Protect Your AI Advantage: Intellectual Property Strategy Workshop for Founders
A working session with Andrew Revkov (Founder & CEO, FITTIN) — built for founders raising, scaling, or shipping AI products.
In the AI era, anything you build can be copied in weeks. The defensible part isn't the model — it's the implementation around the model: your workflows, your business logic, your system architecture, the way you turned an API into a product.
That's what investors actually buy. That's what acquirers actually pay for. And right now, most founders don't know which parts of their stack are protectable, which are already in someone else's patent, and which they're about to give away by shipping without thinking.
This workshop closes that gap in three hours.
What you'll leave with:
A clear map of your product's IP surface — what's protectable, what isn't, and why
An honest read on §101 / Alice-Mayo risk for AI-implemented inventions
The clone-and-replication vulnerability review framework FITTIN uses with paying clients
IP positioning that holds up to VC due diligence — language, framing, what to put in the data room
A prioritized next-step roadmap: defensive publication vs. provisional filing vs. full prosecution
Direct Q&A with Andrew on your specific situation
Who this is for:
AI / SaaS founders building on top of third-party models who need to define what's actually theirs
Founders preparing to raise pre-seed through Series A
Solo builders and small teams shipping novel agentic workflows, prompts, or pipelines
AI agency founders productizing client engagements
Anyone who's been asked "what's your moat?" and didn't have a clean answer
Not for: pure service businesses, founders with existing outside IP counsel, or anyone looking for free legal advice. FITTIN does strategy and portfolio planning — formal filings go through USPTO-registered attorneys.
About Andrew Revkov:
Founder & CEO of FITTIN (Redwood City, CA) — strategic IP architecture for AI and tech startups. FITTIN helps founders structure patent applications for maximum protection, run prior-art and competitive risk analysis, and position IP for fundraising and exit. Their thesis: the companies that win in AI don't always own the model — they own the defensible implementation around it.
Format:
Opening: the IP landscape in AI (20 min)
Working session: live patentability analysis on volunteer founders' products (60 min)
Frameworks: clone-vulnerability review, §101 positioning, claim strategy (45 min)
Q&A + one-on-one mini-consults (45 min)
Details:
Where: AI Start Academy — 1769 15th Street, San Francisco (Mission, 1 block from BART 16th St)
Capacity: 20 founders (intentionally small so the working session works)
Bring: a one-paragraph description of your product and what you think is novel about it. You'll use it in the working session.
RSVP closes 48 hours before the event. No walk-ins — capacity is real.
Great products attract users. Defensible IP attracts investors.