ProtoPath connects inventors with vetted builders, patent professionals, and manufacturers. One platform, every step, affordable for anyone.
Average cost of invention services from firms like InventHelp. Most inventors never recover that investment.
Of patents never make money. The system profits from filing fees, not from your success.
Separate vendors needed today: prototyper, patent attorney, manufacturer, distributor, marketer, designer, researcher.
Describe your invention and upload sketches. We keep it confidential and match you with the right builders.
Vetted builders review your idea and submit proposals with timelines and pricing. You choose the best fit.
Your chosen builder brings the concept to life. Track progress and collaborate throughout the build.
We connect your finished product with patent professionals, manufacturers, and retailers.
Traditional invention firms charge thousands upfront whether your product sells or not. ProtoPath charges affordable service fees at each step, plus 10% of future sales. Our incentive is your success.
This is the marketplace that should have existed decades ago.
Submit your idea and get matched with builders who can bring it to life. Free to submit, pay only for services you choose.
Submit Your Idea →Browse invention ideas and submit proposals to build them. Set your own rates and work on projects that excite you.
Browse Inventions →ProtoPath exists because every great invention starts as an idea in someone's head, and most of those ideas die there. Not because they weren't good enough, but because the path to market was too expensive, too confusing, and too lonely. That changes now.