Steel Muse

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. We've developed a unified system connecting invention, IP, and venture creation. It uses a combination of algorithmic constraints and generative AI to build reliable, adaptable systems that explain how they work. They turn 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 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 and agents to engineer predictable success for your inventions and ventures.

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

Zone 01 — Creatives

The Explainable Inventor

Internal

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

The Explainable Startup

Internal

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

Zone 02 — Governors

The Explainable Investor

Internal

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

The Explainable Patient

Internal

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

Zone 03 — Universals

The Explainable Philosopher

Internal

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

The Explainable Technologist

Internal

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

The Explainable Human

Internal

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

Our Story

Steel Muse is the result of 25 years of invention and entrepreneurship. We didn't learn innovation in a classroom. We learned it on the front lines—founding companies, building technologies, and securing intellectual property at an industrial scale.

We know the friction that slows serious founders down. We built Steel Muse to solve it—distilling decades of executive leadership and invention into a system you can use today.

Peter Sweeney

The Architect

A seasoned entrepreneur and prolific inventor whose experience directly informs every system we build. Peter has served in executive roles (CEO, CTO, COO) across four ventures, leading teams from early-stage invention to institutional scale.

150+

Patents Awarded

4

Ventures Founded

30yr

Track Record

Deep Technical Experience

We speak the language of inventors because we are inventors. Our background involves decades of hands-on technical development. This allows us to rapidly deconstruct complex innovations and translate them into robust asset strategies without the friction often found between legal and engineering teams.

Systems Architecture

Generative AI & Semantic Synthesis

Agent Systems

User-Directed Networking & Automated Agents

Knowledge Engineering

Complex Representation & Unsupervised Learning

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Experience Distilled From Category-Defining Ventures

InDIMENSIONS (1996-2001)
E-Business Infrastructure

↳ Lesson: Infrastructure

Official Community (2001-2025)
Direct-to-Fan Scale

↳ Lesson: Scale

Primal (2004-Present)
Generative AI & Semantic Synthesis

↳ Lesson: Invention

Steel Muse (2018-Present)
A platform for institutional innovation.

★ Innovation Architected

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.

Ready to start something serious?

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