Struinova goes to market one way: as your Innovator in Residence. Not a consultant who visits and leaves a deck, but a seasoned innovation partner who takes up residence alongside your team, brings a proven creative problem-solving method, and trains your people until innovation is a muscle they own. Don't take our word for it. Run your real problem through our process, right now.
Show us what's stuck ↓Your name, if you don't mind, so we know who we're talking to, and your website so we can do our homework before the conversation. Both optional; skip ahead if you'd rather stay mysterious.
Grab every note that sounds familiar, or scribble your own. No judgment here; deferral of judgment is literally the first skill we teach.
We trained this reframing engine to work the way we do: same method, same questions, same stubborn refusal to accept the first framing. Your challenges enter from the left, eight Struinova lenses pour in from above, the junk gets exhausted off to the right, and what flows out the bottom is a conversation worth having.
An Innovator in Residence is a seasoned innovator who embeds with your organization for a season: part fresh eyes, part facilitator, part trainer. Universities and research labs have used residencies for decades to bring outside capability inside; we bring the same idea to business. Ron served as Taylor University's first Entrepreneur in Residence, and Struinova delivers every engagement this way. We work your real problems alongside your people, teach the method while solving, and when we leave, the capability stays with you.
This is what a first conversation starts from. Send it over, or put thirty minutes straight on Ron's calendar.
They do. Here is the difference: most use AI to move faster inside the frame they already have. We use it to change the frame. And you have already watched that work; the Reframing Engine above is applied AI, aimed by thirty years of method, pointed at your problem.
AI makes teams faster at whatever they are already doing: faster decks, longer idea lists, quicker summaries. Speed is fine. But if the problem is misdefined, acceleration just delivers you to the wrong place sooner. Method decides where the machine aims. That is the entire difference.
We have worked two cold case homicides beside police. The first ran on the Simplexity method alone. The second paired Simplexity with AI, surfaced new leads in a 25-year-old file, and was presented to the International Homicide Investigators Association. Method found the frame; AI multiplied it.
From Indianapolis to Addis Ababa, we introduce AI as a thinking partner and train your people to aim it themselves. We do not rent you our tools; we build your aim. When the engagement ends, both the method and the machine stay useful in your hands.
Homelessness, drug abuse, and a mental health crisis were draining the city. Twenty-five stakeholders arrived with competing agendas; one walked out during the first icebreaker. Two days of co-design, improv, analogous thinking, and Simplexity later, former adversaries had a shared vision and their own action plan.
Could creative problem-solving and AI surface new leads in a quarter-century-old homicide? We built and led two teams alongside the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department to find out, designing an iterative workflow of discovery and theory testing.
A cross-departmental innovation team had been meeting for seven months with little to show. We spent four days building trust, a shared vocabulary, and a half-dozen innovation skills, then aimed the team at their real challenge: reimagining how they attract future staff.
Struinova was founded by Ron Brumbarger, who spent 27 years building Bitwise Solutions into an enterprise digital firm serving ~1,100 clients before its sale, then founded and sold Apprentice University. He is a Senior Research Fellow with Basadur Innovation, a certified creative problem-solving facilitator, co-founder of the How Might We Collective, a patent holder, and author of You're Always Being Interviewed. He has worked two cold case homicides alongside law enforcement: the first using the Simplexity method alone, the second pairing Simplexity with AI.
Engagements are led by Ron and scaled with a trusted bench of facilitators and partners. Whether it is one facilitator or five, you get the same methodology, the same vocabulary, and the same standard: your team leaves stronger than we found it.