Research Articles
Materials science articles written from our data: kill reports on approaches that failed, methods, and state-of-technology landscapes. Auto-generated compound data profiles are listed separately under their own filter.
3 articles in Meta-Analysis
Adjacent Is Not Preemptive: The Master Rule of Competitive Disproof
Many of our audited disproof kills did not hold up on review — the cited competitor often did 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.
Read articleProducts 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.
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