NIXIE · Neural Innovation Intelligence

The intelligence behind your innovation processes.

The AI engine built for innovation: grounded in the Gold Standard, it reasons like a specialist inside every module of the platform.

Vertical

A specialist, not a generalist.

Generalist AI knows a bit of everything. NIXIE knows one thing only: innovation. And it knows it inside out.

The same question
Find startups in the energy sector.
Generalist AI
general-purpose model · chat answer

Here are some well-known energy startups in Europe:

  • Northvolt (Sweden) · batteries
  • Sunfire (Germany) · green hydrogen
  • Octopus Energy (UK) · renewable energy
no method no process no criteria
The decision still rests entirely on your shoulders.
Tech Radar · energy sector
Scouting AI
VoltGrid
MunichSeries A
0%
SunPeak
MadridSeed
0%
HydroNova
RotterdamSeries B
0%
PoC Management · initiatives
Execution
Backlog 2
SunPeak
Madrid · Seed
HydroNova
Rotterdam · Series B
In progress 1
VoltGrid
grid storage · pilot
started
Completed 0
PoC started · VoltGrid
Results scored with the Gold Standard on your data, already wired into your processes. See how NIXIE reasons
Conversation

You ask, it answers with method.

You talk to NIXIE in natural language. It applies the Gold Standard to your case and returns defensible decisions, with the full chain of evidence.

Speak naturally, no keywords needed
It recognizes your context and your goals
Every answer comes with traceable sources
NIXIE
Online · reasoning over the Gold Standards
HealthTech startups in the EU for cardiology, high TRL
I applied the startup scouting Gold Standard to your need. 3 strong matches, with traceable evidence.
CardioWear
Berlin · Series A €4M
94%
BeatSense
Eindhoven · Seed €1.5M
89%
PulseLab
Milan · Pre-seed
87%
4 sources tracked · Gold Standard applied
nixie.blendx.io / esplora
Graph Observers Trends Patents
You Startups Universities Partners Corporates
Always-on observers
Quantum computing · patents
Last 24h
47 new
Series A HealthTech · EU
This week
12 deals
Cyber-defence · USA
Last 48h
8 signals
GreenTech · Italy
Last quarter
31 startups
Quantum computing
Last 12 months · patents filed
+320%
1.2kpatents tracked
47new this week
12key holders
EP-2024-8821 Topological qubit array stabilization IBM · 2024-10-12 Match 96%
US-2024-7733 Cryogenic error correction protocol Google · 2024-09-28 Match 91%
WO-2024-4412 Quantum-resistant key exchange Leonardo · 2024-08-15 Match 88%
EP-2024-9015 Photonic interconnect for quantum networks CNR · 2024-11-02 Match 84%
Exploration

Explore its spaces, follow its signals.

Your ecosystem graph, the observers monitoring trends and patents, the views over your data. See the connections before they become opportunities.

The graph of your relationships, alive
Always-on observers watching the market
Trends and patents tracked automatically
What you can do with it 01 / 07
01 · Search

Find the right technology in minutes

From a natural-language question to relevant patents, software and startups.

02 · Observe

The market keeps you updated on its own

Set your observers once: the relevant signals come to you, without searching.

03 · Anticipate

See emerging technologies before your competitors

Catch weak signals before they go mainstream.

04 · Map

Your entire ecosystem at a glance

Initiatives, partners and collaborations connected in a navigable graph.

05 · Monitor

No competitor move slips past you

Continuous monitoring: you know what they do the moment they do it, no manual checking.

06 · Decide

Choose with the evidence in hand

An innovation strategy built on your data and your real context.

07 · Execute

From insight to action, without switching tools

Launch initiatives and see them through directly in the blendX modules.

SearchSemantic search across startups, patents and software
computer vision startups for logistics…
patent · 94%
software · 88%
startup · 81%
ObserveAlways-on observers for your domain
live
live
3 new signals collected overnight
AnticipateWeak signals before the mainstream
emerging ↑
+38% YoY
MapA knowledge graph of your relationships
42 nodes · 128 relationships
MonitorCompetitors under continuous watch
movement
stable
new deal
12 competitors monitored
DecideStrategy driven by data and context
Recommendation: prioritize 3 technologies
ExecuteFrom decisions to the blendX modules
Challenge
PoC
Portfolio
2 initiatives launched in the modules
The 4 layers of NIXIE

What's under the hood of NIXIE

Four layers that turn raw ecosystem data into defensible decisions. Scroll to explore them.

01
Players
Deals
IP
Needs
Data · the substrate

The innovation ecosystem, structured.

The raw material NIXIE reasons on, continuously collected and organized.

Players: companies, startups, universities, accelerators, investors
Deals: funding rounds, M&A, exits, grants, IPOs
IP: patents indexed and linked to their holders
Needs: innovation needs extracted from the market
02
Proprietary knowledge
Gold Standard · the proprietary asset

The protocols that capture expert reasoning.

The heart of NIXIE: protocols that codify how a senior consultant approaches every innovation management move. They separate the obvious standard from the move that makes the difference. They are blendX's knowledge, codified in-house.

blendX proprietary knowledge, never shared with public models
They capture the senior consultant's reasoning, not the industry standard
The optimal benchmark every system output is measured against
03
Build
Organize
Interact
Process · the execution engine

The Gold Standards, set in motion on the data.

18 innovation management processes NIXIE runs, organized into three families.

Build, constructing the ecosystem: governance, innovation need, ecosystem, budget, framework
Organize, managing resources: program management, portfolio, tech radar, dealflow, culture, skill mapping
Interact, activating execution: challenge, matchmaking, PoC management, idea management, acceleration, learning, events
04
Recommendations
Insights
Scenarios
Evidence
Decision · the value output

Four modes for deciding well.

NIXIE doesn't decide for you: it puts you in a position to. Four complementary modes: prescriptive, diagnostic, predictive, evidentiary.

Recommendations: concrete actions to take (prescriptive)
Insights: relevant patterns and signals in your context (diagnostic)
Scenarios: projections and trade-offs between alternatives (predictive)
Evidence: the chain of sources and Gold Standards behind every recommendation (evidentiary)
Private AI

Private. In more ways than one.

By default your data is already isolated. For those who want maximum protection, we are developing Private AI: NIXIE running entirely on your infrastructure, with data, model and methodology that never leave.

Active by default: your data stays isolated and never feeds public models.Maximum protection: NIXIE runs entirely on-premise, on your infrastructure.

Your data

Isolated in your dedicated space. It never feeds public models or other clients.Isolated on your servers: it never leaves your network, at any point.

IsolatedIsolated · on-premise

The NIXIE model

Runs on dedicated blendX cloud, with data centers in Europe you can choose.Runs on-premise, on your servers. Model and weights never leave your infrastructure.

Dedicated cloud · EUOn-premise

The methodology · Gold Standard

The proprietary knowledge stays inside blendX: never exposed to third parties or to the models.It stays protected inside blendX even on-premise: it's the know-how, and it's never handed over.

ProtectedProtected

NIXIE vs generalist AI.

Five differences that matter, at a glance.

NIXIE
Generalist AI
What is it trained on?
Built on innovation Gold Standards
Everything, nothing in depth
Does it know your ecosystem?
Yes, 36M companies in the database
No, generic knowledge only
Where does your data end up?
It stays within the blendX perimeter
Potentially in the training set
Are the answers defensible?
Yes, with traceable sources
No, no chain of sources
Does it act inside your processes?
It executes inside the blendX modules
No, it stops at text

Three terms, explained.

Gold Standard
Gold Standards are the innovation management methodologies codified by blendX from more than 15 years of corporate innovation and digital transformation projects: proprietary protocols that capture how a senior consultant approaches every innovation process, and on which the NIXIE AI is built.
Private AI
Private AI is blendX's deployment option, currently in development, in which NIXIE runs entirely on-premise, on the client's infrastructure: data, model and methodology never leave the corporate network.
MCP servers
blendX's MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers are vertical connectors on the platform's modules: they expose data and tools to NIXIE and to enterprise AI suites, integrating blendX into your existing stack via an open standard.
NIXIE

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