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Intellectual property

Patent-pending, filed at the UK IPO.

Filed · earliest priority February 2026

Audact AI Ltd has filed a patent-pending governance stack at the UK Intellectual Property Office covering everything from validation before an utterance is dispatched to the evidence chain that records what followed. Everything in the portfolio is a filed application. Nothing in it is granted, and we write patent-pending rather than patent-protected for that reason.

Scope

What the portfolio covers.

The applications are grouped by what they govern rather than by the order they were filed in. A patent application covers a method, and a method can be filed before it ships: some groups here describe what the platform does today, others what it is built to do. Where the difference matters, the product status is on the page that sells it.

  • Area
    Validation and receipts
    What it governs
    Checking an AI response before it is dispatched, and issuing a compliance receipt for each interaction that chains to the one before it.
  • Area
    Article 50 attestation
    What it governs
    Placing the disclosure at the position a jurisdiction requires, and recording when its audio finished being sent — across voice, chat and outbound.
  • Area
    Outbound eligibility
    What it governs
    Deciding before dialling whether a call may be placed at all: consent, time window, vulnerability signals, jurisdiction.
  • Area
    Brand and commerce
    What it governs
    Validating pricing, approved messaging and commercial commitments in real time, and holding an agent inside its scope of practice.
  • Area
    Risk and impact assessment
    What it governs
    Generating fundamental-rights impact assessment artefacts and classifying deployments by risk.
  • Area
    Sectoral overlays
    What it governs
    Health-information compartmentalisation, interaction with minors, professional licence limits, source attribution for retrieval.
  • Area
    Multi-agent governance
    What it governs
    Governance between agents, platform-mediated trust, and compliance for interactions that are not synchronous.
  • Area
    Jurisdiction and residency
    What it governs
    Proof of where data was processed, and enforcement of the regulatory overlay that applies in a given country.
  • Area
    Provenance of synthetic voice
    What it governs
    Marking and verifying AI-generated speech, including content-credential formats.
  • Area
    Incident and conformity
    What it governs
    Reconstructing an incident from the evidence chain, scoring posture, and pre-assessment against a conformity check.

Status

What filed means, and what it does not.

Filing establishes a priority date. Audact's priority dates fall between February and April 2026, with later families filed through 2026. The corresponding twelve-month decisions (search and international extension) fall between February and April 2027 for the earliest group.

A filed application confers no enforcement right. Grant, where it happens at all, is years away, and no application is guaranteed to grant in the form it was filed. Until then the correct word is patent-pending, and we use no other.

We also do not describe the portfolio as reading on, blocking or constraining anyone else's product. That is a deliberate policy rather than caution: assertions against other companies are not what this estate is prosecuted for.

Why the UK IPO

Priority first, decisions later.

The UK Intellectual Property Office establishes a priority date quickly and at low cost, prosecutes in English, and opens the standard twelve-month window for international extension. That sequencing lets a small company secure dates across a wide subject area first and decide afterwards, with better information, which families are worth carrying internationally.

Which families go forward is a triage, not a formality. The portfolio is being pruned, which is one reason no count and no list of application numbers appears on this page.

Purpose

What the estate is for.

Two things. It is a defensible position in a category where the mechanism (decide before the machine acts, and record what followed) is the product rather than a feature of it. And it is an asset that a buyer or an investor can value independently of this quarter's revenue.

It is not a revenue line. There is no assertion programme, no claim charts against anyone's products, and no approach to any platform or model provider about licensing.

Questions

Are any of the patents granted?
No. Every family is a filed application at the UK Intellectual Property Office. Filing establishes a priority date and a defensive position; it does not confer an enforcement right, and it is not a prediction that a patent will grant.
Can I get the application numbers?
Yes, on request, at patents@audact.ai, with the status of each at the time we send it. They are not listed here because the portfolio is being triaged and a published list goes stale the moment that triage moves.
Does this stop a competitor from shipping something similar today?
No, and we do not claim otherwise. A pending application gives a date, not an injunction. What it does give is a position that becomes relevant later: in prosecution, in diligence, and in a sale.
Is the portfolio available for licensing?
The estate is prosecuted as a defensible position and as an asset, not as a licensing programme. Serious enquiries about the portfolio, including from acquirers and from investors doing diligence, go to patents@audact.ai.

Portfolio enquiries

Application references, the scope of a particular family, and diligence questions from investors or acquirers.

patents@audact.ai

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