Updates released to the live Akaio platform. Features still in testing are not included.
Akaio Future Journal
- Scenario articles are now presented as the Akaio Future Journal throughout the platform.
- Refreshed the article preview image.
Innovation Opportunities fixes
- Fixed trends not appearing correctly on Innovation Opportunity cards.
- Fixed the innovation card shown inside the product detail view.
- Corrected the default cluster selection.
Idea batches & trends refinements
- Fixed the image section in PDF downloads.
- Fixed trends not appearing correctly on Future Foresights cards.
- Corrected capability details shown in the product view of an article.
- Added a loading indicator when switching between batches, and disabled editing or deleting while a new generation is running.
- Redesigned the certain and uncertain trends view.
Innovation Cards & Idea Batches
Innovation Cards
- Brand-new Innovation Card available in both Future Foresights and Innovation Opportunities, giving you a single, shareable view of an idea.
- Generate an Innovation Card directly from an Innovation Opportunity.
- Redesigned opportunity and foresight cards with clearer, more concise article highlights.
Idea Batches
- Generate ideas in batches, with dedicated screens showing what each batch contains and how many ideas were produced.
- Add to, modify, or remove a batch at any time without starting over.
- Images now appear alongside ideas and trends when building a batch.
Working with trends
- Rebuilt the add, modify, and remove trend screens, with a confirmation step before a trend is added.
- Clear guidance when you reach the maximum number of trends, or when no trends are available yet.
- Smoother behaviour while a generation is in progress, with loading states throughout.
Team roles
- Roles can now be viewed and edited directly in the platform.
The Hub — work across multiple ecosystems
Your new home screen
- The Hub brings all of your ecosystems together in one place, with cards showing each ecosystem and its key statistics.
- Move between ecosystems from anywhere in the platform without losing your place.
- Live activity bars show where your colleagues are working right now.
Managing people
- New Members area lets you see and manage everyone across all of your ecosystems from a single screen.
- Added an Ecosystems tab in settings, with direct links to any ecosystem you belong to.
- Redesigned the account menu so it adapts to where you are in the platform.
Matchmaking & polish
- Faster matchmaking results with improved paging, and a fix to the country filter.
- Refined scrolling and visual details, particularly on Windows.
Growth Gap redesign & refreshed look
- Growth Gap has been redesigned: a single, simpler form and a clearer chart.
- Your chosen currency is now remembered across the platform.
- Refreshed navigation bar with updated branding and a smoother loading experience.
- Akaio is now shown as Built on GIMI on the sign-in screen.
- Clearer icons when removing items from a value chain, and corrected map colours in Market Presence.
More control over invitations
- New Akaio Operations role, so invitations can be handled by a wider team.
- Each organisation can now define its own set of access durations to choose from when inviting someone.
- Clearer rules around who can grant which level of access, with unlimited access reserved for administrators.
Time-limited invitations
- Invite people for a set period of time, with a countdown showing how much access remains.
- Extend access for users whose invitation has already expired.
- Reworked roles and permissions for clearer, more consistent naming across the platform.
- Improved tooltips and richer user details throughout settings.
Trend Radar refinements
- Scenario article dates now match the growth chart.
- Fixed trend deselection and the flow for changing a scenario from uncertain trends.
- Added an edit indicator on trends and clearer wording in the context view.
- Numerous visual corrections across the radar: spacing, typography, loading states, and scrolling.
Scenario generation fix
- Resolved an issue that could interrupt scenario generation.
Simplified navigation
- Removed the Summary tab to streamline the interface.
Trend Radar
A new way to see your trends
- The Trend Radar replaces the old trends view, plotting every trend on an interactive radar.
- Drag and drop trends to reposition them, and zoom in to explore dense areas.
- Group related trends together and highlight the ones that matter most.
- Filter by certain and uncertain trends, with clearer selection and tooltips throughout.
Hidden Trends & navigation
- Hidden Trends is now fully connected to the radar experience.
- Redesigned navigation bar and header, with more reliable links throughout the platform.
Stability
- Resolved a range of reported issues and improved overall platform stability.
Business Concept & Field of Play display
- Numeric values in business concepts are now shown cleanly, without stray currency or other symbols.
- When a company has no competencies recorded, its products are classified as Radical with a score of 0, instead of producing an error.
Scenario quadrants & faster loading
- Corrected quadrant labels across every combination, and aligned product generation to match.
- Faster loading of Business Concept details in Innovation Opportunities and Scenarios.
- Faster loading of Field of Play.
Matchmaking from product details
- Jump straight into matchmaking from the product details view.
- Product details are now available directly from both Scenario Article and Scenario Summary products.
Industry-specific value chains
- Value chains are now stored and organised by industry, making them quicker to find and easier to manage.
Cluster generation progress
- See exactly which stage your cluster generation has reached, with clear progress and error messages.
Business concepts organised by industry
- Save your business concepts and browse them grouped by industry.
Product competency matching score
- New matching score between products and competencies, giving you more accurate and relevant recommendations.
Personalised clustering
- Clusters are now generated individually for each user, so the insights you see are specific to your work.
Akaio 1.0 — official launch
Value Chain
- AI-generated company value chains, with the option to build one manually.
- Entity value chains are now created automatically once a company value chain is complete.
Innovation Opportunities
- Generate Blue Oceans and explore default clusters.
- Create clusters from an opportunity type or your own custom prompt.
- Field of Play with detailed product-level insight, generating over 2,400 business concepts.
Scenarios
- Improved scenario generation for more accurate, more relevant results aligned to your objectives.
Trends
- Resolved display issues for consistent, reliable trend insight across dashboards.
More data
- People data increased from 1 million to 1.4 million records.
- Company data expanded from 400,000 to 1 million records.
- A broader, richer dataset behind matchmaking and insight generation.
Expanded matchmaking data
- People records increased from 1M to 1.4M and company records from 400K to 1M, significantly improving the accuracy and depth of matchmaking and trend analysis.
Value Chain module
- Released the Value Chain module for user testing, supporting both AI-generated and manually created company value chains with a detailed view of how a company creates value.
Faster Future Foresights
- Scenario article generation now completes in under 30 seconds.
Edit Trends Matrix
- Organise and modify trends with drag-and-drop in the Trends Matrix.
Refreshed styles & smoother flows
- Updated platform styling, added industry protection, and improved how users move through the application.
Hidden Trends redesign
- New design and translations for the Hidden Trends page, removal of the single-session restriction, and fixes to company page loading.
Login, invitations & trend cards
- Improvements to the login and invitation process, refined trend cards and titles, and new touches such as scroll messages and viewer email previews — alongside broad stability and flow improvements.
Membership verification
- Added membership verification to sign-in for stronger user validation and security.
Video upload & trend limits
- Fixed video upload resolution and adjusted trend limits, with further stability and refinement across the platform.
Company Page redesign
- New design for the Company Page, improvements to company profiling and information display, and fixes to image loading and entity forms.
Future Foresights redesign & Saved Trends
- Redesigned Future Foresights flow and interface, introduced Saved Trends, and improved trend creation. Also includes fixes to sign-in, translations, and Insider Trends styling.
Spanish & English language support
- Added full Spanish and English language support, along with refined settings and in-app alerts.
Advanced matchmaking
- Introduced advanced matchmaking drawing on 1 million people and 400,000 companies, together with expanded trends data.