Turn your patent and literature exports into sourced analysis.
Techmining is a web platform that lets research and competitive-intelligence analysts upload their own patent and scientific-literature datasets and get back AI-generated narrative analytical reports — grounded in the actual records. Upload a patent or publication export and ask questions of it in plain language. The AI reads your actual records and writes back a sourced analysis you can trust, guided by a built-in library of prepared Techmining questions.
Techmining is in early access, open to eligible organizations and invited users. Request access if your team isn't set up yet.
Your data stays yours — stored securely, auto-deleted 30 days after your last use, and removable on request anytime. How we handle your data.
CSV, Excel, JSON, XML, RIS, BibTeX — zipped or not. vantagenAI works out the shape.
Patent exports, literature data, company records, or any structured file. vantagenAI reads the schema and proposes the fields worth analyzing.
Lock in the abstract, claim, organization, year, and country columns before anything runs. The same fields get the same treatment every time.
Dataset summaries, guided Techmining prompts, or your own questions — for themes, outliers, trend shifts, and whitespace.
Export the findings to Word or PDF. Your chat history stays with the dataset, so you can pick the thread back up next week.
See it work, start to finish
A few minutes from a raw export to a finished, sourced analysis — upload, field selection, asking questions, and export to Word or PDF.
A short guided tour of vantagenAI from upload to finished report.
What is Techmining?
Techmining is the practice of applying text mining and analytics to science and technology records such as patents and research publications. It turns a large, unwieldy body of literature into intelligence about a technology: what is emerging, who is active, how a field is maturing, and where the open opportunities lie.
It's a well-established method in competitive technical intelligence and technology foresight, traditionally done with specialist tools and a lot of manual reading. vantagenAI brings that method to your own data and lets the AI do the reading — grounding every answer in your actual records.
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Tech Mining: Exploiting New Technologies for Competitive AdvantageAlan L. Porter & Scott W. Cunningham · Wiley — the foundational text on mining patents and publications for competitive technical intelligence.
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Technology Mining: Text Analytics for Evidence-Based ForesightSpringer, 2026 — a recent survey of text-analytics methods for foresight.
What analysts use it for
The recurring jobs in technology intelligence, each with a prepared analysis path behind it.
Prepared lines of inquiry
Curated Techmining question sets for emergence, applications, maturation, and strategic opportunity — so the analysis starts from a method, not a blank box.
Technology landscaping
See which subdomains are crowded, which are still frontier, and what is developing next door to your area of interest.
Who else is working here
Applicants, assignees, research groups, and the collaboration patterns between them, pulled straight from your source data.
Analysis you can point at
Choose the free-text, organization, year, and country fields yourself, instead of hoping the model guesses well.
Ready when your export is
Upload, field selection, guided prompts, summaries, chat, and Word or PDF export — one workflow instead of three disconnected tools.
Your uploads stay private to your account and auto-delete 30 days after your last use. See how we handle your data.
In early access — request access if your organization isn't set up yet.
Every answer traces back to the data you uploaded — not generic prose you can't check.
Ask again and it reuses the prior run instead of re-reading the whole corpus.
The same analysis over an MCP server (beta), so your AI agent can run reports too — not just you in a browser.