You're judged on the future,
but your entire day is the present
GetFocus is a decision-intelligence system for high-stakes R&D technology bets.
We help CTOs, and R&D portfolio leaders decide which competing technical routes to: buy, monitor closely, phase out, ignore.
Trusted by global innovators.
Most organizations are built
to solve today's problems
You're the one expected to see what's coming next.
Without the time, the methods, or the safety net to do it well.
You're not behind,
the methods are
Every method available to you is build for a world that moves slower than technology does.
Management consulting
Their expertise is valuable, but a static deck or report can't keep up with a landscape that moves continuously.
Trend tools
They show what's popular. Not what's actually improving fastest.
Conferences
Valuable context. But you're still making career-defining bets without enough evidence.
From strategic intent to a board-ready decision — in five steps.
You define the question. We do everything from data through to interpretation, and keep the answer alive as the landscape moves.
The challenge
You bring the strategic question — in plain language. "Which battery chemistry wins for low-cost EVs?" Noassumptions required.
Mapping the landscape
Our Al agents scan and filter global patents to landscape every technology relevant to your challenge - including the ones not yet on your radar.
Measure what's improving
For each technology we compute Technology Improvement Rate and Technology Readiness Level - separating real momentum from hype.
Plot the decision
Every technology lands on a single board-ready view: where to act now, where to watch, where to phase out, what to ignore.
Keep it alive
Monthly summaries, quarterly executive reviews and trigger alerts when the signal crosses a threshold you care about.
From gut feel to
evidence-based technology bets
Three outcomes every engagement delivers. Measurable, defensible, and refreshed as your domain evolves.
Know which technologies matter
Cut through the noise and focus time, budget and attention on the few technologies most likely to shape your market.
Know what signals should trigger action
Use defined signals and thresholds to move from watching to investing at the right moment. Not too early, not too late.
Reduce strategic blind spots
Surface emerging threats and opportunities across industries before they hit your market.
Backtested against historical technology shifts
GetFocus measures Technology Improvement Rate (TIR) using global patent citation networks. For each technology, we build the patent landscape, then analyze the citation network to calculate the rate at which the technology is improving on cost and performance.
We saw the EV signal in 2003. Twenty years before the market did.
- The patent improvement signal for lithium-ion batteries was already pulling away from internal combustion in the early 2000s. The model could have called BEVs as the dominant chemistry years before automakers committed billions to hydrogen fuel cells.
An automotive OEM running this radar at the time would have been ahead of Tesla and BYD by a decade.
Online payments outpacing cash was visible in the patent data before PayPal had a name.
- Years before it became evident on the market, online payment technology was already improving much faster than offline.
The patent signal pointed clearly to online payments outpacing traditional methods as early as 1996, two years before PayPal launched, and well before the category pulled decisively ahead of cash.
The patent improvement signal called SSDs in the early 2000s. Laptops didn't catch up until 2018.
- SSDs had reached around 45% of notebook shipments in 2017, but HDDs still dominated entry-level models. A year later, SSDs crossed 50% for the first time and major OEMs began standardizing them even in mid-range laptops.
By 2019, SSD penetration had soared to roughly 74.5% of notebooks, the point at which spinning disks stopped being the norm in portable PCs.
Our forecasting model had detected signs of that disruption already in the early 2000s.
The combination that
consultants can't match.
The combination of smart algorithms with the individual commitment of the team from GetFocus provides essential insights for making informed strategic R&D investments and helps us innovate faster."
In a week with GetFocus, we achieved more than what we previously could in 9 months.
GetFocus accelerates our learning curve, helping us pinpoint where to direct our efforts more effectively. It's an invaluable tool for validating the insights of our in-house experts, ensuring that we can objectively assess new technologies"
Bring us one live technology decision
We'll run a Decision Sprint on your actual domain and come back with a board-ready answer in four to six weeks. Real decision, scoped together at kickoff, defensible call at the end.
