Technology decision intelligence

Your next materials breakthrough is filed under watchmaking tolerances.

We measure how fast all 640 technology fields are improving, and we deliver the answer to your hardest technology question before you commit a direction.

PROJECTS WITH GLOBAL LEADERS IN CONSUMER CHEMISTRY, ADVANCED MATERIALS, AND TECHNICAL CERAMICS

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The new definition of smart

Seeing around corners is no longer a metaphor.

Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, has argued that the real definition of intelligence is shifting. Smart is no longer about analytical speed or depth within a known domain. Smart is the ability to see around corners: to use data, first principles, and pattern recognition across fields to preempt problems before they surface. To infer the unspoken. To find what the standard process has no path to reach.

That is not a human skill that can be trained at scale. It requires scanning further than any team has time to look.

That is the exact gap Boldbeam closes.

The breakthrough your team needs is already recorded in the data. It is in a field nobody pointed a search at. We find it before the market does, and we put it in your hands before you commit a direction.

That headline is a true story

11 months of searching, answered in under a week.

Global consumer chemistry company

The answer was in industrial refrigeration.

A field the team had no reason to open. The category was worth €1.4 billion, two years ahead of market consensus.

Global advanced materials manufacturer

A full quarter's work in less than a week.

PFAS regulatory substitution. The source fields had never appeared in any internal analysis. The answer sat in a blind spot their process had no path to reach.

The names stay off the page by design. Buyers of an information advantage do not advertise it. We name names in conversation, under the same discretion your question will get.

The blind spot

The blind spot is structural. It belongs to every team, including ours.

Breakthroughs rarely emerge inside the industries they reshape. They appear in other fields first, and your team searches where it already knows how to look. Attention on the known is exactly what hides the unknown. Cross-domain disruption used to arrive in years. It now arrives in quarters.

IMPROVEMENT RATE ↑ TIME → YOUR HEAD START THE GAP THE FIELD YOU WATCH A FIELD YOU DON'T WATCH MARKET CONSENSUS THE CROSSING

Zoomed in, the two fields look evenly matched. Pull back, and the field nobody was watching has already left the other behind. By the time the market agrees, the head start is gone.

How the system reaches them

Every other system needs you to know where to look. You point it at a field, a database, a keyword. It cannot find what you cannot name.

Boldbeam works the other way. You bring the problem in plain terms. The system reduces it to the technical problem underneath, the layer where a cooling problem and a packaging problem turn out to be the same problem. That underlying problem has usually been solved already, in an industry that describes it in completely different words. You never have to guess the right place to search. The question finds it.

The method, one layer deep

We measure how fast every field is improving.

Scan

Every recorded innovation across 640 technology fields, growing by 1.4 million data points each quarter.

Measure

Two variables decide which technology wins: how fast researchers iterate, and how much skilled knowledge flows in.

Surface

The fastest improvers, including the ones accelerating in fields you would never think to check.

The math has tracked technology cost curves for 80 years. Every figure traces back to source innovations your team can audit, and the fastest way to judge it is to run it on a question you already understand.

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What you walk in with

Defensible beats persuasive.

Within a week of your question: measured improvement rates, the source fields, adjacent markets, and where the data sits relative to market consensus. Built to be forwarded. It survives a numerate analyst reading it without us in the room.

01Is this technology market-ready?
02Which field will outrun the one we committed to?
03Which adjacent markets does this open, and when?
04What did our process have no path to reach?

Analyst software gives your team another screen to operate. We deliver the conclusion to the person who has to defend it. The person who brings the cross-domain answer sets the roadmap conversation.

Why we built this

Built by people who lived the problem.

We spent years inside enterprise R&D and venture capital, watching capable teams search in the wrong place. The information already existed. The way to weigh it did not.

Decisions worth hundreds of millions ran on a quarter of analyst work and a gut call. Outside the room, technologies were already moving faster than anyone in the room could see.

So we built the system that searches everywhere else. Boldbeam turns global innovation data into ranked, auditable answers.

The team

Three founders. One name on every answer.

Michael Koenka
Co-Founder & CEO

Fifteen years in business development with HP, NVIDIA, and IBM, helping leaders make better technology decisions across three continents. Saw the blind spot in every client he worked with.

Maurice Bakker
Co-Founder & COO

Managed and scaled a deep-tech fund. A decade spent deciding which pioneering technologies deserve capital, and which do not.

David Mendez
Co-Founder & CRO

Funded over 100 startups and built networks across GE and global deep-tech. Connects what the math finds to the people who need to see it.

Right now

You came here with a specific problem. Find it below.

Pick the seat you're in. These are the moments that send people to us, written the way they say them on the first call.

Roadmap review in 3 weeks

Your gut says one of the bets on the roadmap is wrong, and you can't prove it yet.

A measured ranking of which technology is improving fastest, in time to reallocate before the review.

A competitor just shipped

They launched something your team swore was five years out.

Where that capability actually came from, what is accelerating behind it, and what hits you next.

The CEO forwarded an article

One line: "Are we exposed to this?" No context, and a reply expected.

A defensible answer within a week, with the source fields and your exposure mapped.

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Pieces of research published so far today

Most of it is noise. A few may be moving against you right now. The point of a first look is to find out which, before it matters.

We find what you'd never have time to look for.

Start where you are

Three ways in. Each one costs you almost nothing.

01 · CURIOUS

See the deliverable.

A real signal brief, redacted from a delivered project. Judge the depth, the sourcing, and the conclusions before you talk to anyone.

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02 · SKEPTICAL

Test it on your question.

A scoped project on one challenge you are evaluating now. Success criteria agreed up front. Finding or refund.

RECEIVED. A FOUNDER REPLIES WITHIN ONE BUSINESS DAY.

03 · READY TO TALK

20 minutes with a founder.

Bring the situation, we bring questions. No deck unless you ask for one. We tell you within 20 minutes whether we can help you. If we cannot, you will know exactly why.

NO SOFTWARE · NO SEATS · NO LOCK-IN · CRITERIA AGREED UP FRONT · FINDING OR REFUND

"An interesting form of asymmetric information leading to advantaged decision making. It is about risk mitigating massive, extremely expensive new initiatives in huge corporations."

Former Managing Director, IDEO

"Boldbeam's method to uncover relative technology maturity is intellectually compelling. It externalises what we intuitively sense about trajectory."

Chairman & Co-Founder, deep-tech materials company
Professor, Northwestern University

"You're limited by your line of sight. Without this level of view, you don't know there's other fish in the sea."

Innovation Group Lead, global materials manufacturer

"This would take something like a year of dedicated time and effort to get to a similar point."

New Product Development Engineer, client team
Direct answers

The questions executives ask before they buy.

We already run scouting and have strong internal researchers. What does this add?
Scouting gives you breadth across what is visible. The open question is which technology is improving fastest, and which one makes the others obsolete within 3 years. We answer that with measurement, and your experts keep their role as the sense check, now with directionality the data provides.
How is this different from a database or analyst software?
A database searches where you point it. We find the field you did not know to point at. The €1.4 billion answer for a global chemistry company sat in industrial refrigeration. No one would have pointed a search there.
How do I know the math holds?
The math behind the method has tracked technology cost curves for 80 years, applied here across every recorded innovation in 640 fields. Every figure in your brief traces back to source data your team can audit. The fastest way to judge it is to run it on a question you already understand.
Do you cover our field?
If innovation is recorded in a field, it is measured. The questions we are brought concentrate in the areas below, and niche domains benefit most, because their answers tend to sit furthest outside the home field.
Advanced materialsEnergy storageFormulation chemistryRegulatory substitutionElectronics & ceramicsConnectivity & autonomyProcess technologyEnergy efficiency
What does it cost, and what if it finds nothing?
We price per question, scoped to it. Your first paid project carries success criteria agreed up front, credited forward if you continue, and refunded if we find nothing useful against the agreed standard. If the data confirms the direction you already chose, you walk into the board meeting with quantitative validation your competitors do not have. Both outcomes are deliverables.
Our question reveals our strategy. What happens to it?
Your question stays under NDA as standard. It never enters a shared dataset and never appears in our materials. We operate from Amsterdam under EU confidentiality and data protection law. What we need from you: one question, and one hour with the person who owns it.