Invention Loop
4 research articles on Invention Loop — drawn from 53 integrated data sources with computational validation.
Adjacent Is Not Preemptive: The Master Rule of Competitive Disproof
Approximately 40% of our disproof kills were false — the cited competitor does something adjacent, not identical. Raw dataset does not equal scoring API; language analysis does not equal scientific analysis. Learning to distinguish adjacency from preemption saved our best candidates from premature death.
The Data Plane Kills Ideas That Market Analysis Can't
Four invention candidates rated 'plausible' by web-search-based competitive analysis were instantly killed when tested against real warehouse data. The patent-clear composition finder's core anti-join produced false results because the canonical crosswalk was never built, patent formulas were stored as un-reduced supercells, and 12.4% of formula values were filesystem paths.
Products Survive, Compounds Die: What 120 Invention Candidates Taught Us
After evaluating 120+ invention candidates across 5 rounds of a structured generate-critique-disprove-audit cycle, we found that service/API ideas survived at ~27% while compound-level ideas survived at 0%. Every compound promotion was killed as prior art. The anti-portfolio reveals systematic patterns in what kills ideas.
Why the Most Important Problems Are the Worst Investments
Three domains scored 96-97/100 on priority and produced zero surviving candidates across 120+ evaluations. PFAS-free chrome fume suppression, rare-earth element separation, and PFAS-free immersion coolants all failed because funded incumbents captured the forcing-function budget before we arrived. The counterintuitive lesson: high priority is a warning, not a green light.