Collaborative scope

Federal Innovation Referral Partnerships

Cognivito works where federal award administration, invention identification, patent strategy, ownership, reporting, and commercialization overlap. The goal is not to displace professionals who are already serving the client well. The goal is to define scope boundaries, coordinate the federal-invention and IP layer, and refer work outside Cognivito's competence.

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Who may find the overlap useful

Advisers around funded technical companies

  • SBIR and STTR consultants
  • Grant accountants and administrators
  • Patent attorneys and firms
  • Government-contracting counsel
  • APEX Accelerator advisers
  • Deep-tech incubators
  • Technology-transfer professionals
  • Commercialization consultants
  • Fractional CFOs
  • Federal-grants specialists

What Cognivito handles

The federal-invention and IP connection layer

  • Defined Federal Innovation Portfolio Reviews
  • Award-to-invention and patent-family mapping
  • Ownership and assignment issue identification
  • Government-support-statement and reporting-record coordination
  • AI-assisted inventorship and human-contribution review
  • Defined ongoing federal innovation counsel
  • Separately engaged patent and core IP work within scope

What Cognivito refers out

Work outside launch scope or verified competence

  • General government-contracting matters
  • Grant writing and broad award administration
  • Tax and accounting
  • Export control and cybersecurity
  • Nonstandard clauses, complex waivers, and government demands
  • Specialized agency, university, state-law, transaction, or dispute work when another professional is required

A practical collaboration model

Define who owns each next action

The client may already have patent counsel, a grant consultant, an accountant, a university contact, and management or technical owners. Cognivito can identify the overlap, document the division of responsibility, coordinate source-linked questions, and keep out-of-scope work with the appropriate professional.

No referral compensation is offered or implied. No non-solicitation promise is made through this website.

Referral partner conversation

Discuss the overlap without disclosing client confidences.

Cognivito will confirm conflicts, authority, competence, scope, and professional responsibilities before substantive client information is exchanged.

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