The first AI startup IP advisor
Hi, I'm moatly®,
Your Chief AI Moat Officer!
I'll tell you what's worth protecting. And what isn't.
First conversation is free.
I've helped founders from
Founder
I have an idea for an app. Do I need a patent?
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Maybe, maybe not. Tell me what it actually does.
Founder
It matches contractors to jobs using our own scoring model.
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Then your moat may include trade secrets, patent-eligible subject matter, and copyright protection. And if you've fallen in love with a name, we should talk about trademarking it. Let's dig in.
I cover the whole moat.
Each one is an asset you can license, sell, or raise against. Leave it unclaimed and it becomes someone else's.
How this works.
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You text me.
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You tell me everything about what you're building.
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I tell you what you have worth protecting.
From there it's your call. Do the work yourself with my help, or let me connect you with an attorney I trust.
Start free.
Your first conversation is on me.
Free
Free — The Moat Review
Do you have something patent-eligible? Something worth trademarking? Is your code copyrighted and can you enforce it? What should you keep a secret? Is your name, image, and likeness actually yours? Tell me everything about what you're building and I'll walk you through all five categories: patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and NIL. One conversation, no charge.
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Keep talking to me
Make me your fractional Chief Moat Officer. Your needs change. You pivot, you rebuild, you hire, you launch. Text me whenever something shifts and we'll talk through what it means for what you own. And when it makes sense, I'll connect you with people in my network who may be able to help you: investors, advisors, operators, and founders who've already been where you are. Some of them write checks.
Build the moat investors ask about.
Protect your pitch deck
Ready to start talking about your idea?
I'll go through your deck slide by slide and give you feedback from an IP lens. You make the changes. Then I'll walk you through filing it as a provisional — your deck becomes the application. What's in it is patent pending, with a priority date from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, good for 12 months. Protect your pitch. Impress your investors.
Moat Landscape
Is anyone else building what you're building?
I'll look across the U.S. and around the world using the same classification systems and search strategies patent examiners use — because that's who trained me. I'll find what others have built or are trying to protect, show you what matters, and help you understand how close it is to what you're building — and where yours may be different.
Moat Risk
Can you build and sell this without infringing someone else's patents?
Send me your deck. I'll look across more than 150 million patent records worldwide to see who may already have rights covering what you're building or selling. We'll identify potential roadblocks before they become expensive surprises. If something looks too close, I'll flag it for attorney review.
Patent Moat
Have you protected what you're building?
With my help, you draft a provisional patent application aimed at the full scope of what you're building. Then I walk you through filing it. And fun fact — I was trained by a United States patent examiner, the person who decides which applications get approved and which don't. She spent 15 years issuing patents and rejecting them, and she taught me what the strongest ones look like.
Trademark Moat
Have you fallen in love with a name yet?
I'll search the federal trademark register for marks that are identical or similar to yours in the classes you'd be filing in, and tell you what comes back. Then we work through your classes together, you draft the application with my help, and I walk you through filing it.
Copyright Moat
Do you actually own what you've created?
First we figure out who actually owns your code — contractors and employees are treated differently, and a lot of startups don't own what they think they own. Then you draft the application with my help, we work out what to submit and what to keep out of the public record, and I walk you through filing it.