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Climate change is one of the most urgent threats of our time, and the Climate Patent Collective was founded to meet that moment. As a boutique agency, the CPC partners with climate tech startups tackling some of the world’s hardest problems, from carbon removal and electrification to alternative proteins and sustainable energy storage.
But helping these early-stage companies secure IP isn’t easy. Most clients are pre-seed or bootstrapped, moving fast with limited resources. Their technologies often have no prior filings to build on and little formal documentation. For CPC, that means a steady stream of first-time applications — often the foundational filing in a startup’s portfolio — that carry outsized weight and require careful strategy.
In other words, every new invention required hours of scoping, outlining, and manual drafting just to get to a workable starting point. And given the breadth of technical domains the CPC covers, that level of context-switching was draining.
The challenge was compounded by the CPC’s flat fee model with high-touch service. This combination made them accessible and founder-friendly, but left little margin for inefficiency.
And while interest from potential new clients is good news, the team was always maxed out. The CPC faced a difficult choice: raise prices and risk becoming inaccessible to the very startups they set out to support, or find a way to scale their process without compromising on quality, turnaround, or mission.
After testing a handful of other AI patent drafting tools that just didn’t cut it, the CPC joined Patentext’s early access program in June 2025.
The generic AI assistants and chat-based drafting tools they tried were built around generative writing, not actual patent workflows. In other words, they could fill a page with text, but not reduce the mental overhead of understanding an unfamiliar system, organizing its components, and figuring out how to present it.
Patentext offered something the other tools didn’t: structure. Using a graph-based editor purpose-built for patent drafting, Patentext visually breaks down an idea into components, functions, and steps to capture the full logic of the invention before a single sentence is generated.
So, instead of spending hours turning Zoom call notes into a workable outline, the team could now map the invention in real time, feeding clean, structured input into the system and getting back coherent, editable drafts. Patentext handled novel technical domains with clarity without the weird “voice” or bloat often associated with LLM-generated text.
"Patentext is a game changer for the patent drafting process, making it faster, more efficient, and much less daunting. In my first use of the application I input an unfinished independent claim, some dependent claim ideas, and a short description of the invention. Patentext quickly output a graph of nodes connecting all of the ideas in the input. It accurately organized both devices and their subcomponents as well as method steps and their possible variants."
Before Patentext, the most mentally demanding part of the process was translating a messy, real-time conversation with an inventor into a clean, structured outline. On average, it took 2 to 3 hours just to scope and organize the invention’s components and steps, especially when the tech was unfamiliar, like enzyme chemistry or thermal storage systems.
With Patentext’s graph-based editor, that step now takes just 15 to 30 minutes. The tool gives structure to ambiguity, helping the team move from raw notes to a fully mapped-out application framework in less time than it used to take to reread the transcript. And if the structure is off base, editing the graph is quick and intuitive.
Manual drafting used to be a 12-hour lift per application. With Patentext, that step now takes just 1 to 2 hours.
Unlike tools that rely on repetitive prompting or awkward document overlays, Patentext doesn’t require guessing what the AI wants. Once the invention is structured in the graph, the tool produces coherent, editable text, which means the team doesn’t waste time engineering prompts or toggling between chat windows and Word docs.
"In my first use of the application, Patentext reduced my drafting time by about 40% (partially because I spent plenty of time curiously poking around each feature) and I anticipate future uses of the application cutting down my drafting time by up to 70%."
Final reviews still take about 2 hours, but they’re smoother and more focused. Because the first draft already follows the correct structure and logic, there’s no need to fix the fundamentals. Instead, the team can zero in on strengthening claims or refining edge cases.
One of the biggest concerns for any boutique firm experimenting with AI is this: Should we tell clients we’re using it? Will they see it as cutting corners?
CPC decided early on to be transparent. When speaking with new clients, they framed Patentext as a tool that helped them move faster, stay affordable, and maintain quality. For a while, the team even offered small discounts to clients willing to opt in to AI-assisted drafts.
Unsurprisingly, many welcomed it. That openness helped CPC build trust and adapt to each client’s needs. And it proved that, when used well, AI is a value-add for mission-driven startups that care more about speed, clarity, and execution than who typed every word.
The time savings have added up. In the six months since adopting Patentext, CPC has onboarded 12 new clients without adding any new headcount while still delivering the high-touch service they’re known for.
In today’s inflationary economic environment, that margin means everything. CPC was on the verge of raising prices, but didn’t have to. Patentext gave the team the leverage to keep pricing flat, stay accessible to the startups they’re built to support, and still improve profitability.
Most AI patent tools weren’t built for firms like yours. They’re designed for enterprise teams with hours to spend tweaking prompts and months to roll out new tools. (As you’ve probably realized from their opaque pricing and features pages!)
Patentext is different. We built it for the realities of boutique firms where time is tight, margins matter, and every draft needs to be client-ready without five rounds of cleanup.
Check out our self-guided product tour or schedule a free demo to try Patentext on one of your disclosures.
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