Layer 01
AI-Enabling Infrastructure
AI data centers, sensor fusion at the edge, and the connective tissue that integrates AI with other technologies.
Strong Force Innovation Portfolios
We captured the early ground in the architectures of applied AI.
More than 1,000 patent assets on the systems that put AI to work, covering our own inventions, filed years before the market formed, and extensible to thousands more.
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The model is the advantage.
Models are interchangeable. Architectures are durable. Patents are the moat.
As AI models become more interchangeable and agents erode
traditional moats, value is moving to architectures that
deploy, coordinate, and govern. Our portfolio is the moat
for those architectures and what will be built upon them.
Portfolio
Control points across the new AI value chains.
The Strong Force patent estate has control points over putting AI to work, from the infrastructure that enables AI (Layer 01), to the architectures that deploy it (Layer 02), and the systems that turn it into impact (Layer 03).
Layer 02
AI Deployment Architectures
Agentic orchestration, multi-agent coordination, resource optimization, multi-model systems, and trust and governance.
Layer 03
AI-Driven Systems
Control towers, digital twins, and vertical systems built for specific industries.
Where it appliesIndustrial·Supply/Demand Chain·Finance·Energy·Transportation·Healthand more
The question is not whether it can be built, but whether it will endure.
Leadership
Masters of structural shifts and convergence.
We have repeatedly leveraged convergence – the interplay of technologies – to capture category-winning IP and outsized returns amidst structural shifts.
Leadership Team
#1
U.S. AI inventor
Co-founder Charles Cella, measured by U.S. AI patents published 2019 to 2025 (GreyB).
4
of the top 20
Four Strong Force contributing inventors included in the top 20.
18
Recognized Leader
Strong Force patent estate has been recognized with a leading position in 18 different patent landscapes by PatSnap, GreyB and others, across AI-enabling infrastructure, AI deployment architectures and AI-driven systems, and many more.
Multiple
Prior Transactions
Prior $100M+ or $1B+ business or portfolio exits in which Cella-designed patent portfolios were of recognized critical importance.
Opportunity
For Strategic Acquirers
A direct path to owning the architectures, and what will be built upon them.
- A durable moatAround the systems you are building, as models commoditize.
- Strategic leverageIn the most attractive profit zones of the new AI value chains.
- Priority that cannot be recreatedA head start your competitors cannot overcome.
For Investors
An asset positioned where AI value is accruing.
For All
An opportunity to help make AI safer and improve the balance among creators, users, platforms and the public.
Rent the intelligence.Own the architecture.
Insights
Our insights as to how to capture value in the age of AI
- I Went Looking for a Way to Protect My IP in the Age of AI.I Didn’t Expect to Find the Alpha Asset in the Room. Part 1 · Kip Dodson with Richard Spitz
- Schneider Just Paid $22.6 Billion for the Architecture.Who Owns the Rights Underneath It? Part 2 · Kip Dodson
- Beyond RoyaltiesHow patent estates shape market share and ecosystem economics Richard Spitz