IdeaLift
de Startvest
IdeaLift captures decisions from Teams conversations so your team stops relitigating decisions.
IdeaLift captures decisions from Teams conversations for product teams who waste hours relitigating calls already made.
Full Description
Your team already decided this. Why are they deciding it again?
Product teams make dozens of decisions every week in Microsoft Teams — what to build, what to defer, what to cut. But those decisions live in chat threads that get buried in hours. Three weeks later, someone asks "didn't we already decide this?" and the entire debate starts over.
IdeaLift captures decisions from your Teams conversations automatically so they never get lost.
How it works
Connect IdeaLift to Microsoft Teams in 2 minutes. From there:
IdeaLift detects decisions in your conversations automatically — no tagging required, no new habits to build. You can also capture anything manually with a quick command or emoji react.
Every captured decision goes to your Decision Inbox for review. Each item shows who decided, what was agreed, and the full conversation context. One click to approve, defer, or dismiss. Nothing commits without your review.
Approved decisions become structured tickets in Jira, Linear, GitHub, or Azure DevOps with the full rationale attached — who decided, when, and why. Searchable forever.
When someone asks "why didn't we build that?" — you have the receipt.
Who it's for
IdeaLift is built for product teams at growing companies — PMs, engineering managers, and product leadership who need decisions to stick without adding process or changing how their team communicates.
Key capabilities
Ambient decision capture — IdeaLift monitors your Teams channels and detects decisions in real time, prompting you to capture them before they disappear.
Decision Inbox — Review, approve, defer, or dismiss captured decisions in one place. Unreviewed items fade on their own so your inbox stays clean.
Meeting transcript analysis — Paste a Teams meeting link and IdeaLift extracts decisions, action items, and commitments with timestamps and speaker attribution.
Structured tickets with rationale — Approved decisions sync to Jira, Linear, GitHub, or Azure DevOps as tickets with full context: who decided, when, why, and what signals informed it.
Duplicate and pattern detection — Same topic raised by three different people across two channels? IdeaLift connects the dots so your team sees the full picture.
Decision history — Every decision is searchable. When leadership asks why something was prioritized or rejected, the reasoning is right there.
Catch-up digests — Get a summary of recent decisions and activity across your workspace, right inside Teams.
Integrations
IdeaLift syncs with the tools your team already uses:
- Microsoft Teams (native integration)
- Jira
- Linear
- GitHub Issues
- Azure DevOps
Getting started
- Install IdeaLift from the Microsoft Teams app store
- Connect your Jira, Linear, GitHub, or Azure DevOps account
- Decisions start getting captured automatically
In order to use this app, users must have an active IdeaLift account. Visit idealift.app to sign up or contact our support team at support@startvest.ai for assistance.
Commands
- /idealift capture — Capture a message or URL as a decision
- /idealift summarize — Summarize recent messages as a decision
- /idealift meeting — Extract decisions from a meeting transcript
- /idealift digest — Get a summary of recent decisions and activity
- /idealift help — Show available commands
Support: support@startvest.ai
Website: idealift.app
Privacy Policy: idealift.app/privacy
Terms of Service: idealift.app/terms
