| Method | Leads |
|---|---|
| failure-first | 3,272 |
| biological analogy | 3,208 |
| cross-domain transfer | 3,187 |
| extremal case | 3,120 |
| scale shift | 3,094 |
| inversion | 3,052 |
| random stimulus | 3,042 |
| constraint removal | 3,025 |
Random stimulus works by forcing a mapping between two unrelated concrete things and then asking which part of the mapping is mechanically real. "A sponge that absorbs" suggests treating an offset as a storage-and-release process; most of the time that is wrong, and occasionally it names a mechanism nobody had phrased that way. The method's value is entirely in the filter, not the generation.
| Domain | Leads |
|---|---|
| structural health monitoring | 625 |
| digital twins | 625 |
| drone logistics | 625 |
| corrosion sensing | 625 |
| robotic assembly | 625 |
| ion implantation | 625 |
| enzyme engineering | 625 |
| plasma processing | 625 |
| thermal protection | 625 |
| deep-sea vehicles | 625 |
| subsea cables | 625 |
| desert infrastructure | 625 |
| brine mining | 625 |
| arctic engineering | 625 |
| self-healing materials | 625 |
| high-altitude platforms | 625 |
| ammonia fuel | 625 |
| radiation hardening | 625 |
| synthetic biology hardware | 625 |
| hydrogen embrittlement | 625 |
| autonomous mining | 625 |
| cryocoolers | 625 |
| phase-change storage | 625 |
| atom probe tomography | 625 |
| superconducting magnets | 625 |
| ablative shielding | 625 |
| cryo-electron microscopy | 625 |
| neutron imaging | 625 |
| fusion diagnostics | 625 |
| in-orbit servicing | 625 |
| direct air capture | 625 |
| EUV optics | 625 |
| lunar construction | 625 |
| space resource utilisation | 625 |
| neutrino astronomy | 625 |
| organ-on-chip | 625 |
| gravitational-wave detection | 625 |
| quantum sensing | 625 |
| dark-matter detectors | 625 |
| muon tomography | 625 |
| Failure mode | Leads |
|---|---|
| microbial growth | 1,308 |
| thermal mismatch | 1,299 |
| saturation | 1,298 |
| voiding | 1,285 |
| creep | 1,283 |
| outgassing | 1,283 |
| moisture ingress | 1,261 |
| reference drift | 1,255 |
| delamination | 1,252 |
| whiskers | 1,245 |
| embrittlement | 1,243 |
| hysteresis | 1,239 |
| misalignment | 1,235 |
| fretting | 1,233 |
| contamination | 1,225 |
| fatigue | 1,220 |
| residue | 1,218 |
| stress corrosion | 1,212 |
| cavitation | 1,206 |
| galvanic couple | 1,200 |
124 concrete nouns, 40 verbs, 20 failure modes. Noun use is balanced by the generator (top count 452).
Novelty by method (random stimulus 5, inversion and analogy 4, constraint removal 3); practicality from domain cost; testability from whether the record already exists. Total 10–16.
Incoprea Research · fourth project, 25,000 method-generated leads · 3 November 2026. Ideation and computation only. No experiment performed.