The control plane for intangible assets
Know what your business owns.
Connect every brand, software asset, domain, agreement, licence, repository and piece of evidence in one continuously maintained ownership graph. See who owns it, who can use it, why that is true, and what has to happen if it moves.
Your intangible assets are already connected
Your systems just do not show the connection.
Your domains live with a registrar. Code lives in Git. Assignments live in PDFs. Trademarks live in IP systems. Licences live in contracts. Ownership is inferred from all of them — usually by a small number of people who remember how the pieces fit.
Intangible HQ turns that institutional memory into a maintained, evidence-backed system of record.
Verified Licensed or shared Needs review
Who owns the right?
Which entity holds it, and which evidence supports that position.
Who controls it?
Which account, repository, team or operator holds it day to day.
Who earns from it?
Which brand, product or business package it economically belongs to.
The platform
One graph across every intangible asset.
Eight modules over the same model. A brand, the software behind it, the contract that licenses it and the evidence that proves it are all objects in one graph — not rows in four systems.
Asset Graph
A live relationship graph across entities, brands, assets, agreements, people, repositories and rights.
Learn moreBrand & Asset Registry
One structured register for entities, brands, intangible assets, domains, digital accounts and economic asset packages.
Learn moreSoftware Provenance
Connect repositories, contributors, agreements, components, releases and SBOM data to legal ownership.
Learn moreAgreements, Rights & Licences
Normalize the rights, restrictions and obligations created by contracts so the graph can reason over them.
Learn moreEvidence & Chain of Title
Evidence-backed ownership assertions, document versioning and end-to-end chain-of-title paths.
Learn moreReadiness & Controls
Continuously surface missing ownership evidence, contributor gaps, custody mismatches, expirations and unresolved restrictions.
Learn moreTransfer Intelligence
Model sales, spin-outs and reorganizations before changing the live ownership graph.
Learn moreIntelligence & Integrations
Use AI to interpret verified data, and integrations to keep the ownership graph connected to source systems.
Learn moreFollow the right from creator to current owner.
A file, an invoice or a Git repository is not the chain of title. Intangible HQ connects the contributor, the agreement, the assignment, the contribution, the asset, the current owner, the licence, the operator and the brand — with the evidence behind every material step.
- ContributorPerson
- Contractor agreementAgreement
- RepositoryEvidence
- Software componentAsset
- AssignmentAgreement
- IP ownerEntity
- LicenceRight
- Operating entityEntity
- BrandBrand
Built for the moment something moves
Prepare a spin-out before it becomes a legal scavenger hunt.
Select a brand package and model the transaction. Intangible HQ classifies every item in scope — what transfers, what stays and is licensed back, what needs a novation or a counterparty's consent, what is an account that has to change hands, and what a lawyer needs to look at.
Nothing in the live graph changes until the transaction does.
| Item | Action | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Brand domain | Transfer | Registrant changes to the acquiring entity |
| Shared core platform | Licence | Stays with the group; buyer receives a licence |
| Customer contract | Novate | Counterparty signature required |
| Cloud account | Migrate | Operational custody moves to the buyer |
| Third-party licence | Consent | Assignment consent required from licensor |
| Uncovered contributor | Resolve | Assignment missing for 2024 contributions |
- MERIDIAN (word mark)Owner: Northgate IPVerified
- meridian.comOwner: Northgate IPVerified
- core-ledgerOwner: Northgate IPShared
- Merchant onboarding moduleOwner: Northgate LtdVerified
- Support & payment accountsOwner: Northgate LtdNeeds review
Members keep their real owner. A package describes what a business consists of; it never changes who holds title to anything inside it.
Brand Asset Packages
What would actually be sold, if this brand were sold?
A package draws a boundary around the assets, rights, software, domains, accounts and agreements that together make a business — including the ones owned by a different entity in the group.
Membership is economic grouping. It never changes who legally owns a member, which is exactly why it can be trusted in a transaction.
Git tells you who committed. Intangible HQ helps you prove why the company owns the result.
Repositories, contributors, agreements, releases and imported SBOM data connect to the entity that is meant to own the output. Contribution periods are compared against agreement windows, and the exceptions are listed while the people involved are still reachable.
Repository metadata is evidence of contribution — never, on its own, a conclusion about legal ownership.
- meridian/core-ledger1 uncovered7/8 contributors with agreement coverage
- meridian/webCovered5/5 contributors with agreement coverage
- meridian/mobile1 uncovered3/4 contributors with agreement coverage
Commit history is evidence of contribution. It is not a conclusion about who owns the result — that comes from the agreements above.
- Uncovered contributor3 contributions in 2024 fall outside any assignment window — meridian/core-ledger.
- Custody mismatchmeridian.com is registered to a personal account, not to Northgate IP.
- Notice window closingReseller agreement renews automatically in 34 days unless notice is given.
- Ownership verifiedMERIDIAN class 42 assignment recorded, evidenced and verified by M. Okonkwo.
Every finding names the rule, the objects and the missing evidence. Readiness measures completeness against your policy — it is not a legal opinion.
Find the gaps before diligence does
Turn hidden diligence problems into ordinary work.
Most chain-of-title problems are discovered when a buyer, an investor or a lawyer asks. Explainable rules run continuously, so the team fixes gaps while the people, documents and context are still easy to find.
Every finding names the rule, the objects and the missing evidence. No mystery score.
Where it sits
It does not replace the systems you already run.
Source control, CLM, IP management, entity management and SBOM tooling each answer their own question well. None of them answers the ownership question across all of them.
| You already have | It knows | Intangible HQ adds |
|---|---|---|
| Digital asset management | Creative files and brand usage | Legal and economic ownership, contracts, package composition and transfer context |
| IP management | Registered rights and docketing | Software, domains, operational custody, economic packages and provenance |
| Contract lifecycle management | Contracts and their clauses | The assets and rights those clauses govern, and their position in the ownership graph |
| Entity management | Companies, officers and shareholdings | The intangible assets and rights flowing between those entities |
| Git and source control | Code and who committed it | Contributor agreements, ownership evidence and chain of title |
| SCA and SBOM tooling | Dependencies and their licences | How a third-party component affects a brand package and a transaction |
How it works
Register, connect, prove, monitor, transfer.
Five steps, in the order a real estate gets built. Nothing here requires you to finish step one before step two is useful.
Register what exists
Create or import entities, brands, software, IP, domains, accounts and agreements. Each object gets a stable identity that the rest of the graph can point at.
Connect the relationships
Model ownership, use, custody, licensing, creation, dependency and package membership as explicit, typed, effective-dated relationships.
Attach and verify evidence
Link assignments, agreements, registry records and contribution evidence. AI can propose facts; people verify the material ones before they are trusted.
Keep the graph current
Integrations, reminders and explainable rules surface changes, expirations, gaps and conflicts — without silently overwriting a verified legal fact.
Use the record
Answer ownership questions, generate schedules, prepare a transfer or open a scoped diligence room from the live graph instead of rebuilding the story.
Who it is for
Built for groups with more than one company in them.
Shared IP, several entities and external contributors are the normal case — and the reason the ownership picture goes implicit in the first place.
Technology groups
Every brand and entity in one ownership graph.
Venture studios
Build on shared IP, keep the packages separable.
Software companies
Contributor-to-agreement coverage, continuously.
Corporate development
Know what moves before the deal is signed.
Why trust it
Claims you can check against the product.
No customer logos and no accuracy percentages: the product has not launched, and inventing either would be the first thing a prospect catches.
One graph
Brands, software, rights, evidence and entities in the same model — not six systems joined by a spreadsheet.
Three truths, kept apart
Legal ownership, operational custody and economic grouping stay distinct, because conflating them is what produces the surprise.
Every change has history
Material relationships are effective-dated, verified and superseded — never quietly overwritten.
Transfer-aware by design
Packages and scenarios show what moves, what stays, and what needs a licence, a novation or a consent.
A system this sensitive has to be inspectable.
Ownership records, executed agreements and transaction plans are among the most sensitive data a company holds. The controls below are the ones that are implemented — this page carries no compliance badges the product has not actually earned.
Tenant isolation
Data is scoped per tenant, with object-level permissions applied to records, search, export and graph traversal alike.
Identity
Multi-factor authentication, with enterprise SSO, SAML and SCIM as product readiness allows.
Evidence integrity
Documents are versioned and content-hashed, so an exported bundle can be checked against what the platform holds.
Material audit events
Ownership, rights and verification changes are appended with actor, capacity and before/after state.
Confidentiality labels
Labels constrain traversal, search, export and AI retrieval — not only which page a person can open.
AI data boundary
Retrieval is permission-scoped. Hidden objects do not leak through an answer, a count or a summary.
Questions
The ones buyers actually ask.
Including the two we are asked to overclaim on — what AI is allowed to decide, and whether a readiness score is a legal opinion.
It manages a broader operating model than traditional IP portfolio software. It registers trademarks, copyright, software, domains, data and other intangible assets, but its purpose is to connect ownership, provenance, rights, operational custody and transferability. It integrates with specialist patent and trademark systems rather than replacing prosecution and docketing.
Build the ownership record before somebody asks for it.
Register what exists, connect the relationships, attach the evidence. The answer you need under deadline is the one you maintained beforehand.
Evidence-backed relationships Multi-entity by design Built for transfer and diligence