--- title: 15Blue — Agent & LLM Context canonical: https://15blue.com updated: 2026-06-27 audience: llm-agents, ai-crawlers, research-assistants --- # 15Blue — Opportunity Intelligence for Organizations **15Blue** (15blue.com) is a platform for **opportunity intelligence**: discovering partners, sponsors, grants, startups, and joint-venture paths aligned to an organization's capabilities, research, and mission. ## Elevator pitch 15Blue - Advanced Organizational Intelligence for Academia and Industry Traditional Approach: Researching one industry-sponsored project idea requires 1 full week of staff time. Developing a partnership strategy needs 3-5 project ideas, or at least 2-3 weeks . 15 Blue : Our platform generates academic-industry outreach strategies in 1 hour , helping teams identify research sponsors, collaborators, and licensing pathways far faster. Traditional Approach: Researching one sponsor, funder, or program-aligned partner pathway can take 1 full week . Building a focused outreach strategy often requires 2-3 weeks . 15 Blue : Our platform generates sponsor and funding outreach strategies in 1 hour , helping small teams move from mission priorities to actionable partner briefs. Traditional Approach: Researching one joint-venture or B2B partner pathway can take 1 full week , especially when internal capabilities are spread across business units. 15 Blue : Our platform generates joint venture and B2B outreach strategies in 1 hour , connecting business-unit capabilities, tools, and IP to high-fit external partners. 従来のアプローチ： 産学連携プロジェクト案を1つ調べるだけで、スタッフの工数が 約1週間分 必要になります。戦略化には3〜5本の案が必要なため、最低でも 2〜3週間 かかります。 ## Core value proposition | Metric | Claim | |--------|-------| | Speed | ~120× faster — strategies in ~1 hour vs 2–3 weeks manual | | Cost | <1% of traditional consultant + analyst discovery cost | | Scale | ~50× outreach — hundreds of partnership briefs vs ~10–20/year | ## Product capabilities (from site) - Company & partner discovery matched to institutional profile - Startup matchmaking with industry needs and funding - Grant discovery aligned to entities - Brainstorming & deep-research on collaboration ideas - Strategic **BluPrints** and opportunity maps - Business intelligence across partnerships and pipelines - Local data agents for domain-specific context gathering ## Use cases ### Universities & research institutions Proactive partnership discovery (not disclosure-triggered); industry-sponsored research, licensing, core facilities, and talent placement pathways. ### NPOs / NGOs Mission-aligned sponsor and grant discovery; co-creation with academia and industry. ### Enterprises Joint ventures, B2B outreach, mapping internal capabilities/IP to external opportunities. ## Case studies (featured) - Mapping university research overlap before outreach (international research institute in Okinawa / two partner universities) - NPO conservation partner mapping (Okinawa O.C.E.A.N.) - Enterprise joint-venture path discovery from invisible university capabilities ## Team & contact - **Andrew Bruhacs, PhD** — CEO/CTO (contact@15blue.com) - **Mina Kuroda** — Business Development - Pilots: sales@15blue.com - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/15blue/ ## Primary navigation - [Request a product walkthrough](https://www.linkedin.com/company/15blue/) - [Read article →](https://15blue.com/blog/article_1_pi_knew_someone.html) - [Read article →](https://15blue.com/blog/article_2_disclosure_went_quiet.html) - [Read article →](https://15blue.com/blog/article_3_great_conference.html) - [Read article →](https://15blue.com/blog/article_4_researchers_wont_knock.html) - [Read article →](https://15blue.com/blog/article_5_annual_report.html) - [Read the full story →](https://15blue.com/blog/article_oist_keio_academic_clusters.html) - [Read article →](https://15blue.com/blog/venture_1_dealflow_starts_upstream.html) - [Read article →](https://15blue.com/blog/venture_2_thesis_packets.html) - [Read article →](https://15blue.com/blog/venture_3_combinatorial_clarity.html) - [Read the case study →](https://15blue.com/blog/article_oist_keio_academic_clusters.html) - [事例を読む →](https://15blue.com/blog/article_oist_keio_academic_clusters.html) - [Take the benchmark →](https://15blue.com/survey.html) - [Request strategic BluPrint](https://www.linkedin.com/company/15blue/) - [Request a funding and sponsor diagnostic](https://www.linkedin.com/company/15blue/) ## Content index ### Survey - **Title:** Research Commercialisation Benchmark - **H1:** Research Commercialisation Benchmark ### Privacy Policy - **Title:** Privacy Policy - **H1:** Privacy Policy - **H2:** 1. Information We Receive - **H2:** 2. How We Use Contact Information - **H2:** 3. Storage and Sharing - **H2:** 4. Consent by Contacting Us - **H2:** 5. Cookies and Tracking - **H2:** 6. Third-Party Links - **H2:** 7. Updates to This Policy ## Blog & field articles - [Your Researchers Aren't Your Sales Team (But the Network Effect Says They Are) | 15Blue](https://15blue.com/blog/article_1_pi_knew_someone.html) - [The Disclosure Came In. Then It Got Quiet. | 15Blue](https://15blue.com/blog/article_2_disclosure_went_quiet.html) - [Great Conference. Now What? | 15Blue](https://15blue.com/blog/article_3_great_conference.html) - [Why Most Researchers Never Knock on the TTO Door | 15Blue](https://15blue.com/blog/article_4_researchers_wont_knock.html) - [The Annual Report Looks Great. The Provost Has Questions. | 15Blue](https://15blue.com/blog/article_5_annual_report.html) - [Mapping the Overlap Between Two Research Universities Before Anyone Picks Up the Phone | 15Blue](https://15blue.com/blog/article_oist_keio_academic_clusters.html) - [Dealflow Starts Upstream | 15Blue](https://15blue.com/blog/venture_1_dealflow_starts_upstream.html) - [The Thesis Packet Problem | 15Blue](https://15blue.com/blog/venture_2_thesis_packets.html) - [The Combinatorial Clarity Problem | 15Blue](https://15blue.com/blog/venture_3_combinatorial_clarity.html) ## Keywords for retrieval opportunity intelligence, academic-industry partnership, technology transfer, TTO, sponsored research, grant discovery, NPO fundraising, sponsor discovery, joint venture, B2B outreach, partnership brief, BluPrint, research commercialization, core facilities utilization, proactive partnership discovery, Academia 2.0 --- *Auto-generated from site HTML via BeautifulSoup. 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