Traction AI

Scout Smarter, Faster

Deliver insights on emerging technologies and trends in minutes—not weeks.

Transform Technology Evaluations

Streamline the process of evaluating technologies and managing vendor engagements.

Make Confident, Data-Driven Decisions

Harness powerful, data-driven reports that distill complex market dynamics into clear, actionable insights tailored to your goals.

What it does

Traction AI Is Your Virtual Technology Scout

Harness the power of Traction AI to be your virtual Technology Scout. Discover emerging technologies aligned with your goals. Evaluate potential partners faster and more accurately. Shorten the time from scouting to decision-making.

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Spots Trends

Leverage AI to uncover emerging technologies and trends aligned with your strategic goals.

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Analyzes Problems

Give Traction AI the problem you are trying to solve and it will provide instant, in-depth analysis and a list of companies tailored to your specific problem.

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Recommends Solutions

Identify the most relevant technologies and vendors to drive innovation and growth.

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Why You need it

Gain An Innovation Advantage

Are you exploring new technologies to keep your organization ahead of the curve? Traction AI accelerates and improves the time-consuming and complex process of discovering, evaluating, and acting on emerging technologies and market opportunities. Traction AI allows leaders to make informed decisions faster, reduce risk, and accelerate innovation initiatives—empowering them to stay ahead in competitive, fast-moving markets.

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Technology Scouting

Reduce the time it takes to find new technologies that can deliver meaningful results to your business from weeks to minutes.

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Market Research

Generate instant, high-quality market research with our Trend Reports, SWOT Analyses, and Company Snapshots.

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Vendor Evaluations

Speed up the vendor evaluation process to identify the most impactful partners.

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How It Works

Add Intelligence to Your Workflows

Traction AI is designed to enhance and automate your company's existing innovation management workflows. From researching market trends to generating vendor shortlists, Traction AI will help you find new technologies faster and easier, with less risk.

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Vendor Recommendations

Find Companies That Can Solve Your Problems

Give Traction AI your hardest problems (the more detailed, the better) and it will research and deliver a vetted list of Recommended Companies best-positioned to solve them. Or give it a company, and ask it to find competitors that are similar.

Trend Reports

Analyze Market Trends

Get unlimited access to market research with Trend Reports that can summarize any technology trend, highlighting potential growth areas, key players, and risk factors. Click to dive deeper into any part of the report for richer insights. High-quality reports that would take an analyst days to research and produce can be generated in seconds.

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SWOT Analysis

Generate SWOT Reports

Create standard SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) Reports on market trends or individual companies. These come in handy when comparing different vendors for a pilot or major deployment.

Company Snapshots

Company Snapshots are a Snap

Company Snapshots are a click away. Traction AI pulls together easily-scannable details about a company, it's products and services, location, funding and leadership, Snapshots also include key takeaways and recent developments. Share with cross-functional stakeholders and decision-makers for more informed decisions about pilots, partnerships, or investments that everyone aligns around.

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Auto-Tagging

Let Traction AI Tag Your Companies For You

Properly tagging companies based on custom enterprise taxonomies has always been challenging. Eliminate this time-consuming, data-entry task and let Traction AI do it for you flawlessly.

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Unique Features

Exclusive AI-Powered Features

Like any good Technology Scout, Traction AI has many skills it can use to help your team find new technologies. It can generate Trend Reports, SWOT Analyses, or Company Snapshots. It can Recommend Companies based on the problem you are trying to solve. It can also sift through the thousands of Ideas and Projects in your platform and recommend the best ones that may already solve a problem—helping anyone in your company find existing solutions fast.

All of this is possible because of Traction's proprietary AI architecture. Traction AI combines access to the leading foundational AI models from Anthropic (Claude) with our own Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture and proprietary Traction data sets. This enterprise-grade architecture eliminates hallucinations and gives the AI more context behind every question, resulting in better answers for questions related to our domain—technology scouting and managing innovation.

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Technology Scouting

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Trend Reports

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SWOT Analysis

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Company Snapshots

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Vendor Recommendations

company due diligence

Find Competitors

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Project + Idea Recommendatons

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Auto-tagging

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Key Takeaways

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Enterprise-Grade

Built for Enterprise Security

At Traction Technology, we prioritize data security and integrity, especially as we integrate advanced AI into our platform. To meet the stringent requirements of enterprise clients, we’ve built a secure AI architecture that combines a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture with the robust capabilities of AWS Bedrock. All customer data is isolated, with Role-Based Access to privileged data and safeguards to prevent prompt leakage. This architecture ensures our clients can leverage AI-driven insights with confidence, knowing their data is handled securely and responsibly.

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Our Customers

Innovation Leaders Trust Traction

4.5 out of 5 Stars
"A helpful tool to keep track of our Vendors and selection efforts"


What do you like best about Traction Technology?
The software is fairly intuitive to use. The product team is very supportive. We are able to easily add vendors to our database and setup custom fields to track the key information we need. The tool also allows us to send out requests to the vendors to keep the info up to date. "
4.5 Stars out of 5
"Great tool that can be leveraged for efficiently organizing and tracking startups."

What do you like best about Traction Technology?
The founders have been very active in engaging with our company to develop new features for specific use cases.
4.5 Stars out 5
"Wonderful system backed by great people"


What do you like best about Traction Technology?
Traction is a flexible solution for many reverse CRM needs in my organization. The custom solution they added for our needs has become an invaluable tool for GSK R&D!
5 Stars out of 5
"An important partnership!"

What do you like best about Traction Technology?
We have been working with Traction Technology for several years, especially for technology sourcing and progress management of collaboration with startups. They are attentive to understanding our needs, and the outputs are always gratifying.
5 Stars out of 5
"Central product for our Innovation strategy"

What do you like best about Traction Technology?
Traction is the perfect tool to bring all our innovation activities together. Allowing us to collate, review and assess the latest companies on one platform as a team.
5 Stars out of 5
"Great experience with Traction Tech"

What do you like best about Traction Technology? The ease of use of the platform and the team works well with our needs and innovation team.
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Traction Technologies helped launch an expansion of a corporate venture scouting effort with a brilliant analyst, a customizable data platform and the personal engagement of their co-founders. It is one of the best professional services engagements I’ve experienced."

Louis Kim

VP, HP Inc.

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I think what you are doing is important to the entire corporate innovation community. We still use spreadsheets. We need this."

Chief Innovation Officer

Consumer Goods Company

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We were looking to combine our Ideation tool and startup management process. Traction is the perfect combination."

Head of Emerging Technology

Startup Liaison Officer

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We threw our hardest problems at Traction. Whether it was machine learning, spatial search, or predictive analytics, Traction always delivered."

SVP

Emerging Technologies, Fortune 50 company

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Traction introduced us to AI robotics startups from the manufacturing world that we could apply to our industry. We would have never found them on our own."

CIO

Restaurant chain

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You guys think about the problem the same way I do"

Startup Liaison Officer

Defense Contractor

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