# 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.

ZeroToIP works with patent attorneys at Chambers-ranked firms, and its
platforms are used on matters for publicly listed companies alongside
university spinouts and venture-backed startups. It is the only platform that
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.

## 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.
- Partner firms are Chambers-ranked, and the platform is used on matters for publicly listed companies as well as spinouts and startups.
- One record spans the whole lifecycle. Competing tools stop at one side of the handoff: legal AI serves the attorney, filing services serve the client, and neither carries the matter across.
- 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.