Your engineers invent more than they disclose. Every patent counsel knows this in the abstract, and almost nobody can put a number on it, because the inventions that never become disclosures leave no record in the disclosure system. Their origin is scattered between systems, records and one line chats. A clever rate limiting scheme gets described in a Jira ticket, refined in the pull request that closes it, and debated in a Slack thread. Once the sprint ends, the invention has shipped without a disclosure ever being written. Multiply that by every team and every quarter, and the gap between what your company invents and what it protects gets wide enough to matter in a negotiation you haven't had yet.

The standard fix is more process, another disclosure drive or a reminder that goes out each quarter. It only helps at the margins and every version of it shares the same weakness. When your process depends on an engineer stopping real work to describe finished work to a blank box on a form, an engineer who is graded on shipping will reliably choose to spend their time continuing to ship.

We built Innovation Harvester to stop depending on the form. Point ArcPrime at the places your engineers already spend their days, Jira, Linear, GitHub, Slack, Google Docs, and it scans them for inventions. A one line ticket means nothing on its own, so Innovation Harvester stitches the ticket, the pull request that closed it, and the discussion around both into a single invention candidate with the context assembled. When the same idea resurfaces months later in a different tool, it's remembered as the same idea. Candidates arrive ranked, with disclosures already drafted, on the same triage board that collects your inventor interview output. With ArcPrime, the whole invention stream now gets reviewed in one sitting.

You control the Innovation Harvesters scope, picking sources down to specific channels and folders. Nothing gets scanned that you didn't approve. Any tool that reads engineering systems raises questions with IT and security, and here you have complete confidence that the scope is in counsel's hands.

What changes in practice is that capture happens because the work happened. Disclosures that depended on memory and goodwill now depend on whether the invention left a trace in a system, and inventions almost always do. Your review time goes to deciding what's worth filing rather than reconstructing what was built from a two paragraph summary written six weeks after the fact.

If your disclosure numbers feel low for a company shipping as much as yours does, they probably are. Point Innovation Harvester at any project, the first triage board will settle the question quickly.