Prove you own what you built — before diligence tests it.

1 · WHERE ARE YOU, AND WHAT LAW GOVERNS THE CHAIN OF TITLE?

• Your company is established in the UK, Ireland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Malta, Gibraltar, New Zealand or Hong Kong — and the assignments, employment and contractor terms that move ownership are governed by the law of one of those countries → yes, subject to question 3 — delivered directly by the founder. Tracing who owns what under these systems is commercial contract work, not reserved legal practice, which is why a senior audit is available here at a fraction of a consultancy — lawfully, and in the open.
• Either answer is different, or contributors and counterparties sat under another system → tell us where in the enquiry. Ownership of employee and contractor output is one of the most jurisdiction-specific questions in law, and several markets impose mandatory statutory regimes that override what your contract says. We map the exposure and tell you which parts we can take directly, within one business day, before any charge.

2 · WHAT THE AUDIT PRODUCES

• A chain-of-title findings report — every contributor and counterparty traced, each gap ranked by how badly it bites in diligence, with the remediation paper you actually need → that’s exactly what we deliver.
• Something you can hand over — to an acquirer’s diligence team or an investor’s counsel, without translating it first.

3 · WHERE THE LINE SITS

• Registry work → filing, prosecuting or opposing a patent, trade mark or design, before the UKIPO, EUIPO, EPO or any national registry, is reserved to registered patent and trade mark attorneys. We don’t do it, and we’ll tell you when you need one.
• Ownership, not validity → we audit whether title moved cleanly to you. Whether a right is valid, enforceable, or infringed by anyone else is a different question for a different professional.
• Reserved work → representation before a court, tribunal or regulator; conducting litigation; filings made on your behalf; notarial acts; work tied to the sale of a business where local rules reserve it; a formal opinion on validity, infringement or freedom to operate. That’s an admitted lawyer or patent attorney — introduced and coordinated by us, contracted by you directly.
• Privilege → an audit report is a written record of where title currently sits, and it is not covered by legal professional privilege. In diligence that’s usually the point. Where there’s a live dispute or a threatened claim over ownership, that calculus changes, and we’ll say so before we write rather than after.
• What it is and isn’t → a dated snapshot of title as the paper stands on the day. It doesn’t itself cure a gap, and it doesn’t bind a counterparty who disputes one.

We are not a law firm and don’t hold ourselves out as one. No court work, no filings, no registry work, no regulated titles, no privilege. Tell us where your contributors sat and what needs tracing — scope is confirmed within one business day, and you’re never charged before it is.