Vault Sprint

If your competitive advantage lives in people's heads, it is not an asset. It is a liability with a notice period.

Find out what intellectual property you actually own, what is genuinely protected, and what is one resignation letter away from becoming a competitor's advantage. Every trade secret, proprietary process, and strategic asset audited against real exposure, not assumed security.

You get a protection framework: what to classify, how to control access, and the enforcement mechanisms that make it stick. Plus a documentation architecture so knowledge becomes organisational, not personal.

One senior consultant. Direct access. No handoff.

Built For

Founders and CEOs who built something proprietary but never formally protected it. The processes exist. The documentation does not.

CTOs and engineering leaders watching key engineers leave and taking institutional knowledge with them. Onboarding takes months because the real processes are not written down.

Legal and compliance teams asked to protect intellectual property they cannot fully identify. Hard to enforce rights over assets nobody has inventoried.

Boards and investors who listed IP as a core asset in the last valuation but cannot point to the protection infrastructure behind it. Claimed value needs demonstrated control.

What You Get

Every trade secret, proprietary process, algorithm, methodology, dataset, and competitive insight catalogued and classified by type, value, and current exposure level. Most businesses protect the obvious IP and ignore the rest. The rest is usually where the real advantage lives.

Because you cannot protect what you have not named. This inventory becomes the single source of truth for every protection decision that follows.

Maps every point where proprietary knowledge leaves the organisation. Employee departures. Vendor relationships. Client deliverables. Open-source contributions. Casual conversations. Conference presentations. Each exposure point scored by likelihood, severity, and current mitigation. You see the gaps between what you think is protected and what actually is.

Because IP loss is rarely dramatic theft. It is slow erosion through channels nobody is watching. This analysis shows you every channel.

A tiered classification system matched to your organisation. What gets restricted. What gets shared under NDA. What stays internal permanently. Each tier comes with specific access controls, documentation requirements, and handling procedures. Not a policy document that sits in a drawer. An operational framework people actually use.

Because protection without classification is paranoia. Classification without enforcement is theatre. This framework connects both.

Proprietary processes extracted from people and encoded into documentation that survives their departure. Not generic SOPs. Structured capture of the specific knowledge, decisions, and reasoning that make your processes yours. The goal is to make institutional knowledge genuinely institutional.

Because every month you wait, more knowledge concentrates in fewer heads. This architecture reverses that dependency.

Clear protocols for when IP is compromised. Detection triggers. Response sequences. Legal escalation paths. Communication templates. Who does what, in what order, within what timeframe. Because the worst time to design a response is during a breach.

Because protection is prevention. Enforcement is what happens when prevention fails. You need both.

How It Works

Scoping Conversation

Your business model, your competitive landscape, and where proprietary knowledge lives. Who created it. Who has access. What is documented and what exists only as institutional memory. This conversation makes sure we audit the IP that actually matters, not just the IP that is obvious.

Inventory and Exposure Mapping

We catalogue every protectable asset in the business. Trade secrets, algorithms, methodologies, datasets, supplier relationships, pricing models, internal tooling. Then we map every point where that knowledge is exposed: departing employees, vendor contracts, client deliverables, public presentations, open-source contributions.

Risk Prioritisation

Not all exposure carries equal risk. We score each vulnerability by likelihood of loss, commercial impact, and recoverability. The priority matrix separates what needs immediate protection from what needs monitoring from what is acceptable exposure. Some knowledge leakage is the cost of doing business. Some is existential. You need to know which is which.

Build the Protection Framework

Classification and protection system matched to your organisation. What gets restricted and how. What gets shared under agreement. What needs documentation before anyone else touches it. Access controls, handling procedures, documentation requirements, and escalation paths. Not locking everything down. Protecting what matters with mechanisms people will actually follow.

Document and Encode

Proprietary processes get extracted from the people who hold them and encoded into structured documentation. Not generic process maps. The specific decisions, reasoning, and nuance that make your methods yours. Every critical knowledge holder becomes a documented source rather than a single point of failure.

Stress-Test the Framework

Test the protection framework against real scenarios. Departing senior hire. Due diligence request. Vendor onboarding. Conference presentation. Does the system catch the exposure? Do the access controls hold? We iterate until the framework works under operational pressure, not just on paper.

Present, Handoff, and Enforcement Playbook

We walk your team through every finding, every classification decision, and the logic behind each protection mechanism. Questions answered live. Then full handoff: the inventory, the exposure analysis, the protection framework, the documentation architecture, and the enforcement playbook. Everything you need to act. Nothing you need us for.

Pricing

Vault Audit

£8,000

2 weeks

Start this week, deliverables by 19 March

Start here if you suspect your IP is less protected than you think.

2 weeks
Directional
Clear picture of what’s protected, what’s exposed, and what’s walking out the door.

Run the vault audit

Vault Build

£14,000

4 weeks

Start this week, deliverables by 2 April

Choose this if you need the audit plus the infrastructure to lock it down.

4 weeks
Actionable
Every asset documented, classified, and protected with enforceable mechanisms.
Includes Protection framework, documentation system, access controls, enforcement playbook

Build the vault

Vault Fortification

£22,000+

6 weeks

Start this week, deliverables by 16 April

This one’s for making IP protection permanent, not a one-off project.

6 weeks
Bankable
Living IP protection system with enforcement mechanisms and continuous monitoring.
Includes Legal integration support, monitoring protocol, team training, 60-day review

Fortify the vault

Right Problem. Wrong Scope?

Your IP landscape is not standard. Neither is the sprint. A 30-minute conversation tells us which assets to prioritise, which exposure points to chase, and where knowledge is concentrating in too few people.

Same price. Same timeline. Every hour pointed at the assets your business actually depends on.

Scope it together

No obligation. No pitch. Just specifics.