IP Management

Seventh AI

Est. 2017 United States Updated 2026-02-10
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Seventh.ai is an early-stage IP project management platform targeting venture-backed startup founders who have never filed a patent before. Pitched as ‘Carta for IP,’ it aims to centralise intellectual property assets — patents, provisional filings, drafts, contracts — into a single dashboard. Founded in 2017 by Alexander Polyansky (ex-USPTO examiner, IAM top 300 IP Strategist), backed by Alchemist Accelerator and SkyDeck Berkeley. Features include NLP-powered prior art search and provisional patent filing tools (both vendor-claimed, unverified). The product was described as being in beta in marketing materials, and the most recent evidence of product activity dates to 2020-2021. An r/hwstartups comment from 2024 suggests the founder ‘moved on.’ Before evaluating, prospective users should verify the product is still actively maintained. Seventh.ai does not appear in major IP management software market reports or competitive lists — established alternatives for startup-scale IP management include Alt Legal (G2: 4.8/5), AppColl (G2: 4.7/5), and IPfolio, all with active market presence and user reviews.

Company Info

  • Founded: 2017
  • Team size: 1-10 employees
  • Funding: $200K
  • HQ: United States
  • Sector: IP

What We Haven’t Verified

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Workflows

Based on practitioner evidence, Seventh AI is used in these workflows:

Research & Analysis Filing & Compliance

What practitioners struggle with

Real frustrations from legal professionals — the problems Seventh AI addresses (or should address). Sourced from practitioner reviews, Reddit threads, and case studies.

Trademark clearance search costs $1,500-3,000 through an attorney and takes weeks — startups and small businesses either skip it (risking a cease-and-desist) or use free tools that miss common law marks and state registrations

Research & Analysis 34 vendors affected Solo practitioner · Small firm (2–10) · In-house counsel

Startup with 3-5 trademarks has no affordable way to track filing dates, renewal deadlines, and office action responses — enterprise IP management tools start at $50K+/year and are designed for portfolios of thousands

Filing & Compliance 10 vendors affected Solo practitioner · Small firm (2–10) · In-house counsel · inhouse-smb

Deep tech startup has engineers building patentable innovations but no system to identify what's protectable — provisional patent deadlines pass silently, departing employees take undocumented know-how, and the company discovers during Series A due diligence that half its claimed IP was never actually filed

Where it fits in your workflow

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