Choose a question for Nova.

Patentability check

Get an early orientation on what looks promising, what may stand in the way, and what would make your idea stronger.

Feasibility check

Surface the assumptions, constraints, and cheapest tests that separate a compelling concept from a workable invention.

Invention maturity

Find the line between a goal, a feature request, and a mechanism someone skilled in the field could understand and reproduce.

Novelty and inventive step

See what looks familiar, what may be distinctive, and whether the combination appears more than an obvious next step to a skilled person.

Technology frontier

Structure the benchmarks and references you already know, then identify the comparisons and evidence needed to map the frontier.

Brainstorm with Nova

Bring an idea, product, goal, hypothesis, document, or something you already know. Nova will help you find the question that moves it forward.

For founders

Separate pitch-deck claims from real barriers: patents, secrets, data, workflow lock-in, learning curves, and speed that compounds.

Prototype readiness

Separate what the prototype demonstrates from what is still assumed, then choose the next practical test.

Protection strategy

Weigh protection, disclosure, enforceability, and secrecy so you can prepare the right questions for counsel.

For product teams

Describe the product, how it works, and what your team changed. IPGuru maps potential invention territory and what may be better kept secret.

Product improvement

Turn customer friction, failure modes, and adjacent technologies into ranked improvement directions, then identify which may be protectable.

Process opportunity

Find the bottleneck, handoff, hazard, or waste stream where one controlled change could matter most.

Team opportunity map

Turn recurring problems your team can observe into opportunity territories and discovery questions.

Experiment priority

Compare ideas by evidence, risk, learning value, test cost, reversibility, and strategic fit.

Sustainable design

Explore lower-material, lower-energy, longer-life, repair, reuse, and recovery directions without hiding lifecycle trade-offs.

Inclusive design

Surface barriers and adaptable directions to review with the people currently poorly served.

For students

Turn a curious idea into a testable question, safe method, and result you can explain proudly, while keeping the work yours.

Capstone potential

Separate what the capstone demonstrates academically from what needs further evidence, ownership review, and development.

Mechanism explorer

Turn a wish into a step-by-step mechanism a builder could follow, then surface the least-understood step.

For teachers

Turn a learning objective or real-world problem into an age-appropriate, open-ended challenge that gives students room to investigate, invent, test, and explain their decisions.

Young inventor mentoring

Get questions, boundaries, and achievable support actions that keep the idea and decisions with the young inventor.

Community challenge

Frame a shared problem with affected people before proposing solutions, success measures, or stewardship.

For graduates and career changers

Your CV is a map of systems, tools, and problems you have encountered. Turn that experience into directions worth exploring.

Workaround opportunity

Turn repeated frontline friction and tacit know-how into a problem pattern worth investigating.

Research translation

Connect a reproducible result to plausible uses, translation gaps, and the next evidence needed outside the lab.