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Product development · Pilot / Early Access

Product development does notend with the idea.

inventMAP connects project knowledge, product analysis, solution work, concept evaluation and validation in one shared workspace. What the project produces stays in its technical context – from the first problem to the reasoned decision.

Pilot / Early AccessAlready usable for real development challenges · Pilot access on request

Test it on a real development challenge

Trial and booking on request · from €449/month incl. 3 seats

Exploded view of a technical product with mechanical, electronic and housing components.

Project context

Before AI can think along,it has to understand the project.

Before inventMAP analyses anything or proposes solutions, the project gets a confirmed technical context. Not some chat history, but the information that actually applies to this development problem.

  • Project profile

    What should the product deliver? What is a nuisance today? What has already been tried? What may be changed – and what is off limits? How is success measured?

  • Documents

    Technical documents stay with the project. Knowledge from documents can be reviewed and reused in a structured way.

  • Meetings

    Minutes and transcripts are translated into proposed problems, causes and solutions. The team confirms what applies.

  • Requirements

    Requirements can be captured, classified and carried into the technical work.

  • Tasks

    Actions have an owner, a due date, a status and evidence – not just a tick.

  • Idea record

    Solution ideas stay traceable with author and date – including the story of how they came about.

This confirmed project context runs along with every analysis and every AI assist. Suggestions from documents or meetings are accepted or rejected – never silently declared to be the truth. AI suggestions do not start from zero every time; they start from the confirmed project context.

Methodology in the background.A working model for technical development.

Understand

Understand the system first.Then invent at the right lever.

A problem is easier to change once it becomes visible which components fulfil which functions, where harmful effects arise and which function does not justify its cost.

inventMAP can build an analysis directly from a STEP model or from a manually entered bill of materials.

From there, different views of the same technical system emerge:

Views of the system7
  • Bill of materials and 3D structure
  • Function model
  • Useful and harmful effects
  • FAST diagram
  • Key problems
  • Value analysis
  • Trimming

Findings can then be carried into the further problem-solving work.

Real product view
Function analysis in inventMAP: the STEP model is loaded, the bill of materials is in place, the main function of the system is named – from here the function model, FAST, key problems, trimming and value analysis are built. German interface.

Do not get stuck on the part.Understand the function before the solution is fixed.

Invent

One problem should not dependon a single source of ideas.

For a technical problem, inventMAP opens several solution spaces in parallel. Not as an unfiltered flood of ideas, but as different perspectives on the same task.

These can include:

Solution spaces8
  • technical and physical contradictions
  • standard solutions
  • physical, chemical and geometric effects
  • mechanical principles
  • materials and processes
  • patents
  • scientific papers
  • similar solutions from earlier projects

Similar suggestions are condensed. Third-party IP rights can be flagged visibly. The maturity level distinguishes between buildable today, development direction and research idea.

Real product view
Condensed suggestions for one specific problem: each card bundles what several channels – physical contradiction, contradiction matrix, standard solutions, effects & processes, material path, own product – found together. Maturity level and follow-up problems sit right beside it; the team adopts what belongs in the project. German interface.

Not more ideas at any price.More independent paths to the same problem.

How the problem-solution network preserves these relationships

Engineering knowledge

Not a methodology handbook beside the work.Engineering knowledge, right where the problem is.

Methods help little if engineers first have to know which method fits, where to find it, and how to apply it to the problem at hand.

That is why the engineering knowledge in inventMAP is not confined to an academy. It is connected to the actual development work – in three worlds:

Illustration of a technical product assembly with integrated knowledge elements for methods, effects, and materials.

  1. 01

    Method knowledge

    Examples4
    • Causes
    • Contradictions
    • Trimming
    • Evaluation

  2. 02

    Technical solution building blocks

    Examples3
    • Effects
    • Working principles
    • Biomimetics

  3. 03

    Materials & processes

    Examples4
    • Material families
    • Manufacturing
    • Joining
    • Surfaces

The Academy explains the method.The knowledge catalogue brings suitable technical building blocks straight to the problem.

The effects and materials catalogue is curated further during the pilot. New building blocks are marked as AI suggestions until they have been editorially confirmed.

Evaluate & decide

Ideas are easy.Technical decisions are not.

In many innovation processes the visible work ends with a collection of good ideas. For a development project, the harder phase begins there:

Which partial solutions belong together? Where does a concept still have gaps? Which drawbacks does it create? And why does the team decide for A and not for B in the end?

inventMAP supports this convergence:

  • Bundle concepts

    Scattered partial solutions become named overall or assembly concepts. Coverage gaps and conflicts stay visible.

  • Compare concepts

    Pugh comparison against a reference concept. Drawbacks can flow back into the development work as technical problems. Hybrid concepts remain possible.

  • Decision gate

    Must-have requirements act as a knock-out filter. Weights can be frozen for a decision and the sensitivity of the result can be checked. The state of the decision can be preserved as a traceable snapshot.

Real product view
Concept comparison in inventMAP: each concept is judged criterion by criterion against the current design – better, equal or worse. A drawback can flow straight back into the network as a technical problem. German interface.

Do not just record what was decided.Record why.

Validate

A good idea is not enough.It has to hold up.

A solution becomes valuable when it survives technical risks, when actions become traceable and when the development path stays documented.

  • Design FMEA

    In inventMAP the design FMEA is not a second, detached world. Failure chains can be derived from the same technical context and carried forward with ratings, actions, owners and evidence.

  • Tasks & evidence

    Actions stay linked to an owner, a due date, a status and evidence. Verified solutions can require proof instead of merely counting as ‘done’.

  • Protect

    Own and third-party IP rights can stay visible at the solutions. An invention disclosure with case number, status and inventor shares can arise from the project work.

Real product view
Design FMEA in inventMAP: the form is a view of the network. Each row is a failure chain of cause, mode and effect with ratings, action priority and actions – when the network changes, the table changes. German interface.

From the solution approach to a robust technical decision –without rebuilding the context along the way.

One project. Several perspectives.

Specialist rooms dock on.The project context stays.

In the flow of work

Ideas do not get lost.Neither does context.

  • Capture an idea

    A spontaneous idea can be typed or dictated anywhere in the project and enriched with a photo or sketch. Once confirmed, it enters the project work with the matching problem, originator and date.

  • Gee

    Gee knows what the team is working on. Gee helps with orientation, method questions and conflicting goals and acts as a project-related sparring partner. In the network, the conversation can be held visibly for the team and results can be adopted deliberately.

Gee suggests.Your team decides what becomes part of the project.

Pilot / Early Access

Already usable on real development problems.Currently in pilot access.

You first test inventMAP on a specific topic. If the benefit for your team is right, we then agree on scope and terms.

Pilot / Early AccessTrial and booking on request · from €449/month incl. 3 seats

Test it on a real development challenge

Start with a real topic

Bring a development problemyour team is working on right now.

No demo example needed. We activate product development for a pilot on a real technical topic and check together whether inventMAP actually helps your team in the project.

Test it on a real development challenge Discuss a pilot

Trial and booking on request · from €449/month incl. 3 seats