Monitor your entire innovation ecosystem. Track competitors, universities, startups, and more.
Invest in winning technologies
Among competing technologies, Focus can reliably predict which will emerge as the winner.
Invest at the right time
Monitor your entire innovation ecosystem. Focus helps you pick the right moment to ramp up investment into a winning technology.
Focus AI helps you to:
1. Get a complete overview
Monitor your entire innovation ecosystem. Track competitors, universities, startups, and more.
2. Invest in winning technologies
Focus reliably predicts which emerging technologies will turn into winners.
3. Invest at the right time
Pick the right moment to ramp up investment into a winning technology with Focus forecasts.
We partner with the world’s leading innovators
“Focus helped us gather key insights about a disruptive medical technology”
Daan van Maanen
Philips, General manager diagnostic X-ray
The problem
Is this the way to gather insights for decision making?
Without great insights, you cannot take great decisions. Focus gives you access to the best insights you have ever seen, while saving you time and money at the same time.
Old way
Manual analysis & Analytics tools
Gathering the data takes forever
You can't analyze everything by hand
Other tools just drown you in more data
You don't need data, you need insights
Without Focus you risk missing the next big technology disruption
Our way
Focus AI
Tracks any number of technologies
Analyzes the data for you
Clear, objective, and actionable insights
Exponentially scales your team's output
With Focus you always have the insights you need for decision making
The solution
Investing in winning technologies starts with Focus
Focus AI helps you make sense of global innovation data, so you can take better investment decisions.
Step 1: Tracking technologies of interest
Get an always up-to-date overview of any technology area
Monitor any technology area you want with infinite scalability. Once set up, Focus automatically scans for new activity.
Which insights are available?
See global innovation activity of everyone competing in a technology space, and study the developmental history of the technology as a whole.
Step 2: Predicting winners
Spot winning emerging technologies early on
Compare competing technologies and see how fast they improve. The fastest improving technology always wins. With Focus, you will see disruption coming from miles away.
Does this actually work?
Focus’ models were verified to work on >32 technologies in a collaborative effort with MIT. Paper 1 & paper 2
Step 3: Forecasting future performance
Invest at the right time
Focus helps you forecast what the future performance and costs of technologies will be. Use Focus to see when new technologies will become competitive and invest at the right time.
How is this Possible ?
Focus measures the speed with which technologies improve. If the current performance & costs are known, future performance & costs can be forecasted.
What are the benefits?
Spot technological trends before anyone else
Track dozens of technologies simultaneously
Always up to date and on your own terms
Facilitates storytelling to the C-suite
Spot technological trends before anyone else
Set Focus up as your early warning system for emerging technologies that may turn disruptive.
Track dozens of technologies simultaneously
Focus operates autonomously and never gets tired. Without limitations on manpower, you can track everything of interest.
Always up to date and on your own terms
Run analyses whenever you want. Customizable update frequencies let you get notified on your own terms.
Facilitates storytelling to the C-suite
Reduce complex analyses to clear and concise charts that help non-technical stakeholders understand a technology’s potential.
See how it works
Focus is intuitive, simple, and requires no previous experience with AI tools. Teach our AI which technologies you want to track by labeling inventions with 1 click.
See how fast technologies are improving. Compare competing technologies to see which technology will likely win.
Performance forecasting
Forecast the price & performance of any technology. Predict if and when emerging technologies will turn into disruptors.
Cycle time
Focus cycle time shows you how fast a technology iterates towards a better solution.
Knowledge flow
The more freely knowledge flows, the faster a technology improves. Knowledge flow measures this for you.
Dynamic patent landscapes
Get an always up to date overview of what every competitor, university, startup, and scale-up is doing in any technology space.
Periodic updates
Set custom update frequencies and only receive notifications about developments when you want them.
Global patent data
Focus AI has global coverage with >146 million inventions from all over the world. New inventions are automatically added.
English translations
High quality translations allow you to track important developments globally. Never miss anything important.
Customizable dashboards
Create custom dashboards for any technology. You can customize by region, time, organizations, and more.
Export charts & data
Export raw data from Focus without limitations. Charts can also be exported as images, pdf, or by raw data.
Custom taxonomies
Teach Focus how you want it to see the world. Create your own tech categories and view the world through your own lens.
Real support
Chat with us directly from inside the app. Never wait for responses, chat with bots, or wait in call lines.
Is Focus difficult to use?
Our simple UI makes it easy to get the insights you need
Anyone can learn how to use Focus. We get you set up on the platform and real support is always only 1 chat message away.
Testimonials
“Focus helped us gather key insights about a disruptive medical technology”
Daan van Mannen
Philips, General manager diagnostic X-ray
In a context of increasing complexity and a relentless pace of innovation, keeping a strategic overview has become a burning problem. Focus helps you gather the insights you need as an R&D leader in the digital age.
Christophe Perthuisot
Philips, General manager diagnostic X-ray
Testimonials
“Focus helped us gather key insights about a disruptive medical technology”
Daan van Maanen
Philips, General manager diagnostic X-ray
“In a context of increasing complexity and a relentless pace of innovation, keeping a strategic overview has become a burning problem. Focus helps you gather the insights you need as an R&D leader in the digital age.”
Christophe Perthuisot
Danone, Ex Senior Vice President of R&D
“Focus lets us communicate strategic technology insights to our clients in a language they understand”
Erik Oskarsson
Rouse Sweden, Principal
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