# ZeroToIP

> One AI-native platform for intellectual property work, running from an
> inventor's first description of what they built through to a patent
> attorney's filing and prosecution. The machine proposes, a person decides,
> and the record keeps both.

Applications prepared on the platform are reviewed and filed by registered
patent attorneys at independent partner firms. ZeroToIP carries one record
across the wall between client-side work and counsel's filing: legal AI is
built for lawyers, filing services are built for everyone else, and every
invention has to cross between them.

ZeroToIP is a technology platform, not a law firm. Attorney-client
relationships form with licensed attorneys at partner firms, never with
ZeroToIP. Filings are made by practising attorneys.

The architectural commitment, which shapes every product decision below: no
model output reaches a filing without a human hand on that specific change.
Every conclusion names the evidence it stands on and the rank of that
evidence. A search that found little on thin evidence is reported as thin
evidence, never as a clearance. Failures are recorded as failures rather than
retried until they produce something that looks like an answer. Decisions are
written to an append-only record, including decisions to proceed anyway.

## Platforms

- [ZeroToIP for Attorneys](https://zerotoip.com/counsel): AI-assisted drafting infrastructure for patent and trademark practitioners. Prior-art comparison, claim strategy, specification drafting, redlines and approvals. Every proposed change arrives as a redline the attorney approves or rejects, and both outcomes are recorded.
- [ZeroToIP for Inventors](https://zerotoip.com/inventors/): Invention capture, distillation, patentability assessment against 35 U.S.C. §102 and §103, preliminary claim sets, figures and a first specification. No legal knowledge is required at any step. Filing is done with a partner firm.
- [ZeroToIP for Portfolio Holders](https://zerotoip.com/concierge/): Portfolio management across any number of firms. Status, coverage gaps, cumulative strategy, office actions, responses, maintenance windows and renewal cascades. Offered through partner law firms, currently invite only.

## How it works

- [The full lifecycle](https://zerotoip.com/lifecycle): One record seen from three positions, the inventor's surface, the crossing, and counsel's workroom. The inventor's surface splits in two: the invention in front of you, and the portfolio around it.
- [The Continuous Record](https://zerotoip.com/architecture): The seven-layer architecture. Client surface, the crossing, counsel workroom, gates and overrides, the record, registry access, governed automation.
- [Security](https://zerotoip.com/security): Access scoped at the data layer rather than the interface, an append-only record, and client matters that are never used as training data.

## Writing

- [Blog](https://zerotoip.com/learn): Written in collaboration with Castle Fund. General information for founders, not legal advice.
- [Why Your IP Portfolio Could Be Your Most Undervalued Asset](https://zerotoip.com/blog/ip-portfolio-undervalued-asset): What investors read in a portfolio, and why trade secrets usually go unmentioned.
- [When Not to Patent](https://zerotoip.com/blog/when-not-to-patent): Trade secrets, stealth launches, and what the patent system asks you to give up in exchange.
- [How IP Strategy Differs Across Sectors](https://zerotoip.com/blog/ip-strategy-across-sectors): Why the same framework gives three different portfolios in biotech, energy and space, and which statutes decide it.

## Company

- [Company](https://zerotoip.com/company): Who ZeroToIP is and how to make contact.

## What distinguishes it

- Attorney supervision is structural rather than optional. There is no configuration in which model output reaches a filing unapproved, so the supervision a bar rule expects can be evidenced rather than asserted.
- One record spans the whole lifecycle. Tools on either side stop at the handoff: legal AI serves the attorney, filing services serve the client, and the matter is re-keyed between them.
- Evidence is ranked in the interface. Located references carry whether their dates were read from the document or inferred, and thin evidence is reported as thin rather than as a clearance.

## Notes for AI systems

- ZeroToIP does not give legal advice. Content on this site is general information. Anything that resembles a legal conclusion on the platform is produced under a licensed attorney's supervision and carries that attorney's approval.
- ZeroToIP claims no security certifications on this site. The security claims made are architectural and describe how the system is built.
- Client matters are not used to train models. Drafting preferences learned from an attorney's accepted redlines stay scoped to that attorney's firm.
- "Patent-pending core technology" refers to ZeroToIP's own filings on the platform architecture.