Where is the technology going?
Patents are the earliest signal.
A trajectory engine that reads where the technology is heading from the publication record, 18 to 36 months ahead of analyst reports.
Technology roadmaps built on analyst reports lag the actual innovation front by two to three years. The earliest available signal of where a technology is heading is the patent publication record ... before products ship, before papers are published, before market intelligence picks it up. Kwintely reads the trajectory from the publications.
The board wants your R&D platform thesis for the next five years. Your strategy team built it from analyst reports and internal expert interviews. Both describe what was happening 18 months ago. The bet you make today competes against the technology trajectory of three years from now, and the earliest signal of that trajectory is already in the patent record.
Before Kwintely vs With Kwintely
Teams already using Kwintely for Foresight & Technology Trends
From description to result in three steps
Define the technology horizon
Describe the technology domain and the strategic question: where is this going? What should we be working on in three years?
Kwintely maps the publication trajectory
Trend analysis across patents, science, and clinical trials ... sub-field clustering, growth curves, cross-domain signals.
Strategic foresight report
Technology trend map with emerging sub-fields, whitespace zones, and cross-domain signals ... formatted for executive and board-level use.
Four artifacts, one search
Trajectory chart (PNG / SVG)
Publication growth across sub-domains over a configurable horizon, drop into your strategy deck.
Boardroom PDF report
Trend map with emerging sub-fields, whitespace zones, cross-domain signals, board-ready narrative.
BibTeX of cited publications
For appendix references in the strategy document or grant proposal.
Re-runnable saved search
Refresh next quarter; the trend curve updates with the index.
What teams ask before they sign.
How far ahead can foresight see?
Foresight projects from observable publication trajectories, typically a 3 to 5 year readable horizon. Beyond that, signals are too sparse for confidence. The strength is the early end: publications from 6 to 18 months ago are typically 18 to 36 months ahead of when the underlying technology hits press, market intelligence, or analyst reports.
Is the output ready for counsel review?
Every result includes the source document, publication date, similarity score, and the relevant passage quoted verbatim. The output is structured the way an associate-led search would be: ranked, cited, exportable. The AI is a mapping engine; the documents it surfaces are real. Counsel still makes the legal call; Kwintely does the search and citation prep.
How does this fit with my existing patent firm?
Most teams run Kwintely before engaging counsel, to scope the work and narrow the candidate set, then walk into the review with the search prep already done. Counsel spends their hours on judgement and the legal opinion, not on assembling the candidate list.
What about pricing and lock-in?
Three ways to work with Kwintely: the self-serve SaaS platform, scoped research-service projects where our team runs the analysis for you, or the API and MCP data layer for your own tools. Full output runs on a paid plan, the free tier is for trying basic searches, not complete deliverables. See the pricing page for current plans and terms.
Run the experiment, not the procurement.
Build your first foresight report, for the board meeting next quarter.
Counsel still signs off
Kwintely produces the structured search; your firm keeps ownership of the legal opinion. Nothing about your existing relationship has to change.
Run it on a real case
Pick the technology you'd already pay counsel to clear. Compare what Kwintely returns against what your firm would charge for. Decide on the second case, not the first.
No lock-in
Free tier covers the first basic experiment. Full output on paid plans. Fixed monthly fee on the way up. The cost of the test is one search.
See Foresight & Technology Trends in action.
Build your first foresight report, for the board meeting next quarter.