The Next System.
Your AI-Powered Intelligent Innovation Platform.
Human ingenuity meets machine intelligence.
Stop improvising, start scaling. The Next System merges intelligence and execution so every initiative builds Serious Capital.
Stop wasting resources on innovation that doesn’t scale. Implement an Intelligent Innovation System.
Turn ad-hoc innovation into sustainable, measurable impact.
The Next System is more than just a platform—it’s a structured, AI-powered approach to managing innovation with the same discipline and rigor as the rest of your operations. It helps you move from ideas to execution, ensuring that every opportunity is strategically developed, funded, and governed.
Innovation thrives when it follows a clear process. The Next System provides the framework to do just that—guiding teams through a discovery-driven development cycle while managing risk and aligning innovation with your capital-building priorities.
How The Next System structures innovation for real results.
Innovation succeeds when it follows a structured approach. The Next System is built around the Fantastic Five, core components that ensure every innovation opportunity is strategically developed, evaluated, funded, and governed.
The Fantastic Five bring clarity, discipline, and AI-powered insights into your innovation process—so you can stop guessing and start scaling.
The Fantastic Five.
The core components of your Intelligent Innovation System.
The Next Cycle Navigator is your guide to discovery-driven innovation, structuring the evolution of new solutions into clear, actionable stages. It helps you reduce uncertainty, manage risks intelligently, and turn ideas into capital-building realities.
With actionable insights and a dynamic approach, you can make confident, informed decisions that move innovation opportunities forward through a structured development cycle.
Next Cycle Navigator.
Turn uncertainty into action.
Next Portfolio Manager.
Organize and prioritize innovation opportunities.
The Next Portfolio Manager helps you allocate innovation opportunities into four distinct portfolios—Renew, Grow, Optimize, and Maximize—so you can evaluate impact, prioritize the right opportunities, and track progress through the Next Cycle.
With AI-powered insights, you can strategically manage resources and ensure every innovation opportunity aligns with your portfolios’ goals.
Next Decision Maker.
Decide why, if, and when to move innovation opportunities forward.
The Next Decision Maker ensures every innovation opportunity is rigorously evaluated before advancing. Using the Super Seven framework, it assesses strategic fit, feasibility, and impact—helping you determine whether to move forward, refine, or stop.
AI-simulated users and Next Boards challenge assumptions and provide diverse insights, ensuring decisions are driven by data, not just intuition.
Next Fund Manager.
Invest precious capital wisely.
Traditional budgets don’t work for innovation. The Next Fund Manager helps you dynamically evaluate and allocate capital based on an opportunity’s potential impact through each stage of the Next Cycle—so you fund potential, not plans.
With built-in AI calculations, you can size risks, needs, potential impact, and option value—helping you fund opportunities that can build the most value.
Next Operating Principles.
Govern innovation with transparency and intelligence.
Next Operating Principles helps you establish a governance system designed specifically for innovation—not just daily operations. Unlike traditional performance rules, these principles support exploration, experimentation, learning, and discovery—rather than focus on efficiency and risk mitigation.
With the Next Governor Tool you write the rules that that guide innovation and decision-making throughout the Next Cycle.
Next System key features.
AI-driven Guidance
Make smarter decisions with AI-driven insights. Leverage real-time, data-powered guidance to enhance your team’s creativity, refine intuition, and stay focused on advancing innovation.
Integrated Innovation Management
Streamline innovation management across your organization, aligning every effort with capital-building goals to ensure consistent execution and measurable impact.
Strategic Risk Assessment
Navigate risk with confidence, identifying opportunities and potential challenges early, so you can make bold, informed decisions while protecting precious capital.
The Next System.
Why it matters.
Executives
With the Next System, you govern innovation, manage portfolios, and invest where it counts—aligning every initiative with your capital-building goals. Unite short-term performance with long-term strategic gains for a sustainable future, free from guesswork.
Managers
Provide your teams the framework to progress from uncertainty to certainty. The Next System helps you resource projects effectively, keep innovation on track, and deliver clear data to executives—ensuring disciplined, capital-building decisions every step of the way.
Innovators
Stop guessing what leadership expects. The Next System gives you clear rules, defined development cycles, funding criteria, and capital-building priorities. This clarity empowers you to create, test, and scale ideas that deliver measurable value.
Innovation that works isn’t magic or luck—it’s an Intelligent System.
Build yours.
Implementing the Next System
Whether you’re assessing your current framework, designing a new approach, or seeking ongoing support, Solve Next’s philosophy centers on merging human ingenuity, AI insights, and structured governance to drive sustainable, multi-capital growth.
Our mix of advisory, professional development, and high-energy facilitated sessions ensures your organization seamlessly integrates the Fantastic Five using our Intelligent Innovation System framework.
Advisory &
System Design
Get expert help tailoring the Intelligent Innovation System to your organization’s unique challenges and strategic goals. We’ll align decision-making, funding, and governance so your innovation engine runs smoothly alongside your day-to-day performance system.
Targeted
Training
Empower your teams with the right tools and mindsets to make the Next System shine. From the creative energy of Agents of Next to the strategic leadership focus of Leaders of Next, our training ensures everyone can confidently drive innovation that delivers lasting value.
High-Energy
Blasts
Confront key challenges in establishing or operating your Next System—fast. Our intensive, facilitated sessions push teams to solve pressing obstacles, from bridging organizational silos to unlocking AI-driven insights, ensuring each step leads to immediate traction and lasting impact.