Freedom-to-operate · HiveFTO

HiveFTO.
Ship your product without stepping on a patent.

Ship your product without stepping on a patent. You get a RED, GREEN, and YELLOW chart, a design-around, and Markman-aware claim mapping. All of it signed from start to finish.

Quality tier · live today

HiveFTO · Gold · 85+

Confirmed use: Internal research / attorney work-product.
Inside the firm. Working drafts, internal memos, case-prep notes.
Delivery constraints
Watermarked 'INTERNAL: NOT FOR CLIENT DISTRIBUTION'. Not delivered to clients. Not used in pleadings.
Scorecard
Today
85
Gold
This week
90
Platinum
Stretch
95
Double Platinum
Free-data ceiling: 96/100 · Year-1 data cost: $0/yr
Primary free-data APIs:
EPO OPS · Google Patents BigQuery · USPTO ODP · EPO INPADOC · NCBI BLAST + Entrez · PubChem +2 more
Agent identity

One agent, one DID.

Every HiveFTO mint gives you a unique decentralized identifier, signed by your bar credentials. The 80/20 split is baked into the contract layer, so every receipt this agent produces sends 80% straight to your wallet of record.

did_pattern did:hive:agent:LASTNAME-FIRSTNAME-fto-001 split 80% attorney · 20% Hive rail USDC on Base 8453 · ACH · Friday payouts signature ML-DSA-65 (post-quantum) receipt_kind hivefto.v1
The agent swarm

Six sub-agents under one signature.

HiveFTO isn't a chatbot. It's a group of specialized sub-agents working together, and each one's output gets signed on its own and folded into the final receipt. You can replay any sub-step.

fto-searcherclaim-mappermarkman-resolverdesign-around-plannerrisk-charterreceipt-signer
Deliverables

Here's what every run produces.

  • RED / GREEN / YELLOW claim chart per asserted family
  • Design-around recommendation with engineer-ready spec
  • Markman case-law summary for every claim term
  • File-wrapper review and prosecution-history estoppel notes
  • Signed receipt (ML-DSA-65) anchored on Base
  • Privileged-mode PDF deliverable, attorney-edited
Why HiveFTO beats current practice

Four models check every chart, and you can see when they disagree.

Right now, a single associate spends 40 hours reading 6 patent families and emails you a PDF memo. That's one set of eyes, no replay, and no audit trail. If a competitor sues, you have to defend that memo, not a real methodology.

Here's how HiveFTO is different. Every HiveFTO claim chart gets cross-checked by a 4-model Council (Claude, Perplexity Sonar, Gemini, and Grok) at R3 depth. A claim only gets marked GREEN if at least 3 of the 4 models agree independently. If they disagree, that gets logged in the receipt along with the dissenting model's reasoning. You can always see it. Nothing gets hidden.

Deliverable What you actually get Defensibility
Today's FTO memo Word doc · 1 associate · no replay · no signature gut feel
HiveFTO receipt Signed receipt · 4-model Council · sub-step replay · Markman-aware audit-grade
Labor budget today → Hive Today: 40 to 80 hours of associate time · $18K to $40K billed per FTO opinion
With HiveFTO: $2,500 to start · 80% clears to the attorney · receipt in hours, not weeks
labor, not SaaS
Chain of custody

Mint a receipt for any HiveFTO output.

Paste a HiveFTO output below. The pipeline hashes it, captures proof that the compute really happened (model versions, input and output hashes, and a timestamp), signs the whole thing with ML-DSA-65 (the government's post-quantum signature standard, FIPS 204), and anchors the hash on Base 8453.

Pricing tiers

HiveFTO pricing.

Every tier clears 80% to the attorney of record. Hive's 20% covers the payment rail, the receipts, and the signing setup. That's it.

TierPriceScope
Professional$2,500Up to 25 families, 1 jurisdiction, design-around included.
Attorney Workbench$5,000 to $15,000The full workbench: unlimited claims, a full Markman pass, exhibit-ready.
Enterprise Continuous$50K to $250K / yrOngoing FTO coverage across your whole roadmap, with a board-ready packet every quarter.
Attorney-reviewed only. We dropped the old $499 self-serve tier under Parsons Technology guidance. Every HiveFTO output is tied to an attorney of record, and someone has to sign off on it before anyone relies on it.
Private by design. Hive does not store your prompts. Every request is already receipted by a one-way SHA-256 fingerprint, not the words. Proof, not surveillance.