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We made the first AI platform that lets anyone protect their ideas in minutes.

When I was in high school, I had an invention idea, and I wanted to protect it.

That’s when I found out about something called the provisional patent.

For as low as $65, it gives you 12 months of protection to build, test, and fundraise around your idea to see if it sticks.

And I remember thinking, why does nobody talk about this?

Then I tried filing one myself, and I realized why.

The process is just confusing and took me over a month.

So we built AutoInvent.

Because your business can’t grow or hold real value if the product isn’t defensible.

Luckily, we just launched. So if you’re building a company or have an idea for one, go to AutoInvent and protect it today.

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because without them, every big company would just copy whatever small inventors build and there’d be no reason to create anything new.
the real problem isn’t that patents exist. it’s that the system is so expensive and confusing that only big corporations can actually use them.
that’s what we’re fixing at @autoinvent

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Two men invented the telephone on the exact same day. Only one of them you've heard of.

Alexander Graham Bell filed his patent for the telephone on February 14, 1876.

Elisha Gray filed the exact same invention the same day. Bell's lawyer arrived at the patent office a few hours earlier.

Gray spent the rest of his life in legal battles trying to prove he got there first. He never won.

The entire outcome came down to who filed first. Not who invented it first. Not who was smarter. Not who worked harder.

Just who filed first.

A provisional patent timestamps your idea the moment you file. In the US, that timestamp is everything.

Don't be Elisha Gray. https://t.co/YNNq8lgQXY

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@SteffD415 17 provisional patents is a serious IP moat to build. love it.
if you haven't filed yet, we built AutoInvent for exactly this. AI generates the full application in minutes for $65 a filing. no lawyer needed.
https://t.co/tn4Pr9r71k

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@divya_venn the most attractive thing a founder can do is file one before they even have a lawyer.
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Just over 2 weeks after launching our startup and we’ve already had 1500 accounts created with @autoinvent

So grateful and can’t wait to see how many people we can help.

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the system is broken but the answer isn’t to stop filing.
most american inventors never file in the first place because the process is too expensive and too confusing. that’s the real vulnerability.
if we want to compete, we need more inventors filing faster, not fewer.
that’s what we’re building at @autoinvent

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@jawwwn_ @PalmerLuckey Going dark isn't the fix. The real issue is that filing takes forever and costs a fortune, so most people don't protect anything. AutoInvent built a new way to help founders file provisional (1-year) patents in minutes.

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@SpecDiver642 @bitforth @360_Secure @socoloffalex yes

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Great question. The moment you file a provisional with the USPTO, your idea is legally timestamped and protected and that happens before AutoInvent sees your full product details.

The U.S. patent system is first-to-file, meaning protection is established the moment of filing, not before. AutoInvent only sees your product details after we generate the necessary documents for you to file the provisional application.

Does that make sense?

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Over 2 million patented ideas have been abandoned.

Most people will never see them. But inside that graveyard are inventions that can be rediscovered, improved, and turned into something new.

AutoInvent lets you browse abandoned patents, improve them with AI, and generate new invention variations you can protect in minutes.

The next big idea might already be buried.

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@arlanr The best founders also know the importance of protecting their ideas. We built AutoInvent to help them file provisional patents in minutes, giving them a full year of protection to build, test, and fundraise for their product.

https://t.co/tn4Pr9r71k

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@AlbertoAIcode Distribution is one factor. Making sure your product is protected is another. We built AutoInvent to help founders file provisional patents in minutes, giving them a full year of protection to build, test, and fundraise.

https://t.co/tn4Pr9r71k

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@fin465 Love it. Founders are finally learning how to streamline customer acquisition.

We're helping them in a different way: by protecting their products in minutes with provisional patents. It gives them a full year of protection to build, test, and fundraise.

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@DerekFeehrer love this. ai is streamling founder tasks that used to take days into minutes.

we're doing something similar by helping them file provisional patents in minutes, giving them a full year of protection to build, test, and fundraise for their product.

https://t.co/tn4Pr9r71k

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@AustinGeorgas love seeing the lives of these solopreneurs, would be even more interesting if you showed the mundane aspects of their daily work as well

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just learned what programmatic SEO is this week.
apparently you can create thousands of indexed pages automatically with each one targeting a different search keyword.
for a company sitting on 2 million+ abandoned patents, each one a unique search term, this feels like a cheat code.
looking into firecrawl after seeing @gregisenberg talk about it. anyone actually built programmatic SEO at scale? what worked?

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A provisional gives you 12 months of "Patent Pending" status from the day you file.
Within those 12 months you need to file a non-provisional (full utility patent) if you want long term protection. If you don't, the provisional expires and you lose your filing date.
Here's why that filing date matters. Lets say for example you file a provisional on January 1, 2026. You spend the year prototyping, pitching investors, finding a lawyer. You file the non-provisional with a lawyer in December 2026. If your patent gets approved, your protection backdates all the way to January 1, 2026, not the day you filed the full patent.
So for $65 you get a full year to figure everything out while your idea is legally protected. That's the whole point.

What we do at @autoinvent is help people file that provisional application in a matter of minutes without having to spend thousands of dollars on a lawyer. Save that money for the non provisional!

Appreciate the questions!

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@E0_DS0_Omega guy literally powered the entire planet and died broke in a hotel room.

nobody should have to choose between spreading their idea and protecting it. that’s the whole problem we’re trying to solve.

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@RaTHeR_Un1QuE @socoloffalex What a provisional does is it backdates your protection for a year until you file a non provisional application. A provisional is useless if you don’t file a non provisional within a year

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@socoloffalex has an experience that ties to this. Google has a whole department whose only job is to steal startups. When he was a principal designer at a startup his team literally copied successful startups and launched them under the Google name.

This is exactly why we built AutoInvent.
A provisional patent costs $65 and takes 5 minutes to file. It timestamps your idea legally before Google, Apple, or anyone else can claim they thought of it first.
The system exists. Most founders just don’t know how to use it.
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