by combining advanced AI with a unique tournament-style competition framework to generate and rank ideas.

Overview

The Idea Generation agent is designed to:

  • Generate novel ideas: Goes beyond brainstorming to produce unique concepts across various domains, such as marketing, product development, and engineering. The agent generates a large volume of ideas (in the range of 100-200 ideas) in a few minutes.
  • Rank ideas effectively: Utilizes a tournament-style system and a user-defined criteria to evaluate and rank the generated ideas.
  • Engage users: Empowers its users to actively participate in the ideation process because users can define and refine the criteria of the ideation session.
  • Integrate with Google Agentspace Enterprise: Functions as a standalone agent within the Google Agentspace Enterprise app.

Create an ideation session to generate research ideas

App

To start an idea generation session, do the following:

  1. In the app navigation menu, click Idea Generation.

  2. Start typing your goal and press Enter or click Submit.

    • For best results, describe your goal as clearly as possible. For example, instead of "new app to track restaurant inventory", try elaborating as "new android app to track inventory in a mid-scale family-owned restaurant".

    • Specify what makes an idea "good". Include any constraints or requirements. For example:

      • "Novelty and feasibility are crucial."
      • "The idea must be testable with users within 2 weeks."
      • "The idea should align with the restaurant's sustainability goals"

    Idea Generation agent processes your goal and drafts a list of requirements based on your goal.

  3. To refine the suggested requirements, enter more details. Idea Generation generates edits the set of requirements.

  4. To let the agents start generating ideas based on the defined requirements, click Start session .

  5. To open the ideation session, click Open.

  6. Select each idea to view it's overview and description. The list may continue to grow until the tournament is finished.
    When the tournament is finished, the ideation session is added to your agent and the app navigation menu for future reference.