Products
A product is anything a company offers on the market: a device, a system, a chemical formulation, a piece of software or a service. It can be your own product or someone else's, e.g. a competitor's.
What matters most about a product is how it actually works, i.e. its features, its components and the steps it performs. Companies rarely spell that out in one place, so it has to be put together from product pages, datasheets and manuals. In Patalyze that description lives in the product doc, and the better it is, the more precise every analysis that builds on it becomes.
Adding products#
Products are the one kind of record that doesn't come from our corpora. Each product exists only in your database, found on the open web or created by you.
You can simply ask a research agent to find products for you. To do it yourself, click the plus button after the page tabs of your database and choose Products. From there you can run a deep web search or create a product by hand.
Deep web search#
A deep web search finds products by their features out on the open web. It looks for the pages where companies present the products, services and software they sell.
Describe the product in plain language in the Features filter, e.g. "a device with a sensor". Add a few filters to narrow the search, such as Category, Manufacturers or Territories, pick how many products you want and press Add products.
The search adds every match to your database as soon as it finds it, each as a product of its own with its name, its website and a short description. One search adds up to 100 products, and every product it finds uses some of your organization's AI & Data usage, at the rate listed on the pricing page.
Be aware that a search can miss matching products or include some that don't quite match. So it is worth checking what it found before you build on it.
Adding a product by hand#
If you already know the product, press Upload in the dialog. It creates an empty product and opens its page, where you give it a name, add its website and write or paste a description. Datasheets, brochures and photos go right into the product doc.
Researching a product#
A new product holds just what its search found or what you put in yourself. To learn how it actually works, ask a research agent to document it. The agent browses the product's own sources, such as its specification pages and datasheets, and saves what it finds. Then it writes a technical overview into the product doc, with each fact cited to its source.
The product doc#
Every product opens as a document on its own page, the product doc. It works like a note and holds the description of the product together with its source material. It is also what every mapping against the product reads. So a complete and clean doc makes every claim comparison that follows more precise.
An anode-free solid-state lithium cell built on a ceramic separator instead of a flammable liquid electrolyte: 5 Ah in a 84.5 by 65.6 by 4.6 mm pouch, over 844 Wh/L and 301 Wh/kg, charging from 10 to 80 per cent in about 12 minutes.
Type / inside the doc to add a block. Besides the usual text blocks, a few are made for the source material behind the product:
Drawing. A whiteboard to sketch a mechanism or a rough layout by hand.
Image. A picture with an optional caption, e.g. a product photo or a diagram.
Molecule. A chemical structure, e.g. an electrolyte additive.
File. A PDF or an Office document, e.g. a datasheet or a brochure. Agents can search its text and cite the exact paragraph a fact comes from.
Screenshot. A page an agent captured while it browsed, labeled with the site it came from, so you can trace the product back to its source.
The facts an agent writes into the doc are cited to the file they came from. Click a reference and the file opens with the cited paragraph highlighted, so you can check each statement against its source.
Attributes#
Beside the doc, a product has attributes for everything you want to know at a glance, e.g. its categories, manufacturers or territories. An agent that researches a product fills them from the sources, and you can add your own on a table. That way you can filter, group and chart many products at once.
Working with a product#
Every patent charted against the product is listed under its title, with the score of each charted claim. On a products table, your products are the rows and the patents the mapping columns, so you can compare a product across many patents.
Products belong to their database and have no public page, so only people with access to the database can open one. A database holds up to 1,000 products.