Ideas catalog
Every idea we've derived from recent research — the ones marked “Prototype” come with a live demo you can try.
A high-utility strategic tool that operationalizes sociological findings into a concrete data product for labor organizers, though it faces significant data acquisition hurdles.
Backed by 2 papers
A brain-training service that stops treatment if the patient isn't showing measurable improvement.
Backed by 2 papers
A focused workforce management tool that converts occupational health data into a scheduling constraint to reduce toxic exposure for traffic police.
Briefs that compare current economic shocks to similar events from U.S. history.
Backed by 2 papers
A survey index that tracks how the American public feels about nuclear threats for corporate security teams.
A high-precision diagnostic tool for a rare disease that shifts the focus from metabolite levels to functional protein modifications, offering a strong clinical wedge despite a small total addressable market.
A focused clinical decision-support tool that reduces ADHD misdiagnosis by enforcing multi-instrument screening for high-prevalence comorbidities.
Backed by 6 papers
A technically feasible but commercially thin research-infrastructure play that packages a single paper's methodology into an open-source toolkit for a niche academic market with no clear revenue engine.
A specialized benchmarking tool for water utilities that uses dimensionless numbers to enable fair, size-independent performance comparisons and operational knowledge transfer.
Backed by 2 papers
A classroom board where students can post in any language and teachers can see who is participating.
A library of design patterns for showing data to people while they are performing a physical task.
A calculator that helps engineers pick the right model size and wind speed for flight tests.
Backed by 4 papers
A logical application of GIS research that solves a real pain point, though it faces significant competition from incumbents who already possess the necessary data.
A chart picker for business tools that shows a few different options side-by-side with their pros and cons.
Backed by 2 papers
The idea is a direct duplicate of an existing catalog entry, offering no novel technical or commercial pivot.
Backed by 20 papers
A standards-aligned manufacturing software marketplace is a real need validated by solid EU research, but the idea is over-scoped, faces severe two-sided cold-start dynamics against entrenched incumbents (Siemens Xcelerator, PTC), and the ISA-95/RAMI 4.0 compliance wedge is more barrier than differentiator.
A tool for family businesses to calculate how much money they lose by keeping a property for social status.
A test for supplement brands to see how a person's body produces energy molecules after exercise.
Backed by 2 papers
A lab test for MS clinics to help doctors find the exact amount of exercise a patient needs for therapy.
Backed by 3 papers
A low-moat pedagogical toolkit that addresses a real gap in teacher implementation but lacks a scalable technical edge or a high-urgency commercial hook.