Corporate innovation
Put your IP to work on the world's problems.
Your patents can solve more problems than the ones you filed them for. We'll show you the ideas hiding in what you already own, privately.
What you've invented has more potential.
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Discovery stops at the core.
New uses get filtered out because they don't fit what you already sell, or what you already fund.
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The shelf isn't free.
Unlicensed patents keep collecting maintenance fees while the people who filed them move on to other work.
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The tools look backward.
Patent search finds prior art and freedom to operate. Landscape reports take weeks and are dated on delivery. Neither tells you where your IP could go next.
Filed for roof tiles.
Where else could it go?
Here's a sample run on one of our own patents showing the handful of ideas the engine produced, pointing to other industries & uses we hadn't considered before.
Highly insulated tile
Thin insulation. Shaped to fit.
US 2024/0401328 A1 · 20 claims · PendingAn aluminium tile with spaced foil layers inside that blocks conduction, convection and radiation. Two inner layers reflect over 99.9% of radiant heat, in a tile thin enough for a roof.
Roof tiles, building walls, and wraps for tanks and pipes. Can be made flat, curved or wavy.
Drop-in insulated roof tile for reroof cycles
A drop-in insulated roof tile that turns a routine reroof into a passive thermal upgrade without opening the attic, raising roof height, or bringing in a second trade.
Lightweight thick-tile molding, insulated batten boards, and highly insulated building-tile processes now let a durable thermal break live inside a weather-shedding tile that roofers already know how to hang.
Drop-in insulated roof tile for reroof cycles
A drop-in insulated roof tile that turns a routine reroof into a passive thermal upgrade without opening the attic, raising roof height, or bringing in a second trade.
Lightweight thick-tile molding, insulated batten boards, and highly insulated building-tile processes now let a durable thermal break live inside a weather-shedding tile that roofers already know how to hang.
*Financial estimates drawn from sources.
Not another search tool. Not another report.
Problem-first.
We start from real problems people and markets have, then find where your IP fits. Every opportunity comes with a reason it matters now.
Action-ready.
Every idea comes with a 90-day roadmap, shaped to the pathways your organization moves ideas forward.
Live, not a snapshot.
Run new assets, or re-run existing ones, and see what they open up as the world changes.
Proven method.
Bill Gross's 50 years of building companies, and 175+ launched at Idealab, applied to your IP.
Private instance
A private, secured instance set up for your organization, that only your team can access. We'll scope it with you.
We never see your results.
What comes out of your instance is visible only to your team.
Private by design.
Your assets run in an instance only you can access.
Not used for training.
What you upload is used like a search term to run your instance. It never trains our models or joins our knowledge base.
Want to see it first? Start with a single-asset trial.
Common questions
See what your IP could become.
If you'd like to do this at your company or institution, tell us a little about what you hold. Someone from our team will talk with you about how to deploy it.
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