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Innovation Research Agent

One night until the paper is due. The priorities are only as good as the last search.

Analyses market and technology trends for strategic decisions.

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Four processes that take up the most time today

Developed in Germany · Hosted in the EU

Developed in Germany · Hosted in the EU or on-premises

Delivered together with

STACKIT Sovereign hosting in Germany, single-tenant from the first user.
Rödl Legal, tax and compliance expertise for legally sound deployment.
4P Consulting Advisory and implementation for the public sector, starting with the AI readiness assessment.

A briefing for the innovation board is built from four kinds of source and one night's work.

The innovation manager gathers market reports, patent filings, competitor announcements and the company's own product data from development. Each source has its own format and its own cut-off date. What ends up in the briefing depends on how far he got in the time available.

4kinds of sourceMarket reports, patent filings, competitor announcements and internal product data.
180announcements per quarterThat is the volume one quarter produces in the drive technology search field.
34duplicatesThe same event is reported by several sources and read several times.
12topics with portfolio relevanceAfter screening, twelve topics remain that touch one of the company's product lines.

If the 180 announcements are screened against the same grid every quarter, the research cycle shortens by 40%.

The 40% speed-up in research cycles is this agent's headline figure. The 180 quarterly announcements in the drive technology search field represent a typical field of observation; they are not an actual count.

Three steps through the process.

The agent compiles market, patent and competitor sources with references; the innovation board chooses which topic to pursue.

Screen the quarter's announcements

The agent pulls announcements from the connected market and patent sources and assigns them to the defined search fields. Multiple reports of the same event are merged.

Drive technology search field, 180 announcements per quarter, 34 duplicates merged

Match the hits to the company's own portfolio

The agent compares every announcement with the internal product data and flags where it touches the existing portfolio. For each overlap it names the announcement and the product line.

12 topics with portfolio relevance, 5 of them concerning the gearbox product line

Deliver the briefing with references

The agent writes a short assessment of each topic with source and date. The innovation board decides what goes into development.

innovationsbriefing_Q3_antriebstechnik.pdf, 12 topics, 3 references per topic

What the agent does not do.

It does not prioritise development projects.

It lays out the topics side by side, each with its source and portfolio relevance. The innovation board decides the order.

It does not comment on the legal status of a patent filing.

It names the filing, the applicant and the filing date. Whether the company's own design is affected is for the patent department to check.

Trade fair reports and printed trade journals are not among its sources.

Its view of the topics extends only as far as the connected patent and market sources. Market intelligence adds anything from outside those sources to the briefing itself.

Connected systems

  • Patent database
  • PLM system
  • market research portal

Operations

  • Deployment modelEU cloud or private cloud
  • Data processingGDPR-compliant, no model training on your data
  • Responsible teamsStrategy, Product Development

The questions that come up before the first meeting.

How quickly is the Innovation Research Agent ready to use?

A pilot typically runs on your own data within 6 to 8 weeks. The agent connects to your existing systems rather than running as a separate, parallel environment.

Where is the data processed?

EU cloud or private cloud. Processing is GDPR-compliant and models are never trained on your data. Details in the Trust Center.

Where does the figure “40% faster research cycles” come from?

It is based on experience from comparable projects and process benchmarks, not a commitment. We work out the realistic effect for your organisation during the assessment before the pilot.

Related agents.

Intake review, case 2026/04711

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