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Cut through the noise and find your next big win
GetFocus monitors signals within global innovation data to objectively measure how quickly new technologies are advancing.
Our goal is to help R&D teams spot disruption early and easily.
How GetFocus Works
Scout emerging technologies
Define your research scope and scout all the relevant technologies in your domain
Compare improvement rates
Build an accurate technology landscape for all emerging technologies in your space
Spot the winners
The fastest improving technologies always win! Spot disruption early and accurately.
Your Roadmap to Uncovering the Technologies That Will Shape the Future
Our proven process removes blind spots, maps innovation trends, and empowers you to make confident, future-ready R&D decisions.
Define your scope and research challenge
Tell GetFocus exactly which technology area you want to explore.
Begin by scouting technologies to find an exhaustive list of relevant technologies in your domain.
This helps you remove blindspots and sets the foundation for a comprehensive technology forecast.
Map the innovation landscape
Map out the inventions that matter from the emerging technologies in your scouting stage.
Curate all the innovations that pertain to your use case from the list of emerging technologies at the scouting stage and filter to refine into a good representative data set.
Compare technologies and see the winners
Identify genuine breakthroughs and avoid costly distractions.
Our AI looks at two key signals in global patent data: Cycle Time, which measures how fast technologies take steps forward, and Knowledge Flow, which measures how big those steps are.
Technologies that take bigger, faster steps improve quicker—and the fastest improving technologies tend to win.
Deep dive for actionable insights
Drill down further by chatting with a set of patents
Ask anything—zoom in on specific patents or zoom out to discover trends.
Instantly surface insights on topics, technologies, and organizations.
Compare inventions, track competitors, and explore portfolio strengths.
Don’t take just our word for it, hear it from our customers
“In a week with GetFocus, we achieved more than what we previously could in 9 months.”
"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."
"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"
Frequently Asked Questions
Getting started
We offer a free 30-minute ideation workshop to help you get started. You don’t need to have the perfect question upfront—AI makes it easy to explore broad directions and refine them as we go. Whether you're curious about the future of energy storage, materials innovation, or emerging disruptions, that's already specific enough for us to begin.
No. All we need is your question. We can support you in refining it during the initial workshop. You don’t need to share proprietary data to get value from our platform.
That’s what our Managed Service is for. Our research team runs the analysis and delivers insights to you directly.
AI & Human Expertise
No. We build AI systems that work with human experts, not instead of them. AI handles the grunt work—like processing and analyzing massive datasets—so you can focus on strategic decisions. That said, experts who do use AI tools will move faster and outperform those who don’t.
We use LLMs too—but we’ve built a platform that optimizes them specifically for technology scouting and evaluation. Think of it like the difference between an off-the-rack suit and a tailored one. Plus, ChatGPT can’t forecast. We can.
You get major efficiency gains. The platform lets you scout, compare, and landscape technologies fast. It summarizes patents, supports deep dives, and lets you interact with the data directly to answer complex questions.
Forecasting Approach
We use global patent data. While individual patents aren't predictive, the system as a whole forms a massive, structured dataset of technological progress. The hidden metrics in the patent citation network help us forecast which technologies are improving fastest—and those always win.
Not really. While there’s up to an 18-month delay between filing and publication, most (55%) publish within a year. More importantly, trends in patent data show up years—sometimes decades—before the general public catches on.
Because they measure popularity, not performance. Popular tech isn’t always good tech. Our analysis focuses on improvement rates hidden in patent citations—this is what lets us spot winning technologies before they take off.
Not yet. Scientific publications are harder to standardize and access. We plan to expand in this area, but for now, patents give us more than enough lead time for forecasting disruptive change.
Platform Capabilities
We use LLMs AI-powered patent analysis to surface relevant technologies, even from large or unfamiliar spaces. You can start with a broad question, and our system identifies what’s emerging, improving, or being adopted across domains.
Yes. We use TIR (Technology Improvement Rate) metrics derived from the patent citation network to compare how fast different technologies are improving. This is core to how we forecast.
TIR measures how quickly a technology is getting better, based on citation patterns within patent networks. Faster-improving tech is more likely to dominate in the future.
We map out the ecosystem around a particular technology—who’s working on it, what subdomains exist, where the activity is happening, and how fast things are moving.
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