MAPS Intelligence

Pro Mode

The method, under your control.

For people who want to steer the reasoning: strategic workflows, critical lenses and ideation methods, on the material you choose. Every result lands on the canvas, next to what it came from.

The example is a menswear tailoring brand: the names of the brand and its competitors have been changed.

The Strategic Flows page: three Tension Cards and a Signal Clustering from market signals
The switch

The essential canvas,
or the full one.

“Pro” in the toolbar turns on the Advanced menu: Strategic Flows, Strategic Lenses, Idea Lab. Turn it off and the canvas goes back to essentials. The intelligence at work doesn’t change: what changes is how much control you want.

Create is the guided route; Advanced lets you choose what to work on, with which method, and collects the results on their own pages.

The Advanced menu: Go to the Strategic Flows page, Generate Flow, Lens, Idea Lab
Strategic Flows

From signals
to strategy.

Thirteen workflows in four phases, to use in order or whenever you need them. They work on what you select — sections, cards, notes, even images — or on a scope proposed for each flow, which you can widen.

Sense

From social signals to Tension Cards · Jobs-to-be-Done · Signal Clustering.

Shape

Positioning variants · Brand Essence Pyramid · Message House · Value Ladder · Strategic Choice Cascade · Value Proposition Canvas.

Activate

Campaign Brief Skeleton · Content Pillars.

Validate

Kill Matrix — scale, strengthen, challenge or kill · Competitive Move Simulation — go, go with caution, postpone or change course.

The Flow launcher: List or Map, the phases, the inputs needed
The Flow launcher: List or Map, the phases, the inputs needed
On the Strategic Flows page: positioning variants and a Message House built from the Tension Cards
On the Strategic Flows page: positioning variants and a Message House built from the Tension Cards
Chained

One flow
sets up the next.

Every result remembers which flow it came from: the Map shows what’s already on the canvas, what has its inputs ready and what makes sense next. The Tension Cards feed the positioning variants, which feed the Message House, which leads to the Kill Matrix.

Before placing it you see a preview, and “Promote to canvas” puts it on the Strategic Flows page, in its phase’s band.

The Validate phase: a Kill Matrix on the positioning variants and a simulation of competitive moves
Strategic Lenses

A critical eye,
on your selection.

Six lenses: Innovation & Product, Competitive Intelligence, Consumer Reality, Semiotic & Cultural, Activation & Execution, Scenario & Foresight. Each with three ways of questioning — for example white space, defensibility, risky assumptions, scenarios — or a question of your own.

The answer is a one-sentence verdict and cards with clear levels: severity, feasibility, impact. The Consumer lens has the project’s personas you choose react, one by one. With nothing selected, you choose the lens first and it takes you to the material it needs.

The six Strategic Lenses, with guidance to the material when nothing is selected
Idea Lab

Ideas with a method,
on the project’s data.

Start from a challenge — MAPS suggests three from the project — or from an idea to strengthen. Choose the method, or let MAPS choose it and explain why. The ideation draws on the context, the brand, the competition, the value proposition and the social listening.

Divergence

SCAMPER · Reverse Brainstorming · Random Entry · Worst Possible Idea · Starbursting.

Connection

Forced Analogy · Biomimicry · Cross-Industry Transfer · Concept Mashup.

Depth

Six Thinking Hats · 5 Whys · Problem Reframing.

Construction

Design Thinking Sprint · Mental Rapid Prototyping · Future Backward.

Idea Lab on the canvas: Problem Explorer or Creativity Enhancer, the challenges suggested from the project
Idea Lab on the canvas: Problem Explorer or Creativity Enhancer, the challenges suggested from the project
The ideas on the canvas: a Future Backward in phases, from the “first move” to the vision
The ideas on the canvas: a Future Backward in phases, from the “first move” to the vision

Lens and Flow also open from the Sections panel, when you have something selected: “send to AI”.

Strategy with a method.
On your selection.