Services

Not every invention deserves the same investment. We evaluate technical maturity, IP position, market pull and competing alternatives, then give you a clear recommendation: pursue, partner, hold or release. You spend patent and marketing budget where it has the best chance of a return.

• Technology readiness and IP strength scoring
• Application and market-fit screening
• File / don't-file and patent-maintenance recommendations
• Portfolio prioritization for offices with large backlogs

Before you file, fund or pitch, find out who will buy, why, and at what price. We combine secondary research with interviews of the engineers, product managers and buyers who decide whether a technology gets adopted.

• Market sizing and segmentation
• Competitive landscape and substitute analysis
• Voice-of-customer and industry expert interviews
• Regulatory and standards pathways, where relevant

We turn technical disclosures into clear, non-confidential summaries and send them to the decision-makers most likely to license. These are researched targets, not a generic mailing list, and every response is tracked.

• Non-confidential marketing summaries and one-pagers
• Targeted licensee and partner identification
• Direct outreach campaigns with response tracking
• Qualified introductions handed to your team

When a prospect shows interest, we help you reach a fair deal quickly. That includes benchmarking value, framing terms both sides can accept and supporting negotiations, whether we're in the room or advising behind the scenes.

• Royalty and deal-term benchmarking
• Term sheet and deal-structure options
• Negotiation support
• Startup and spinout license structuring

Before you negotiate, invest or acquire, you need a defensible view of what a technology is worth and what could go wrong. We build valuations from market, cost and income perspectives. Every assumption is stated, so the number holds up in a negotiation or a board meeting.

• Technology and IP valuation (income, market and cost approaches)
• Royalty-rate and comparable-deal analysis
• Technical, market and IP due diligence
• Risk assessment and scenario modeling for licenses, spinouts and acquisitions

We help small businesses write commercialization plans that reviewers find credible, and then help them carry those plans out. We also deliver Technical and Business Assistance (TABA) services that can be funded through your SBIR/STTR award.

• Commercialization plans for Phase I and Phase II proposals
• TABA-funded market research and strategy
• Customer discovery and letter-of-support outreach
• Phase III and transition planning

Strong technology commercialization depends on the systems behind it: how inventions are disclosed, tracked, evaluated, marketed and reported. We bring a systems engineering and cybersecurity background to designing and building the processes and tools that let a small office work like a large one.

• Invention disclosure and intake workflows
• Portfolio tracking databases and dashboards
• Licensing and agreement process design
• Tools for identifying and disseminating innovations
• Secure, practical automation of routine office tasks

Gleam helps run workshops and provide hands-on support that leave your office stronger after the engagement ends. We have led commercialization workshops for federal staff and researchers. When you're short-staffed, Gleam can also take on the work directly.

• Commercialization workshops for researchers and inventors
• Staff training in triage, marketing and licensing
• Policy and metrics reviews for tech transfer offices
• Surge support for backlogs and vacancies