A Non-Archival infrastructure for the circulation and activation of transient human ideas.
"Stormstan addresses the loss and stagnation of unrealized ideas by decoupling ideation from ownership and archival permanence. Ideas are treated as transient cognitive events ('storms') that gain value through transformation and contribution."
Most ideas are never executed because existing systems treat them either as static artifacts to be archived or as defensive property to be protected. Stormstan corrects this mismatch by aligning ideation with non-archival cognitive principles.
Redundancy, noise, and idea fixation caused by treating unfinished thoughts as permanent records.
Strict authorship frameworks convert ideation into defensive behavior and fragment collective intelligence.
Ideas are generated in the present; systems that preserve them as static records misrepresent their nature.
A submitted ideation unit. Mutable, contributable, and non-owned.
The originator who relinquishes exclusive rights upon submission.
A contributor who extends, refines, or redirects a storm.
Economic activator providing support for storm development.
Originators explicitly release exclusive intellectual ownership. This removes control over use while preserving attribution history.
Storms may be monetized through finite, transparent events with predefined valuation and optional closure mechanisms.
| Platform Type | Core Model | Structural Limitation |
|---|---|---|
| Social Media | Attention & Identity | Noise, Performativity |
| Idea Repositories | Archival Storage | Stagnation |
| IP Marketplaces | Ownership | Defensive Ideation |
| Stormstan | Non-Archival Transformation | DESIGNED FOR EVOLUTION |
"Stormstan restores ideation to its natural state: transient, collaborative, and evolutionary. It is an ideation environment designed for how thinking actually works."