Adoption buys parity
AI is necessary to compete, but not enough to win. Your competitors have the same models.
Strong Force Design
Capture category leadership in the AI era.
We help companies turn AI-driven convergence into durable advantage.
Challenge
AI is rearchitecting every market.
AI is compressing development cycles and blurring the lines between products, platforms and industries. Every company has to rethink how it competes. We call this the Great Rearchitecture.
Traditional moats are weakening
AI makes it faster and cheaper to copy, reverse engineer or independently build what you have.
Knowledge leaks downstream
Vendor models absorb your proprietary knowledge and share it with everyone who uses them.
When other moats erode, patent portfolios provide durable competitive advantage.
Approach
Category leadership, captured by design.
Our proprietary methodology anticipates how technologies will converge in your category, then secures the IP that controls where value is moving.
The Strong Force Matrix frames how technologies will converge and reshape your category.
A systematic inventive process generates broad inventions at the critical points of your value chain.
Comprehensive disclosure preserves priority and optionality, converted to enforceable rights when the time is right.
What category leadership delivers
- Premium pricing, margins and multiples
- Outsized, lasting market share
- Leverage in industry-defining negotiations
- Alliances that widen profit participation
Who We Serve
Companies who want to lead through AI convergence.
Types of companies
- Category leaders defending position as AI reshapes markets
- Challengers seeking a durable moat before they scale
- Platforms and ecosystem orchestrators shaping value chains
Qualities we look for
- Operating where AI converges with other technology stacks
- Leadership that understands its IP is a strategic asset
- Ambition to gain influence, set standards and widen profits
Track Record
It works. We have done it before.
Our team has repeatedly captured category-winning IP by anticipating convergence, structural shifts and transformations.
- Networked lightingColor KineticsAcquired by Philips
- SaaSAscentialAcquired by IBM
- App securityCloudLockAcquired by Cisco
- MobileJumptapAcquired by Millennial Media
- WearablesBodyMediaAcquired by Jawbone
- XRODGAcquired by Microsoft
IP portfolios have backed large valuations, generated billions of dollars in royalties, and collateralized large loans.
Applied to our own portfolio
The same methodology, applied to AI.
Strong Force Innovation Portfolios has built a leading position in applied AI, years before the market formed.
Visit Strong Force Innovation Portfolios- Large estate1,000+Applied AI patent assets, extensible to thousands more
- Early start2016First filings, 6+ years before ChatGPT
- Multi-layered moats3Layers of the new AI value chains
- Extensive coverage#1From a team led by the top-ranked U.S. AI inventor, 2019 to 2025
For select clients, positions can be extended from the Strong Force library of patent families.
Team
Diverse competencies. Senior relationships.
We see across the boundaries that trap others in silos, and anticipate how an ecosystem, its participants and its drivers of IP advantage will evolve.
- Charles CellaManaging Director
- Richard SpitzManaging Director
- Adam KlotzManaging Director
- Hristo MalchevChief Financial Officer
- Josh DobrowitskySr. Vice President
- Ben GoodmanVice President
- Michelle KingHead of Client Services
- Work with usinfo@strongforce.design