AI freedom-to-operate analysis for patent attorneys

Everyone else hands you a reading list. Evalify hands you the first draft.

A draft first-pass freedom-to-operate analysis with claim charts in 15 minutes, not days.

Real outputFTO Brief · page 1 of 3
Page one of a sample Evalify FTO Brief, showing the clearance Score and the drafted opinion
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What the market says

Legacy platforms dump thousands of raw patents on your desk and call it a search. Evalify executes that entire first pass autonomously and delivers a risk baseline in minutes. It shifts our hours away from data gathering and into high-level client advisory.

Jim McCarthy
Jim McCarthyPartner, patent attorney

Spending days manually pulling prior art is no longer a viable model. Because Evalify handles the search execution and the contextual first pass, we now start our FTO analysis at the finish line of a traditional search. We are practicing law again instead of acting as data parsers.

James Behmke
James BehmkePartner, patent attorney
The LegalTech Fund

Recognized by The LegalTech Fund as a leading early-stage company

Evalify is among the early-stage companies revolutionizing the Legal Tech space by streamlining processes, enhancing efficiency, and transforming the industry.

The problem

The hours go into searching. The value is in the advice.

Hunting prior art eats the hours that belong to analysis and advice.
Did we search enough? No search ever feels finished, and the patent you missed is the one that shows up later.
No objective baseline. Scope and depth shift with whoever runs the search.
The Solution - Evalify

Evalify turns patent search into strategic advice

No other product turns a patent search into a drafted first pass this precise. Every claim charted element by element, every chart cross-examined by multiple agents, and the reasoning documented.

Faster

Minutes, not weeks

Evalify designs the search, runs it across 200M+ patents and 170+ jurisdictions, and returns a charted, cross-examined first pass in about 15 minutes.

Clearer

First draft, not a reading list

An objective baseline with the claims charted element by element and the risk quantified. You refine or override anything. The judgment stays yours.

Smarter

More time for judgment

You start where a traditional search ends. The hours go into the analysis and the advice the client is actually paying for.

Zero-retention privacy

What you upload is never kept.

Running a client's unfiled invention through someone else's AI is the first thing that stops an attorney. Evalify has this covered.

Input material is never stored

The documents you upload, the technical disclosure, the draft claims, the product description, are not retained after the run. There is no archive of your client's disclosure sitting on a server.

Wiped after processing

The working copy of your input is destroyed once the analysis finishes. What comes back is the analysis, not your file.

Never trained on

Your client's invention never becomes training data. Not for Evalify, not for the models underneath it, not for anyone else.

Zero retention applies to the input material. Your analyses and reports live in your own Evalify account, so you can return to them, edit and export.

What you actually get

Every run returns two documents

The FTO Brief and the full report. Export either one as a PDF or an editable Word file. Page through the real ones below.

First page of the Evalify FTO Brief
Document one

The FTO Brief

3 pages in this example

The answer, short enough to read before a client call. This is the one most clients see.

  • The opinion and the Score, up front
  • Claim chart totals by product aspect
  • Clearance by jurisdiction
  • Critical patents and what to watch
Cover page of the full Evalify FTO report
Document two

The Full Report

217 pages in this example

Everything the Brief stands on, charted and sourced.

  • Every claim charted limitation by limitation
  • The full roster of patents assessed
  • Patents screened out, with the reason for each
  • Competitors, literature, adjacent markets, methodology
Export

PDF or editable Word

PDF.DOCX

Every plan exports. Standard gives you the Brief as a PDF. Counsel-Grade opens the Export Composer: both documents, each as a PDF or an editable Word file.

  • Choose which sections go in
  • Cover, headers, and footers under your control
  • Save a preset and reuse it
  • Export under your own firm's brand

Report length varies with the complexity of the assessment.

Real Evalify output. A hybrid opto-electrochemical continuous glucose monitor, run at Counsel-Grade. 50 patents charted, 46 assessed, 5 jurisdictions.
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Built for expert FTO work

Not a search box.

What separates Evalify from search portals and from asking a general-purpose model.

Drafts the opinion

A reasoned infringement verdict and per-jurisdiction risk, in the form attorneys already write. A first draft you edit, not a list you interpret.

Element-by-element claim charts

Every limitation of every charted claim mapped against the product, with the verdict and the reasoning that produced it.

Clearance Score, 250 to 900

One number, built from the chart verdicts, that an attorney can defend and a client can understand.

You steer the search

Fine-tune the search strategy before it runs. Widen or narrow the scope, add or drop an aspect, course correct. It runs on your terms, not a fixed recipe.

Quality Cross-check

Multiple AI agents cross-examine every claim chart and surface where they disagree. Nothing gets quietly resolved in the background. You see the disagreement and you make the call.

Ask your report

An AI assistant trained on your specific search and its output. Ask why a claim was charted the way it was, or what the search actually covered, and get an answer grounded in your report.

Every change is tracked

Edit any assumption or verdict after the run. Each one is marked AI-drafted or attorney-edited, so the file carries its own record of who decided what.

Confidential by design

Inputs are never stored, are wiped after processing, and never train the model.

The broadest net

200M+ patents plus non-patent literature: journals, preprints, standards. 170+ jurisdictions, any language.

Utility models

The multi-million-filing blind spot most searches skip. It decides the answer for anything made in or sold into China.

Monitoring

A standing, set-and-forget watch on a Counsel-Grade matter. It alerts you when a pending application grants, a blocker lapses, or a newly published patent lands in scope.

White-label

Enterprise white-labeling applies your firm's logo, brand colour, and typography across the team automatically, so the deliverable carries your name rather than ours.

Human in the loop, start to finish

How it works, in four steps

You tune the search before it runs and you sign the opinion after. Evalify does the middle, and shows its work.

Secure upload

Drop in technical documents, draft claims, or a pitch deck, up to 20 files. No formatting work, nothing retained.

You steer the search

Evalify decomposes the invention into aspects and proposes a strategy. Fine-tune it, widen or narrow the scope, course correct, then approve it before anything runs.

Search, chart, cross-examine

It searches 200M+ patents and the literature and charts every claim, then multiple AI agents cross-examine the charts and surface where they disagree.

Question it, then sign

Ask the report's own AI assistant why it reached a verdict, edit anything you disagree with, and export under your brand. Every change is marked AI-drafted or attorney-edited.

How Evalify is redefining freedom-to-operate searches

How Evalify is redefining freedom-to-operate searches

Manual search vs Evalify

FeatureManual searchEvalify
Time to complete10 to 20 hoursAbout 15 minutes
Cost per matterThousands of dollars< $500
Coverage confidenceVaries by individual searcherStated coverage signal, plus agents cross-examining
Sources searchedPatents and literature, coverage varies200M+ patents and literature, any language
JurisdictionsLimited by the hours available170+, including utility models
What lands on your deskResults to interpretDrafted opinion, claim charts, and a Score
ConfidentialityDepends on the vendor's retention policyInput never stored, never trained on
AuditabilityManual documentationEvery change marked AI-drafted or attorney-edited
Per report, priced to pass through

A client cost, not a subscription

Buy the report you need, when you need it. Global or IP5 is a scope toggle.

Standard

The fast first-draft assessment, with risk and coverage on the record.
$259 IP5  /  $295 Global
per report
  • Fast triage on the first independent claim
  • Drafted opinion and Score, 250 to 900
  • Per-jurisdiction risk, IP5 or Global
  • Zero-retention confidentiality
Run a Standard analysis
Most accurate

Counsel-Grade

The full audit for matters where being wrong is expensive. Unlocks monitoring.
$395 IP5  /  $459 Global
per report
  • Every independent claim charted
  • Quality Cross-check: agents cross-examine every chart
  • Claim charts, landscape, and strategy lenses
  • Unlocks monitoring at $49 per check
Run a Counsel-Grade analysis
Monitoring, $49 per check. A standing watch on a cleared position, billed monthly on usage. Counsel-Grade only.
Firm-wide and white-label plans available.
A traditional FTO opinion runs $10,000 to $50,000. Most attorneys bill Evalify to the client as a search disbursement.

The questions attorneys ask first

How is client confidentiality handled?
Your content is never used to train AI models, and the analysis runs on enterprise infrastructure chosen specifically for its data-governance and no-retention guarantees. Zero retention applies to the input material, so the documents you upload are not retained after the run. Your analyses and reports live in your own Evalify account, so you can return to them, edit and export.
Can I rely on the output as an opinion of counsel?
No, and Evalify will not pretend otherwise. What you get is an automated FTO assessment and analytical work-product, not an opinion of counsel and not legal advice. It gives you an evidence-linked, defensible basis to work from. The opinion and the judgment stay yours.
How are the claim charts built?
Evalify pulls the independent claims from the relevant references and builds a limitation-by-limitation chart for each aspect, an all-elements mapping of each claim limitation to the corresponding feature of the product. It identifies the deciding limitation and shows the basis for every verification, so you can check the work rather than take it on faith.
Does it analyze the doctrine of equivalents?
It maps claim limitations element by element, in the literal style, and stops short of rendering a doctrine-of-equivalents opinion. What the Quality Cross-check does is surface the limitations an equivalents argument could reach and flag them. That is a prompt for your analysis, not an answer.
How complete is the search, and what is it searching?
For each aspect Evalify runs a semantic and classification-based search across a comprehensive licensed global patent corpus, covering search, bibliographic data, claims, families, and legal status, then screens the candidates for relevance. It also searches open scholarly literature: OpenAlex, arXiv, PubMed, and IETF RFCs, filtered to work that genuinely predates the filing. The analysis is grounded in that data rather than in a model's own recall, which is what makes it defensible rather than speculative. Completeness depends on how precisely the subject matter is described, which is why the aspect-review step matters.
Can a product be blocked in one country and clear in another?
Yes, and that is the normal result. Freedom to operate is a per-market question, because patents are jurisdiction-specific. Evalify computes a separate clearance for each searched market from that market's own patents, so a report can read blocked in the US and clear in EP, JP, CN, and KR, with the redesign path that resolves it.
Can I refine the analysis and re-run it?
Yes. An analysis is not frozen. Exclude a patent, mark one as your own, remove an aspect, add one, or rewrite it. Your edits are always saved. Refinements like excluding a patent re-run free, and search-changing edits come with free re-runs included before a further credit applies.
How do I export or share a report?
Export is on every plan. Standard exports the visual FTO Brief as a PDF. Counsel-Grade opens the Export Composer, which produces both the Brief and the full report, each as a PDF or an editable Word file, with control over which sections go in, the cover, headers, footers, and reusable presets.
How long does an analysis take?
Typically about 15 minutes. It runs server-side, so you do not have to keep a session open. Evalify tells you when the report is ready.
How do I buy?
On this site, with a card. Standard is $259 IP5 or $295 Global, Counsel-Grade is $395 IP5 or $459 Global, and monitoring is $49 per check on a Counsel-Grade analysis, billed monthly on usage. Eligible business accounts can order credits in bulk and pay by net-terms invoice instead.

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