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01 / How Lapis Lumen works

From your first document to your weekly brief.

What happens after you tell Lapis Lumen what you are building, one step at a time.

  1. 01Build your project

    Add your project context.

    Your documents, research and priorities. That context tells the research agents what matters to you.

  2. 02Launch research agents

    Give each agent a mission.

    Project context says what you are building. A mission says what one agent investigates and which sources it monitors, for threats, opportunities and relevant developments.

  3. 03Track findings

    Review each finding, with its evidence.

    Patents, papers, trials, grants and company moves, each dated, with the urgent ones flagged. Save them, add them to a collection or download them for your team.

  4. 04Watch competitors over time

    Understand where you stand.

    Follow organizations through connected profiles and timelines. See how their progress changes the competitive landscape around your technology.

    The positioning field: 186 competitors plotted by project relevance against recent activity, with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute selected at 82 relevance, core and active.
  5. 05Your weekly brief

    Your agents keep monitoring.

    Your weekly brief brings the key developments together.

    The latest weekly retrospective: liver-editing overlap increased, three alerts on architecture collision, editor safety and target crowding, each with its sources, and 850 records read, 8 promoted and 2 moved this window.
02 / The advantage

How Lapis Lumen gives you the advantage.

Each one, shown as it happens in the product.

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    Coverage

    It reads far beyond the sources you already check.

    Research agents read patent offices, preprint servers and trial registries around the world, including filings in other languages. Here, Atlas surfaces a Korean filing on your process route that uses none of your search terms.

    1.6B+ records indexed
    Urgent2h agoKIPO
    Northwind Therapeutics files device claims on your process route in Korea
    KR 10-2026-0091 447 · filed in Korean
    Why this matters to you

    Different vocabulary, same technical route. None of your search terms appear in it.

    From:AtlasSurfaced anyway
  2. 02
    Connection

    It works out who is really behind a filing.

    Lapis Lumen links applicants, inventors, addresses and registry records to the organizations behind them.

    Filed elsewhere, resolved to the parent
    Assignee
    Kestrel Process Labs GmbH
    Applicant
    Kestrel Process Labs GmbH
    Inventors
    Lena BRANDT · Tomas OKAFOR
    Resolved by Lapis Lumen
    Kestrel Process LabsSubsidiary
    Northwind TherapeuticsTracked competitor
    • RegistryAssignment recorded to Northwind, Mar 2026
    • InventorsBoth also named on Northwind filings
    • AddressRegistered at Northwind's Basel site
    • Claims3 overlap claims Northwind filed in the US
    Teach Atlas, what made this useful, or off the mark?

    Goes straight to Atlas. It learns from your feedback to sharpen what it surfaces next.

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    Onboarding in six minutes, not six months.

    Onboarding
    6 minutesnot6 months

    Drop in your documents and Lapis Lumen reads them, maps the research and organizations around your work, raises the first IP and risk flags and deploys your first research agents.

    Measured across three onboardings
    New project
    CContinuous biomanufacturing
    00:00
    elapsed
    • 6 documents read
    • 22 domains, 152 research items, 20 entities
    • 11 IP and risk flags raised
    • 3 research agents deployed
    • First finding delivered
    Building projectNo procurement
  4. 04
    Relevance

    It learns your technology from your own documents.

    Lapis Lumen builds a digital twin of your technology: the core problem, its key terms and the methods around it. Every new record is judged against it, so a paper with your method is kept, and a keyword not in your field is filtered out.

    Relevance judged against your program
    New projectDrop your documents
    • Process patent draft
    • Pilot line roadmap
    • Q3 research priorities
    Project ready
    Project breakdownbuilt from 3 documents
    Core problem

    Make biologics in one continuous enzymatic process, without batch purification between steps.

    Key terms
    • continuous biomanufacturing
    • biocatalysis
    • flow bioprocessing
    • pilot line
    • downstream purification
    • one-pot synthesis
    Thermostable enzyme cascades enable selective single-vessel conversion
    Judging against your projectKept · same method as one-pot synthesis, different words
    Biocatalysis course notes for first-year chemistry students
    Judging against your projectFiltered out · keyword match, wrong field
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