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Start from the engineering problem
InvenMap assumes the user understands the challenge, not necessarily the filing vocabulary. The product is built around that reality.
About InvenMap
We are building a public patent intelligence product that behaves more like research software than document retrieval.
Patent data contains extraordinary technical insight, but most tools still ask users to think in keywords, classifications, and legal language first. InvenMap flips that logic. The workflow starts with the problem, maps the technical routes behind it, and then surfaces invention evidence that is easier to understand, compare, and act on.
What InvenMap is for
The product is designed for moments when a team needs to understand how a challenge has already been solved, what technical routes exist, and where invention evidence points next.
That makes it useful before a build decision, before deeper prior-art work, and before a team commits to a technical direction with low context.
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How the product thinks
InvenMap is designed as a system for understanding technical intent, not just retrieving documents. The core product loop reflects that.
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Show routes before documents
The product groups invention results into technical approaches so the user understands the solution space before reading claims.
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Make invention insight reusable
Searches, patents, and routes are treated as durable intelligence assets instead of one-off sessions.
What exists now
The current product is already structured around a larger product direction.
The MVP already exposes the shape of the future system: challenge input, solution route organization, readable patent context, saved research, and groundwork for landscapes and innovation maps.
Problem-first search
Plain-language queries become structured invention discovery flows.
Clustered routes
Results are organized into technical strategies instead of flat document lists.
Readable evidence
Patent detail is translated into summaries, match reasons, and practical context.
Today
A live search workspace for public patents, mapped approaches, saved research, and readable patent detail.
Next
Broader monitoring, stronger landscape views, and richer intelligence layers connecting problems, technologies, assignees, and markets.
Who it serves
One workflow, several high-intent users.
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Founders validating technical ideas before building.
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Engineers looking for proven solution pathways.
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Researchers comparing how multiple inventions solve one challenge.
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R&D teams building shared research memory around important domains.