Excellence in patent search was always the foundation. But foundations are meant to be built on. After years of staying focused – and saying no to a lot – IPRally is now ready to bring the same rigor and precision that redefined search to the bigger, strategic questions that businesses make decisions on. CCO Andreas Cehlinder explains why now, and what comes next.

When agentic AI tools entered the patent search market, quality became the topic everyone wanted to talk about, and one of the hardest to discuss honestly. Impressive-looking outputs are easy to generate, but outputs you can actually trust take a different kind of work. IPRally's co-founder and CPO Sakari Arvela breaks down what quality means for Agent, and shares the data behind that claim.

More people joined our Agent launch sessions than any webinar we've run, and the questions kept coming well after we wrapped. Thank you to everyone who joined! We couldn't address everything live, so we've compiled the most common and insightful ones here and given each the thorough answer it deserves. Whether you attended or are discovering Agent for the first time, we hope this is useful.

Today we're launching IPRally Agent, one of our most significant product releases to date. Agent automates the full novelty search workflow — from invention disclosure to structured, verifiable report — in minutes. Upload any combination of text, PDFs, images, or Office documents, and Agent identifies key claims and features, runs targeted searches across 120 million patents, and produces a feature chart, relevance-segmented results, and a written search report, with full transparency into every step of its reasoning. CPO and Co-founder Sakari Arvela outlines the thinking behind the release in this post.

Our recent introductory webinar sessions on Smart search were our most well-attended to date and sparked a highly engaged discussion. Thank you to everyone who joined us! While we addressed many questions during the live Q&A, we weren’t able to cover them all. In this follow-up post, we revisit the remaining questions and shares deeper insights into how to work effectively with Smart search in IPRally. Whether you attended one of the sessions or are exploring Smart search for the first time, we hope you’ll find the answers useful.

Today we're launching Smart search, our latest feature designed to respond to everyday realities and how patent professionals actually work. Smart Search accepts any combination of materials: text, images, PDFs, Microsoft Office documents, and uses AI to synthesize them into a search query representative of their technical content. This eliminates the need to manually piece together information from different sources, letting you work flexibly with whatever materials you have. Smart search is also a critical building block for the automated novelty search workflows in the forthcoming IPRally Agent.