Commercify Features for Tech Transfer and Commercialization

Where to start

Most people arrive with one of three questions: how mature is this technology, who would pay for it, and how should it reach the market. The tools are built around those questions, and the order matters. A pricing model for a technology that has only been shown in a lab is guesswork, and a licensing pitch without a defined customer segment rarely gets a reply.

If you are a researcher with a lab result and no commercial plan, start with the TRL assessment. It forces an honest answer about whether the work has been shown in a relevant environment, which decides whether licensing, a spin-out or more grant-funded development makes sense. Then run the strategy generator with that stage selected. The generator is instructed to calibrate to stage, so a concept at TRL 3 gets validation and funding advice, not an enterprise sales plan.

If you work in a tech transfer office, the useful tools are the ones that help you triage. The prioritization matrix demo shows a weighted, five-criterion way to compare disclosures that you can copy into your own spreadsheet, and the generator produces a first-draft pathway and marketing memo you can edit before talking to licensees. Our university directory lists US tech transfer offices with sourced metrics if you want to compare notes with peer institutions.

If you are a founder spinning a company out of research, use the generator for the overall plan, then the market sizing calculator and pricing calculator to test the numbers the plan depends on. Both calculators work only with the inputs you give them, so they are best used to see how sensitive your plan is to an assumption, not to produce a forecast.

Other free tools

• Technology Readiness Level assessment: answer one question per level to estimate a TRL from 1 to 9, with next steps for that level.
• GTM readiness assessment: a questionnaire that scores product, market, sales and marketing, and operations readiness.
• Deep-tech risk assessment: questions on technology readiness, market adoption, and regulatory and IP risk, with a score and mitigation ideas.
• Market sizing calculator: TAM, SAM and SOM by top-down, bottom-up or value-based methods, from the inputs you supply.
• Innovation prioritization matrix: score your own opportunities on five weighted criteria (commercial potential, IP strength, strategic fit, technical feasibility, resource ease) and plot them on a 2×2. Saved in your browser, exports to CSV.
• Find licensing opportunities: a keyword search that ranks universities in our directory by how well their research areas and portfolio categories match your focus.
• Patent and IP strategy planner: planning help for filing timelines and IP strategy based on your stage and market.
• Financial model generator: revenue, cost and cash-flow projections built from your own assumptions.

The calculators and assessments run in your browser and do not ask you to sign up. The strategy generator asks for an email address because it sends the full report there after you confirm the address.

What Commercify does not do yet

There is no logged-in product. That means no saved workspaces, no team accounts, no integrations with patent databases or CRMs, no alerts and no portfolio dashboard. Some older pages on this site described those things as if they existed, and we have rewritten them. Planned work includes a portfolio view for tech transfer offices and saved strategy reports. We are not promising dates.

Help from a person

Separately from the tools, we offer done-for-you GTM engineering services for B2B SaaS founders and revenue leaders: building the pipeline, data and outreach systems behind a go-to-market plan. Engagements are scoped individually and the service is currently a waitlist. Join the waitlist or read the GTM engineering guides.