Gold Heron is an AI-native intellectual property asset management platform built for the people who create, and for the IP law firms who protect them.

The tools to manage and defend creative work exist, but they were built for enterprises with six-figure budgets. Photographers, musicians, filmmakers, news organizations, brands, content studios, and the lawyers serving them have been left with spreadsheets, ChatGPT tabs, manual filings, and a half-dozen apps that don't talk to each other. That's the gap we're closing.

Gold Heron orchestrates the full IP protection lifecycle — Identify, Verify, Protect, Register, Monitor, Mitigate — through a conversational AI assistant that turns expert-grade legal workflows into something anyone can navigate. Law firms get the leverage of a team five times their size. Creators get protection that actually fits how they work, without having to become legal experts to use it.

Why now: generative AI is changing what counts as authorship, what counts as infringement, and what counts as proof. The next ten years of creative ownership will be decided at the intersection of AI and IP, and the existing tools weren't built for that fight.

Founded in 2026 by Andrew McKay and Keith Meehl. Eight company-building cycles, all with successful exits. Active members of IPTC; contributing to the evolving C2PA standard for content provenance. Based in Boston.

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