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 invite inventors to AI-guided conversations that uncover patentable ideas.
Key Capabilities
Campaigns -- Organize outreach by technology area, team, or business unit. Each campaign targets a specific group of inventors.
AI-powered interviews -- Inventors choose Chat with AI or Start Voice Interview and answer targeted questions that surface patentable ideas.
Automatic idea extraction -- After each interview, ArcPrime extracts structured ideas with the technical problem, proposed solution, and differentiation.
Referral collection -- The AI assistant can ask inventors to recommend colleagues, expanding your pipeline organically.
Triage workflow -- Extracted ideas flow into the Idea Triage Board, where counsel merges duplicates and converts promising ideas into invention disclosures.
How It Works
Open Disclosures > Inventor Interviewer from the sidebar. The Inventor Interviews page shows three cards: Active Campaigns Count, Total Ideas Awaiting Review, and Engagement Rate. Below them, the Campaigns List shows each campaign's name, focus technologies, interviewed count, ideas, and status.
Click New Campaign to create one, then add inventors individually or in bulk. When you send outreach, ArcPrime emails each inventor an invitation with an interview link; dates in the invitation follow the inventor's country and time zone.
The inventor picks voice or chat, the AI assistant guides a structured conversation, and ArcPrime records the session. Afterward, the extracted ideas appear on the Idea Triage Board for counsel review.
Each campaign has three tabs: Analytics for engagement and idea counts, Inventors for participants and their status, and Settings for referral options. Click Campaign Idea Triage Board to review only that campaign's ideas.
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, 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
Participating in an AI Inventor Interview -- The inventor-side guide to share with your team