This workflow is designed to help product managers and marketers brainstorm innovative product and marketing ideas, generate value propositions, and leverage external knowledge sources (files, URLs, Google Search, and image generation) to enhance ideation and concept development. The flow is automated, interactive, and extensible—making it a powerful assistant for ideation sessions, workshops, and ongoing product or marketing strategy work.
User Onboarding and Experience
Upon opening the chat, the user is greeted by a welcome message and presented with a Button Widget. This widget includes a sample scenario—“Food delivery industry”—and a markdown-supported introduction message. The user can either select this sample or input their own prompt to set the brainstorming context.
| Step | Component | Purpose |
|---|
| Chat Opened | ChatOpenedTrigger | Detects when a user opens the chat. |
| Show Welcome/Button | ButtonWidget | Greets the user with a customizable intro and a sample brainstorming scenario. |
| Display to User | ChatOutput | Shows the message and button in the chat interface. |
This onboarding flow ensures that users have an intuitive entry point, making it easy to get started and select or define their area of interest.
Capturing User Input and Context
The workflow supports two main streams of user input:
- Text input: Users can type questions, ideas, or prompts directly into the chat.
- File upload: Users can upload files (e.g., research, market analysis, reports) for the system to use as context.
- URL input: Users can provide URLs for the system to retrieve and process web content.
The ChatInput node captures user text and file attachments, while ChatHistory keeps track of the last 10 messages (up to 2000 tokens) for context-aware responses.
Integrating External Knowledge
To enrich the brainstorming process, the workflow integrates multiple sources of external knowledge and tools:
- File Retriever: Processes uploaded documents, extracting text content for use in ideation.
- URL Retriever: Retrieves and processes content from provided URLs, supporting a variety of metadata and content extraction strategies.
- Google Search Tool: Performs real-time Google searches tailored by country, language, and location to bring in fresh, relevant information from the web.
- AI Image Generator: Generates images based on prompts, supporting ideation with visual concepts and mockups.
These tools are connected as “tools” to the AI Agent, allowing it to draw upon them dynamically during conversation.
The AI Agent: Orchestrating the Brainstorm
At the core of the workflow is the AI Agent, purpose-built for creative ideation and value proposition generation. It is configured with:
- Backstory: Acts as an expert assistant for product managers and marketers, skilled in ideation and value proposition uncovering.
- Goal: Always provides concise, actionable, and creative suggestions, leveraging both user input and chat context.
- Role: Focuses on brainstorming and generating value for product/marketing professionals.
- Context Awareness: Uses chat history and inputs from files, URLs, and real-time search to inform its outputs.
- Multimodal Capability: Can generate text and images, and utilize retrieved documents and search results for richer responses.
Output and User Interaction
The results from the AI Agent—including ideas, value propositions, and even generated images—are displayed back to the user via a ChatOutput node. This ensures a seamless, conversational user experience.
Workflow Summary Table
| Functionality | Component(s) Involved | Description |
|---|
| Welcome & Onboarding | ChatOpenedTrigger, ButtonWidget, ChatOutput | Greets and guides users with sample scenarios and custom prompts |
| User Input | ChatInput | Accepts text and file input from user |
| Chat History | ChatHistory | Maintains context by storing recent messages |
| File Ingestion | FileContent | Converts uploaded files into usable text/documents |
| URL Ingestion | URLContent | Retrieves and processes content from web URLs |
| Web Search | GoogleSearch | Performs Google searches to fetch real-time web information |
| Image Generation | PhotomaticAIImageGenerator | Creates images to support ideation and visualization |
| AI-Powered Ideation | AIAgent | Generates ideas/value props by combining user input, context, and external knowledge/tools |
| User Output | ChatOutput | Presents results, suggestions, and visual content back to the user |
Why is this Workflow Valuable?
- Scalability: Automates the collection, processing, and integration of multiple external knowledge sources, enabling rapid ideation without manual research.
- Context Awareness: Maintains chat history and leverages uploaded documents and web content, resulting in highly relevant, context-rich suggestions.
- Extensibility: New tools or sources (e.g., different search engines, data sources, or generators) can be plugged into the agent for even greater capability.
- Multimodal Ideation: Supports both text-based and visual brainstorming, helping users not only think of ideas but also see them.
- User-Centric: Designed for ease of use, with a guided onboarding, clear prompts, and interactive elements (buttons, file uploads).
- Automation: Reduces manual effort for product managers and marketers, enabling them to focus on creative thinking and decision-making.
Example Use Cases
- Product teams running ideation workshops and needing fresh, actionable ideas sourced from both internal and external knowledge.
- Marketing strategists seeking value proposition inspiration, competitive benchmarking, and creative concept generation.
- Any team or individual aiming to accelerate and enrich the brainstorming process with up-to-date research, file-based context, and visual assets.
This workflow exemplifies how automation and AI can supercharge creative tasks, making brainstorming and value proposition development faster, more comprehensive, and more engaging.
