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Post a Need. Our Agents Find, Verify, Price & Close.

Companies don't buy patents — they buy solutions. Post an Innovation Order and IEM's agent stack scans 600M+ patents and papers, matches verified innovations, prices them instantly, and closes in escrow. If it doesn't exist yet, we scope the build.

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MATCH ENGINE · ORD-2214 SCANNING 600M+ DOCS
Live Order Book

Demand, on the tape.

Every open corporate need — anonymized, machine-readable, and being matched right now. Innovators and agents alike can read the book and respond.

Open orders: 47 Matched this month: $18.4M Median time to first proposal: 36h
Order ID Sector Need Budget Band Route Status Matches
ORD-2214 AI / ML Real-time defect detection for high-speed packaging lines $250K–1M Match Matching 47candidates
ORD-2213 CleanTech Low-power methane sensor array for remote sites $50K–250K License Proposals 12candidates
ORD-2211 MedTech Non-invasive continuous hydration monitoring wearable >$1M Match Diligence 8candidates
ORD-2209 Energy Storage Grid-scale thermal storage with 8h+ discharge window >$1M Commission Matching 23candidates
ORD-2208 AgriTech Autonomous herbicide-free weed control for row crops $250K–1M Challenge Proposals 31candidates
ORD-2206 Mining & Materials Dry tailings processing at 40% lower water intensity >$1M Match Matching 19candidates
ORD-2204 Robotics Sub-millimeter pick-and-place for deformable materials $50K–250K License Diligence 6candidates
ORD-2202 BioTech Room-temperature stable industrial enzyme formulation $250K–1M Commission Proposals 14candidates
ORD-2201 AI / ML On-device speech models for low-resource languages <$50K Challenge Matching 52candidates
ORD-2199 CleanTech Modular heat-pump retrofit for legacy district heating >$1M Match Closed 61candidates
The Agent Pipeline

What happens after you post

Six specialized agents pick up your order the second you submit it. Every step is logged, auditable, and visible in your order dashboard.

01
SCAN

Function-based semantic search across 600M+ patents & papers plus IEM's verified inventory — matching what the technology does, not just what it's called.

Scout Agent
02
MATCH

Ranked candidate list with fit scores against your technical requirements, budget band, and timeline. Noise filtered, signal ranked.

Match Agent
03
VERIFY

Tech Passport on every candidate: ownership chain, encumbrances, litigation history, and a freedom-to-operate pre-scan — before you ever see it.

Diligence Agent
04
VALUE

Instant IEM Score plus royalty comparables drawn from 85K+ benchmark rates. You see a defensible price range, not a guess.

Valuation Agent
05
PROPOSE

Matched innovators submit standardized proposals — same structure, same terms grid — so you compare side-by-side instead of decoding decks.

Broker Agent
06
CLOSE OR COMMISSION

Escrowed license or purchase on standard paper. Nothing fits? An AI-scoped commissioned development SOW with milestone escrow instead.

Build Agent

One order in, one match engine out — running around the clock.

The moment your order hits the book, the Scout Agent starts a full-corpus sweep. Candidates flow through verification and valuation automatically; you only spend time on proposals that already cleared diligence.

600M+
Patents & papers scanned
85K+
Royalty benchmark rates
36h
Median to first proposal
AI core routing a corporate order through the six-agent matching pipeline
Fulfillment Routes

Four ways your order gets filled

Pick one route or let the agents recommend — most orders run Match and License in parallel, with Commission as the fallback.

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Route 01
Match Existing

License or buy a verified innovation already listed on IEM. Tech Passport done, IEM Score published, escrow ready — fastest path to a working solution.

Best forNeeds the market has likely already solved — you want speed and verified provenance.
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Route 02
License Slots

Standardized exclusive and non-exclusive license SKUs per field-of-use. Fixed terms, published pricing, no six-month negotiation.

Best forBuyers who need rights in one field-of-use without acquiring the whole asset.
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Route 03
Commission Build

Nothing fits? The Build Agent scopes a custom R&D / engineering SOW — milestones, deliverables, and IP terms — funded through milestone escrow.

Best forFrontier needs where the solution doesn't exist yet and you want it built to spec.
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Route 04
Open Challenge

Post a prize challenge to the global solver network. Pay only for the winning solution; the agents handle screening, verification, and payout.

Best forHard, well-specified problems where you want maximum diversity of approaches.
Pricing

Every fee, published. Pay only on close.

No retainers, no hidden brokerage spread, no "call us" pricing. The fee schedule below is the whole fee schedule.

IEM Order Fee Schedule Success-based
ItemFeeNotes
Posting an order Free Enterprise: private order book from $50K/yr
Success fee — close ≤ $250K 18% Charged only when the deal closes in escrow
Success fee — $250K–$1M 14% Applied to full transaction value
Success fee — > $1M 10% Volume tiers for repeat enterprise buyers
Commissioned builds 5–10% Program margin on milestone-escrowed SOW
Escrow 0.9–3% Scales down with transaction size
vs. Legacy Channels
Traditional IP brokers20–40%
Challenge platforms+40% premium
Law-firm-led licensingOpaque, hourly
IEM Innovation Orders10–18%, published
We publish everything. Fee schedule, escrow rates, and royalty comps are public — the same transparency we demand from every listing.
Post an Order

Tell the agents what you need

Three minutes to post. The Scout Agent starts scanning immediately — most orders see first candidates within hours.

New Innovation Order

Free to post · You pay only on a closed deal

⚡ Agents deploy instantly
Preferred Routes
Post anonymously — sector & budget visible, identity revealed only to verified matches.
Scout Agent deployed · scanning 600M+ documents…
Enterprise

Private Order Books for corporates & governments

Run your entire technology-sourcing pipeline on IEM rails — inside your own walls. Your orders, your supplier pool, your compliance rules.

White-label private order book on your domain
Your own approved supplier & innovator pool
Compliance layer: export control, sanctions, sector rules
SSO / SAML and role-based access for procurement teams
Audit trail on every agent action and decision
Volume-tiered success fees across the program
Enterprise Plan

Private Order Book

Dedicated instance, unlimited internal orders, agent pipeline tuned to your sector, quarterly sourcing reviews with the IEM desk.

From $50K / year
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FAQ

Questions buyers ask

You choose the model up front, and it's written into the SOW before a dollar moves: full assignment to you (buyer-owned), builder-owned with an exclusive license to you, or joint ownership with defined fields-of-use. The Build Agent prices each model differently — full assignment carries the highest program cost, exclusive license the lowest. Background IP the builder brings stays theirs; foreground IP follows the model you selected.
Confidential orders show only sector and budget band on the public book — your identity is revealed exclusively to verified matches that pass diligence, and only after they accept a platform NDA. Technical requirements can be tiered: a public abstract for matching, and a sealed spec released to shortlisted candidates. Enterprise private order books never touch the public tape at all.
Posting is free and you pay nothing during matching, verification, or proposals. Only when a deal closes in escrow does the success fee apply: 18% on closes up to $250K, 14% from $250K–$1M, and 10% above $1M — calculated on the transaction value that actually clears escrow. If your order never closes, you never pay. Commissioned builds instead carry a 5–10% program margin built into the milestone schedule.
A standardized 0–1000 rating the Valuation Agent assigns to every candidate innovation, combining technical maturity, ownership cleanliness, litigation exposure, market comparables, and royalty benchmarks from 85K+ published rates. It's the same score across every listing on IEM, so a 780 in MedTech is directly comparable to a 780 in Robotics — and the full scoring breakdown is visible on each Tech Passport.
Yes — IEM is API-first and MCP-first by design. Every order, listing, and Tech Passport is machine-readable, so a corporate procurement agent can post an order via POST /v1/orders or the IEM MCP server, poll match results, and even accept proposals within pre-approved budget limits. Human sign-off thresholds are configurable; escrow release always requires an authorized signatory.

The next solution your company needs
is already on someone's shelf.

Post the order. Let six agents find it, verify it, price it, and close it — while your team stays focused on the roadmap.

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