Patrick

Your AI invention research agent

Patrick

Know what already exists
before you build.

Patrick turns your invention into a structured investigation, finds relevant patent evidence, and prepares an evidence-backed brief for professional review.

See how Patrick works

Evidence, not legal conclusions. Patrick shows what it found, what it searched, and what still needs professional review.

Try one:

Demo: use a fictional or non-confidential idea — a search query can itself disclose an invention. Your description is sent to a model provider through Vercel and Cloudflare to draft the search on the public demo.

One sentence in. A sourced brief out.

An illustration of the pipeline, not output from a run.

Your idea

“An AI recycling bin that automatically sorts waste.”

Patrick understands it

Technical mechanisms identified

  • computer vision classification
  • sensor inputs
  • mechanical sorting
  • actuator control
  • local inference

Patrick investigates it

  • Patent search
  • Relevant technical passages
  • Similar mechanisms
  • Professional review questions

Evidence-backed brief

Sourced, quoted, and ready for counsel.

Better research starts with a better description.

Founders naturally explain what an invention does. Patent records describe how inventions work. Patrick extracts technical features and suggests clarifying questions. Review the plan, or revise your description and run planning again before searching.

Founder says

“I built an AI-powered recycling bin.”

Patrick asks

  • How is the material identified?
  • What sensors are involved?
  • How is waste physically redirected?
  • Where does inference happen?

Patrick searches

  • vision-based material classification
  • electromechanical sorting systems
  • sensor-controlled waste routing
  • automated refuse classification

From idea to evidence-backed research brief.

What Patrick does today, in the order it does it.

  1. 01

    Understand the invention

    Patrick reads your description, extracts technical features, and suggests questions to help you clarify it.

  2. 02

    Build the search plan

    Patrick creates technical features, search concepts, and queries that the founder can review.

  3. 03

    Investigate the evidence

    Patrick retrieves relevant patent records and identifies exact passages connected to the invention.

  4. 04

    Prepare the handoff

    Patrick produces a structured brief with comparisons, sources, alternatives, and questions for professional review.

Not a list of links. A research dossier.

Completed research produces a brief for professional review, exportable as Markdown, LaTeX, or a typeset PDF. Incomplete research is marked with its limitations; failed requests are shown as errors.

Example structure

Invention summary
Structured technical description.
Search strategy
The reviewed queries and their search outcomes.
Relevant patents
Publication numbers, available assignee and date information, and cited passages. Patent-family relationships are not independently verified.
Feature comparison
Which mechanisms appear similar and where.
Alternative approaches
Proposed technical hypotheses to evaluate, not verified legal workarounds.
Questions for counsel
Specific issues that deserve professional review.
Coverage
What Patrick searched, what it did not search, and important limitations.

Patents are the first layer.

Patrick begins with patent research because patent data is structured, public, and searchable. The same research architecture can extend into the broader invention landscape.

The goal is one evidence-backed view of what surrounds an invention before a founder commits serious time and capital.

Patrick fills the gap between search and legal judgment.

ToolWhat it does
GoogleFinds webpages
Patent databasesFind patent records
PatrickInvestigates the invention and connects the evidence
AttorneyProvides professional legal judgment

Patrick does not replace counsel. It makes the founder better prepared for counsel.

Patrick shows its work.

Evidence-linked

Important findings point back to the source material.

Search trace

See what Patrick searched and how your original description was reformulated.

Explicit coverage

Patrick distinguishes between what it found and what it could not verify.

No result means “no evidence found in the sources searched,” not “nothing exists.”

Before you spend months building, investigate what already exists.

Start with Patrick

Turn your idea into a structured investigation and an evidence-backed brief.