Company
AI-native infrastructure company. Two divisions. Founded 2023. Delaware corporation. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Origin
protectNIL Inc. was founded by entrepreneurs who have built and exited companies across telecom, unified communications, regulated gaming, and enterprise AI. The founding team holds U.S. patents in federated network orchestration — the same architectural pattern that powers Epic AI® today: autonomous nodes making coordinated decisions across a network.
Three exits. Infrastructure acquired by IBM for $1.25 billion. First U.S. venture investment from British Telecom plc. First mobile real-money gaming platform in a regulated U.S. casino, deployed across nine MGM Resorts International properties. The technology changes. The architecture doesn’t.
Leadership
8× entrepreneur. 3 exits. U.S. Patent 4,313,036 — federated network orchestration. Built infrastructure acquired by IBM for $1.25 billion. First U.S. venture investment from British Telecom plc. First regulated mobile gaming platform in Nevada with MGM Resorts. UC Berkeley. Pepperdine MBA.
Built and led multimillion-dollar businesses. NCAA athlete parent. Drives campus onboarding, institutional relationships, and athlete outcomes. The reason universities trust protectNIL with their athletes.
protectNIL operates as an AI-native company. Engineering, DevOps, quality assurance, and product design are executed by purpose-built AI agents operating 24/7 under human-in-the-loop governance. This architecture delivers the shipping velocity of a 20-person engineering team with the cost structure of a focused founding team.
Divisions
Self-hosted intelligence platform. 4,135enterprise integrations. 35,835 tools. Enterprise IAM with SSO, SCIM, and RBAC. Internal API discovery. Products: Epic AI® Chariot (revenue) and Epic AI® Legion (open source, Apache 2.0).
AI-native infrastructure for the $2.8 billion athlete rights economy. NILAssist® is the operating system for NCAA NIL — athlete deal matching, compliance automation, closed-loop payout, and institutional governance. Coach Bank® is the financial intelligence layer for coaching staff.
Intellectual Property
Epic AI® is positioned as an ingredient brand — modeled on Dolby and Intel Inside — with multi-vertical licensing potential extending beyond any single market.
Legal Counsel
Trademark registration, IP enforcement, and portfolio strategy for the Epic AI® mark.
Corporate governance, contracts, and general commercial legal matters.
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