72,000 patents are filed every week. Your team can't read all of them.
Lapis deploys autonomous researchers that surface threats, opportunities, and blind spots across the patents, research papers, and competitor news in your field.
Pick the field you work in.
Lapis prefills your scouts with sources, ontologies, and the right watchlist for your industry.
Sample output. Production scouts run against your private roadmap, IP, and watchlist.
FOR STARTUPS
You're making million-dollar decisions on a fraction of the available science.
Most teams find out too late. That's not bad luck. It's a volume problem.
Patents publish 18 months after filing. The science behind them was happening years before that. 6,000 papers a day, 72,000 patents a week. No team on earth is reading even one percent of it.
The filing that blocks your prosecution path was submitted 18 months ago. You'll find out in due diligence.
The lab that's 14 months ahead of your program published in March. Nobody on your team saw it.
The NIH just funded your competitor's next two years of research. It's public record. You didn't know.
A rival's filing just narrowed the approval path your program depends on. It sat in a public docket for months.
The startup that just announced in your space wasn't stealth. They were just publishing in places you weren't watching.
The result that reshapes your roadmap won't be peer-reviewed for a year. It's already posted. The race started without you.
Lapis runs a team of scouts on your field.
A scout is a research agent that reads one kind of source, all day, and never gets tired. Together they learn your program, read the new science, rank what is relevant to you, and send a short brief.
Scouts learn what you're working on, in private.
Share your roadmap, IP portfolio, and watchlist. Scouts privately index it and learn what counts as real news for your team, and what doesn't.
They read the full document, not the headline.
USPTO, EPO, CIPO, IP Australia, KIPO. bioRxiv, ChemRxiv, arXiv. Grant registries, conference disclosures, trial filings. Not headlines. The full document.
They score every finding against your program.
Every patent, paper, grant, and filing lands in one feed, scored by how much it matters to you. The most important ones rise to the top.
They send you a short brief, as often as every day.
A short brief, on a schedule you set, as often as every day. Each finding cites its sources, explains why it matters to your program, and suggests the next step a researcher would take.
The most powerful part: they work for you every day, even when you’re not looking. While your BD lead is on a plane and your CEO is in board meetings, Lapis is reading the 6,000 papers that dropped overnight.
Here’s what that looks like.
Not a list of links. A brief, with reasoning, sources, and a clear next step. The output of an entire research team that ran through the night, distilled to what actually matters for your program.
Lapis·BriefHelix Therapeutics is 14 months ahead on hepatic-tropic LNP delivery.
A continuation filed last Thursday (USPTO 18/421,887) overlaps claims 3–7 of your LNP-7 prosecution path. Cross-referenced against a March bioRxiv preprint and a $1.8M NIH R01 from the same lab. This isn’t a one-off filing, it’s a coordinated program.
If granted as filed, claims 3–7 would constrain your hepatic delivery program in US and EU markets, directly affecting your Q3 prosecution plan.
Review claims 3–7 against your prosecution strategy. We’ve flagged two prior-art references they may have missed, both linked in the full brief.
Patent offices. Research databases. Industry signals.
Patents, papers, and industry signals, ingested the moment they publish. The set below is a live sample; we bring new feeds and jurisdictions online every week.
USPTO+7K/week
EPO+2.2K/week
WIPO+5.5K/week
KIPO+4K/week
JPO+6K/week
IP Australia+550/week
CIPO+495/week
arXiv+6.5K/week
PubMed+30K/week
Semantic Scholar+50K/week
OpenAlex+125K/week
bioRxiv+1.2K/week
CORE+65K/week
Europe PMC+22K/week
Hacker News+40K/week
Product Hunt+300/week
TechCrunch+200/week
Y Combinator+12/week
Google News+50K/weekChatGPT is great if you know what to ask. The hard part is knowing what you don't know.
Once you know about a specific patent, anyone can summarize it. Finding it in the first place, across millions of documents, in 18-month-old data, before it shows up anywhere obvious, is the job Lapis does.
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