Your engineers are creating IP your legal team will never find out about.
Excavaite captures every invention your team creates — from GitHub to Slack to AI workspaces — and delivers it to counsel as a structured, decision-ready IP Unit. Before it disappears.
More Ideas. More Noise.
Harder Decisions.
AI-assisted teams now generate 5–10× more documentation, ideas, and disclosures than before. The signal-to-noise ratio is collapsing. Without a layer that filters, deduplicates, and scores — IP leads are drowning. And as AI adoption accelerates, this problem compounds every quarter.
AI floods the pipeline
Generative tools produce ideas, drafts, and disclosures faster than any team can review. The pipeline fills — but without structure, nothing gets decided.
Innovation fragments
The same invention shows up across docs, tickets, and chats — duplicated and disconnected.
Value gets buried
Real IP is lost in the noise. When innovation lives across six different tools, the signal gets buried. Excavaite is the connective layer that turns scattered fragments into decisions.
Risk goes undetected
Without structure, infringement exposure and disclosure gaps stay invisible.
Your documents are processed to serve you — never stored by AI providers, never used for model training, and never shared with third parties.
The rules just changed. Most companies aren't ready.
In plain terms: if AI helped your team invent something, you need a clear record of human contribution, AI involvement, and the evidence behind every protection decision — before counsel needs it.
Inventorship diligence is now a business risk
USPTO guidance confirms that only natural persons can be inventors and that AI systems are tools used by human inventors. AI-assisted invention creates a documentation and diligence challenge — not a separate inventorship standard. Companies that cannot reconstruct who contributed what, how AI was used, and what evidence supports each filing decision face real legal and competitive risk. Excavaite builds that record automatically.
The signal-to-noise collapse
AI-assisted teams generate 5–10× more documentation than before. Most of it is low-signal — fragments, duplicates, and half-formed ideas scattered across tools. Without a layer that filters, deduplicates, and scores — IP leads are drowning in volume while genuinely valuable inventions go unprotected. The problem gets worse every quarter as AI adoption accelerates.
Excavaite gives counsel a defensible record of what was created, who contributed, how AI was used, and why a particular protection path was recommended.
From Documents to IP Units
Excavaite transforms scattered documents into structured IP Units — your true innovation assets. One unit may emerge from many documents. One document may belong to many units.
Nothing leaves your environment except the AI processing calls required to analyze it — and even those never store your data.
What you actually get
Every IP Unit is a decision-ready record — not just an AI summary.
Adaptive Routing Algorithm
High novelty score. Trade secret protection recommended pending counsel review of prior art candidates.
Sample output. Actual IP Units include full source document links, reviewer sign-off history, and audit trail. All decisions are counsel-led.
Four steps, end to end
Ingest Signals
Connect Sentry to your approved sources — SharePoint, Drive, Confluence, Git, inbound email, or AI workspaces. Excavaite captures every signal your innovation touches, continuously and automatically.
Create IP Units
Fragments from across your sources are deduplicated, clustered by semantic similarity, and assembled into structured IP Units. AI contribution is tagged on every unit for USPTO compliance.
Analyze & Score
Each IP Unit is scored for novelty, confidence, and strategic fit against your existing portfolio. Candidate prior art, CPC search areas, and claim-mapping leads are surfaced automatically to accelerate attorney and analyst review. Excavaite gives reviewers a better starting point — not a substitute for legal judgment.
Decide & Act
Choose Patent, Trade Secret, or No Action — with full source provenance, human-vs-AI contribution documented, confidence scores, and a built-in reviewer sign-off with complete audit trail.
Every IP Unit ends in a clear call.
Excavaite doesn't just analyze — it helps you decide what to do with every idea. Three actions. One source of truth. Zero ambiguity.
- Confidence-scored recommendations
- Full provenance from source docs
- Reviewer & legal sign-off built in
Example output from a 90-day pilot.
Adaptive routing algorithm
Clustered from 6 source documents
Lock down internally. Tag, restrict access, and monitor for accidental disclosure.
Signal, not noise.
AI-assisted teams generate more ideas than any team can review. Excavaite filters the volume, scores what matters, and surfaces the inventions that deserve protection — so your team focuses judgment where it counts.
Three modules. One flow.
Capture, structure, decide — Excavaite is built as a deliberate progression, not a tool soup.
Sentry
Watches every innovation surface — docs, repos, chats, AI tools — and captures the signal.
- Connects to SharePoint, Google Drive, Confluence, Git & email
- Scoped to folders and repos you explicitly approve
- Continuous monitoring — new documents ingested automatically
- Captures AI-tool outputs via email or MCP integration
- Flags AI-assisted content for inventorship documentation
Creator
Turns fragments into coherent IP Units — deduplicated, clustered, and ready for review.
- Auto-deduplication across all ingested sources
- Confidence scoring — novelty and strategic fit per IP Unit
- Candidate prior art and search leads surfaced to accelerate counsel review
- AI-assistance indicators preserved for inventorship diligence
- AI-assisted disclosure drafting
Every IP Unit is scored across three dimensions
Mission Control
The decision surface. Patent, Trade Secret, or No Action — with full visibility and audit. Excavaite supports counsel-led decisions — it does not replace attorney or analyst judgment.
- Three clear actions: Patent · Trade Secret · No Action
- Full audit trail — every decision logged and attributable
- Human contribution and AI-assistance evidence preserved for counsel-led review
- Role-based review: IP Lead, Security Admin, Analyst, Viewer
- Portfolio dashboard across all activity and findings
Different roles. One shared problem.
Know what your team owns. Protect what matters. Arrive prepared.
From the engineer who invents to the acquirer who evaluates — Excavaite serves every stakeholder in the IP lifecycle.
IP Counsel & Patent Attorneys
In-house counsel · Patent prosecution · IP strategy
Arrive at every review already prepared.
- Every invention reaches you as a structured IP Unit with source documents and prior art candidates already organized
- Complete audit trail for every disposition — patent, trade secret, or no action
- Spend time on strategy, not discovery — Excavaite handles the triage so you focus on the 12 high-value inventions, not the 180 fragments that needed sorting first
IP Leads & Innovation Teams
VP Innovation · IP strategy · Portfolio management
Turn your portfolio from a spreadsheet into a strategic asset.
- Real-time visibility across every invention your organization has captured and decided
- Strategic fit scoring aligns IP decisions to your competitive position
- Scale without scaling headcount — handle 5–10× more innovation signals without adding paralegal or analyst resources
CTOs & Engineering Leaders
CTO · VP Engineering · Head of R&D
Your engineers keep building. Nothing valuable disappears.
- Sentry captures IP from GitHub, Slack, Jira, and AI workspaces — no new tool for engineers
- Inventions flow to counsel automatically, structured and ready for review
- No more quarterly IP disclosure drives — every invention flows to counsel as a structured IP Unit the moment it's captured
M&A & Due Diligence Teams
Acquirers · Investors · Transaction counsel
Walk into diligence with a complete, documented IP portfolio.
- Every IP Unit includes inventorship evidence, AI-assistance records, and decision rationale
- Companies running Excavaite arrive at acquisition diligence with no IP surprises
- Companies running Excavaite command higher valuations — documented IP reduces buyer risk and accelerates deal close
Capture innovation wherever it happens
From cloud repositories to AI workspaces to meeting transcripts — Excavaite connects to every surface your team works in.
Each connector is scoped to the folders, spaces, or repos you explicitly approve — not organization-wide access.
Choose where Excavaite runs
Start in our cloud. Move to your environment when ready. Same capabilities. Same AI quality. Your data never leaves your environment.
Excavaite Cloud
Hosted by Excavaite. Start in minutes.
- Excavaite manages all infrastructure
- Ideal for pilots and early evaluation
- 10–20 document trial — no setup required
- Upgrade to Excavaite Vault at any time
Excavaite Vault
Runs inside your environment. Full data sovereignty.
- Docker container — Kubernetes preferred
- All data stays inside your trust boundary
- SSO / SAML / OIDC + SCIM provisioning
- Deny-by-default egress policy
- Signed container images + SBOM per release
- Audit logs exported to your SIEM
From trial to production in five steps
Excavaite Cloud trial
Send 10–20 docs. No infrastructure needed.
Evaluate analysis quality
Your IP and security teams assess workflow and results.
Architecture review
Excavaite walks your IT team through Vault deployment.
Deploy Excavaite Vault
Receive Docker bundle. Deploy to pilot environment.
Expand to production
Add connectors and users through your standard process.
Founded by inventors and entrepreneurs.
Grounded in IP expertise.
Excavaite was built by a team that has scaled technology companies, managed enterprise IP portfolios, and watched valuable innovations disappear into shared drives and AI chat windows. We built what we wished existed — a platform that captures everything your team creates, structures it into something defensible, and helps you decide what to protect.
Backed by entrepreneurs, operators, and IP practitioners.
Questions? Reach us at hello@excavaite.com
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