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About FyrDraft

We help founders protect what they build.

FyrDraft is real IP intelligence for founders and inventors — the kind that used to be reserved for companies who could afford a big firm. We take you as far as AI can responsibly go, then make your time with an attorney count, so the budget you have protects more of your invention.

Meet the team

Bobby Otillar, FyrDraft co-founder and CEO
Bobby Otillar, PhD
Co-founder & CEO

20+ years building big-data and AI systems — Facebook AI & Ads, Abacus.ai, and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Studied at Stanford, UCSF, and UT Austin.

Chris King, FyrDraft co-founder and CPO
Chris King, JD
Co-founder & CPO

Patent attorney with two decades at Fenwick & West, one of the world’s top IP firms. J.D., Santa Clara University.

A different kind of patent AI

Plenty of tools now produce something that looks like a patent — but a founder usually can’t tell whether it protects the product they’re building or just expands on whatever they typed in, and a subtle set of rules decides what’s really protected. FyrDraft does the harder, more valuable thing: it helps you learn your IP space, see which directions are open or walled off by competitors, and decide what’s genuinely worth protecting — then drafts with you and hands off efficiently to an attorney.

Filing a patent is only one part of a much bigger journey: building a business worth protecting. We’re here to help founders and attorneys do better work together — not to replace either one.

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The patent isn’t the destination. The real path winds — past competitors’ walls, the odd dead end, and the filings worth making — toward a business worth protecting.

Where we’re headed

Understanding your IP space — what’s open, what’s owned, what’s worth protecting — has always been a privilege of the well-funded. FyrDraft is here to change that. The same AI making every product easier to clone is what we put to work to bring real IP intelligence — and the expert guidance to act on it — within reach of the founder actually building the thing, not just the firms who could afford it. Our bet: the next wave of defensible companies gets built by people who couldn’t have afforded this a year ago.

FyrDraft (pronounced “FireDraft”) stands for “For Your Review.” You become the informed decision-maker — we surface the strongest options, ask the right guiding questions, hand you a draft worth reading, and help you drive your IP journey.

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