Organising Ideas and Business Plans

The application separates business thinking into two related layers:

• Ideas, startups, and posts describe the concept, context, team, and discussion.
• Business plans model the financial assumptions and calculations for an idea.

This structure allows one idea to have multiple business plans. For example, one bakery idea can have optimistic, conservative, and investor-ready plans without duplicating the original idea post.

The My Ideas page (/my-posts) is the main place to manage non-plan records. It includes tabs for all posts, startups, and ideas, plus create actions for a new idea or business plan.

Use ideas for:

• Early concept notes.
• Startup/project descriptions.
• Public or private discussion.
• A parent object that can later receive one or more business plans.

The My Businessplans page (/my-businessplans) lists business plans in a table and supports filtering.

Key controls:

• Filter by idea: show plans attached to a selected parent idea.
• Filter by team: show plans associated with a team through the parent idea.
• Show only mine: enabled by default, so users focus on plans they own unless they intentionally broaden the list.
• Details: opens the business plan detail page.
• Delete: available when the user has delete permission.

A business plan can be standalone or linked to a parent idea. When linked, the detail page displays the parent idea at the top. This helps readers understand which business concept the financial model belongs to.

In the Alicante example, the plan detail page shows a parent idea and the plan action buttons in one place.

Posts and plans can be public or private. The business plan detail page also exposes actions such as share, clone, download, JSON export, analytics, edit, and delete depending on access rights.

Suggested organization pattern:

1. Create an idea first for the business concept.
2. Attach one or more business plans to that idea.
3. Use teams when several people work on the same concept.
4. Keep early drafts private.
5. Clone plans when exploring alternate scenarios.