Built for CTOs
Systematic IP Protection for Every Line of Code Your Team Writes
Your engineering team creates valuable IP every sprint. Source code, system architectures, ML models, and proprietary algorithms all need protection. immut integrates into your development workflow to timestamp innovations automatically.
The Challenge
What Keeps CTOs Up at Night
IP protection challenges that ctos face every day.
Engineering IP Is Created Faster Than Legal Can Protect It
Your team ships features weekly. Patent attorneys take months. The gap between creation and protection grows with every sprint, leaving your most valuable innovations exposed.
Open Source Contributions Blur Ownership Lines
Engineers contribute to open source, use third-party libraries, and collaborate across teams. Proving which innovations are proprietary and when they were created requires more than git logs.
Employee Departures Create IP Leakage Risk
When a senior engineer leaves for a competitor, you need to prove exactly what IP existed before their departure. Without timestamped evidence, enforcing non-compete and IP assignment clauses becomes difficult.
Technical Due Diligence Demands IP Documentation
Fundraising, acquisitions, and partnerships all require demonstrating your IP position. Scrambling to document years of innovation retroactively is expensive and unreliable.
The Solution
How immut Fits Your Workflow
Blockchain-verified IP protection designed for how ctos actually work.
Timestamp Code and Architecture Milestones
Upload snapshots of proprietary code, system designs, and technical documentation after each major milestone. Build a verifiable timeline of your engineering innovation.
Integrate Into Your CI/CD Pipeline
Use the immut API to automatically timestamp builds, releases, and critical code changes. Protection becomes part of your engineering workflow, not an afterthought.
Protect ML Models and Training Data
Timestamp model architectures, training datasets, and performance benchmarks. Prove your AI innovations existed before competitors claim similar breakthroughs.
Build an Auditable IP Portfolio
Create a comprehensive, blockchain-verified record of your technical IP that satisfies investors, acquirers, and legal teams during due diligence.
Real-World Scenario
A Day in the Life: CTO Protecting a SaaS Platform
Marcus is CTO of a B2B SaaS company with 15 engineers. They have built a proprietary recommendation engine that drives their competitive advantage. A larger competitor has started building a suspiciously similar feature.
Marcus sets up the immut API in their CI/CD pipeline. Every major release now automatically generates a blockchain timestamp of the build artifacts and architecture documentation.
He uploads the original recommendation engine design documents, whiteboard photos from the initial brainstorm, and early prototypes. Each gets a timestamp proving they existed months before the competitor's announcement.
When the competitor's feature launches, Marcus's legal team has a complete, blockchain-verified timeline showing priority. The certificates are court-ready without additional notarisation.
During their Series B due diligence, investors are impressed by the systematic IP documentation. It accelerates the deal and strengthens the company's valuation argument.
Automated IP protection that runs in the background, producing court-ready evidence and strengthening the company's valuation.
Benefits
Why CTOs Choose immut
Developer-Friendly API
RESTful API and CLI tools that integrate with your existing development infrastructure. No context switching required.
Automated Protection
Set up once and timestamp automatically with each deployment or milestone. Your IP protection scales with your engineering output.
Due Diligence Ready
Export a complete timeline of your innovation history with blockchain-verified certificates for every milestone.
Zero Data Exposure
Only cryptographic hashes touch the blockchain. Your source code, models, and architecture documents stay on your infrastructure.
Team Attribution
Track which team members created which innovations, building clear ownership records that protect the company.
Fraction of Patent Cost
Protect your entire engineering output for $29/month instead of tens of thousands per patent application.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I integrate immut into our CI/CD pipeline?
Yes. immut provides a RESTful API that you can call from any CI/CD tool — Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, and others. You can timestamp build artifacts, release packages, or documentation automatically as part of your deployment process.
Is this better than just using git commit history as proof?
Git history can be rewritten (force push, rebase) and is stored on infrastructure you control, making it easy to challenge in court. Blockchain timestamps are immutable, stored on a decentralised ledger, and carry significantly more legal weight as evidence.
Does immut see our source code?
No. Only a SHA-256 hash of your files is sent to the blockchain. Your actual code never leaves your infrastructure. The hash proves the file existed at that timestamp without revealing its contents.
How does this help with employee IP disputes?
By timestamping innovations as they are created, you build a clear record of what existed before any employee departure. This makes it straightforward to demonstrate what IP belongs to the company when enforcing IP assignment or non-compete agreements.
What file types can I timestamp?
Any file type — source code archives, PDFs, Docker images, model weights, datasets, design files, documentation. If it is a file, immut can timestamp it.
Ready to Protect Your IP?
Book a call to see how immut gives ctos instant, blockchain-verified proof of their innovations. Get protected on the call.