MARKET RESEARCH
Emerging Tech Signal to Linear for Roadmap Review
Weekly, scans for patents in adjacent and emerging technology areas your team is not yet tracking, flags genuinely novel directions.
How it runs
The automated pipeline, trigger to output.
- TriggerWeekly schedule starts the scan
- ActionSearch adjacent and emerging tech areasExa
- LogicFilter to genuinely novel directions
- ActionDraft signal summary and roadmap questionOpenAI
- OutputOpen triage issue in Linear backlogLinear
What it does
Looks beyond your core watch terms for filings in adjacent or emerging areas that signal a new direction worth a product conversation. It filters out incremental noise, keeps only filings that represent a meaningfully new approach, and opens a Linear issue with the finding and a suggested roadmap question for triage.
When to use it
Use it when you want patent activity to feed your product process directly, surfacing new technology vectors as actionable items rather than passive reading. Good for product and innovation teams who run a regular roadmap review.
How it works
- 1A weekly schedule starts the scan.
- 2Exa searches adjacent and emerging technology areas around your core space.
- 3A logic step filters to filings that signal a genuinely novel direction.
- 4OpenAI drafts a short signal summary and a roadmap question for each kept item.
- 5The Linear step opens a triage issue per signal in your product team's backlog.
Set it up
What you configure once, before turning it on.
- 1Connect ExaNeural search across the web.
- 2Connect OpenAIModels, embeddings, files.
- 3Connect LinearIssues, projects, cycles, triage.
- 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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