Workshop Problems We Solve
Traditional brainstorming has predictable bottlenecks. Bandos addresses them systematically.
These are common failure patterns seen in real workshops and product teams, not theoretical problems.
Most teams commit to the first decent idea. That’s why products fail.
Teams tend to fall in love with the first plausible solution. Bandos surfaces multiple directions early, so decisions are made by comparing alternative approaches. Not instinct. This reflects how experienced teams work.
Ideas Without Context Are Just Noise
Many workshops jump straight to ideas without grounding them in real customer needs. Bandos guides you through a clear sequence: customer → need → alternative paths to a solution. This keeps ideation anchored and prevents teams from debating features that solve the wrong problem.
Bad Ideas Survive Because Criticizing Them Is Uncomfortable
When ideas are owned by individuals, feedback gets political. Bandos suggests customers, needs, and directions as starting points, all of which teams can edit or replace. Ideas can then be reviewed from a simulated customer’s perspective, keeping critique grounded in real needs and less personal.
Without a UX Specialist, Most Workshops Lose Direction
Good workshops usually depend on a strong facilitator. Bandos embeds that structure directly into the workflow, guiding teams through the right questions at the right time. This lets teams without deep UX experience run focused, user-centered sessions that still lead to clear decisions.
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How It Works
From customer insight to visual storyboard in four steps
This flow mirrors how professional product and UX teams move from understanding people to making confident decisions.
Define
Start with your ideal customer at the center of a mind map. Who are they? What are their goals and frustrations?
Grounds ideas in real people
Explore
At each level, the generated ideas move from high level strategies, to concepts, to features, to implementation details.
Prevents narrow thinking
Converge
Your team discusses, edits, and expands on their favorites. Bandos builds on the ideas that get the most support.
Turns options into decisions
Visualize
Generate a visual storyboard that shows your product solving real customer problems
Makes ideas concrete and shareable
Built on proven design thinking principles
The structure in Bandos reflects widely used UX and product frameworks such as user-centered design, Jobs-to-Be-Done, and storyboarding. Bandos doesn't replace thinking. It makes good thinking easier and more consistent.
Frequently Asked Questions
These are the most common questions teams ask before running their first session.
ChatGPT is a linear conversation. The AI loses track as you jump back and forth between ideas, and there's no structure to keep things connected to customer needs.
Bandos is a branching ideation system. Each direction stays separate, so nothing gets mixed up. You define your company, personas, and jobs-to-be-done once, and every idea stays linked to the customer problem it solves.
Because Bandos enforces a customer-first flow and actively critiques ideas through stakeholder feedback, you converge on a small set of context-specific, defensible concepts — not a long list of generic suggestions.
Cross functional product teams, founders and innovation units that run recurring discovery and ideation work. It is especially useful when you have limited UX capacity but still want structured, user driven concepts.
You start by adding a short description of your company and defining a favorite customer, what they want to achieve and what frustrates them. Bandos turns this into concrete and well defined opportunities, and you choose the ones the workshop should focus on.
For a chosen goal, Bandos becomes a smart mind map. It suggests several directions to help the customer succeed, the team discusses and picks the strongest, and the AI keeps expanding them into more specific ideas until you have a clear tree from high level concept down to detailed features.
When you're ready to bring your concept to life, Bandos generates an AI storyboard: a visual comic-style narrative showing your product solving a real customer problem. It's the fastest way to communicate an idea and align stakeholders. You can also export a prompt to Figma Make if you need an interactive prototype.
If you're an existing company, you should be able to describe who you are and who you're trying to help. If you already have a frustration or idea in mind, you'll need to anchor it to a real person who experiences that problem.
Bandos doesn't work with abstract ideas. It works by turning real context; your business, a specific customer, and a concrete struggle into clear opportunities and solution directions. You don't need polished research or perfect answers, just a starting point grounded in reality. The system helps you do the rest.
Bandos doesn't replace whiteboards. It replaces the need for an expert facilitator.
It guides teams through what to explore, in what order, and when to stop exploring and start deciding. It prevents skipping straight to solutions and surfaces risks before teams commit.
Whiteboard tools help you capture thoughts. Bandos helps you determine which thoughts are worth capturing in the first place.
Workshop content is stored in your Bandos workspace and not used to train public models. You control who has access, and data is forever deleted whenever you choose.