Use case
University Tech Transfer
Research that never meets its industry counterpart is the default outcome. Trust routing fixes the meeting, not the paper.
The intent, as typed
“Find an industrial partner able to scale a solid-state battery separator process from lab to pilot line.”
wants: cap/university-research · cap/robotics-manufacturing
Universities generate capability at industrial scale and route it through a handful of overworked tech-transfer officers. The licensing database is public; the trusted path from a lab to the right VP of Engineering is not, and that path is what closes.
A university Circle lets alumni, faculty and industry partners form a routable graph where an intent like the one above finds its way through a supervisor’s former student to the right industrial lab — each hop consented, the institution never exposing its whole network to anyone.
Outcomes sealed over years give the university something it has never had: a verifiable record of which relationships actually convert research into deployment — evidence for the next funding conversation that is not an anecdote.