Bring clarity to your innovation,
with accessible patent intelligence
2 earlier patents overlap strongly on your core features. 12 more touch every feature loosely. Read the close ones first.
Built differently on purpose
Patents are one of the largest public sources of technical knowledge.
But it's locked behind legal jargon, classification codes and complex search tools.
Invisible innovation
If you are not an IP professional, it is very hard to search and understand this information.
Wasted capital
The result is waste: duplicated research, money spent filing patents that already exist, time spent developing what has already been invented.
Universal access
Most current tools are too complex or too expensive. We are here to fix that and democratize access to patents.
Take a guess. The answers might surprise you.
How much of the world's technical knowledge is found only in patents?
System for a solid-state battery comprising at least one solid-state electrochemical cell.
One platform to navigate
millions of patents.
A patent intelligence platform that handles both the search and the analysis, across 164 million patents from 106 offices worldwide. Made credible and traceable for experts, simple enough for anyone else.
Novelty check - Is this startup claim or invention actually new? Available now
Patent landscape - Who owns this space and what is being filed? Available now - beta
Freedom to operate - Are we free to back, build, and commercialize this? Coming soon
Analysis of existing IP - How defensible is a patent that already exists? Available now
Who needs patent knowledge?
People who decide what to back.
VC funds, startup accelerators, angels and innovation programs. Faster, cheaper validation, before you commit to due diligence.
were filed worldwide in 2024.
Beyond gut feeling.
An independent read on how original an idea really is, not instinct.
A wider net.
Assess more projects with less risk of passing on something that mattered, and be the first to know.
Read the trends.
See what is moving across a whole field, not just the deal in front of you.
From idea to answer in minutes
Turn on auto mode to let the engine generate your structured report instantly from your description.
1. You describe the claim, patent, or invention.
Paste a startup's technical claim, enter a filed patent number, or describe an invention in your own words. Scout IP translates it into the language patent databases understand, so nothing about the technology gets lost.
2.Review & fine-tune parameters.
Scout IP extracts your technical features, semantic keywords, and CPC classifications. Review or fine-tune them to guide the search engine before launching the analysis.
3. Search and iteration.
Scout IP searches by meaning across a library of 164M patents, indexing a technology field the first time somebody looks there - so a patent describing your idea in different words still surfaces. It follows its best hits into neighbouring fields, then reads the closest matches feature by feature. Leave the page and it runs in the background.
4. Get your report.
Clear and traceable, showing what is close to your idea and why. A starting point you can act on, not a verdict.
Your invention stays yours
Whether you are evaluating a confidential deal deck, an R&D disclosure, or a new invention, we treat your data with the same care you do. Privacy is not a setting you turn on, it is how Scout IP is built.
We never train on your ideas.
Your description runs your search and stays with it, so you can open it again - and you can delete it whenever you want. It never trains any AI model, ever.
Encrypted, start to finish.
Encrypted before it is written to disk. Add a passphrase and its key is derived in your browser and never reaches us, so nobody at Scout IP can open your description - us included.
Nothing left behind.
Uploaded documents are processed exclusively in volatile memory. They are never written to persistent storage and are destroyed right after the analysis.
Your data stays in Europe.
Processed and stored in the EU under GDPR. The AI analysis runs in Google's European region. Four processors sit outside the EU: the meaning fingerprints the search compares, the emails we send you, the public patent library, and the reports we prepare for organisations. The privacy policy names each one.
Great ideas deserve
a clear path.
See it, then try it yourself. Book a 20-minute walkthrough with the team and leave with free tokens to run your own searches.
“As an early-stage tech startup, we used Scout to check whether our idea was new. Along the way, we also discovered new competitors and got a clearer picture of which features we should focus on in development.”
of a customer's manual prior-art research, replaced by a search that finishes in under ten minutes.
read in full on every search, chosen from a field of hundreds of thousands.
of the indexed corpus is searched in a language the engine reads - Chinese patents arrive already translated.
Why not a general AI?
Evidence you can open
Every finding maps to a real document, and we quote it word for word.
Official registry access
We search 164 million patents from 106 offices, and walk the CPC classification tree ourselves.
Structured and repeatable
The same description gives the same analysis, laid out the same way, with every finding traceable to its source.
The answer comes back in one of three shapes:
IllustrationCan you perform a comprehensive prior art search for my invention?
A general assistant
I may produce patent numbers and titles that sound right and exist nowhere.
An assistant with web search
I search the web, but not the official registries (USPTO, EPO) or the full CPC trees.
An assistant with a long context
I can read what you give me, but not search millions of filings for what you have not seen.