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Research & IP

You need rigorous, sourced research — or a governed interface to a body of work — built by someone who ships the instrument, not just the slide.

The studio’s research surfaces and IP have standalone value at near-zero marginal cost. IGA is a working games-market research instrument. The perspective-engine pattern — a rights-gated corpus behind a retrieval-first interface that cites its sources and knows when to abstain — generalizes to estates, authors, and family enterprises. And the patent is a licensable asset in its own right. This door is optionality: small bets, honest metrics, and a clear kill-or-compound decision at every quarterly review.

The offers

IGA Research Brief

$2,500Per brief
  • A commissioned comparison or diligence report through the 35-dimension instrument
  • Subject titles you choose
  • Every claim delivered with its source pinned
  • The same rigor that doubles as Fever Tilt’s design syllabus

Subject titles chosen by you; sources pinned per claim.

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IGA Sponsorship

$500 / monthSingle slot
  • A single, tasteful sponsor slot on iga.outright.io
  • A published methodology firewall protecting the research
  • Sponsor exclusions — no company analyzed in the dataset
  • Association with genuinely rigorous indie research

One tasteful sponsor slot, behind a published methodology firewall.

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Perspective Engine Pilot

$12,0006 weeks
  • A KenLM-pattern build over one corpus you name
  • A source inventory with rights statuses and canonical-work deduplication
  • A retrieval-first engine with abstention and citations — it says “I don’t know”
  • A hosted deployment you can actually use

The rights-gate is the product — we sell the inventory/audit as phase one.

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Patent License

Priced per dealInbound only
  • The generative-music composition patent as a licensable asset
  • Separate from the XJ product track
  • Inbound-only; scoped and priced per deal
  • Active to 2038

U.S. 10,446,126, independent of the XJ product.

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How it works

A Perspective Engine Pilot leads with the rights work, because the rights-gate is the differentiation:

  1. Inventory. Every source catalogued with its rights status; canonical works de-duplicated. Exit: a rights-cleared corpus map you can defend.
  2. Contract the answer. Define what the engine may say, when it must cite, and when it must abstain. Exit: a written answer contract.
  3. Build retrieval-first. An engine that retrieves and cites before it generates, and refuses when it shouldn’t guess. Exit: it answers with sources — and says “I don’t know” when it should.
  4. Deploy and evaluate. Hosted, with an eval harness so quality is a number. Exit: a running deployment and a passing eval.

Fit / not-fit

This is for you if

  • You’re a publisher or fund doing diligence and want sourced, comparable games data
  • You steward an estate, an archive, or a family enterprise and want a governed interface to a life’s work
  • You need an answer engine that cites and abstains, not one that confidently makes things up
  • You’re building a generative-music system and need to talk about the patent

We're probably not your studio if

  • You want a sponsorship that bends the methodology — the firewall is published and fixed
  • You want an unsourced “AI research report” with no rights inventory behind it
  • You need a chatbot that answers everything confidently, citations optional
  • You want to license the patent to use against the studio’s own work

Brief / pilot intake

Tell us the corpus or titles in question, the rights posture, and your timeline. We send a scoped reply — this door is optionality, so we're candid about fit.

Prefer to talk first? Ask for a 20-minute fit call in the form and we’ll send a time.

Anything else? (optional)
Where to reach you
No form? Send it as an email instead.

Copy the template, fill in the blanks, and send it to hi@outrightmental.com. One person reads every note and replies within two business days.

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Questions people ask

How is a research brief sourced?
Through IGA’s 35 standardized dimensions, with every claim delivered alongside the source it came from. You pick the subject titles; you get a report you can hand to a partner or an investment committee and defend line by line.
Who owns a perspective engine we commission?
You own the deployment and the rights-cleared corpus map for your material. The KenLM reference pattern and the eval harness stay the studio’s, published as the reference case. The point of the engine is that your corpus stays governed and yours.
How do you keep IGA neutral with a sponsor?
A published methodology firewall separates sponsorship from the research, and sponsor exclusions bar any company analyzed in the dataset. The single slot is tasteful by design; the rigor is not for sale.
What happens if this vector doesn't find buyers?
Then it gets frozen, honestly — the instruments stay live, the offers page comes down, and the studio’s attention goes where it compounds. This door is explicitly optionality, reviewed each quarter on a kill-or-compound basis. No pretending.