About Suzi Murphy
Suzi Murphy is an AI Product Intelligence Strategist and the founder of InventMentors. She helps inventors, founders, and product developers validate their ideas with real market data before they invest $50K or more in patents, prototypes, or manufacturing.
Why? She has watched too many smart people build products nobody wanted. They had great ideas and worked hard, but they skipped one step: validation. People work hard for their money. They deserve decisions backed by data, not guesses.
Today she helps innovators validate in weeks, not months, so they can move forward with confidence instead of fear. Her belief: data beats assumptions. Always.
Based in the Seattle area, Washington. Suzi works with innovators and founders globally by video.
Her work with patent attorneys
Patent attorneys protect inventions. They are not usually the ones who test whether a market wants the product. Suzi works alongside attorneys so that market validation happens next to patent protection instead of after it.
One patent attorney now has his inventor clients work with Suzi first, so they understand whether there is real demand before they are deep into the process. You can read the story in the patent attorney case study.
InventMentors does not provide legal advice. Questions about patent timing, disclosure, and filing belong with a registered patent attorney or patent agent. Suzi's job is the commercial question: will anyone buy this?
Learn more on the patent validation page, or see how working with patent attorneys fits together. Working with a university technology? See market validation for university technologies.
Common mistakes inventors make after (or before) a patent
Patenting first and validating never.
A patent protects an idea. It does not show that anyone wants to buy it.
Committing to prototypes or tooling before checking demand.
One product developer had already spent $20K on patents and was about to put another $50K into prototyping before a single conversation changed the plan.
Treating polite enthusiasm as proof.
"I'd buy that" from friends and family is not the same as a real buyer agreeing to pay.
Panic-filing after the first buyer reply.
Timing questions about disclosure are real, but they belong in a conversation with a registered patent attorney or agent, not a rushed filing.
For a longer look, read When Should You Patent an Invention?
About InventMentors
InventMentors analyzes market research, competitive analysis, and customer insights, using AI-driven analysis to find patterns that guesswork misses. The result: innovators validate in weeks instead of months, avoid expensive mistakes, and choose their next step with evidence.
Suzi also writes the weekly AI for Inventors series, published here and on Substack. Connect on LinkedIn.
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