Prove your idea for free. Pay only when it is worth protecting.

From a raw idea to a filing-ready patent, guided.

IPGuru takes you from the spark of an invention to a complete, file-ready patent package through one guided conversation. No patent training required. A crew of AI colleagues does the work, and shows you why.

Whether you are starting from scratch or improving a product you already have, IPGuru guides you to the right outcome, a patent, or a trade secret when that fits better.

verified Every answer is grounded in your project's own research, with sources.
BUILT FOR INVENTORS, FOUNDERS, AND MAKERS
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The problem

Most good ideas never reach the patent office

Patents are slow, expensive, and written in a language inventors do not speak. Most people with a genuinely novel idea never protect it, because the first step costs thousands and the process is opaque.

$15k+
Typical cost of taking one invention to filing with an attorney from scratch.
Months
From idea to a draft an attorney can actually work with, done the old way.
Most
Novel ideas that never get protected at all, because starting is too hard.

How it works

The FORGE Journey

Five phases that name the work you actually do. Focus and Observe are free: tell your idea and find out whether it is worth pursuing. Upgrade a project to unlock the build.

Free
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Focus

Get the idea down: what it is, the problem it solves, and who it is for.

Free
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Observe

Find out whether it is worth pursuing: market, competitors, an early patentability read.

Upgrade
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Refine

Build it out: pictures first, a derived description, the draft, and the claims.

Upgrade
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Grade

Find out how strong it is: deep prior art, patentability, and a mock examination.

Upgrade
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Execute

Produce the application and the filing package, ready for your attorney or self-filing.

Start from anywhere

A blank page, or a product that already exists

Every invention starts somewhere. Begin greenfield from a fresh idea, or brownfield from what is already out there, uploading your source material to your vault or pointing IPGuru at an existing website. Either way, IPGuru moves you toward genuine novelty, not a copy.

eco GREENFIELD

A fresh idea from a blank page

Nothing but a spark. IPGuru helps you shape it into something genuinely new.

emoji_objects Solve a problem you keep running into
hub Span multiple domains or professions
science Leverage a new material or technology
auto_awesome Draw on inspiration from anywhere
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Start from what already exists

Take a real product, in your vault or on the web, and push it past today's state of the art.

tune Optimise: make one meaningfully better
add_box New feature: add a capability it lacks
merge Blend two products into something new
category Draw on a whole category, not one product

A crew, not a control panel

Meet the people who do the work

You talk to Nova. She coordinates a crew of specialists and never makes you manage them. When patent work begins, the patent team joins.

N

Nova

Coordinator and guide
V

Vega

Coach, PIVOT coordinator
C

Cora

Research librarian
I

Iris

Publisher
K

Kira

Creative director
S

Sean

Your project expert

The patent team, tuned to your filing country

Specialists matched to the country where you will file. They get to work early, running your first prior art checks. Direct chat with them opens once you upgrade to a paid project.

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Noor

Patent advisor, chat from Silver
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Remy

Patent draft writer, chat from Bronze
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Yuki

Virtual examiner, chat from Bronze

What you get

Real deliverables, not advice

Not tips about patents, but the documents themselves, produced, scored against a rubric, and made better on request.

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A grounded knowledge base

Every project builds its own cited body of research automatically. Answers carry their sources, so you always see why.

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The imaging loop

Picture your invention before you describe it. React to concept images, then the written description is derived from the ones you keep.

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A mock examination

A virtual examiner attacks your claims like a real office action, and the draft writer proposes amendments until they hold.

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Plain-English reading

Every draft ships with a jargon-free companion that explains what each claim covers and why it matters.

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The attorney binder

One download that gives an attorney everything to review and file: draft, prior art, claims strategy, drawings, and more.

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A project scorecard

A single, honest read on how ready your invention is, from market strength to filing readiness, updated as you go.

Image generation, built in

Picture it before you describe it

Most inventors can see their idea but cannot write it in patent language. So the pictures come first. Kira, the creative director, generates concept images straight from your conversation. You react, keep, and vary, and the written physical description is derived from the images you accept. Accepted images become your patent figures.

Change the lens at any time. The visual style presets, sketch, product photo, exploded view, in-use scene, and patent line art, are one tap each. A figure pack turns your accepted images into numbered, labelled drawings for the filing.

Grounded knowledge and FrameGraph

A knowledge base for every project,
and a canvas to see it

Every project builds its own cited knowledge base automatically, from your material and the crew's research. Ask it anything and get an answer grounded in your own evidence, never guessed. Then frame what you know through the FrameGraph.

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Ask your project

Answers draw only on your project's base and carry their sources, so you always see why.

How does our cam seal differ from the closest prior art?
verified Grounded in your knowledge base, 3 sources
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Frame it with FrameGraph

Pick a framework from a library of 58, then view your knowledge as text, a network, a treemap, a timeline, or a table.

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The vault

Bring anything. It becomes knowledge.

Drop your material into your project's private vault and IPGuru turns it into cited, searchable knowledge. The engine is multi-modal, so it reads far more than text.

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Documents

PDFs, Word, notes, specs, and datasheets, ingested and summarised into your base.

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YouTube and video

Give it a YouTube link and it transcribes the video automatically, then indexes the transcript.

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Images

Uploaded pictures are described on ingestion, with any text read out of them, so a sketch becomes searchable.

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Links and audio

Point it at a web page or drop in audio; pages are captured as clean text and audio is transcribed.

Every file is scanned on the way in. Anything unsafe is quarantined before it reaches your base, and your originals stay in the vault alongside the processed version. Your knowledge base is private to your project.

A worked example

AquaCycle, from idea to filing pack

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A closed-loop shower that recycles its own water in real time.

It began as a sentence. Through the free discovery loop it became a validated idea with a market read and an early patentability check. On upgrade, the crew built the figures, derived the description, drafted the claims, and hardened them through a mock examination. Here is what the inventor walked away with.

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folder_special Filing pack and attorney binder Execute

Who it is for

Built for the person with an idea

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Solo inventors

Turn a notebook of ideas into protected, licensable assets.

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You have the idea and the drive, but not a patent budget or a law degree. IPGuru gives you the whole process, guided, so you can protect what you invent without spending thousands just to find out whether it is worth it.

  • check Validate every idea for free before you pay anything
  • check A complete, attorney-ready draft instead of a blank page
  • check Cut legal costs to a fraction of the usual bill
  • check A patent-pending asset you can license or raise on
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Startups

Build a defensible moat before a competitor can copy the core.

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Investors ask about IP, and speed matters. IPGuru helps you document the invention, validate patentability, and draft claims broad enough for a moat but tight enough to hold, fast.

  • check Move from idea to filing quickly
  • check A claims strategy that protects the core technology
  • check Due-diligence-ready materials for your raise
  • check The attorney binder to fast-track professional review
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SMEs

Protect a process or product without a five-figure legal bill.

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You have developed something genuinely better, and competitors are watching. IPGuru helps you choose between a patent and a trade secret, then protects it at a price a small business can justify.

  • check Patent it, or protect the improvement as a trade secret
  • check A competitive moat for a fraction of the usual cost
  • check Per-project pricing, no subscription
  • check Grounded prior art and market reads to back the decision
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Students

Take a science-fair project to the next level, in plain language.

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You do not need to know what a patent is. IPGuru explains every term inline, reads at a grade-8 level, and walks you from an idea to a real invention disclosure, encouragingly, with no dead ends.

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  • check Every patent term explained inline
  • check A tangible, validated output to keep
  • check Free to explore, and your project waits if you return
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Research labs

Turn research output into protected, transferable IP.

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Labs generate novel results that too often go unprotected. IPGuru helps you assess patentability, run rigorous prior art, and prepare a filing-ready package the tech-transfer office and attorney can act on.

  • check Rigorous, cited prior art across patents and literature
  • check A structured patentability read and scorecard
  • check An attorney binder ready for tech transfer
  • check A multi-modal vault that ingests papers, data, and more

New to patents?

Understand the system before you file

Why patents matter, how the global system works, and how the rules differ from Singapore to the USPTO to the international PCT route. Plain language, no jargon.

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SG · IPOS

Singapore

Our launch market
US · USPTO

United States

Duty of candor
EP · EPO

Europe

One filing, many states
PCT

International

158 countries

Outcomes

What inventors do with it

"I arrived at my attorney with a complete draft instead of a blank page. It cut the hours, and the bill, to a fraction."

SI
Solo inventor
Wearable device

"Two of my three ideas failed validation for free. The third passed, and I filed a provisional the same month."

MK
Side-project inventor
Aftermarket accessory

"I finally understood what a claim is, because it showed me my own invention in plain language next to the formal version."

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Illustrative examples of the kinds of outcomes the product is designed to support.

Questions

Frequently asked

Is it really free to start? add
Yes. Every account is free, and the whole Focus and Observe loop, telling your idea, researching the market, and getting an early patentability read, costs nothing. You only pay when you upgrade a specific project to build the application.
Does this replace a patent attorney? add
No. IPGuru complements attorneys. It lets you arrive with a well-structured, substantive draft rather than a blank page, which lowers the attorney's hours and your total cost. You keep authority over every output.
What do I actually walk away with? add
Real documents: an invention disclosure, prior art findings, concept figures, drafted claims, a mock examination, a plain-English reading, and a single attorney binder ready for review or self-filing.
Which countries can I file in? add
Singapore national filing at launch, through IPOS, via our local site invent.sg. More jurisdictions and international routes are on the roadmap.
How is my idea kept private? add
Each project's knowledge base is private to you. Files you upload are scanned and kept in your vault, and unsafe items are quarantined before anything enters your base.

From idea to invention, faster.
Without having to learn how.

Start a project, tell Nova your idea, and see how far it goes. Validation is free.

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No credit card to validate. Pay per project only when you are ready to build.