Great minds. Shared ideas. Global possibilities.
GrandeMinds is a moderated community where Innovators aged 18–47 in software, AI, health sciences, engineering and the sciences meet across borders to brainstorm, form teams and turn early ideas into projects. Sign up and confirm your email to get started.
Summarises discussions, surfaces open questions and drafts plans. Always labelled, never mixed with Innovator contributions.
This is what Innovators see inside GrandeMinds
An illustration of a topic room, huddle and Break Room with participants from around the world. Messages are auto-translated into each reader's language. People shown are illustrative stock photos, not real members.
Could we use graphene sensors to detect heavy metals in water?
Translated from 中文 · original: 我们可以用石墨烯传感器检测水中的重金属吗？
Yes! My lab in Lagos tested a prototype last term. Sensitivity was the bottleneck.
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Break Room · games in play
$6.99 per game · 30 minutesChemical symbol for gold?
From a brainstorm to a shared diagram to a working project
What if low-cost sensors flagged contaminated wells before people get sick?
We could start with turbidity and pH, then add an ML model trained on open water-quality data.
1. Which regions publish open water-quality data? 2. What sensor cost keeps the device affordable? 3. Who validates the readings?
From a spark in a topic room to a working team
Verify once, separately
Age eligibility and student status are checked independently. Your exact birth date stays private; profiles show only an age band.
Join moderated topic rooms
Real-time rooms per discipline. Messages are moderated before anyone else sees them.
Build in project workspaces
Problem statements, tasks, milestones, images and editable flow diagrams with clear contribution history.
Meet in virtual huddles
Scheduled in every participant's local time, with waiting rooms, host controls and recording off by default.
Eight expertise communities
"Open" communities have live rooms for verified members today. The others open as participation grows.
IT and Software Development
OpenAI and Data Science
OpenMedicine and Health Sciences
OpenNanotechnology and Materials Science
Opening laterEngineering and Robotics
Opening laterBiology, Chemistry, and Biotechnology
Opening laterEnergy and Environmental Science
Opening laterMathematics and Physics
Opening laterWho can join and what you'll need
- Innovators aged 18–47 living in an enabled country. Students, graduates, makers and professionals are all welcome.
- Any personal email address: we send a 6-digit code to confirm it, and your account opens as soon as you enter it.
- You accept the community rules, privacy notice and terms of service.
Creating an account and confirming your email code gives you access straight away.
Enabling a country here does not yet confirm that age verification, payments and video work there. Availability will be confirmed country by country before launch.
Start free. Upgrade when your team grows.
Own up to 20 project workspaces instead of 1, each with tasks, milestones and shared diagrams.
30 AI facilitator requests a day instead of 5, for summaries, plans and research directions.
Post in every discipline room, including the five communities opening later.
Free Explorer
- Read all open rooms; post in up to 3 rooms
- 1 project you own (join others by invitation)
- 5 AI facilitator requests a day
- Huddles: $15 per participant per hour
Innovator Plus
Billed monthly through Stripe. Cancel any time; access continues to the end of the paid month. Tax calculated at checkout.
- Read and post in every open room
- 20 projects you own (join others by invitation)
- 30 AI facilitator requests a day
- Huddles: $15 per participant per hour
Innovator Pro
Billed monthly through Stripe. Cancel any time; access continues to the end of the paid month. Tax calculated at checkout.
- Read and post in every open room
- Unlimited projects
- 100 AI facilitator requests a day
- Huddles: $15 per participant per hour
Huddles are charged separately on every plan: $15 per participant per hour, host included ($13.50 on Innovator Plus, $11.25 on Innovator Pro). Every huddle is a fixed 1-hour session with no proration. Break Room game passes are $6.99 for 30 minutes ($6.29 on Plus, $5.24 on Pro). Fair use: 200 MB of uploads per member and AI inputs up to 4,000 characters. Fair use applies: automated or abusive use may be rate-limited or suspended. Both plans require an age check before community access.