A safe channel from invention to corporate implementation.
Provisionally moves early inventions toward the companies that can build, license, acquire, or distribute them — without public broadcasting, cold outreach, or loose disclosure trails.
AI is making invention easier. Reaching the right corporate path is still the bottleneck. Inventors don't want to publish; corporates can't read unsolicited IP; the people with real industry relationships have no clean way to make qualified introductions. Provisionally is the channel between them.
Not a patent service. Not a public marketplace. Not legal advice. A routing channel.
Has an early invention. Wants a path to corporate implementation, not a leak.
Files what they need to file with their counsel. Provisionally only routes a non-confidential signal — domain, maturity, intended use.
Knows the buyer landscape in a domain and can spot plausible corporate paths.
Says "this looks relevant enough for the right company to review." Routes the introduction. Does not certify, underwrite, or guarantee anything.
Has a real product or distribution path and wants relevant outside ideas they can actually evaluate.
Decides whether to take the conversation, on what terms, with their own counsel. Owns the diligence. Owns the legal posture.
Why all three participate. Inventors get reach without a public footprint. Scouts get qualified routing flow tied to recognizable corporate paths, not volume. Buyers get a cleaner top of funnel — opportunities pre-filtered for domain fit and seriousness, with diligence still firmly on their side.
What Provisionally does
- Packages a non-confidential signal from an inventor.
- Routes it to scouts with relevant industry coverage.
- Surfaces qualified introductions to plausible corporate buyers.
- Keeps a record of who saw what, when.
What scouts say
- "This looks relevant enough for the right company to review."
- "Here is the corporate path I'd point this toward."
- "Here is who would actually take the meeting."
Scouts do not certify patentability, ownership, freedom to operate, confidentiality safety, non-infringement, legal sufficiency, or deal value.
What buyers and counsel own
- Whether to review, and on what terms.
- Confidentiality, NDAs, intake protocol.
- Patent, FTO, and infringement diligence.
- Commercial fit and deal structure.
Diligence and legal reliance stay with the parties and their counsel. Provisionally separates commercial routing from legal reliance on purpose.
How a routing event flows
Inventor packages a signal. A short, non-confidential description: domain, maturity, intended use, what corporate path they're hoping for. The substance of the invention stays with the inventor and their counsel.
Provisionally routes to scouts. The signal goes to scouts with real coverage in that industry — people who already know which companies are building, licensing, or distributing in that space.
Scout judges relevance. A scout decides whether the opportunity looks relevant enough for the right company to review. They are giving a commercial read, not a legal opinion.
Qualified introduction. The scout points the opportunity at a specific corporate path — a product team, a corp dev contact, an in-house counsel, a distribution partner. The buyer chooses whether to take it.
Buyer engages on their terms. If the buyer wants more, they bring it inside under their normal intake protocol, with their counsel, under their NDA. Substance is shared on the buyer's rules.
Outcome lives with the parties. License, acquisition, partnership, distribution, or a polite decline — that conversation is between the inventor, the buyer, and their counsel. Provisionally records the routing event, not the deal substance.
Three views of the same channel
By roleReach corporate paths without putting your invention on the internet.
No public teaser, no abstract, no listing page. A non-confidential signal goes to scouts who know the buyer landscape in your domain.
View the inventor side › For scouts & routing partnersQualified routing flow tied to corporate paths you already cover.
If you already know who's building or buying in a domain, Provisionally pays you to make qualified introductions on commercial relevance — not to underwrite anything.
View the scout side › For corporate buyersA cleaner top of funnel for outside ideas — diligence still yours.
Pre-filtered for domain fit and seriousness. You and your counsel decide whether to engage, on what terms, under your intake protocol.
View the buyer side ›Tell us where you sit and what you're trying to move.
Whether you're an inventor with something early, a scout with corporate coverage, or a buyer looking for a cleaner top of funnel — start here. We'll route you to the right page or get on a call.
Provisionally is not a public IP marketplace, not a patent drafting service, and not legal advice. There is no listing grid, no public abstract, no browse interface. Scouts give a commercial read on routing relevance. Buyers and their counsel own diligence, confidentiality terms, and any deal that follows. Commercial routing on one side. Legal reliance on the other. The two stay separate on purpose.