A protected governance framework.
The trading system proves the technology. The intellectual property is what scales. Mentor Sentinel’s fail-closed decision-governance architecture is protected by a portfolio of pending patent applications, trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks, and related rights.
What is protected
Mentor Sentinel is patent pending. Our filings cover the core governance innovations that make the framework portable and safe, the parts that decide whether an AI is allowed to act, not the specific trades it makes. The descriptions below are intentionally high-level. Detailed claim scope is confidential.
Fail-closed decision governance
A multi-stage decision pipeline in which every checkpoint defaults to no action under uncertainty, timeout, bad data, or internal disagreement.
Thesis lifecycle management
A written, machine-readable thesis attached to every decision, with defined conditions that would prove it wrong and trigger automatic action.
One-way ratchet on risk
A constraint mechanism under which protective conditions can only tighten once de-risking begins. Risk can never be loosened back.
Adversarial multi-stage evaluation
Independent evaluation of each decision from multiple perspectives before it is allowed to proceed.
Asset-class-neutral architecture
A worked embodiment in crypto, plus an asset-class-neutral architecture with additional embodiments disclosed across equities, futures, options, and FX as of our earliest priority date: the same governance lifecycle, with the data inputs swapped per market.
AI governance & self-supervision
A separate, domain-neutral filing chain covering closed-loop oversight of software systems, the “cage” applied beyond trading.
Two protection chains
The trading framework and the general AI-governance layer are protected on separate tracks. The trading chain covers the governed decision pipeline and its asset-class embodiments. A distinct chain covers the domain-neutral oversight layer, the self-supervision technology that watches a software system and guarantees a report regardless of what it finds, with no trading-specific limitations. That separation is deliberate: it is the broadest commercial surface in the portfolio and the most natural licensing candidate for non-financial applications.
What we don’t publish
To protect both the pending applications and the trade secrets around them, this site does not publish application numbers, claim language, filing strategy, or implementation specifics. High-level positioning is public; detailed architecture and claim scope are available to qualified partners under NDA.