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Comparison
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Cypris vs.
Microsoft Copilot

Copilot runs on training data and web crawled content. Cypris runs on structured scientific, and commercial intelligence built for R&D. Relying on the wrong one for high stakes R&D & IP decisions can present tremendous risk.

Powering world-leading R&D & IP teams

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At a glance
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Two tools. Two very different jobs.

AI can take many forms, and like the early days of software, different tools are built for different jobs. Copilot is built for internal wikis, presentations, and orchestration. Cypris is built for R&D and IP strategy. Both use AI, but serve fundamentally different use cases.

500M+ bespoke datapoints

Through Cypris, you gain access to 180M patents, 280M papers, 120M chemical compounds, and a wide range of market and regulatory intelligence, data Copilot simply does not access. Additionally, users gain access to critical unlocks like closed-access paper purchasing, journal integrations, and monitoring capabilities not available in broad LLM solutions.

R&D & IP ontology

Technical and scientific data is highly nuanced, and AI needs structure to interpret it correctly. Copilot’s general-purpose design limits its ability to do this. Cypris applies a purpose-built ontological framework to every prompt, enabling the model to understand patent families, citations, journal credibility, and more.

Workflow oriented UI

Copilot provides general chat interfaces and document tools that require manual setup. Cypris is built around R&D workflows like Freedom to Operate, Prior Art, Landscaping, Monitoring, Flagging, and Paper Unlocking, reducing time spent recreating these processes in a general tool.

Enterprise-grade security

SOC 2 Type II. U.S.-based infrastructure. Tenant isolation by design. Deployed across defense and government. Cypris meets strict enterprise standards while maintaining full access to external R&D intelligence beyond internal document systems.

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Feature by feature
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Where it matters most for R&D & IP

Capability
Cypris
Microsoft Copilot
Global Patent Data
180M global patents with structured full-text data — claims, CPC codes, assignees, filing status,
prosecution history.
No structured patent database. Relies on web snippets from training data or Bing crawl, often stale or incomplete.
Scientific Literature
270M+ papers with semantic matching across disciplines, indexed alongside patents for cross-source R&D queries. journal subscription integration and closed access purchase capabilities.
Summarizes papers you upload. No licensed publisher access and no cross-source semantic search.
Chemical & Compound Intelligence
Search by chemical structure, molecular diagram, or compound name across patents and scientific literature in one query. Run synonym resolution and regulatory intelligence across 120M compounds.
Can describe a molecule in an image but cannot search a corpus by structural similarity.
Commercial & Market Intelligence
3M+ company profiles, funding data, M&A activity, and market news linked to underlying R&D.
Pulls general web results. No structured company data, no R&D-to-commercial linkage, no analyst-grade sourcing.
Regulatory Intelligence
Track FDA, EPA, REACH, and global filings alongside the patents and papers driving them.
Web-crawl summaries of public regulatory pages. No structured filing data, no cross-reference to R&D.
Citation Integrity
Every answer cites specific full-text pages, company records, and regulatory filings retrieved from structured sources, mitigating all model hallucinations.
Web links where available. In technical domains, citations are often inferred rather than retrieved from source records which leads to hallucinations.
Monitoring & alerts
Track filings, publications, litigation, market moves, and regulatory changes on any saved query. AI digests on your cadence.
Surfaces internal document changes. No native tracking of external R&D, IP, or market activity.
Custom research reports
Analyst-supported research briefs combining AI outputs with structured datasets. Built for high-stakes R&D and IP decision-making.
Self-service outputs only. No structured research workflows or analyst-supported deliverables.
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Benchmark
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We ran the same test through both. Here's what came back.

A single FTO query on solid-state lithium-sulfur battery electrolytes, submitted verbatim to both tools on the same day. No follow-ups. The gap isn't a tuning problem. It's structural.

Cypris

40+

SURFACED

Filings surfaced with full text
and FTO risk tiered.

Tracking legal events and citations daily
across global patent offices.

Cypris

100%

VERIFIABLE

Every result cited with patent number, assignee, and filing date

Traceable back to full-text global records.

Microsoft Copilot

4

MISSED

Entire Solid Energies and
UMD portfolios missed.

The highest-risk IP in this space
were invisible to Copilot.

Cypris

Web

INFERRED

Citations pulled from blogs and crawled web snippets

No link to the live patent record. Assignees often inferred, not retrieved.

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Why Cypris
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What purpose-built R&D intelligence actually unlocks.

Decisions your team can defend

Every answer traces back to authoritative sources. Walk into a stage-gate
review, a board meeting, or outside counsel with evidence, not a chatbot's
best guess.

One question. Every source.

Patents, scientific literature, chemistry, company data, grants, and news —
searched together. Stop stitching insights across six tools. Ask once, get
the full picture.

See the filings nobody's written about yet

General AI surfaces the companies everyone's already talking about.
Cypris surfaces the insights buried across complex knowledge graphs.
That's where competitive advantage actually lives.

Knowledge that compounds

Every search, project, and internal upload builds your team's institutional
memory. When an analyst leaves, their work stays. Copilot indexes documents.
Cypris builds an R&D intelligence layer.

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Our Data
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The Cypris Innovation Database

500M+ documents globally sourced and updated daily. "The Bloomberg Terminal for innovation data." — R&D World Magazine

Research Papers
270M+ searchable papers
from 20K+ journals
Global Patents
180M+ patent documents
from 150+ countries
Market News
85K+ tracked news sources
across 200+ countries
Online Sources
Real-time web search
optimized for AI
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By the numbers
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The impact of switching from
general- purpose AI to Cypris.

65

%+

Average reduction in time spent on IP and stage-gate dependent research by consolidating fragmented tools into a single AI-powered workflow.

500

M+

Data points across patents, scientific literature, grants, and market intelligence, searchable from one platform.

$

500

K+

Estimated annual value returned in year 1, per team, through faster research cycles, reduced redundancy, and earlier competitive signals.
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what they say
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Knowledge is power

What can your team accomplish with the power of AI?

The solution is to make what time is available radically more productive....What took weeks now takes days in searching and collecting vital information to make decisions on technologies
Chuck Wright
Corporate R&D Manager, NOV
Cypris helps us reduce the time spent searching and stitching information. This efficiency supports better focus early on while still leaving room to adapt.
John Parks
Senior Footwear Innovation Developer, Brooks Running
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FAQ
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Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know before getting started.

Smarter insights to transform how innovation happens.