For enterprise IP & R&D teams
Give your in-house counsel, R&D, and innovation teams a governed system of record for every idea, dataset, and trade secret - with the access controls, audit trails, and data residency your organization requires.
The IP your organization creates every day
Enterprise innovation moves faster than the formal IP system was built to handle. Long before anything is filed, your teams generate source code, designs, experimental data, specifications, and know-how - continuously, across departments and time zones. Most of it is valuable. Almost none of it is systematically documented.
When a dispute, an audit, or a competitor's patent forces the question "what did we have, and when did we have it?", scattered drives and email threads are not an answer. Trade-secret protection depends on demonstrating reasonable measures. Prior-use and prior-art defenses depend on verifiable dates. Both require evidence you can produce years later and stand behind in front of a court.
Bernstein gives corporate IP and R&D teams a single, governed platform to certify that evidence at the moment of creation - anchoring cryptographic fingerprints on the Bitcoin blockchain, without ever disclosing the underlying files.
Governance built for the enterprise
Deploy Bernstein across your organization with the controls your security, legal, and IT teams expect.
Role-based access & policies
Assign roles and access policies so the right people can certify, review, and retrieve evidence - and no one else. Structure permissions around teams, projects, and business units.
SSO with SAML & OIDC
Connect Bernstein to your identity provider with SAML or OIDC single sign-on. Provision and deprovision users through the systems you already run.
Passkey authentication
Add phishing-resistant passkeys for high-assurance access, alongside single sign-on and multi-factor login.
Per-user credit quotas
Allocate certification credits per user or team to keep budget and usage predictable across the organization.
Hash-chained audit logs
Every action is recorded in a tamper-evident, hash-chained audit log - so you can show who did what, and when, with integrity you can prove.
Customer-owned data residency
Keep encrypted files in your own S3 storage, within the jurisdiction you choose. Only cryptographic fingerprints ever reach the blockchain - your content stays under your control.
And across the whole organization
Run a trade-secret program at scale
Trade-secret protection is not a filing - it is a discipline. Courts ask whether you took reasonable measures to keep information secret, and whether you can prove what the secret was and since when. For an enterprise with hundreds of contributors, that discipline has to be systematic, not ad hoc.
Defend with prior art and prior use
The same certified evidence strengthens your position against competitors. Timestamped proof of when you developed a technology supports prior-use rights and lets you publish defensively to establish prior art - blocking others from patenting what your teams already invented.
Answers for procurement, security, and legal review
The questions your evaluators ask, answered up front.
Data residency
Where does our data live?
Encrypted files remain in customer-owned S3 storage in the region you choose. Only cryptographic fingerprints - never your content - are anchored on the Bitcoin blockchain. You control residency; we never see your files.
SSO & authentication
How do users sign in?
Through your identity provider via SAML or OIDC single sign-on, with optional phishing-resistant passkeys and multi-factor authentication.
Audit trail
Can we audit activity?
Yes. Every action is captured in a tamper-evident, hash-chained audit log that your security and compliance teams can review and export.
Access controls
How do we control access?
Role-based permissions and access policies scoped to teams, projects, and business units, plus branded Spaces for departments or subsidiaries.
Independence & lock-in
Are we locked in?
No. Certificates can be verified independently of Bernstein using open cryptographic standards. Your evidence stays valid even without us.
Cost control
How do we manage cost?
Per-user and per-team certification credit quotas keep budget predictable and usage transparent across the organization.
Enterprise questions, answered
No. Bernstein operates on a zero-disclosure basis - only a SHA-256 cryptographic fingerprint of each file ever leaves your environment. Your content is encrypted with AES-256-GCM and we hold only the ciphertext, never the readable files. We cannot see, read, or reconstruct anything you certify.
Bernstein connects to your identity provider through SAML or OIDC single sign-on. Users authenticate against the systems you already run, and you provision and deprovision access through those same systems. You can layer on phishing-resistant passkeys and multi-factor authentication for high-assurance access.
Encrypted files stay in customer-owned S3 storage, in the jurisdiction you choose - your data never leaves the region you designate. Only cryptographic fingerprints, never your content, are anchored to the Bitcoin blockchain. You retain full control over residency and access to the underlying files.
Yes. Each department or subsidiary can operate its own branded Space, with its own identity, users, access policies, and certified project history. A group can standardize IP governance across business units while keeping each entity's evidence, permissions, and audit trail cleanly separated.