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Solve Intelligence provides patent-specific AI software to law firms and in-house intellectual property teams.

category

AI patent workflow software

market profile

  • text: Patent practices must handle drafting, office actions, claims analysis and litigation with technical and legal precision.
  • text: Patent AI faces specialist alternatives and broader legal AI platforms.

personas

  • title: Patent prosecution partner
    pains:
    • Drafting applications and responding to office actions consume expert hours under fixed-fee pressure.
    • Generic outputs require costly review for technical and legal accuracy.
  • title: Chief patent counsel
    pains:
    • Large portfolios require consistent review, infringement monitoring and defensible prioritization.
    • Sensitive invention information demands careful security evaluation.
  • title: Patent litigation partner
    pains:
    • Building evidence-backed infringement or invalidity charts across many claims and products is labor intensive.

icp

  • text: IP boutiques and large law firms with active patent prosecution or litigation practices, across global jurisdictions.
  • text: In-house legal teams at technology, life sciences, medical device and industrial companies with meaningful patent portfolios.

message pillars

  • text: Purpose-built AI supports the complexity of patent practice.
  • text: Help practitioners focus on strategic judgment.
  • text: Cover patent work across the lifecycle.

objections

  • objection: AI can introduce errors or weaken claims.
    response: Evaluate outputs on representative matters with attorney review and compare revision time and quality before expanding.
  • objection: Confidential invention disclosures cannot be exposed.
    response: Include security, confidentiality and data handling in procurement review before any sensitive pilot.
  • objection: Our lawyers already have general-purpose AI.
    response: Compare a patent-specific office action or claim chart workflow against the general tool on the firm's own standards.

competitors

  • name: Patlytics
    website: https://www.linkedin.com/company/patlytics
    why: Patent lifecycle AI spanning search, drafting and claim charts.
  • name: PatSnap
    why: Patent intelligence and AI competitor identified in press.
  • name: IPRally
    why: IP search and analytics competitor identified in press.
  • name: Harvey
    why: General legal AI alternative for legal teams.

influencers

  • name: Chris Parsonson
    url: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/microsoft-backs-solve-intelligence-in-12m-series-a-funding/
    why: CEO quoted on growth and patent AI strategy.

keywords

  • AI patent drafting
  • patent prosecution AI
  • office action response software
  • AI claim charts
  • patent infringement analysis
  • patent portfolio analysis

voice

  • professional and legally precise
  • practitioner-centered
  • confident and domain-specific

signals

  • text: A patent practice faces fixed-fee pressure or growing application and office action volumes.
  • text: An in-house team is reviewing a large portfolio or investigating competitor products for infringement.

pricing

model: unknown

motion

sales_led

channels

  • LinkedIn
  • legal industry events
  • case studies
  • SEO

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Chris Parsonson
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: Chris did his PhD in machine learning at UCL, publishing and winning awards in top AI conferences and journals. He holds an MRes from the University of Cambridge and an MEng from Imperial College London. Prior to founding Solve Intelligence, Chris worked at leading tech organisations, including The Alan Turing Institute, InstaDeep, and Dyson.
  • name: Sanj Ahilan
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Sanj completed his PhD in machine learning at UCL, won awards at top AI conferences, and developed popular open-source code for fine-tuning large language models. Before founding Solve Intelligence, he worked at Magic Carpet AI and Huawei Technologies. He holds an MSci in Physics from the University of Cambridge.
  • name: Angus Parsonson
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Angus completed his MEng degree in computer science at the University of Bristol, during which he received a cyber security scholarship from GCHQ. He has since worked as a Quantitative Developer at Coremont LLP, a spin-off from hedge fund Brevan Howard.

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