Experienced Leadershi Scalable Products
WestMode.io is led by senior product and engineering leadership with more than 25 years of experience building and scaling hardware, medical, and AI-enabled systems. We work hands-on with founders and leadership teams to navigate complexity, resolve critical technical decisions, and move products from concept through manufacturing and commercialization.
Awards That Inspire Our Work
Filing patents is slow, expensive, error-prone ($10K–$30K per filing).
Product development bottlenecked by CAD iterations, compliance, BOM overruns.
Innovation takes too long and costs too much.
The Solution
One AI Core → Two Markets
Inventor Platform
Product Studio
Build the product right—before scale
makes it expensive.
Competitive Landscape
Current tools = manual legaltech (IP.com, PatSnap).
Incumbents Autodesk, PTC, Ansys moving slowly on AI.
Shared AI core, real-world founder experience, multiple exits
Why Now
CAD automation are hot but
fragmented.
IP filings continue to
grow rapidly.
defense, EV sectors all need
speed and cost savings.
Market Opportunity
IP Automation (fast path): Global patent services = $45B market.
Even 1% penetration = $450M TAM.
AI Product Development (strategic path): CAD/FEA software market = $12B+.
Thousands of hardware startups + SMEs are ideal customers.
Business Model
01.
Inventor Platform SaaS
$99/mo solo, $499/mo
startups, $2K+/mo law firms.
04.
Product Studio Consulting
02.
Product Studio SaaS
03.
Traction Plan
MVP launch, beta with inventors + hardware startups
$500K–$1M ARR Inventor Platform, Product Studio in pilot.
$1M+ ARR, acquisition-ready with strategic buyers.
Traction Plan
MVP launch, beta with inventors + hardware startups
$500K–$1M ARR Inventor Platform, Product Studio in pilot.
$1M+ ARR, acquisition-ready with strategic buyers.
Competitive Landscape
Inventor Platform
Current tools = manual legaltech (IP.com, PatSnap).
Product Studio
Incumbents Autodesk, PTC, Ansys moving slowly on AI.
Advantage
Shared AI core, real-world founder experience, multiple exits,
Team
John Stump (Founder/CEO)
exits in hardware ventures.
Advisors
IP attorney + CAD/FEA specialist.
Lean dev team
AI engineers + CAD integration.
Financials & Ask
01.
02.
Use of Funds
03.
Revenue Projections
Year 1 = $250K ARR, Year 2 = $1M ARR.
04.
Exit Target
$5–8M within 2–3 years
Exit Strategy
Fast Path
Inventor Platform → acquirers like Clarivate, LexisNexis, IP.com.
Strategic Path
Product Studio → Autodesk, PTC, Dassault, Ansys.
Two exits in one raise
Fast $5M return with $10M+ optionality.