Todd Merrill

Venture Partner, Silverback Software

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@0xCodez https://t.co/iYTaAJVk6W is built for this!

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@ProductHunt https://t.co/eNWujzujIz

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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
https://t.co/GUC14iNqKd

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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 https://t.co/4KI5kajH4k — 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
https://t.co/GUC14iNqKd

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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 https://t.co/TtC19gRFvn — 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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Service Led, Software Leave behind. Sequoia’s Autopilot Map https://t.co/jEBuzlWC1S

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@JulienBek

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Service Led, Software Leave behind. Sequoia’s Autopilot Map https://t.co/jEBuzlWC1S

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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.*

https://t.co/GUC14iNqKd

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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: https://t.co/HPhiQytYkj. Built start to finish in a day.

Max sent me a flyer. Today he has an lightning fast astro site.