THE INVENTION CARD · Turns an inventor's notes into a complete, dated invention disclosure for counsel, and flags the clocks.
WAKES WHEN An engineer or founder has an invention to take to counsel · Someone asks what a patent attorney will need · A demo or launch date is coming for something new
THE LOOP
Take the notes.
Run `form`.
Ask the inventor every gap.
Run `check`.
Hand the file to counsel.
NEVER
Judges patentability
Drafts claims
Guesses a date
IT MAKES form — turn notes into a disclosure; check — check a disclosure.
THE STANDARD prepared for counsel; no opinion on patentability; dates are real dates or they are asked about; time-sensitive dates open the file; verify by execution; say the limit out loud in the work; nothing hidden; the person decides.
PROOF SELFTEST 15/15 · witnessed 2026-10-13 on material and live on Claude · Edition 1.
THE SEAL 88 of 100 · MYTHIC · WITNESSED · Trigger 3 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 4
IT CAN BE WRONG an AI reading a text file: it can be wrong and can invent a number, a rule, a name or a date; check what matters against your own records and the source; the risk is yours. LICENSE-NOTE.md rides in the packet and is the licence.
THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · EB48B5D0A623F21B4E49F182
CITE THIS CARDTHE INVENTION CARD, Edition 1. Lund Studio LLC, Westminster, Colorado. https://lundr.tech/?view=invention-card. Punch EB48B5D0A623F21B4E49F182. Retrieved 2026-10-13.
What it is.
Turns an inventor's notes into a complete invention disclosure form for a patent attorney to review: title, inventors and contributions, the problem, what is new, how it works, variations, conception records, and every public disclosure, sale or offer date, flagging time-sensitive dates and gaps to ask about.
Use when an engineer or founder has an invention to take to counsel. Do not use for an opinion on patentability, to draft patent claims, or for legal advice.
It carries a machine that shows its working: form — turn notes into a disclosure; check — check a disclosure — 15 checks in its selftest. It will never judges patentability; never drafts claims; never guesses a date.
Eight laws, written into the card.
They are in the card itself, so the AI follows them.
PREPARED FOR COUNSELPrepared for counsel; not legal advice; confidential.
NO OPINION ON PATENTABILITYNo opinion on patentability; no claims drafted.
DATES ARE REAL DATES OR THEY ARE ASKED ABOUTDates are real dates or they are asked about.
TIME-SENSITIVE DATES OPEN THE FILETime-sensitive dates open the file.
VERIFY BY EXECUTIONVerify by execution, not by reasoning: run the machine and read what it prints before saying a thing is done.
SAY THE LIMIT OUT LOUD IN THE WORKSay the limit out loud in the work: every result names what it did not check.
NOTHING HIDDENNothing hidden: two readers, the person and the AI, see the same words.
THE PERSON DECIDESThe person decides.
What rides in the card.
In the card’s own voice, with a machine that shows its working.
THE GUIDEreferences/THE-FIELDS.md
THE MACHINEinvention.py · two commandsform — turn notes into a disclosure; check — check a disclosure. Every command prints its working and refuses a bad input; 15 checks in its selftest.
What it does once your AI has it.
form Turn notes into a disclosure
check Check a disclosure
On the record an engineer's rough notes for a ladder-foot invention — fictional records made for the test (every fixture file says FICTIONAL). 15 of 15 fields formed; the ambiguous date 03/04/2026 refused (FAIL) until written as YYYY-MM-DD; day counts right (30 days since the demo, 24 until the planned video). - Both inventors in the table; the outside welder who saw the drawings with no NDA flagged for counsel. Live on Claude Sonnet, 2026-10-13: 7 of 7 passed; the card fired on 1 of 3 trigger cases and on none of its hand-off cases.
What it will never do.
It will never judges patentability; never drafts claims; never guesses a date.
It organises and dates what the inventor says. It cannot search prior art, judge novelty, or know any country's rules beyond the one US line it states. It is an AI reading a text file: it can be wrong, so check what matters against your own records and the source.
What’s in the buy.
CARD.md — the whole card: its boot, laws, loop, when it says no, its seals, ledger, term and score · SKILL.md — the door your AI reads first · START-HERE.md — the first five minutes, for you
THE-FIELDS.md — the guide in references/, in the card's own voice
scripts/invention.py — the machine: form · check, standard library only, no network, selftest 15/15
WITNESS.md — the runs on real material and live on Claude, with what was not run · SELFTEST.md — the machine's own test, as run at the cut · MANIFEST.md, every file hashed · CHANGELOG.md
tests/evals.json + EVALS.md — the cases it must take, hand off and refuse
MY-LEDGER.md — the card's memory, on your own machine · TIN.md, the nine lines on the tin · LICENSE-NOTE.md
card.svg + card-machine.svg + card.json · card.html, the card as one offline file · doors/ — the rules files for Cursor, Codex, Gemini, Copilot and Claude Code, the system text for any other AI, a local-model file and an MCP door
PROOF · SELFTEST 15/15 · WITNESSED ON MATERIAL · LIVE ON CLAUDE SONNET 2026-10-13 · 7 OF 7 PASSED · EDITION 1 · PUNCH EB48B5D0A623F21B4E49F182
ON EVERY DOOR · A CARD FOR YOUR AI, A FILE FOR YOUR COMPUTER
In Claude: turn on code execution under Settings › Capabilities, then Customize › Skills › + › Create skill, and upload the zip as it is — START-HERE.md in the box walks you through it, and tells you how to keep the ledger. In ChatGPT, Gemini and the rest: a Project, a GPT or a Gem with the card’s files attached and the short door in the box pasted as its instructions. The words run anywhere an AI reads Markdown; the machines run wherever the host runs Python. Witnessed in Claude only. The host marks →
Take it.
Nº 1208 PROPOSED — LAUNCHING SOON
Sold as is under the term printed. A card instructs an AI you operate; results depend on your model, your files and your judgement. Not medical, legal, tax or financial advice, never the person’s boss, and not a licence to practise. The terms →
One payment. The file is yours to keep and keeps working at its edition; new editions issued in the year after you buy reach you by email as replacement files. Tax is added at checkout where it applies. Nothing auto-renews.
A TERM, NOT A SUBSCRIPTION: NOTHING RENEWS ITSELF AND NOBODY IS CHARGED AGAIN. WHEN A TERM ENDS THE FILES STAY ON YOUR COMPUTER AND STAY READABLE — FREEZE, NOT LOSS.
THE MACHINE · IN THE OPEN · FROM THE CARD’S OWN WITNESS.MD
invention.py, every command showing its working.
A small Python program, standard library only. Your AI runs it; you can too. The blocks below are pasted from the card’s own WITNESS.md, as printed.
form
turn notes into a disclosure
check
check a disclosure
selftest
15 checks that prove the machine; it must print 15/15
THE COMMANDS, IN ORDER, ON AN ENGINEER'S ROUGH NOTES FOR A LADDER-FOOT INVENTION
VERDICT: FORMED · 15/15 fields filled from notes.md · 0 to ask the inventor
VERDICT: FAIL · 15/15 fields filled · 1 blocking · 1 to look at · TIME-SENSITIVE
VERDICT: FORMED · 15/15 fields filled from notes.md · 0 to ask the inventor
VERDICT: COMPLETE · 15/15 fields filled · 0 blocking · 1 to look at · TIME-SENSITIVE
THE RUNS ARE PASTED FROM THE CARD’S OWN WITNESS.MD AS PRINTED. FIXTURES MARKED FICTIONAL ARE THE STUDIO’S OWN EXAMPLES, INVENTED FOR THE RECORD; NO PRIVATE PERSON IS NAMED.
QUESTIONS AT THE TABLE
Asked before the wire.
What does it need from me?
The inventor's notes, rough is fine. Take the notes, and it goes from there.
Does it send anything anywhere?
No. The machine is a standard-library Python program that runs on your own computer and sends nothing anywhere; the words run wherever an AI reads Markdown. No server, no account, no key.
What is on the record?
The self-test (15/15), a run on real or invented material with every command and verdict pasted into WITNESS.md as printed, and live runs on Claude Sonnet: 7 of 7 passed; the card fired on 1 of 3 trigger cases and on none of its hand-off cases.; the punch on the face is the SHA-256 of SKILL.md, so a downloaded copy can be checked against this room.
Can it be wrong?
Yes — it is an AI reading a text file. It organises and dates what the inventor says. It cannot search prior art, judge novelty, or know any country's rules beyond the one US line it states.
What will it never do?
It will never judges patentability; never drafts claims; never guesses a date.
