MARKET RESEARCH
Patent radar: scan USPTO publications for a company watch-list and file research cards
Each morning, crawls newly published USPTO patent applications for every company on your watch-list, summarizes the strategic signal.
How it runs
The automated pipeline, trigger to output.
- TriggerDaily schedule fires
- ActionCrawl USPTO new filings per watch-list companyFirecrawl
- LogicDrop filings already seen (dedupe by publication number)
- ActionSummarize strategic signal and score 1-5OpenAI
- OutputFile research card to AirtableAirtable
What it does
Watches the USPTO public patent feed for new applications and grants assigned to any company on your competitive watch-list. For each hit, it extracts the abstract and claims, asks an LLM to judge what the filing reveals about the company's R&D direction, and writes a tidy research card to Airtable with a strategic-signal score.
When to use it
When you track a fixed set of competitors or acquisition targets and want to know the moment one of them files in a new technical area, without manually checking the patent office.
How it works
- 1A daily schedule fires the run.
- 2For each watch-list company, Firecrawl crawls the USPTO published-applications search results and pulls the new filing pages.
- 3A logic step filters out filings already seen (by publication number) so only new ones continue.
- 4OpenAI summarizes each filing's abstract and claims into a one-paragraph strategic read and a 1-5 signal score.
- 5New research cards are written to Airtable — company, filing title, date, signal, summary, and source link.
Set it up
What you configure once, before turning it on.
- 1Connect FirecrawlCrawl, scrape, structured extract.
- 2Connect OpenAIModels, embeddings, files.
- 3Connect AirtableBases, tables, views, automations.
- 4Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
- 5Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
- 6Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.
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