Venture Partner, Silverback Software

Alpharetta GA, USA
Joined August 2008
5/ PatentFlow reopens the Regulated Legal arc; Day 10 CounselExpress was the first leg. Same enterprise-tier posture, a different corner of practice. Designed with a practicing patent attorney as domain-expert co-founder silverbackcto.com/builds
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4/ Six modules: → Prior-art search → Claims + spec drafting from an invention disclosure → Filing workflows → Office-action analysis + deadline docketing → Claim-chart + infringement mapping → Litigation support — claim construction, damages, C&D drafting
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3/ An invention disclosure pasted into a consumer chatbot is arguably a disclosure event. Bedrock keeps matters inside an enterprise contractual envelope where inputs are excluded from training. Same model. Different legal posture.
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2/ The problem it exists to solve: A boutique IP firm runs on 4–8 disconnected tools. Prosecution tools ignore litigation. Drafting assistants don't track statutory deadlines. Infringement platforms never connect back to the prosecution record.
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1/ Day 21/30. PatentFlow is live at getpatentflow.com — the full patent lifecycle in one platform. Prior-art search, application drafting, filing, prosecution, infringement detection, litigation support. Six modules. One workflow. Built on Claude via AWS Bedrock.
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5/ Eight days of production debugging since May 12. Eight validation rules running inline before the PIC signs (Hobbs continuity, fuel balance, airframe-time monotonicity, PIC assigned, engine cycle increment, the rest). Vision over AWS Bedrock silverbackcto.com/builds
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4/ one panel photo at shutdown becomes: → a printable PDF aircraft log sheet (14 CFR 135.63(c) load-manifest fields included for Part 135 legs) → a ForeFlight-compatible logbook CSV (one row per pilot-flight pair for multi-crew legs) → a CAMP-formatted maintenance update
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3/ Two panel adapters live Day 1, not one: → Honeywell Apex — Pilatus PC-24, PC-12 NGX → Garmin G1000 / G1000 NXi — Cessna 172/182/206/208 Caravan, Cirrus SR22 Perspective+, Diamond DA40/42/62, King Air B200/B250/B350 @claudeai crushed it.
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2/ Ty sends me an email — subject "Could you screen scrape this image?" — with a photo of a PC-24 Honeywell Apex MFD engine page. Flight time, total fuel, fuel used — all matched the panel at high confidence. Just the photo and a panel-specific system prompt.
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1/ Day 20/30. CrewSheet is live at crewsheet.flights — photo-driven flight log capture for Part 91 / 135 corporate turbine + GA glass-cockpit operators. Crew snaps the panel at shutdown → Claude Vision extracts → ForeFlight CSV + CAMP CSV + signed PDF aircraft log sheet
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Todd Merrill retweeted
Service Led, Software Leave behind. Sequoia’s Autopilot Map open.substack.com/pub/toddme…
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Service Led, Software Leave behind. Sequoia’s Autopilot Map open.substack.com/pub/toddme…
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5/ The argument: the same process that shipped a civic-permitting platform also shipped SLS. The second one matters because there are far more Max Smalls than county governments. AI-native delivery changes what a real local business can *have.* silverbackcto.com/builds
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4/ Honest product-state: text-first lead capture shipped (the fastest path for a one-truck business — text a photo). The CRM form + Calendly are built and drop in this week as the client's accounts come online. No dead buttons.
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3/ The flyer only reaches the driveway it lands on. The next person searching "junk removal Fort Myers" never found him — the category's web presence is all national franchises. Today: 18 pages, Astro, on AWS. His actual brand, carried onto a screen. Mobile-first. Built for LLMs
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2/ Most of this run is ventures. Today is the other thing the Velocity Process does — and the one most small businesses actually live in. Max Small. One truck, owner-operated. Shows up, quotes fair, hauls it. Ran on a printed flyer and a phone number.
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1/ Day 15/30. Swole Labor Services — a junk-removal business in Fort Myers — has a website today: swolelaborservices.com. Built start to finish in a day. Max sent me a flyer. Today he has an lightning fast astro site.
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4/ plugin: → `llms.txt` + `llms-full.txt` on the llmstxt.org standard → JSON-LD schema injection /defers to Yoast/RankMath → AI-crawler robots.txt directives, per-crawler toggle → Clean Markdown export of every post → Native bot-analytics dashboard in WP Admin
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