Strategy Spaces · v2.1

Sprints with
a spine.

Run hackathons, sprints and innovation sessions where the whole room actually moves together.

Every session is built on one phase track. An admin designs the sequence, the host drives a live playhead, and participants see exactly where they are and how long is left. When someone gets stuck they raise a hand, and an expert is routed to them, in the room or online.

Overview

Three roles, one track.

Most facilitation tools give you a whiteboard and hope. Strategy Spaces gives the session a structure everyone can see, so the room knows what phase it is in, what comes next, and how much time is left in the one they are in.

Admin

Design the sequence.

Build the phase track before the day: intro, diverge, build, test, ship. Set the minutes on each phase, write the brief participants will read, and choose whether the host drives everyone or people move at their own pace. Save it as a template and run it again.

Host

Drive the playhead.

Run the live room. Advance the phase when the room is ready, add two minutes when it is not, and see at a glance who is building, who is testing and who has raised a hand. Route each raised hand to the right expert without breaking the flow of the session.

Participant

Know where you are.

The same track, from the other side. The current phase, the brief, the time remaining and a way to ask for help. Work goes into the prototype gallery, where the rest of the room can open it, try it and leave feedback.

The interface

Three views of one session.

An afternoon AI product sprint, seen from the live room, the sequence builder that shaped it, and the gallery of what came out.

strategyspaces.com/run/ai-product-sprint
AI Product Sprint Live · 41:22 elapsed
Frame Diverge Build Test Ship
Phase 3 of 5 · Build · 18 min remaining
Make the smallest thing that answers your question

A working prototype, not a plan for one. It can be ugly. It can be three screens and a hard-coded name. What matters is that someone else can open it and tell you whether the idea holds.

If you have been stuck for more than five minutes, raise a hand. An expert will come to you rather than waiting for you to find them.

Advance to Test +2 minutes Pause room
Room · 24 participants
Kevin O.Hand up · 2m
Ava C.Building
Priya N.Building
Tom R.Testing
Sam W.Building
Lin H.Shipped
EXPERTS · 3 AVAILABLE · IN THE ROOM
One phase track drives the admin, host and participant views at the same time.
The spine · Strategy Spaces
Capabilities

Capabilities.

Nine capabilities built around the phase track, from designing a sequence to collecting what the room made.

01 · Spine

The phase track

One horizontal track shared by every role. Admins build it, hosts drive it, participants follow it. Everything else in the product hangs off it.

02 · Host

Live playhead & timing

Advance the phase, add minutes, or pause the room. Every participant screen updates at once, so nobody is working to the wrong brief.

03 · Pace

Host-driven or self-paced

Keep the room in lockstep, or let people move at their own speed with the host able to pull everyone back to a phase when needed.

04 · Help

Raise a hand, reach a person

Participants ask for help from inside the phase. The host sees the queue and routes it to an available expert rather than letting it sit.

05 · Delivery

In the room, Zoom or in-app

Three delivery modes. Experts walk over, hold a Zoom room, or answer inside the support area. The session adapts to how the group is actually meeting.

06 · Output

Prototype gallery

Participants publish what they built. Everyone else can open it, try it, and leave written feedback attached to the artefact and its version.

07 · Learning

Lesson library

Short courses and briefs participants can read during or after a session, covering prompting, strategy, feedback, agents, evaluation and delivery.

08 · Templates

Reusable sequences

Save a sequence and run it again. Ships with sprint, service-design, offsite and grant-sprint templates you can adapt rather than start from nothing.

09 · Data

Runs in the browser

No backend required. Session state is held locally, so a workshop can run on a venue connection without depending on a server being reachable.

Workflow

From a blank sequence to a room of prototypes.

How a facilitator takes a session from planning to a gallery of things people actually built.

  1. 01 · Design

    Build the sequence.

    Lay out the phases, set the minutes, write the brief for each one. Start from a template or from nothing.

  2. 02 · Staff

    Set up help.

    Add your experts and choose the delivery mode: in the room, on Zoom, or answering inside the support area.

  3. 03 · Run

    Drive the room.

    Advance the playhead as the room is ready. Watch who is building, who is testing, and who has a hand up.

  4. 04 · Share

    Publish and test.

    Participants push work to the gallery. The room opens each other’s prototypes and leaves written feedback.

  5. 05 · Keep

    Save what worked.

    The sequence, the artefacts and the feedback stay together, so the next run starts from what you learned.