Design-around · HiveDesign

HiveDesign.
Ship the non-infringing alternative.

TRIZ-driven claim-element substitution backed by NIST/NASA/DOE federal-lab tech transfer + peer-reviewed circumvention research. Engineer-ready BOM delta, doctrine-of-equivalents pressure test, signed end to end.

Quality tier · live today

HiveDesign · Gold · 85

Confirmed use: Internal research / attorney work-product.
Inside the firm. BOM-delta sketches, claim-element substitution drafts, DOE pressure-test notes.
Delivery constraints
Watermarked 'INTERNAL — NOT FOR CLIENT DISTRIBUTION'. Not delivered to operators directly. Partner-firm channel only.
Scorecard
Today
85
Gold
This week
90
Platinum
Stretch
95
Double Platinum
Free-data ceiling: 90/100 · Year-1 data cost: $0/yr · 95-stretch bridge: ASTM/IHS top-50 $2,400/yr (optional)
Primary free-data APIs:
NIST SRD (49 DBs) · NASA Tech Transfer · DOE OSTI · ICC-ES ESR · OpenAlex (474M) · USPTO ODP +4 more
Agent identity

One agent, one DID.

Every HiveDesign mint produces a unique decentralized identifier signed by your bar credentials. The 80/20 split is enforced by the contract layer — every receipt this agent emits clears 80% to your wallet of record.

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The agent swarm

Seven sub-agents under one signature.

HiveDesign isn't a chatbot. It's a recursive swarm of specialized sub-agents whose outputs are individually signed and folded into the final receipt. You can replay any sub-step.

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TRIZ-driven design-around workflow

Seven stages. Forty principles. One signed BOM.

Every HiveDesign run walks the patent claim through TRIZ — the systematic, peer-reviewed inventive-problem framework that Veldhuijzen & Wits (2013) validated specifically for patent circumvention. Katznelson & Howells documented Edison's empirical use of the same approach to clear competitor patents.

Stage TRIZ tool What HiveDesign produces
1 · DecomposeFunction Analysis (FA)Per-claim-element function map keyed to FTO chart
2 · Identify failure rootsRoot Cause Analysis+ (RCA+)Why each element is asserted-against, citation-anchored
3 · Trim non-essentialTrimmingElements that can be eliminated without losing function
4 · Generate alternatives40 Inventive Principles3–5 non-infringing substitutions per surviving element
5 · Multi-screen checkMulti-Screen Analysis (MSA)Upstream/downstream/super-system IP risk per alternative
6 · Maturity gateS-curve · Function-Oriented Search (FOS)Prior-art families from NASA/DOE/NIH that already solved it
7 · DOE pressure-testDoctrine-of-Equivalents simulationFesto / Warner-Jenkinson stress test against each alternative
Citability anchor. Every HiveDesign deliverable cites the Veldhuijzen & Wits TRIZ-for-circumvention study, Katznelson & Howells Edison empirical paper, and (where applicable) Jiang's mechanical-design-knowledge framework for patent avoidance. Federal-lab prior-art pulled from NASA Tech Transfer (1,600+ patents), DOE OSTI (3M+ citations), and NIH RePORTER. Receipt-anchored.
Deliverables

What every run produces.

  • Per-claim-element function map + TRIZ trimming candidates
  • 3–5 non-infringing substitutions per surviving element, each with 40-Principle citation
  • Federal-lab prior-art pull (NASA TechTransfer / DOE OSTI / NIH RePORTER) for design-around precedent
  • Doctrine-of-equivalents pressure-test results — Festo + Warner-Jenkinson stress
  • Engineer-ready BOM delta + parts substitution list
  • Re-validated FTO chart against the redesigned product
  • Signed design-around receipt with traceable change history (ML-DSA-65)
Why HiveDesign beats current practice

Four models. Seven TRIZ stages. One signed receipt.

Design-around work is the most expensive form of FTO — 100+ hours of engineering + legal sync, almost always delivered as a slide deck that goes stale the day engineering iterates. And it's almost never grounded in TRIZ even though the empirical literature shows TRIZ-driven circumvention has the highest success rate.

How HiveDesign is different. HiveDesign's 4-model Council generates alternatives directly against the asserted claims, walked through the 7-stage TRIZ workflow at R4 depth, with engineer-ready BOM deltas. Each alternative is independently scored by all 4 models for non-infringement, manufacturability, and downstream IP risk. Delivered only through partner law firms — never direct to operators.

Deliverable What you actually get Defensibility
Today's design-around 100h · slide deck · stale on day-2 iteration · no IP risk on the alternative gut feel
HiveDesign receipt 4-model Council · 7-stage TRIZ · BOM-delta spec · non-infring + mfg + IP scored per alternative audit-grade
Labor budget today → Hive Today: 100+h legal/eng sync · $60K–$200K · stale on day-2
With HiveDesign: $15,000 partner-firm channel · 80% to the firm · living BOM spec
labor, not SaaS
Chain of custody

Mint a receipt for any HiveDesign output.

Paste a HiveDesign output below. The pipeline hashes it, captures the verifiable-compute attestation (model versions + input/output hashes + timestamp), signs the envelope with ML-DSA-65, and anchors the hash on Base 8453.

Pricing tiers

HiveDesign pricing.

Every tier clears 80% to the attorney of record. Hive's 20% covers the rail, the receipts, and the signing infrastructure — nothing else.

TierPriceScope
Single Claim$5,000One claim, 7-stage TRIZ walk-through, 3 alternatives, BOM delta.
Partner-Firm Workbench$15,000Full claim set, federal-lab prior-art pull, full DOE pressure-test, living BOM spec.
Enterprise Continuous$100K – $400K / yrContinuous design-around across product roadmap, quarterly board packet.
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Attorney-reviewed only. Every HiveDesign output is bound to an attorney of record and delivered through a partner firm. BOM specs are engineering work-product, not legal advice or substitute counsel.