Inventor Interviews is ArcPrime's system for proactively sourcing invention ideas from your engineering teams. Instead of waiting for inventors to fill out disclosure forms, you create interview campaigns that reach out to inventors and guide them through AI-powered conversations to uncover patentable ideas.
📷 The Inventor Interviews main page showing summary cards for active campaigns, ideas awaiting review, and engagement rate
Key Capabilities
Campaigns -- Organize outreach by technology area, team, or business unit. Each campaign targets a specific group of inventors.
AI-powered interviews -- Inventors participate in voice or text conversations with an AI assistant that asks targeted questions to surface patentable ideas.
Automatic idea extraction -- After each interview, ArcPrime extracts structured idea summaries including the technical problem, proposed solution, and differentiation.
Referral collection -- The AI can ask inventors to recommend colleagues who may have ideas, expanding your pipeline organically.
Triage workflow -- Extracted ideas flow into the Idea Triage Board where counsel reviews, merges duplicates, and converts promising ideas into formal disclosures.
How It Works
You start by creating a campaign with a name, description, and optional referral settings. Next, you add inventors to the campaign -- individually or in bulk. ArcPrime sends outreach emails inviting inventors to participate. Each inventor clicks a link to join a voice or text interview with the AI assistant. The AI guides a structured conversation, asks follow-up questions, and records the session. After the interview, ArcPrime extracts ideas and places them on the Idea Triage Board for counsel review.
📷 The campaign table listing campaigns with columns for name, taxonomy focus, interviewed count, ideas count, and status
Common Use Cases
Use Case | How ArcPrime Helps |
Quarterly invention mining | Create a campaign per quarter targeting specific technology areas |
New product launch | Interview engineers on a new product team to capture ideas before public disclosure deadlines |
Onboarding new inventors | Run a campaign for recent hires to introduce the IP process and capture early ideas |
Referral-based discovery | Enable referral collection so interviewed inventors can recommend colleagues |
Getting Started
To launch your first campaign, see How to Create an Interview Campaign. To understand what inventors experience during an interview, see The AI Interview Experience.
Related Articles
How to Create an Interview Campaign -- Set up a new campaign step by step
How to Add Inventors to a Campaign -- Build your inventor list
Idea Triage Board Overview -- Review and act on extracted ideas
Campaign Analytics -- Track campaign performance