Steel Muse

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What We Do

Patents and ventures fail at alarmingly high rates. Few survive the leap from great idea to enduring commercial institution.

Steel Muse helps entrepreneurs and inventors transform their ideas into successful, patent-protected businesses that last. That means more than advice — it means building the robust systems great ideas need to survive and thrive:

Turning ideas into world-class inventions

Turning inventions into strategic patent portfolios

Turning intellectual property into successful commercial institutions

We don’t just sell services. We build engines of innovation.

We believe in transparency, not blind trust. That's why we've developed a unique, vertically integrated platform. It uses a combination of precise formal methods and generative AI to build reliable, adaptable systems that explain how they work, turning your great ideas into enduring institutions.

Our Services

We build patent and venture solutions tailored to our clients' individual needs. They may look like consulting services. But underneath, they're a powerful mix of domain expertise and technology.

Elite innovation services — delivered with precision and accuracy — at a fraction of the cost of hiring talent.

Fractional Service Tiers

With Steel Muse, you engage innovation roles on a fractional basis. Each role provides a distinct tier of service — delivering world-class results. Pricing is tailored to your specific needs and the scope of services. And as your venture grows, Steel Muse can scale with you.

Director of Research: Works with inventors and technologists to map out the competitive and technical landscape surrounding their ideas — identifying existing patents, market gaps, and scientific advancements to define clear targets and boundaries for new inventions, intellectual property, and venture opportunities.
Director of Communications: Works with client teams to craft compelling narratives and messaging around new ideas and innovations — translating complex technical or scientific knowledge into engaging explanations, presentations, and thought leadership content that resonates with investors, partners, and the market.
Innovation Analyst: Works closely with patent agents and legal teams to support the patent application process — meticulously analyzing patent claims, examiner objections, and existing "prior art" to prepare robust arguments and secure valuable patents.
Innovation Manager: Collaborates with patent attorneys, R&D teams, and inventors to strategically oversee new invention specifications and manage entire patent portfolios — ensuring that intellectual property is aligned with business goals and developed into truly valuable, defensible assets.
VP Strategic Innovation: Works directly with investors, founders, and executives to define the high-level strategic direction for inventions, intellectual property, and new ventures — aligning innovation efforts with overall business objectives and market opportunities, turning strategy into actionable execution.
Chief Innovation Officer: Orchestrates the entire innovation lifecycle at the executive level — providing comprehensive innovation leadership, from identifying emerging opportunities to building robust internal systems for continuous invention, intellectual property management, and successful venture creation.

The Garage

Great ideas deserve more than just advice — they need a robust, intelligent system to grow into lasting institutions. At Steel Muse, we don't rely on guesswork or conventional consulting. We've developed a unique set of explainable methodologies – built on rigorous formal methods and accelerated by AI – to engineer predictable success for your inventions and ventures.

These aren’t just innovation tools. They're the machinery of serious innovators.

Creatives

Our systematic approach to transforming your ideas into world-class inventions and ventures.

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The Explainable Inventor

Turning raw ideas into world-class inventions—through the rigorous standards of international patents.

The Explainable Startup

Building ventures as engines of continuous innovation—forged through high-stakes capital and world-class teams.

Governors

Our methods for embedding integrity and rigorous decision-making into your ventures and critical operations.

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The Explainable Investor

Evaluating ventures with structured logic—where every investment decision can be explained, defended, and revised.

The Explainable Patient

Framing diagnostic and treatment logic with rigor—so that medical decisions can be held to causal and ethical accountability.

Universals

Our foundational methodologies for designing ideas and systems that are robust, adaptable, and future-proof across diverse domains.

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The Explainable Philosopher

Reasoning about systems—clarifying concepts, surfacing assumptions, and strengthening foundations across domains.

The Explainable Technologist

Translating methods into systems—ensuring that tools, platforms, and infrastructure remain faithful to institutional goals.

The Explainable Human

Modeling individuals, groups, and cultures—applied to leadership, design, market and product analyses.

The Crew

Our operational methodologies for managing, maintaining, and executing your complex projects and institutional systems with precision.

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The Clerk

Governing the architecture, design, and evolution of institutional systems.

The Custodian

Transforming data and observations into explicit, criticizable explanations.

The Conductor

Orchestrating and coordinating execution of roles, tasks, and processes.

Our Story

At Steel Muse, we don't operate on speculation. Our unique approach to institutional innovation is forged from decades of front-line experience turning ambitious ideas into enduring commercial realities.

Meet our founder, Peter Sweeney, a seasoned entrepreneur and inventor whose experience directly informs every system we build:

Peter Sweeney
Founder & Director

Ventures: 4 | Patents: 160+

The systems we build aren’t theoretical. They’re battle-tested solutions designed to support serious entrepreneurs and inventors who demand results.

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1996-2001: Building the first online businesses

InDIMENSIONS built the business and technical infrastructure needed to bring companies online—before “e-business” was even a category. It became Official Community.

2001-Present: A new business model for recording artists

Official Community pioneered direct-to-fan community platforms for major recording artists—now one of the largest networks of major artists in the world.

2004-Present: Generative AI and semantic synthesis

Primal, one of the first generative AI companies, invented semantic data synthesis. Today it commercializes one of the most expansive AI patent portfolios in the world—delivering trusted solutions for regulated industries.

2018-Present: A platform for institutional innovation.

Built to turn world-class inventions and ventures into lasting institutions, combining the precision of formal methods with the speed of AI—delivering explainable, adaptable systems that endure.

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Peter's expertise is codified in over 160 international patents, a testament to his deep understanding of innovation and intellectual property. His work includes foundational work in AI systems, including:

Agents and user-directed semantic networking
Analyzing and synthesizing complex knowledge representations
Search and ranking using semantic synthesis
Generation of training data and features for machine learning
Adapting large language models using data generation

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Start Something Serious

If you're building something that matters, that must succeed, then let's get serious.

Whether you're starting from an idea, an invention, a patent, or a fully formed company, we’re ready to help you build the institutional backbone it needs.

Start with a problem.
Build with good explanations.
Rapidly adapt to the real world.

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