Invention disclosure software comparison
Autessa IDF Manager vs Wellspring
Wellspring offers a configurable online disclosure tool alongside Sophia and its tech transfer, scouting and renewal products. Researchers sign in with corporate accounts, and an approved disclosure becomes an invention record. Autessa IDF Manager keeps the whole decision on one disclosure: an enforced pipeline, reviewer scores, and the legal and commercial fields, restricted to reviewers.
- Reference code, assigned on first save
- Only the moves legal from this stage, for this role
- Structured disclosure sections
- Reviewer-only scores
Side by side
How they compare
How the two compare on the jobs an invention program runs every week.
| Capability | Autessa IDF Manager | Wellspring |
|---|---|---|
| Docket, filing and grant details on the same disclosure | ✓ | Moves to an invention record |
| Estimated value, licensing strategy and competitive significance | ✓ | Not listed |
| Novelty and commercial value scores on every disclosure | 1 to 10 each | Not listed |
| Pipeline that offers only legal moves and re-checks each one | ✓ | Workflow templates and module |
| Internal comments for Reviewers and Admins | ✓ | Not listed |
| Built-in guide that shows each person what they can do | ✓ | Not listed |
| Full headless access (Autessa MCP) | ✓ | Not listed |
| 100% customizable, code and all (Autobot) | ✓ | Form templates and workflows |
| Invention disclosure form | Ready to use | Templates and custom forms |
| Inventors see their disclosure status | ✓ | ✓ |
| Search across disclosures | ✓ | ✓ |
Based on publicly available information as of November 2026. Product names are trademarks of their owners.
Where Autessa wins
Why teams choose IDF Manager over Wellspring
One record from draft to grant
Wellspring’s approval creates a full invention record. In IDF Manager, the same disclosure carries scores, attorney notes, filing details and the decision.
The business case beside the invention
Estimated value, licensing strategy and competitive significance sit on the disclosure, visible to reviewers only.
Past forms and workflows
Wellspring configures forms and workflows. Autobot changes the app itself from a plain-language request, such as a witness sign-off or a new stage, code and all.
Ask across the portfolio
Through the Autessa MCP, Claude can find disclosures by inventor or tag and report how many sit at each stage, within your role.
Switching
Moving from Wellspring
Start by inviting your review committee as Reviewers and a few inventors as Contributors, then ask new disclosures to come in through IDF Manager. Existing disclosures can be re-entered through the form, with their files attached, when they next come up for review. Filing and grant details can be added on the Review tab at any time. Use your Wellspring form as the outline for any fields you want Autobot to add.
Ready on day one, shaped to your program
IDF Manager works out of the box inside Autessa: the disclosure form, review pipeline, scoring, legal fields and roles are ready the day you invite your team. From there you can tailor fields, workflow and branding to how your invention program runs.
FAQ
Autessa IDF Manager and Wellspring: questions
Is Autessa IDF Manager an alternative to Wellspring?
Yes, for online invention disclosures. IDF Manager has a structured form that works out of the box, an enforced pipeline from Draft to Granted and restricted reviewer fields.
Can I customize the IDF Manager disclosure form?
Yes. The form works out of the box with the sections patent reviewers need, and tags are free-form. IDF Manager is also 100% customizable, so Autobot can add fields, stages or logic to the app, code and all, from a plain-language request.
Can Claude help reviewers with disclosures?
Yes. The Autessa MCP gives Claude and other AI tools full headless access, within the role of the person connected, so a reviewer can ask for a summary or a list of what is waiting.
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Disclosure form · review pipeline · reviewer scoring · role-based access
100% customizable, code and all
Make Autessa IDF Manager fully your own.
Use it out of the box, then change anything. Ask Autobot, Autessa’s AI builder, for a new field, screen, report, workflow or agent and it builds it into your copy of the app. Or open the code and edit it yourself. Nothing is locked: the app, its data and its code are yours.
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