One of my favorite parts of being in-house counsel was meeting with inventors.

It was how I knew what the company was actually building and where the world was going.

The problem was the ratio. Each patent attorney supported orgs with thousands of engineers, so we could only ever meet a tiny fraction. We picked and chose, but mostly we guessed at the "hottest" areas.

There were really two problems stacked on top of each other. We didn't know where the gaps were. And even if we did, we didn't have the bandwidth to fill them.

The first one, knowing where the gaps are, is something we solved early at ArcPrime. Map your portfolio, see where you're deep, where you're thin, where the white space is, and you can finally have conviction about which areas of the org need your attention.

But conviction doesn't create more time. The second problem is bandwidth. You still have a portfolio to curate, office actions to manage, and deals to support. The map tells you where to go, but it doesn't get you there.

Last month, we launched AI-led inventor interviews. Point the system at the gaps your portfolio data is surfacing, and it will auto-interview the relevant parts of the org, ask for referrals to the right inventors, and surface what matters back to you. You stay in the loop for the people you want to build a relationship with: your VP Engs, your directors, the inventors whose work is shaping the next few years. The system covers everyone else.

Portfolios have been built on inventors who happened to grab time with you. Now it doesn't have to be.