Each rung of the ladder has one thing you can actually buy: a defined piece of work, with a named deliverable, agreed before anything begins.
You should be able to find out what this costs before you are sitting in a room with us. Every engagement is scoped to your business — there is no rate card, because no two IP positions are the same. What is fixed: before you commit, you get a written scope and a written quote. Never an hourly meter you discover the size of afterwards.
Start at the rung your business is on. Nothing here requires you to buy the rung above it.
For a business that needs to know exactly what it holds — usually before a funding round, a due-diligence request, a partnership, or a fight.
For a team about to commit budget to a product or a brand name, that wants to see the crowded ground first.
For a business ready to register a mark, an invention or a design, and unwilling to be surprised by the second invoice.
For a company whose portfolio grew by accident and now needs a plan a finance team will sign off on.
For a business planning to franchise, license or transfer technology, that needs its rights clean enough for a counterparty to rely on.
For a business that needs a defensible number on its patents, brands, software or know-how — for a funding round, a licence negotiation, a stake sale or the balance sheet.
For anyone who already owns something worth keeping, and does not want to lose it to a calendar entry nobody was watching.
For a team that keeps meeting IP too late — in a pitch deck, a vendor contract, or a demo already given.
For a resolution professional, liquidator, creditor or lender who needs to know what intangibles are genuinely in the estate — and for a resolution applicant running diligence on a target.
Government and registry fees, statutory charges and any third-party costs are billed at actuals and shown to you separately — we do not mark them up. Anything that falls outside the written scope is quoted as its own fixed-fee piece of work before it starts, never added silently to an existing engagement.
You know the price before you commit, and the scope before we start.
Fifteen minutes, free, no obligation. You describe the situation; we tell you which rung of the ladder it sits on and what a sensible first piece of work would be. If the honest answer is that you do not need us yet, you get that answer too.
15 minutes · freeYou receive the scope in writing: the deliverable by name, what is included, what is deliberately excluded, the timeline, and one fee. Nothing starts until you have read it and said yes.
In writing, before workWe deliver the document we named, on the timeline we agreed, at the fee we quoted. If the work turns out to need something beyond that scope, we stop and quote it separately rather than absorb it into a growing bill.
The fee does not moveIn this profession the price usually arrives after you are already committed, which quietly changes who the engagement is designed to suit. We would rather lose the enquiry on this page than in month three of an open-ended bill.
A fixed fee forces us to scope the work properly before we sell it, and it moves the risk of a bad estimate from you to us. That is the trade. It also means we have to say no to work we cannot define, which is a discipline we would like to be held to.
You will not find a rate card on this page — no single number honestly fits every business. What you will find is the part that actually protects you: the fee is fixed, it is in writing, and you have it in hand before you have committed to anything.
The structure is published here in full — the products, what each includes, and the commitment that the fee is fixed and agreed before work begins. The figures themselves are given to you in the discovery call, so the quote matches your portfolio rather than an average. [Placeholder: publish numeric fees here once the fee-publication position is confirmed — Nayan to confirm]
That is our problem, not yours. Within the written scope, the fee does not move. If something genuinely outside the scope appears, we stop, explain it, and quote it as a separate fixed-fee piece of work you can decline.
No. Every entry product on this page is a standalone engagement with a defined end. Ongoing arrangements exist where they genuinely help — a renewal and watch plan, for instance — but nothing on the ladder requires one.
No, and deliberately so. Statutory fees vary with what you file and where, so they are shown to you separately at actuals with no mark-up. You always see which part of a number is our fee and which part is the registry's.
Start wherever your business actually is. The audit is the most common first step because it makes the other decisions cheaper, but if you already know what you own and simply need to file, begin there.