How Talking Rain Increased New Project Velocity with Bespoke Cypris Agents
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About Talking Rain
Talking Rain is a privately held beverage company headquartered in Preston, Washington. Founded in 1987, the company is best known for its flagship brand, Sparkling Ice, and has grown into a prominent leader in the sparkling and still water category.
The Challenge
For Talking Rain, maintaining a competitive edge requires a continuous pipeline of new product innovations. But moving ideas from initial concept to actionable projects requires extensive research across patents, emerging technologies, scientific literature, and market intelligence.
Traditionally, much of this work was manual, time-consuming, and dependent on external expertise. Prior art searches alone could require legal professionals billing approximately $600 per hour, while broader technology scouting and competitive research involved gathering and synthesizing information from disconnected sources.
These bottlenecks limited the team's ability to evaluate new opportunities quickly and consistently, slowing the velocity at which new innovation projects could advance.
Talking Rain needed more than a faster research tool. They needed a way to execute the underlying research workflows at scale.
The Solution
Talking Rain partnered with Cypris to develop bespoke AI research agents designed around the company's innovation workflows.
Rather than simply giving researchers access to better search tools, Cypris enabled the team to delegate complex research tasks to specialized agents capable of executing work across technical, intellectual property, and market intelligence domains.
These agents were configured to perform critical innovation workflows, including analyzing patent landscapes, investigating emerging technologies, identifying competitive developments, and synthesizing research into actionable findings.
By combining Cypris' global intelligence infrastructure with agents tailored to Talking Rain's specific research needs, the company established a repeatable process for evaluating new opportunities.
Work that previously required multiple manual research steps could now be executed by AI agents, enabling researchers to focus their attention on interpreting findings, prioritizing opportunities, and advancing promising projects.
The Impact
6X increase in new project velocity.
By deploying bespoke Cypris Agents, Talking Rain achieved a sixfold increase in new project velocity, fundamentally changing how quickly its team could move innovation opportunities forward.
Instead of spending significant time gathering information, conducting repetitive searches, and assembling research, the team could rely on specialized agents to execute much of that work.
The result was a more scalable innovation process, enabling Talking Rain to:
- Accelerate new projects: Move innovation opportunities through research and evaluation significantly faster.
- Expand research capacity: Investigate more technologies, competitive developments, and potential opportunities without proportionally increasing manual workloads.
- Reduce research costs: Decrease reliance on expensive external research engagements for routine patent and technology intelligence.
- Improve decision-making: Equip teams with structured, cross-domain intelligence to evaluate opportunities with greater speed and confidence.
For Talking Rain, Cypris has evolved beyond a research platform into an AI workforce supporting the company's innovation process, demonstrating how purpose-built agents can dramatically increase the velocity of corporate R&D.
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