Customer Discovery,
Without the Pain.

Great ideas have the power to change the world—but without deep customer insights, even brilliant innovations fail.

Our AI-powered platform transforms your raw ideas into validated success stories, helping you build products customers actually need—before you invest everything.

Trusted by 150+ innovators around the planet

Trusted by 150+ innovators

around the planet

Helps you ask smarter questions,
and uncover deeper insights

Helps you ask smarter questions,
and uncover deeper insights

Helps you ask smarter questions,
and uncover deeper insights

Your Customer Discovery Checklist

Understand Customer Needs

Identify Pain Points

Validate Assumptions

Uncover Motivations

Your Customer Discovery Checklist

Understand Customer Needs

Identify Pain Points

Validate Assumptions

Uncover Motivations

Your Customer Discovery Checklist

Understand Customer Needs

Identify Pain Points

Validate Assumptions

Uncover Motivations

Our platform empowers founders, researchers, and educators to deeply understand customer needs, conduct meaningful interviews, and gain actionable insights for smarter decisions.

Remove the Guesswork from Innovation

Most founders build first and validate later. We flip the script. Our platform guides you through a proven discovery process, turning customer conversations into actionable insights that shape successful products.

Think Like a Scientist

Research shows that entrepreneurs who think like scientists—testing ideas, analyzing feedback, and refining their vision with evidence—are more successful. We make this proven method simple and natural.

Discover

Identify your customers’ key problems

Formulate hypotheses to test your ideas

Design targeted interview questions

Discover

Identify your customers’ key problems

Formulate hypotheses to test your ideas

Design targeted interview questions

Discover

Identify your customers’ key problems

Formulate hypotheses to test your ideas

Design targeted interview questions

Validate

Collect real-world customer insights

Confirm or challenge your assumptions

Update your business model with factual data

Validate

Collect real-world customer insights

Confirm or challenge your assumptions

Update your business model with factual data

Validate

Collect real-world customer insights

Confirm or challenge your assumptions

Update your business model with factual data

Evolve

Uncover new opportunities from feedback

Fine-tune your solutions to meet customer needs

Build a scalable, validated business

Evolve

Uncover new opportunities from feedback

Fine-tune your solutions to meet customer needs

Build a scalable, validated business

Evolve

Uncover new opportunities from feedback

Fine-tune your solutions to meet customer needs

Build a scalable, validated business

Innovation Within turns your ideas into clear hypotheses about customers, their needs, and the product. Our platform creates interview questions, analyzes responses, and uncovers key insights, letting you experiment smarter and turn ideas into successful products faster.

Our Features

Our Features

Our Features

Your Customer Discovery Process
Enhanced by AI

Create a Data-Backed Business Model

Start with clarity. Our AI-driven business model generator instantly transforms your idea into a clear, structured foundation, mapping out core assumptions and hypotheses. Built for immediate direction, so you can launch with confidence and refine with real customer feedback from day one.

We help you ask questions that truly uncover insights

Crafting the right questions is an art and a science. Our platform follows proven methodologies to ensure your interview questions are clear, unbiased, and easy for customers to understand.

By avoiding psychological traps and confusion, we help you create a comfortable environment where customers can share their genuine thoughts and experiences. This means every response is authentic and actionable, giving you insights you can trust to guide your decisions.

Auto-transcribe your interviews

Get quick, accurate transcriptions of your meetings and interviews so you can focus on what matters most: understanding customer needs and gaining reliable insights.

Rapid Clarity: Analyze Interviews with Precision

Streamline customer discovery, gather feedback efficiently, and engage directly with your audience. Pinpoint pain points, preferences, and expectations for authentic insights that drive market success and satisfaction.

Data-Driven Decisions: Build Evidence for Your Ideas

Smart decisions start with real evidence. Whether you're testing a new idea or refining an existing one, our platform organizes valuable data into clear, actionable insights—helping you make smarter moves every time.

Collaborate Seamlessly Across Roles

We integrated collaboration all across the customer discovery journey, where instructors and mentors actively engage with teams through real-time Chat, comments on the Canvas, and Interview feedback. This enables instructors and mentors to guide teams more effectively at each step. With this continuous support, teams make more informed decisions and evolve with greater clarity throughout the process.

Team Members

Team Members

Team Members

Instructors

Instructors

Instructors

Organization Admins

Organization Admins

Organization Admins

Cohort Admins

Cohort Admins

Cohort Admins

Mentors

Mentors

Mentors

Tailored Solutions for Every Industry

Education & Research

Startups & Innovation

Enterprise & Industry

Public & Government

Education & Research

Empowering academic institutions and researchers to innovate.

We provide solutions for:

Education

I-Corps

Lab2Market & Lean Launchpad

Education & Research

Empowering academic institutions and researchers to innovate.

We provide solutions for:

Education

I-Corps

Lab2Market & Lean Launchpad

Education & Research

Empowering academic institutions and researchers to innovate.

We provide solutions for:

Education

I-Corps

Lab2Market & Lean Launchpad

Why Choose Innovation Within?

Meaningful Conversations, Real Insights

We design interviews that go deeper, uncovering your customers’ core needs and motivations. Gain feedback that truly guides your next steps.

Meaningful Conversations, Real Insights

We design interviews that go deeper, uncovering your customers’ core needs and motivations. Gain feedback that truly guides your next steps.

Meaningful Conversations, Real Insights

We design interviews that go deeper, uncovering your customers’ core needs and motivations. Gain feedback that truly guides your next steps.

Efficient, Insightful, and Actionable

Say goodbye to manual data crunching. Our AI accelerates the process, delivering insights quickly so you can focus on strategic growth.

Efficient, Insightful, and Actionable

Say goodbye to manual data crunching. Our AI accelerates the process, delivering insights quickly so you can focus on strategic growth.

Efficient, Insightful, and Actionable

Say goodbye to manual data crunching. Our AI accelerates the process, delivering insights quickly so you can focus on strategic growth.

Confidence in Every Decision

Make decisions you can trust. Our platform ties insights directly to real customer responses, giving you data-driven confidence every step of the way.

Confidence in Every Decision

Make decisions you can trust. Our platform ties insights directly to real customer responses, giving you data-driven confidence every step of the way.

Confidence in Every Decision

Make decisions you can trust. Our platform ties insights directly to real customer responses, giving you data-driven confidence every step of the way.

Flexible for All Innovators

Say goodbye to manual data crunching. Our AI accelerates the process, delivering insights quickly so you can focus on strategic growth.

Flexible for All Innovators

Say goodbye to manual data crunching. Our AI accelerates the process, delivering insights quickly so you can focus on strategic growth.

Flexible for All Innovators

Say goodbye to manual data crunching. Our AI accelerates the process, delivering insights quickly so you can focus on strategic growth.

Success Stories

Success Stories

Our Discovery Platform is already changing the way people innovate — from medical to manufacturing and products.

  • Innovation Within's Discovery Platform made customer discovery easy for our team. We were able to record, log and review our interviews in multiple locations then hop on a team call and collaborate remotely. Having everything centrally organized where we could surface insights, connect the dots and share our learnings with other team members was incredibly beneficial.

    Maricely Ramirez-Hernandez
    Co-Founder of Burnflex,
    Rutgers University

  • Innovation Within has been invaluable to our SLUStart I-Corps program. Participants used to spend months trying to gather insights they now have at their fingertips in days. Their content is immediately organized and consumable which allows me, as an educator, to help them dive into business model validation and customer development faster than ever before.

    Ken Harold
    I-Corp Cohort Leader,
    Saint Louis University

  • Before using the Discovery Platform, I felt like / was treading water and not seeing much progress getting me toward my goals. Once I got into the platform, I began thinking about development differently. The structure of how the software works allowed me to start asking myself the right questions as I gathered Insights from interviews that which inform how I would build my own platform.

    Michael Bertrand
    Founder of NewDirections, Louisiana State University

  • At the University of Washington… we need to manage multiple, often large, commercialization workshops at the same time. This has historically been a very time consuming process. With the Discovery Platform we now have a centralized place where all of our student teams work and receive input from instructors. We run several training programs each year with IW's software and it has been a game changer to managing programs

    Ken Myer
    CoMotion Innovation Hub,
    University of Washington

  • Using the Discovery Platform has been so helpful in uniting our collaborative team to collect, analyze, and respond to data collected from our stakeholder interviews. The team at Innovation Within is extremely responsive and the software can enable anyone and any team to capture insights and propel learning to drive impactful solutions.

    Heather Hiscox
    Founder & CEO,
    Pause for Change

  • I was amazed by the insights I surfaced after the fact by reviewing the transcripts of

    my conversations. I love using the Discovery PlatformTM for Customer Discovery.

    Thomas M. Malone
    Sr Research Associate,
    Behavioral Neuroscience at SLU

  • Innovation Within's Discovery Platform made customer discovery easy for our team. We were able to record, log and review our interviews in multiple locations then hop on a team call and collaborate remotely. Having everything centrally organized where we could surface insights, connect the dots and share our learnings with other team members was incredibly beneficial.

    Maricely Ramirez-Hernandez
    Co-Founder of Burnflex,
    Rutgers University

  • Innovation Within has been invaluable to our SLUStart I-Corps program. Participants used to spend months trying to gather insights they now have at their fingertips in days. Their content is immediately organized and consumable which allows me, as an educator, to help them dive into business model validation and customer development faster than ever before.

    Ken Harold
    I-Corp Cohort Leader,
    Saint Louis University

  • Before using the Discovery Platform, I felt like / was treading water and not seeing much progress getting me toward my goals. Once I got into the platform, I began thinking about development differently. The structure of how the software works allowed me to start asking myself the right questions as I gathered Insights from interviews that which inform how I would build my own platform.

    Michael Bertrand
    Founder of NewDirections, Louisiana State University

  • At the University of Washington… we need to manage multiple, often large, commercialization workshops at the same time. This has historically been a very time consuming process. With the Discovery Platform we now have a centralized place where all of our student teams work and receive input from instructors. We run several training programs each year with IW's software and it has been a game changer to managing programs

    Ken Myer
    CoMotion Innovation Hub,
    University of Washington

  • Using the Discovery Platform has been so helpful in uniting our collaborative team to collect, analyze, and respond to data collected from our stakeholder interviews. The team at Innovation Within is extremely responsive and the software can enable anyone and any team to capture insights and propel learning to drive impactful solutions.

    Heather Hiscox
    Founder & CEO,
    Pause for Change

  • I was amazed by the insights I surfaced after the fact by reviewing the transcripts of

    my conversations. I love using the Discovery PlatformTM for Customer Discovery.

    Thomas M. Malone
    Sr Research Associate,
    Behavioral Neuroscience at SLU

  • Innovation Within's Discovery Platform made customer discovery easy for our team. We were able to record, log and review our interviews in multiple locations then hop on a team call and collaborate remotely. Having everything centrally organized where we could surface insights, connect the dots and share our learnings with other team members was incredibly beneficial.

    Maricely Ramirez-Hernandez
    Co-Founder of Burnflex,
    Rutgers University

  • Innovation Within has been invaluable to our SLUStart I-Corps program. Participants used to spend months trying to gather insights they now have at their fingertips in days. Their content is immediately organized and consumable which allows me, as an educator, to help them dive into business model validation and customer development faster than ever before.

    Ken Harold
    I-Corp Cohort Leader,
    Saint Louis University

  • Before using the Discovery Platform, I felt like / was treading water and not seeing much progress getting me toward my goals. Once I got into the platform, I began thinking about development differently. The structure of how the software works allowed me to start asking myself the right questions as I gathered Insights from interviews that which inform how I would build my own platform.

    Michael Bertrand
    Founder of NewDirections, Louisiana State University

  • At the University of Washington… we need to manage multiple, often large, commercialization workshops at the same time. This has historically been a very time consuming process. With the Discovery Platform we now have a centralized place where all of our student teams work and receive input from instructors. We run several training programs each year with IW's software and it has been a game changer to managing programs

    Ken Myer
    CoMotion Innovation Hub,
    University of Washington

  • Using the Discovery Platform has been so helpful in uniting our collaborative team to collect, analyze, and respond to data collected from our stakeholder interviews. The team at Innovation Within is extremely responsive and the software can enable anyone and any team to capture insights and propel learning to drive impactful solutions.

    Heather Hiscox
    Founder & CEO,
    Pause for Change

  • I was amazed by the insights I surfaced after the fact by reviewing the transcripts of

    my conversations. I love using the Discovery PlatformTM for Customer Discovery.

    Thomas M. Malone
    Sr Research Associate,
    Behavioral Neuroscience at SLU

  • Innovation Within's Discovery Platform made customer discovery easy for our team. We were able to record, log and review our interviews in multiple locations then hop on a team call and collaborate remotely. Having everything centrally organized where we could surface insights, connect the dots and share our learnings with other team members was incredibly beneficial.

    Maricely Ramirez-Hernandez
    Co-Founder of Burnflex,
    Rutgers University

  • Innovation Within has been invaluable to our SLUStart I-Corps program. Participants used to spend months trying to gather insights they now have at their fingertips in days. Their content is immediately organized and consumable which allows me, as an educator, to help them dive into business model validation and customer development faster than ever before.

    Ken Harold
    I-Corp Cohort Leader,
    Saint Louis University

  • Before using the Discovery Platform, I felt like / was treading water and not seeing much progress getting me toward my goals. Once I got into the platform, I began thinking about development differently. The structure of how the software works allowed me to start asking myself the right questions as I gathered Insights from interviews that which inform how I would build my own platform.

    Michael Bertrand
    Founder of NewDirections, Louisiana State University

  • At the University of Washington… we need to manage multiple, often large, commercialization workshops at the same time. This has historically been a very time consuming process. With the Discovery Platform we now have a centralized place where all of our student teams work and receive input from instructors. We run several training programs each year with IW's software and it has been a game changer to managing programs

    Ken Myer
    CoMotion Innovation Hub,
    University of Washington

  • Using the Discovery Platform has been so helpful in uniting our collaborative team to collect, analyze, and respond to data collected from our stakeholder interviews. The team at Innovation Within is extremely responsive and the software can enable anyone and any team to capture insights and propel learning to drive impactful solutions.

    Heather Hiscox
    Founder & CEO,
    Pause for Change

  • I was amazed by the insights I surfaced after the fact by reviewing the transcripts of

    my conversations. I love using the Discovery PlatformTM for Customer Discovery.

    Thomas M. Malone
    Sr Research Associate,
    Behavioral Neuroscience at SLU

Frequently
Asked Questions

What is Innovation Within?

Innovation Within is an AI-powered customer discovery platform designed to help founders, researchers, and educators understand their customers deeply. From generating business models to creating customized interview questions and analyzing feedback, our platform turns customer discovery into an efficient, evidence-based process.

What is Innovation Within?

Innovation Within is an AI-powered customer discovery platform designed to help founders, researchers, and educators understand their customers deeply. From generating business models to creating customized interview questions and analyzing feedback, our platform turns customer discovery into an efficient, evidence-based process.

What is Innovation Within?

Innovation Within is an AI-powered customer discovery platform designed to help founders, researchers, and educators understand their customers deeply. From generating business models to creating customized interview questions and analyzing feedback, our platform turns customer discovery into an efficient, evidence-based process.

How does Innovation Within help with business model generation?

How does Innovation Within help with business model generation?

How does Innovation Within help with business model generation?

What’s unique about the AI-generated interview questions?

What’s unique about the AI-generated interview questions?

What’s unique about the AI-generated interview questions?

How does the AI analyze interview transcripts?

How does the AI analyze interview transcripts?

How does the AI analyze interview transcripts?

How does Innovation Within help validate my business model?

How does Innovation Within help validate my business model?

How does Innovation Within help validate my business model?

Who is Innovation Within for?

Who is Innovation Within for?

Who is Innovation Within for?

Can I use Innovation Within without experience in customer discovery?

Can I use Innovation Within without experience in customer discovery?

Can I use Innovation Within without experience in customer discovery?

Who can I contact for support or questions?

Who can I contact for support or questions?

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