Daylited
We are an innovation firm working in four fields: electric vehicles, electric transport, artificial intelligence and hardware. Most of what kills a new product is already written down somewhere, in a granted claim, a withdrawn application or a standard nobody read. We read it first. Then we build.
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Daylited AB, 559593-4240. Stockholm, Sweden.
Four fields
A firm that claims every industry has read the record in none of them. We picked four that share the same physics and the same regulator, and we turned down the rest.
01
Drivetrain, battery pack, thermal management and the charging interface. The part of the record that moves fastest, and the part where a late freedom to operate finding costs the most.
02
Everything that moves goods or people on stored electricity and is not a passenger car. Light commercial, cargo cycles, rail, port and yard equipment, and the charging that has to sit behind them.
03
Models that run on a device and answer for their output. We build the ones that have to be right, not the ones that have to be impressive in a demo.
04
Boards, enclosures, sensors and the firmware between them. We build a thing you can hold, measure and take to a test house.
Patent research
Over a hundred million patent documents are public and machine readable. Most of them describe things that did not work, filed by people who spent real money finding that out. That is the useful half. A granted claim tells you what you cannot sell. An abandoned application tells you what not to try.
We search that record before a budget is committed. Not to file something, and not to sell you a legal opinion. We do it so the first prototype is aimed at the gap rather than at the wall.
When the search says the idea is taken, we say so on the call, and we stop. That is a cheap week rather than an expensive year.
What we hand over
A landscape of what exists, who owns it, what expired and where the gap is. Every finding carries the document number, the date and the link, so you can check any line of it without asking us.
A thing that runs. Board, enclosure, firmware and the software around it, with the measurements that show what it actually does rather than what we hoped it would do.
The technical documentation, the risk assessment, the standards applied and the declaration your name goes on. Assembled while we build, because assembling it afterwards means building twice.
How it runs
Each step ends in something you can read. If it says stop, stopping is the right answer and you keep everything produced so far.
You describe the idea. We say whether it sits in one of our four fields and whether we think the record is going to be kind to you. If it is not our field we say who to call instead.
Two to four weeks in the patent record, the standards and the literature. It ends in a written landscape with a recommendation, and the recommendation is sometimes to stop.
A fixed scope and a fixed price for what gets built, written before anyone starts. Changes are a new scope, not a surprise on an invoice.
We build it. You see it weekly, running, not as a slide. The measurements go in the file as they are taken, including the ones that disappoint.
Source, schematics, board files, models and the conformity file, in your repository and under your name. We keep no copy that you have not agreed to.
The honest comparison
Three of these are real alternatives and we lose to each of them on something. Here is what.
| Daylited | A large consultancy | A patent attorney | Hiring in house | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Searches the record before building | yes | sometimes | yes | rarely |
| Builds the hardware afterwards | yes | yes | no | yes |
| Will tell you to stop | yes | rarely | yes | no |
| Fixed scope and fixed price | yes | no | hourly | salary |
| Intellectual property ends up yours | yes | negotiated | yes | yes |
| Can file and prosecute an application | no | no | yes | no |
| Two hundred people for a large programme | no | yes | no | over time |
| Knows your business after three years | no | no | no | yes |
If you need a filing prosecuted, you need an attorney and we will say so. If you need three hundred engineers, you need a large firm. We are the step before both, and we are cheaper than being wrong.
The work
Every photograph here is CC0 or public domain. We show them without a credit line because the licence permits it, and the licence for each one is recorded in the repository next to the file.
Asked on the first call
No. Everything produced in an engagement is yours, and that is in the contract rather than in a sentence on a website. We file nothing on your invention.
The one thing we keep is general knowledge. We do not unlearn how a battery management system works because we saw yours.
No, and the distinction matters. We search the record and tell you what it means for the engineering. Filing, prosecuting and giving a formal freedom to operate opinion is legal work, and it belongs with a qualified attorney. We work alongside one and we will introduce you if you do not have one.
The search is quoted as a fixed price before it starts. If it ends in stop, you have paid for a few weeks instead of a few quarters, and you keep the landscape document. That is the outcome we are least sorry about.
Daylited holds no management system certification today, and we will not imply one. When a project needs a certified process we say which one and who holds it.
What we do is the conformity work itself: the technical file, the risk assessment, the standards applied and the declaration of conformity that carries your name. The notified body or test house that signs off is named in the plan before the work starts.
Yes, and we prefer it. Send yours and we will sign it if it is reasonable. If you would rather use ours, ask and you will have it the same day.
One person with a drawing is a normal first call. We would rather look at a sketch than at a business plan, and the search is the same search whether the company behind it has one employee or four hundred.
Under the hood
Depots, greenhouses, server rooms and harbour cranes. Rest the pointer on any of them and the drawing answers: labels appear, parts lift, lights come on.
One call, no charge and no deck. If it is not our field we will say so in the first ten minutes and point you somewhere better.