Find experts on niche subjects. Identify cross-disciplinary synergies. Contact researchers opt-in for consulting and patent collaborations. Months of scouting compressed into hours.
Expert discovery · Consulting marketplace · Patent matchmaking · TheForge B2B
Innovation departments spend months scouting for the right academic expertise on niche problems. Scholar[RAG] turns this into a queryable, opt-in marketplace. The talent is already mapped.
Real R&D scenarios where Scholar[RAG] replaces months of scouting with a few hours of querying.
Same goal (find 3 vetted experts on a niche subject), two approaches.
For the gap between knowledge and application.
"The academia/industry gap is not a talent problem. It's a discovery problem. The talent exists. It's just unfindable."— Scholar[RAG] · Industry Mission
The academia/industry gap is not a talent problem. It's a discovery problem. Universities have decades of accumulated expertise. Industry has decades of operational problems. They rarely connect — not because they shouldn't, but because the discovery infrastructure doesn't exist.
Scholar[RAG] is the active discovery infrastructure. Every researcher who joins becomes findable by problem statement. You search by what you need, not by who you've already heard of.
Your innovation pipeline gets a 10x scouting accelerator. For researchers: real-world problems and meaningful funding find them directly. Win-win, by construction.
Enterprise pricing, seat-based. Includes Scholar Discovery, Cross-RAG queries, Filtered Contact, Research Feeds on subscribed domains. Add-ons for TheForge B2B specsheets and Patent matchmaking. Pricing announced near launch — accessible for innovation budgets, not enterprise-bloated.
Researchers explicitly opt-in for consulting. Their availability, hourly rate (or "negotiate"), topics, and prior industry partnerships are public. You contact them via Filtered Contact (chatbot pre-screens your inquiry, then routes to them). Scholar[RAG] doesn't intermediate the contract — you contract directly with the researcher or their institution. We're a discovery layer, not a temp agency.
NDAs and IP arrangements are handled in your direct contract with the researcher. Scholar[RAG] provides discovery and initial routing, but does not see or store your R&D problem statements unless you explicitly use TheForge B2B specsheet generation (which is opt-in, encrypted, scoped to your engagement).
Researchers control what's public, authenticated-only, or private. Some may grant your enterprise access to working papers under NDA — this happens via direct relationship, not via Scholar[RAG]. We're not gatekeepers; we're connectors.
You can collide your patent's key concepts against the corpus of leading researchers in adjacent fields. The Cross-RAG identifies (a) potential prior art you missed, (b) potential co-inventor candidates, (c) potential licensors of complementary IP. All in one query.
API access is on the roadmap (V5+). For now, results can be exported as PDF / Markdown reports. Long term: webhook into your innovation pipeline tools (Brightidea, Hype, Wellspring), Slack integration for Research Feed digests.
TheForge generates specsheetsfrom a researcher's corpus — structured technical briefs you can use to evaluate fit for a specific R&D problem. Think of it as a productized version of "asking 5 academics for a written technical opinion." Saves weeks of scoping.
Industry features (marketplace, patent matching, TheForge B2B) are V5+ — late 2026 / early 2027. Earlier enterprise research partners can join the waitlist below to shape the spec and get priority access.
We're recruiting a small cohort of innovation departments to shape the enterprise features. Tell us about your use case — we'll reach out for a scoping call.