A pieta.ip Theme
System Brief · IP & Knowledge Development · 2026-09-14

A self-improving engine for attorney-ready patents.

Pieta turns one anchor idea into a complete patent package — autonomously. The engine is grounded in real world patents, runs end-to-end without a human in the loop, and exits with a full prosecution-ready file plus a commercial strategy set. Then it improves itself.

Output 67+ attorney-ready packages
Pipelines 19 autonomous · 31 docs/idea
Provenance Metsigen · Cooling · Umbrella
Updated 2026-09-14
Built by David A.B. Van der Walt · Sole architect · 18 months · 25+ peer-reviewed papers · 2 patents filed · Patent pending PPN00002480
See the 43 freshest

Who this is for

IP Firms & Counsel
Prosecution-ready packages, no reformatting required.
Industrial Partners
Mechanism concepts turned into commercial IP pathways.
Deep-Tech Investors
An engine that gets faster, cheaper, and more accurate the longer it runs.
Research Institutions
Frontier insights converted into protectable assets, end-to-end.

! Executive summary

An autonomous IP foundry.

Pieta is a self-improving engine that takes an anchor mechanism and produces the full patent package plus a commercial strategy set, without a human in the loop. Every claim is grounded in the prior art before it leaves the system.

It started as a single proof-of-concept run and, over 18 months, evolved into a 6-phase production pipeline that packages its own outputs, files its own documents, and improves itself with every cycle. The engine is the IP.

02 What it does

Phase 1 — The Refinery

A grounded substrate — nothing invented.

Before a single claim was written, the engine was fed real-world patents and verified end-to-end. The substrate isn't a language model's recall — it is the prior art itself, curated and verified.

03 How it works

Phase 2 — The Hunt

Hunt, kill, anchor.

The engine searches for ideas that matter, removes the weak ones, tightens the survivors, and anchors each one to a real mechanism. What emerges is an idea whose parts are real and whose combination hasn't been seen.

19autonomous pipelines
31documents per idea
0manual steps
67+packages filed

04 Proof at scale

Phase 3 — First Proof

Two end-to-end runs. One phrase: it keeps getting better.

The first full runs of the engine produced, in one pass, the kind of end-to-end coverage that would normally take a year of human prosecution work. Each subsequent run is faster and more accurate than the last.

05 What it built

Phase 4 — IP at Scale

Three live domains. One pipeline.

From the foundry proof, three focused project lines were built: Metsigen, Cooling, and Umbrella. Each anchors the engine onto a different problem class and produces its own stack of attorney-ready packages.

Metsigenlive
Coolinglive
Umbrellalive
+more on the way

06 What it produces

Phase 5 — The Living System

It's not a one-shot tool. It compounds.

Every package the engine produces feeds back into its substrate. Every cycle sharpens the next one. The system is self-improving: it learns from ideas it kills, from claims that hold up, and from the prior art it indexed last week.

From one anchor comes a complete commercial strategy set: technical white paper, content marketing kit, commercialization roadmap, and a 90-day market-entry blueprint — alongside the patent file itself.

The ask

The brief was originally to file 3–5 provisional patents. What got built instead is a self-improving engine that produces, evaluates, compresses, and packages attorney-ready IP at scale. The next phase is operating it on a partner's domain — in production.

Want the system?

This page tells you what Pieta does and what it has produced. The substrate recipe, scoring method, generation topology and self-improvement loop are released to qualified partners only.

Three ways in:

30-min system walkthroughfree · NDA on request Technical brief under NDAsubstrate, scoring, topology Run the engine on my domainanchor + pilot budget