You're judged on the future,
but your entire day is the present
GetFocus is a decision-intelligence system for high-stakes R&D technology bets.
We help CTOs, and R&D portfolio leaders decide which competing technical routes to: fund, monitor closely, phase out, ignore.
Trusted by global innovators.
Most organizations are built to solve today's problems
You're the one expected to see what's coming next.
Without the time, the methods, or the safety net to do it well.
Am I making the right investment in my organization for the next five years? To the head of R&D, that’s the thing that’s always running in the back of your mind.
It’s the biggest choice you have to make, often with very little perspective from others. It’s a very high-stakes solitary game. You have nobody else in your organization who understands it that well.
You're not behind,
the methods are
Every method available to you is build for a world that moves slower than technology does.
Management consulting
Their expertise is valuable, but a static deck or report can't keep up with a landscape that moves continuously.
Trend tools
They show what's popular. Not what's actually improving fastest.
Conferences
Valuable context. But you're still making career-defining bets without enough evidence.
You ask one question. We run the whole engine. You get a living decision.
You define the question. We do everything from data through to interpretation, and keep the answer alive as the landscape moves.
From gut feel to
evidence-based technology bets
Three outcomes every engagement delivers. Measurable, defensible, and refreshed as your domain evolves.
Know which technologies matter
Cut through the noise and focus time, budget and attention on the few technologies most likely to shape your market.
Know what signals should trigger action
Use defined signals and thresholds to move from watching to investing at the right moment. Not too early, not too late.
Reduce strategic blind spots
Surface emerging threats and opportunities across industries before they hit your market.
Backtested against historical technology shifts
GetFocus measures Technology Improvement Rate (TIR) using global patent citation networks. For each technology, we build the patent landscape, then analyze the citation network to calculate the rate at which the technology is improving on cost and performance.
We saw the EV signal in 2003. Twenty years before the market did.
- The patent improvement signal for lithium-ion batteries was already pulling away from internal combustion in the early 2000s. The model could have called BEVs as the dominant chemistry years before automakers committed billions to hydrogen fuel cells.
An automotive OEM running this radar at the time would have been ahead of Tesla and BYD by a decade.
The combination that
consultants can't match.
The combination of smart algorithms with the individual commitment of the team from GetFocus provides essential insights for making informed strategic R&D investments and helps us innovate faster."
In a week with GetFocus, we achieved more than what we previously could in 9 months.
GetFocus accelerates our learning curve, helping us pinpoint where to direct our efforts more effectively. It's an invaluable tool for validating the insights of our in-house experts, ensuring that we can objectively assess new technologies"
Bring us one live technology decision
We'll run a Decision Sprint on your actual domain and come back with a board-ready answer in four to six weeks. Real decision, scoped together at kickoff, defensible call at the end.
