KURVE · Engineering direction intelligence
KURVE reads patents, research and regulation by physics, not keywords, and hands your CTO the few technology shifts worth committing R&D to. Each one is traceable to an equation, before a single rupee or dollar is committed.
Biomedical tissue engineering → Residential thermal elements
Emerging · Murray’s lawAerospace avionics → Consumer fan motors
Growing · Capacitive sensingUndersea telecom cable → Wires & cables
Emerging · MicroencapsulationThe real problem
of engineering and R&D leaders have watched costs rise significantly in the past three years.
of R&D executives warn they could lose substantial market share within five years.
lost globally each year on projects that were technically viable but strategically misaligned.
Source: KURVE Product Need Assessment, 2026, drawing on industry R&D leadership surveys.
How KURVE works
Most intelligence ends as a report that nobody acts on. KURVE ends in a decision your team makes, and in work that starts straight away.
Scans patents, journals and regulation across industries and releases the five signals that matter, every week.
Turns a signal into an Engineering Opportunity Case: the principle, the equation and the product lines it touches.
Tests the case against first-principles physics, S-curve maturity, competitor filings and revenue at risk.
Your team promotes or dismisses. Promote, and a KRAFT Discovery Sprint opens pre-seeded, with no context re-entered.
Inside a signal
A signal is only useful if your CTO can ask why it matters and get an answer in engineering terms. Each Engineering Opportunity Case carries its principle, its evidence and its exposure.
Illustrative case. Fields shown are the ones every case carries.
Proof in a scenario
An illustrative scenario for a consumer-electricals manufacturer deciding where to redesign thermal management ahead of its next capex cycle.
A report confirms smart home is a growing trend. It is accurate, and no use for deciding where to redesign thermal management before the next capex cycle. Six months of workshops follow. The call is made on intuition.
A quarterly brief flags micro-channel cooling geometries from aerospace as viable for fans and air conditioners under voltage-fluctuation stress. Three patent families cited. A competitor filing flagged. Revenue at risk quantified. A Discovery Sprint ready in one click.
Where others stop
Each of these tools answers part of the question. None of them connects the signal to the physics, and none of them ends in work your engineers can start.
Built for IP attorneys. Precise and legalistic, and cut off from business context.
Read filings and earnings calls. By then the signal is years old.
Polished and subjective. No equation-level detail and no link to execution.
Built for the CTO. Backed by physics. Ends in a sprint, not a slide.
Do you need this?
Every R&D leader carries these. If you pause on two of them, your roadmap is leaning on intuition.
Which technology shifts in other industries will matter to your roadmap in three years, and who is watching them?
When three directions compete for one R&D budget, can you show why one wins in physics, not opinion?
Do you know where each of your core technologies sits on its S-curve?
Would you see a competitor's filing in an adjacent field before it becomes a product?
Can you trace each roadmap bet back to a source, an equation and a decision?
When a signal is real, how many weeks pass before engineers start working on it?
Built for
KURVE is built for the CTO, and it is used by the people who help the CTO decide.
The few technology shifts worth committing R&D to, with the physics behind each.
A shared, weekly view of where the portfolio is exposed and where it can lead.
Competitor filings flagged against your product lines, tied to the principle they rely on.
Promoted signals arrive as sprints with the context already in place.
Evidence and control
Every claim resolves to a patent number, a peer-reviewed publication or a first-principles equation, and KURVE is deployed in your private cloud, so your roadmap stays yours.
Open any signal and see the source and the equation. Your engineers can test the reasoning, not just read the conclusion.
Your team promotes or dismisses every signal. KURVE proposes the direction and people decide.
Deployed in your private cloud, so the decisions on your roadmap stay inside your organisation.
The KREAT flow
KURVE is the upstream layer. A promoted signal opens a KRAFT sprint, and validated concepts continue into KOMPOSE.
Questions
Patent tools are built for attorneys and analyst reports are built for general audiences. KURVE reads by physics, ties each signal to an equation and your product lines, and ends in a decision your engineers can act on.
KURVE decides what enters R&D and KRAFT decides how to solve it. When your team promotes a signal, a KRAFT Discovery Sprint opens pre-seeded, with no context re-entered.
KURVE releases the five signals that matter every week, and can compile a quarterly brief for leadership decisions.
KURVE is deployed in your private cloud, so your roadmap stays yours.
The decision on your desk this quarter. We will show you the signal, the physics behind it and the sprint it triggers.
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