Built for Startup Founders
Protect Your Innovation from Day One Without Burning Runway
You are building fast and spending carefully. Patents cost tens of thousands and take years. immut gives you court-ready IP protection in 60 seconds, so you can focus on shipping product instead of worrying about who might copy your work.
The Challenge
What Keeps Startup Founders Up at Night
IP protection challenges that startup founders face every day.
Patents Are Too Expensive for Early Stage
A single patent costs $15,000-$50,000 and takes 2-3 years. Most startups cannot afford to protect every innovation they create during their critical first years.
Sharing Ideas With Investors Creates Risk
Every pitch deck, every demo, every investor update shares proprietary information. NDAs are hard to enforce and investors often refuse to sign them.
Co-Founder and Employee IP Disputes
When a co-founder leaves or a key employee joins a competitor, proving who created what becomes a costly legal battle without clear evidence of authorship.
Moving Fast Means Skipping Protection
The pressure to ship means IP protection always lands at the bottom of the to-do list. By the time you think about it, months of unprotected innovation have passed.
The Solution
How immut Fits Your Workflow
Blockchain-verified IP protection designed for how startup founders actually work.
Timestamp Every Milestone as You Build
Upload designs, code commits, pitch decks, and product specs as you create them. Each file gets a blockchain-verified timestamp in 60 seconds without slowing you down.
Protect Before Every Investor Meeting
Timestamp your pitch deck, financial models, and technical documentation before sharing. If someone uses your ideas, you have proof of what you had before disclosure.
Build an IP Portfolio on a Bootstrap Budget
At $29/month for unlimited timestamps, you can protect everything you create for less than the cost of a single legal consultation. Scale your IP portfolio as you grow.
Establish Clear Ownership From the Start
Create a timestamped trail of who built what and when. Resolve future disputes with evidence, not arguments.
Real-World Scenario
A Day in the Life: Founder Protecting a Pre-Seed Startup
Sarah is building an AI-powered logistics platform. She has two co-founders, three contractors, and a pitch meeting with a VC fund next week. She has no patents and limited budget.
Monday morning: Sarah timestamps the latest version of their core algorithm, system architecture document, and updated pitch deck. It takes 3 minutes total.
Before the VC meeting, she timestamps the exact materials she plans to share. This creates a verifiable record of what she possessed before any disclosure.
A contractor delivers a new UI design. Sarah has them upload it to immut before integrating it, establishing clear creation dates for the work.
Three months later, a competitor launches a suspiciously similar product. Sarah has blockchain-verified proof of her prior development timeline, giving her legal leverage without having filed a single patent.
Complete IP protection for every innovation milestone, achieved in minutes per week on a startup budget.
Benefits
Why Startup Founders Choose immut
99% Cheaper Than Patents
Protect your entire innovation portfolio for $29/month instead of $15,000+ per patent filing.
60-Second Protection
No lawyers, no paperwork, no waiting. Upload a file and get blockchain-verified proof instantly.
Court-Ready Evidence
Blockchain timestamps are recognised as evidence in UK, EU, and US courts under established digital evidence laws.
Investor Confidence
Show investors you take IP seriously. A timestamped portfolio demonstrates professionalism and reduces due diligence friction.
Nothing Is Revealed
Only a cryptographic hash is stored on the blockchain. Your actual files, ideas, and code stay completely private.
Scales With Your Company
From first prototype to Series A and beyond, immut grows with you. Start free, upgrade when you need more.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Is blockchain timestamping a real alternative to patents for startups?
For many types of IP, yes. Patents are ideal for inventions you plan to licence or that can be reverse-engineered. But for algorithms, business processes, designs, and trade secrets, blockchain timestamps paired with trade secret protection can be more practical and far cheaper. Many startups use both strategically.
Will investors take blockchain IP protection seriously?
Increasingly, yes. Sophisticated investors understand that trade secrets with verifiable timestamps demonstrate IP awareness and reduce risk. It shows you are building an auditable innovation trail from day one, which strengthens your position in due diligence.
What happens if I need to go to court?
Blockchain timestamps are recognised as evidence under the UK Civil Evidence Act 1995, EU eIDAS Regulation, and US Federal Rules of Evidence. immut provides court-ready certificates that legal teams can present directly.
Can my co-founders and team use it too?
Yes. immut team plans let multiple users timestamp under one account. Each person's uploads are individually tracked, creating clear attribution for who created what.
How is this different from just emailing files to myself?
Email timestamps can be manipulated and are easily challenged in court. Blockchain timestamps are cryptographically verifiable, immutable, and stored on a decentralised ledger that no single party controls. They carry significantly more legal weight.
Ready to Protect Your IP?
Book a call to see how immut gives startup founders instant, blockchain-verified proof of their innovations. Get protected on the call.