Innovation Operating System

Turn one employee description into a complete, evidence-backed disclosure for review, drafting, and counsel handoff.

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6
business connectors, GitHub to Notion
10 steps
guided workflow, capture to handoff
12 months
provisional deadline tracking, from filing day
Why this exists

Inventions die in Slack threads and lab notebooks.

Inventions disappear in chats, notebooks, and commit messages before the IP team hears about them. PatentFunnel captures disclosures where the work happens.

FIG. 2: a chat thread, a lab notebook, a commit history and a ticket feed into a funnel that produces one disclosure record 202 204 206 208 210 212 FIG. 2
The funnel

From hallway description to counsel-ready packet.

  1. Capture302
  2. Interview304
  3. Evidence306
  4. Review308
  5. Draft310
  6. Handoff312
FIG. 3 · method 300
302

Capture

An employee describes the invention once, in plain words. No form to dread — the invention record starts itself.

one description · any inventor
304

Interview

An adaptive AI interview asks only what the disclosure is missing — mechanism, alternatives, ranges — and stops when the record is complete.

adaptive questions · complete disclosure
306

Evidence

Commits, threads, tickets, pages, and docs attach from GitHub, Slack, Jira, Confluence, Drive, and Notion — the proof of who built what, when.

6 connectors · encrypted per org
308

Review

IP managers work one queue: manager review, committee, decision. Every status change lands in the audit trail.

queue · committee · audit trail
310

Draft

Turn approved disclosures into prior-art checks, quality review, figures, and provisional drafts that preserve manual edits.

patent check · figures · provisional
312

Handoff

Export DOCX, PDF, or a ZIP packet built for outside counsel. We prepare the filing. Your counsel files it.

docx · pdf · attorney packet
Inside the workspace

Every part of a disclosure, built from the work itself.

The interview asks only what is missing

Example workspace

Evidence attaches itself

Example

From GitHub, Slack, Jira, Confluence, Google Drive and Notion, each linked back to where it came from.

Closest prior art, early

Example

Ranked by match for the reviewer to weigh. Patentability stays counsel’s call.

Figures, drafted

Example

Block diagrams, flowcharts and drawings with reference numerals, generated from the confirmed record and editable before counsel sees them.

A packet counsel can use

Example

We prepare the filing. Your counsel reviews and files it.

Under the hood

The parts your counsel will ask about.

deterministic first

Run repeatable checks before model review.

confirmed vs. suggested

Keep confirmed facts separate from AI suggestions.

audit trail

Log each submission, review, and decision.

your keys

Bring your own model keys and drafting runs on your accounts. Connector credentials are encrypted per organization.

For the IP office

One queue between raw ideas and outside counsel.

Org workspaces with admin, IP manager, and inventor roles — seat-managed, with pooled credits. Disclosures move manager → committee → decision, and nothing moves without a log line. When the committee says yes, drafting starts from a record that is already complete.

Three ways in

Disclosures reach your team in a clear path.

Inventors can start from a shared link, a reviewer request, or existing material.

01

Share an intake link

Place one reusable URL in a company wiki or all-hands slide. Anyone at the company can open it, receive only an inventor seat, and reach the Disclosure Desk. Revoke the link at any time.

02

Request a disclosure

Ask a named person for a disclosure with a subject, optional note, and due date. The request appears atop their desk with the prompt filled in and grants no rights.

03

Start with documents

An inventor can provide a paper, deck, or notes. The desk creates a draft for review and editing before any record exists.

Every disclosure enters the organization’s review queue with a lead score, where reviewers decide, return it with notes, or approve it.

What it costs

Priced by seats. Piloted for free.

Pilot
Free
3 seats

Run a real capture cycle with your first inventors.

Team
$349/mo
10 seats

The full funnel: interview, evidence, queue, drafting, handoff.

Business
$999/mo
50 seats

Committee review and pooled credits at portfolio scale.

Enterprise
Custom
Your terms

Custom seats and onboarding for large R&D organizations.

Every tier ends the same way: a provisional application your counsel can file. Full pricing →

Honest fit

This is for you if…

  • You run IP at a company, university, or R&D org — and inventions reach you late, or never.
  • You want disclosures captured where the work happens, with evidence attached from the tools your teams already use.
  • You have outside counsel and want to brief them with a complete, reviewed record — not a first phone call.
  • ×You’re an individual inventor after a one-off filing — PatentFunnel is built for organizations with a flow of inventions.
  • ×You want someone to file with the USPTO for you. We are not a law firm — we prepare; your counsel files.
  • ×You need legal advice on patentability. That call belongs to counsel — we make it an easier call to have.
Straight answers

Questions IP teams actually ask.

What happens to our data?

Roles control workspace access. Connector credentials are encrypted, material actions are logged, and model calls run only when triggered. Bring your own keys to run calls on your accounts.

Do you file with the USPTO?

No. We prepare the provisional application and the handoff packet; your counsel reviews and files. PatentFunnel is not a law firm and gives no legal advice — the point is to hand counsel a record so complete that their time goes to judgment, not intake.

How do connectors authenticate?

Admins connect only the selected tools. Credentials are organization-scoped and encrypted; evidence is attached only when a user selects it.

What does the AI see?

AI sees only the current disclosure and attached evidence. Confirmed facts remain separate from suggestions. With your own keys, calls run on your accounts.

What does the pilot include?

Three seats, free, on the full workflow — interview, evidence, queue, drafting, handoff. Run one real capture cycle with your inventors. If disclosures start arriving that would otherwise have died in a thread, move to Team.

The next invention is being described right now. Catch it.

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Free pilot · 3 seats · We prepare — your counsel files

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