# Innovation Pipeline Desk

> Innovation Pipeline Desk is an innovation pipeline service for chief innovation officers and corporate innovation and venture teams in the United States, run by Mike Rodgers from Denver. It turns your innovation mandate into written problem statements, scouts and scores candidate solutions against a published eight rule rulebook, and hands your business owners one-page pilot briefs they approve or kill.

## Offer and prices
- Pipeline Health Check: $2,500 fixed price, returned 10 business days after the kickoff call. One mandate: up to three problem statements written with their owners, 20 scouted candidates scored against the eight rule rulebook, one pilot brief, and a written health check of your current pipeline against the same eight rules. Credited in full against the Pipeline Sprint if the Sprint is signed within 30 days of the report.
- Pipeline Sprint: $12,000, six weeks. Full Mandate Brief (up to five problem statements), up to 40 scouted and scored candidates, up to three pilot briefs, and the Pipeline Board set up in your tools with a handover your innovation lead signs.
- Pipeline Run: $3,500 a month, month to month with 30 days notice. 10 new scouted and scored candidates a month, Pipeline Board upkeep, pilot brief updates and the monthly Pipeline Report.

## What it does (four parts)
- Mandate Brief: Your mandate rewritten as three to five problem statements, each with the business owner who asked for it, the budget line it draws on and the date it matters by.
- Scout Sweep: Startups, vendors and internal ideas found against each problem statement, each with a dated link to public evidence that it runs in production somewhere.
- Screen Scorecard: Every candidate scored against the eight rule rulebook below and marked pass, hold or drop, with the rule and the evidence behind each mark.
- Pilot Briefs: The strongest candidates written up as one-page pilot briefs: the success test, the internal owner, the cost ceiling, the security path and the kill date.

## Screen Rulebook (every candidate must pass all eight)
- Rule 1: It maps to one written problem statement with a named business owner.
- Rule 2: It has public evidence of production use, such as a named customer, a case study or a filing, dated within the last 24 months.
- Rule 3: Its pilot cost fits under the ceiling the owner set before scoring began.
- Rule 4: Its data path is known: what data it touches, and which team reviews security.
- Rule 5: It has a success test the business owner can mark yes or no when the pilot ends.
- Rule 6: It has a kill date, set before the pilot starts.
- Rule 7: Someone inside is named to run it after the pilot if it works.
- Rule 8: Every mark cites its source and the date it was read. Nothing passes on a vendor's say-so alone.
- Named owner of mistakes: Mike Rodgers. If a row marked pass fails a rule on facts that were public when it was scored, it is rescored or replaced within five business days at no charge, and the miss is counted in the next monthly report.

## Named desks (same four parts, same rulebook)
- Health Systems Desk (Health systems and life sciences): https://innovation-pipeline-desk.vercel.app/health-systems/
- Financial Services Desk (Banks, insurers and asset managers): https://innovation-pipeline-desk.vercel.app/financial-services/
- Manufacturing Desk (Manufacturers and medical device makers): https://innovation-pipeline-desk.vercel.app/manufacturing/
- Corporate Venture Desk (Corporate venture and venture building teams): https://innovation-pipeline-desk.vercel.app/corporate-venture/

## What your people keep owning
- Your innovation leader owns the mandate and signs off the problem statements.
- Your business owners decide which pilots start and which get killed. The desk recommends; it never decides.
- Procurement, legal and security run their own reviews. The desk hands them the brief and the evidence, not a verdict.
- You own every vendor relationship. The desk never contacts a vendor in your name without your written OK, and every file is yours to keep.

## Boundaries (what it is not)
- Not a venture fund. The desk does not invest in, or take equity or fees from, any company it scores.
- No pay to play. No vendor, startup or platform pays to be listed, scored or recommended.
- Not an ideation workshop, a hackathon or an innovation lab you have to staff.
- No build. The desk does not build, integrate or run the solutions it scores.
- No legal, security or procurement verdicts. Those teams run their own reviews.
- Not a startup database subscription. Output is documents and a board in your own tools.

## Pages
- https://innovation-pipeline-desk.vercel.app/: the offer, prices, how it works, sample scorecard, FAQ, request form
- https://innovation-pipeline-desk.vercel.app/health-systems/: The Health Systems Desk turns a health system or life sciences innovation mandate into owned problem statements, scored digital health candidates and pilot briefs that clear clinical, security and procurement review.
- https://innovation-pipeline-desk.vercel.app/financial-services/: The Financial Services Desk turns a bank, insurer or asset manager innovation mandate into owned problem statements, fintech candidates scored against a written rulebook, and pilot briefs that name the vendor risk path.
- https://innovation-pipeline-desk.vercel.app/manufacturing/: The Manufacturing Desk turns a manufacturer or medical device maker innovation mandate into plant owned problem statements, scored industrial technology candidates and pilot briefs a plant manager will run.
- https://innovation-pipeline-desk.vercel.app/corporate-venture/: The Corporate Venture Desk screens corporate venture deal flow against the problems your business units have written down, so startups in the pipeline come with a business unit owner and a pilot brief.
- https://innovation-pipeline-desk.vercel.app/innovation-problem-statement/: How to write an innovation problem statement a business owner will sign: the five fields of the Mandate Brief, with a worked example and the mistakes that stall a pipeline.
- https://innovation-pipeline-desk.vercel.app/pilot-brief-template/: How to write a one-page pilot brief a business owner can approve or kill: the success test, internal owner, cost ceiling, security path and kill date, with a worked example.
- https://innovation-pipeline-desk.vercel.app/innovation-pipeline-metrics/: How to measure an innovation pipeline: six numbers to count every month, from candidates by stage to pilots turned into contracts, with how to count each one from your own board.
- https://innovation-pipeline-desk.vercel.app/innovation-theater-test/: Eight yes or no tests that show whether a corporate innovation program is producing a real pipeline or innovation theater, one test per rule of the Screen Rulebook.
- https://innovation-pipeline-desk.vercel.app/scouting-options-compared/: Innovation scouting options compared with published prices: hiring an innovation manager, a directory membership, a program design consultancy, or an innovation pipeline desk.

## Operator
Innovation Pipeline Desk is a Rodgers Intelligence Group LLC company. 1767 North Pearl Street #304, Denver, CO 80203
Rodgers Intelligence Group LLC · 1767 North Pearl Street #304, Denver, CO 80203 · mike@rodgersintelligence.com
Run by Mike Rodgers from Denver. Serving the United States.

Last updated 2026-09-26.