MindSumo

What MindSumo is

MindSumo is a web platform where companies run online challenges to gather ideas and insights from a community of problem solvers, including Millennials and Gen Z. It helps businesses define and launch challenges, promote them to relevant participants, review entries and distribute prizes. Challenges and submissions can include video, images, presentations and code. A real-time dashboard provides alerts and tools to tag, organize, rate and search submissions. Companies can communicate through Q&A, mass messages and one-to-one notes. MindSumo describes analytics for engagement, participant demographics, themes and sentiment, along with exports of submissions or participant information to PDF or XLS. Its payment portal transfers participant incentives, and the solver FAQ says winning submissions are rewarded directly in cash. Companies can use organization-level access controls and post challenges anonymously; briefs are public for promotion, while responses are private between the company and entrant. MindSumo says submission intellectual property is assigned to the client. Pricing is available on request. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Ashburn, Virginia.