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Stilta sells source-traceable AI patent analysis to law firms and in-house intellectual property teams.

category

AI patent litigation and portfolio analysis

market profile

  • text: Patent litigation and portfolio work requires technical document review, prior art discovery and defensible evidence across large collections.
  • text: Stilta addresses enforcement, defense and portfolio strategy across technology-intensive industries.

personas

  • title: Patent litigation partner
    pains:
    • Must build defensible infringement and invalidity arguments under deadline.
    • Manual review of technical documents limits the matters and evidence a team can cover.
  • title: Head of IP at a technology company
    pains:
    • Needs to identify infringement and commercialization risk across a large portfolio.
    • Must justify findings to technical and legal stakeholders with traceable sources.
  • title: Patent associate or analyst
    pains:
    • Spends extensive time mapping patent claims to prior art and product documentation.
    • Needs citations that can be checked before an attorney relies on the result.

icp

  • text: Large IP law firms with patent litigation and freedom-to-operate practices, including AmLaw 100 firms.
  • text: Corporate IP teams at patent-intensive companies in telecom, life sciences, industrial technology and software, including Fortune 500 enterprises.

message pillars

  • text: Build evidence with source-level citations.
  • text: Keep the attorney in control of analysis.
  • text: Bring patent-specific AI to high-stakes matters.

objections

  • objection: AI analysis may hallucinate or miss decisive evidence.
    response: Evaluate a completed matter blind and have counsel verify source citations and coverage before relying on the output.
  • objection: Confidential patent work requires strong security.
    response: Review Stilta's security materials and procurement requirements before uploading sensitive matter documents.

competitors

  • name: Patlytics
    why: Patent AI platform identified by Stilta's CEO as a close competitor.
  • name: Solve Intelligence
    why: Its Charts product was identified by Stilta's CEO as a close competitor.
  • name: Patsnap
    why: Patent research and analytics platform used by corporate IP teams.

influencers

  • name: Oskar Block
    url: https://stilta.com/about
    why: Co-founder and CEO who articulates the company's patent AI thesis.

keywords

  • AI patent litigation
  • patent infringement analysis software
  • AI prior art search
  • freedom to operate analysis
  • patent claim chart AI
  • patent portfolio analysis

voice

  • Evidence-led and precise
  • High-stakes and practitioner-focused
  • Ambitious about innovation

signals

  • text: A company is facing a patent assertion or preparing an infringement case.
  • text: An IP team is reviewing a large portfolio for commercialization risk or competitor activity.

hiring

  • AI Engineer, Stockholm
  • Platform Engineer, Stockholm

pricing

model: unknown

motion

sales_led

channels

  • Direct sales
  • Press
  • Founder-led outreach

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Oskar Block
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: Oskar is the co-founder and CEO of Stilta. He started his first company building ML models for sports betting when he was 18, and later bootstrapped another to +$1M in revenue and +25,000 MAU. Previously at McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, and two Swedish unicorns.
  • name: Oscar Adamsson
    title: Founder/CPO
    role: CPO
    bio: Oscar is CPO and co-founder of Stilta. Before Stilta, he built products at a unicorn, was a founder himself, and worked with 50+ CEOs at McKinsey to shape Sweden's innovation agenda. He has a background as a competitive mathematician, with degrees in business and AI from Chalmers and other top Swedish universities, plus coursework at UC Berkeley and Bocconi.
  • name: Tobias Estreen
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Tobias is co-founder of Stilta. Previously at QuantumBlack (McKinsey & Company), he led teams developing agentic AI systems for global clients. He is a second-time founder with a background in physics and machine learning from KTH and KU Leuven, bringing deep technical expertise and a track record of building AI systems for complex, high-stakes environments.
  • name: Petrus Werner
    title: Founder/Chief Engineering Officer
    role: Founder
    bio: Founder and Chief Engineering Officer at Stilta. Prior to Stilta, he built and deployed AI systems across European organisations at QuantumBlack (AI by McKinsey & Company) and Amazon Web Services.

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