Single-company technology profile and R&D assessment for a defined technology topic. Use when the user asks for a company technology profile, company technical analysis, R&D direction assessment, technical due diligence briefing, or any single-company-by-topic technical evaluation — even if they only mention a company plus a technology area without explicitly asking for a "profile".
Single-company technology profile and R&D assessment for a defined technology topic. Use when the user asks for a company technology profile, company technical analysis, R&D direction assessment, technical due diligence briefing, or any single-company-by-topic technical evaluation — even if they only mention a company plus a technology area without explicitly asking for a "profile".
argument-hint
[company + topic + optional purpose/time window]
provider
Patsnap Eureka
compatibility
Designed for Claude Code, Codex, and similar agent runtimes that can read/write local files and call whatever search tools are available.
deliverable-default
Structured Markdown report plus traceable evidence files; docx/pdf export is optional.
fallback-policy
Prefer structured patent/paper retrieval when available; otherwise downgrade through domain-specific sources, Exa, Tavily, Brave, web, and a known-URL reader without blocking the run.
Company Tech Profile
Provided by Patsnap Eureka.
Produce an evidence-driven technology profile for a single company in a defined
technology topic. The deliverable is a structured report — conclusion first,
evidence second — suitable for technical leaders, analysts, and investment
screeners.
Use When
A company's technical strength, R&D direction, or core technology layout in a topic
Technology due diligence or partnership evaluation for a named company
Investment screening that needs patent/paper/product evidence for one entity
A company-only prompt where you can infer a safe technology topic from context
Do Not Use
Multiple companies need comparison or tiering → route to competitive-landscape
Pure technology-route comparison with no company anchor → route to tech-route-comparison
The task is a project/proposal review → route to rd-initiation-review
Legal patent opinion, FTO, infringement, or litigation analysis
Generic company overview with no technology depth requirement
Tool Routing And Fallback
This skill works across multiple tool environments. Before retrieval, detect
which capabilities are available and select the highest tier that is reachable.
Confirm or infer the following before any retrieval:
company_name: the primary entity to profile
topic: the technology area to anchor the analysis
purpose: what decision this profile supports (orientation / due diligence /
partnership / investment screening)
time_window: default last 3 years unless user specifies otherwise
Scope routing decision tree:
User input shape?
├─ Company + technology topic → proceed as single-company profile
├─ Company only, no topic → infer topic from company's main business domain;
│ confirm with user if ambiguous
├─ Multiple companies mentioned → redirect to competitive-landscape
├─ Technology topic only, no company → redirect to tech-route-comparison
└─ "Compare company A with B" → redirect to competitive-landscape
If the user only names a company without a topic, do not stall — infer the most
likely technology topic from the company's known domain and state the inference
explicitly.
Step 1: Anchor The Entity
Normalize the company name: resolve parent vs subsidiary, Chinese vs English
aliases, brand name vs legal entity.
Run a confirmation search to verify the company has presence in the topic.
Decide whether direct deep-reading is stable enough, or whether representative
sampling is required.
Sampling decision tree (Tier 1 with structured retrieval):
Patent evidence shape?
├─ Scope is small and route concentration is obvious
│ └─ Skip sampler; deep-read the strongest 3-5 patents directly
├─ Scope is medium/large and route coverage matters
│ └─ Run the optional representative patent sampling script
├─ Scope is large and highly heterogeneous across time/jurisdiction/CPC
│ └─ Run the optional sampling script; treat result as default evidence pack
└─ Task is drifting toward legal completeness
└─ Do not use sampler; redirect to a legal/FTO-oriented workflow
Default thresholds:
<= 12 patents after filtering: usually skip sampler
13-80 patents: sampler recommended if route interpretation is part of the goal
> 80 patents: sampler should be the default
Deep-read top 3-5 representative patents to extract: core technical
approaches, key claims, innovation points.
Identify the company's primary technology routes and any emerging pivots.
Step 3: Paper And R&D Signals
Run 1-2 paper searches with company name + topic.
Tier 1: structured paper retrieval
Tier 2: scholarly companion search or targeted web research
Tier 3/4: generic web or user-provided materials
Analyze: publication trend, collaborating institutions, research focus areas.
Cross-reference with patent routes — consistency strengthens confidence;
divergence is a signal worth noting.
Corroborate patent/paper findings with product reality — a strong patent
portfolio without shipped products is a different signal than one with them.
Step 5: Synthesis
Adjust analysis emphasis by industry type:
Industry type?
├─ Semiconductor / Hardware → emphasize: patent clusters by process/architecture,
│ fab vs fabless signals, IPC H01L/H04 distribution
├─ Biopharma / Medtech → emphasize: pipeline stage, clinical trial signals,
│ target coverage, IPC A61K/C07/A61B distribution
├─ AI / Software → emphasize: papers and benchmarks, open-source presence,
│ model performance, API/platform adoption signals
├─ New Energy / Materials → emphasize: material composition patents, capacity
│ signals, cost trajectory, IPC H01M/C01/H02 distribution
└─ General Manufacturing → balanced patent + product + standard participation
Synthesize all evidence into the output skeleton. Separate every claim into:
Verified fact: directly supported by patent, paper, or official filing
Evidence-backed inference: reasonable conclusion from multiple signals
Open gap: insufficient evidence, state what is missing and suggest next steps
Output Skeleton
1. Lead With Conclusion
1-2 sentences: the company's overall technical position and trajectory in the topic.
2. Technology Layout Highlights
2-4 bullet points: core technology routes, key patents or papers, differentiation
from the broader field. Use a compact markdown table when comparing 3+ dimensions.
3. Trend Assessment
1 paragraph: R&D direction evolution over the time window — acceleration,
deceleration, pivots, emerging focus areas. Cite specific year-over-year changes
when data supports it.
No drift into generic company biography without technical substance
Tool tier and coverage limitations explicitly stated in the output
If evidence is insufficient for a confident profile, explicitly stated with follow-up suggestions
Company marketing claims treated as signals, not verified facts, unless corroborated
Guardrails
Do not equate patent volume with technical strength without considering route
quality, claim scope, and recency.
Do not treat company marketing claims, recruiting signals, or press releases as
verified facts until corroborated by stronger sources.
Do not mix parent company and subsidiary data without an explicit scope note.
This is a single-company skill — do not produce competitive comparison matrices.
If the user needs multi-company comparison, redirect to competitive-landscape.
If the company has minimal patent/paper presence in the topic, say so directly
rather than padding the profile with tangential evidence.
Do not use representative sampling for legal-opinion tasks or when exhaustive
recall is required.
Do not present the sampled patent set as "all relevant patents"; state clearly
that it is a structured representative subset.
Do not let the sampled set silently override full-scope facts such as total
patent count, jurisdiction count, or exact filing volume.
Do not force a strong conclusion when the evidence base is thin — prefer
explicit uncertainty over false confidence.
Keep charts or visual aids to 1-2 maximum; retain only those that directly
support the analytical conclusion.
For non-evidence dimensions (TCO, regulation, teardown), write "evidence
pending" rather than fabricating a judgment.
Optional Host-Specific Automation
Some hosts may provide extra helpers for representative sampling, quantitative
aggregation, or patent-card normalization. These helpers are optional and are
not part of the core open-source contract.
If you use host-specific automation:
record the helper and its role in method_decisions.md
keep the final evidence compatible with query_log.csv, source_index.csv,
and claim_ledger.csv
do not make the report depend on a helper that other hosts cannot reproduce
