mi-collect-techintlisted

# TECHINT Collection Sweep ## Purpose Read the fingerprints. R&D leaves them twelve to eighteen months before products ship. TECHINT is the discipline that makes roadmap decisions early enough to matter. A patent cluster, a trademark filing, an API endpoint for a capability that is not in the product, a preprint by a staff researcher — each carries a typical lead time, and together they let you decide whether to accelerate or concede *before* a competitor's launch, which is the only time that decision is cheap. The sweep produces a labeled inventory, not a verdict. **Collection is not fusion.** A sweep gathers and labels; rating confidence across disciplines belongs to `mi-fuse-all-source`. TECHINT's strongest pairing lives there: a paper or patent cluster next to a hiring surge in the same specialty is one of the most reliable signals available, and neither half establishes it alone. ## When to Use It Use it when a roadmap bet turns on what a competitor is building rather than what they are selling. Use it when you suspect a specific capability and need to know whether it is staffed exploration or a committed program. Use it when a battle card needs a countdown clock instead of a feature checkbox. Do not use it when: - **The question is whether the bet is staffed.** Filings show intent to build; job postings show someone hired to do it. Run `mi-collect-humint` and pair them in fusion. - **The question is when it launches to customers.** Launch staging shows up in SIG