Evalify
Evalify · Business
Evalify is an AI patent analysis platform that turns a patent search into a drafted first-pass freedom-to-operate report, with claim charts and a clearance score attached.
About Evalify
What Is Evalify
Evalify is a web platform for freedom-to-operate work. You upload technical documents, draft claims, or a pitch deck, and it returns a drafted FTO assessment with claim charts, a per-market clearance read, and a score between 250 and 900. The company built it for patent attorneys first, and the marketing now leads with that audience.
The problem it attacks is the hours that disappear into searching. A traditional patent clearance search runs 10 to 20 hours of prior art hunting before any analysis starts, and the depth shifts with whoever runs it. Evalify runs the search across a licensed corpus of more than 200 million patents and screens the candidates, so the attorney starts at the point where a manual search usually ends. It also searches open literature through OpenAlex, arXiv, PubMed, and IETF RFCs when invalidity evidence matters.
Three limits deserve attention before you buy. The output is work product, not an opinion of counsel, and Evalify says so on its own site. Claim mapping is literal and element by element, so doctrine of equivalents, prosecution history estoppel, and claim construction stay with the attorney. Design patents are not searched at all, and every report comes back in English even when the source documents are in another language.
Getting Started
- Create an account at pro.evalify.ai and pick a plan for the matter you're working on.
- Upload up to 20 files: a specification, an invention disclosure, draft claims, a product description, or a pitch deck.
- Review the aspects Evalify proposes, then widen, narrow, add, or drop them before the search runs.
- Set the territorial scope, either the IP5 preset or an explicit list of patent offices.
- Approve the strategy, wait about 15 minutes, then read the brief, question the report, and export.
Product Information
A quick look at Evalify's pricing, supported platforms, and performance.
Best for
The users, tasks, and scenarios where this tool fits best.
Users
- Patent attorneys running clearance work
- In-house IP teams at hardware and deep tech companies
- Founders and investors screening a pitch deck
Tasks
- First-pass FTO before a client call
- Diligence on a target company
- Redesign triage after a blocker appears
- Prior art checks against the strongest patent
Scenarios
- Launching one product in several markets
- Fundraising diligence on a tight timeline
- Watching a matter after clearance
Key features
Drafted Opinion and Clearance Score
The platform writes a reasoned infringement verdict instead of handing back a list of patents. Each report opens with the opinion and a score on a 250 to 900 scale, built from the claim chart verdicts. The scale is deliberate: a 100 percent score would imply zero legal risk, which patent law can't deliver.
Element-by-Element Claim Charts
For every aspect, Evalify pulls the independent claims from the relevant references and maps each limitation against the corresponding feature of your product. The chart names the deciding limitation and shows the basis for each read, so you can verify the work rather than trust it. Charting is where most of the billable hours used to go.
Search Strategy You Approve First
Before anything runs, Evalify breaks the invention into aspects and proposes a search plan. You can widen or narrow the scope, add an aspect, drop one, or rewrite it on the Counsel-Grade plan. The search then runs on your version of the plan, not on a fixed recipe.
Multi-Agent Quality Cross-Check
Several AI agents review every claim chart and flag where they disagree. Disagreements are shown rather than smoothed over, which matters when a single limitation decides the verdict. On Counsel-Grade reports this check runs on every chart, and the flagged limitations also give you a starting point for an equivalents argument.
Assistant Trained on Your Report
Each analysis ships with an assistant that answers questions grounded in that report and its sources. You can ask why a claim was charted a certain way, which sources were searched, or what a specific reference covers. It answers from the record, not from general model recall.
Global Patent Corpus With Utility Models
The search covers more than 200 million patents across 170-plus jurisdictions, in any language, plus non-patent literature. Utility models are included, which is the gap that decides many answers for products made or sold in China. Documents in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, or German are translated, and the report flags terms of art where the translation could change the read.
Monitoring and Branded Exports
Counsel-Grade matters can be placed under a standing watch that runs daily through quarterly and alerts you when a new patent publishes in scope, a pending application grants, or a blocker lapses. Export is available on every plan: a PDF brief on Standard, and on Counsel-Grade an Export Composer that produces the brief and the full report as PDF or editable Word, under your firm's logo and typography.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Turns a 10 to 20 hour search into a drafted first pass in about 15 minutes, which frees the billable hours for review and advice.
- Claim charts are charted limitation by limitation with the reasoning attached, so the work can be checked instead of taken on faith.
- Per-market clearance reads match how patents actually work, and a report can show a block in one country and clearance in another.
- Input files are not retained after the run and are never used for training, which is the objection most attorneys raise first.
- Per-report pricing starts at $259, a fraction of the $10,000 to $50,000 a traditional FTO opinion costs.
Cons
- The output is not an opinion of counsel and carries no legal privilege of its own, so an attorney has to review and sign off on every matter.
- Doctrine of equivalents is not analyzed. The cross-check flags limitations an equivalents argument could reach, but the argument itself is yours to build.
- Design patents are outside the search, so consumer products where shape and appearance carry the risk need a separate search.
- Reports come back in English only, and a matter in a non-English jurisdiction means checking translated terms of art against the original claims.
Frequently asked questions
Two documents per run: a short FTO Brief with the opinion, the score, jurisdiction clearance, and the critical patents, plus a full report with every charted claim, the patents assessed, the ones screened out with reasons, and the methodology. Both export as PDF, and Counsel-Grade adds editable Word files.
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