Sideways 6

Sideways 6 is an incredibly brilliant, highly unique, and massively successful platform that completely circumvented the biggest problem in idea management software: "Nobody wants to log into another portal." Instead of building a standalone destination, Sideways 6 engineered its entire platform to live natively inside the collaboration tools employees already use all day long (Microsoft Teams, Yammer, and Slack). The absolute core differentiator of Sideways 6 is its "Native Chat Integration Architecture." An employee does not go to 'Sideways6.com'. They are in Microsoft Teams, they see an announcement from the CEO asking for ideas, and they type their idea directly into the Teams chat via a Sideways 6 bot. The software captures it, analyzes it, and pushes it to a powerful backend dashboard for the innovation team to manage. Because it completely removes the friction of platform adoption (meeting the employees exactly where they already are), it boasts some of the highest employee engagement rates in the industry. It is the absolute go-to software for massive enterprises heavily invested in the Microsoft 365 or Slack ecosystems looking to drive massive crowdsourced innovation.