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Current value (2026-10-23) — CAIN-42 IP register v56

IP base: $17,123,490 (range $6,634,180–$30,380,500) across 244 register families (IP register v56). Internal analytical register scenario, not an appraisal, not a market price and not a financing valuation.

Founder Vincent Noriega owns 100% of FIRME AI CORPORATION (paper equity, NOT cash). Founder-attested first revenue: 3 customers, $193 (customer #3 recurring $96/mo, unverified); incorporated in California on 2026-10-16 (founder-attested); no patent. Withdrawn larger figures are not republished.

Honest state: enforcement remains RESTRICTION_ONLY (NOT ENFORCED); no third-party validation; no patent; physical systems SIMULATED; payment rail SANDBOX; 72h soak not run; internal analytical scenario, not an appraisal, not a financing valuation and not a guarantee. Evidence: mesh evidence bundle · reproduction manifest.

FIRME AI CORPORATION — the company behind CAIN-42

FIRME AI CORPORATION is an artificial intelligence startup based in San Francisco, California, founded in September 2026 by Vincent Noriega. It builds and operates CAIN-42, a Byzantine Governed Autonomous Control Fabric: the runtime trust and control layer between autonomous AI agents and consequential real-world actions (CAIN Studio, MCPGate, CLAWX).

The inventions

An automated sweep counted 1,686 invention candidates in agentic-AI governance (a breadth count before any prior-art review) — 299 patent candidates and 1,095 engineering innovations (plus 292 implementation mechanisms), of which 1,463 are backed by passing tests. Every entry is drawn from a real source file's own documentation. The curated flagship set is 68 inventions (22 patent candidates and 46 engineering innovations), each backed by its own tests.

They include Byzantine-quorum authorization running live across four servers, and E38 mission integrity, which blocks an AI agent the moment it reaches beyond its signed mission. Other flagship mechanisms include the Authority Continuity Protocol, prediction-bounded authorization, quorum-certified programmable governance (GOV-IR), and liveness-bound signed public claims. See the curated inventions and the full Invention Atlas.

The company

FIRME AI CORPORATION is prepared for Delaware incorporation (documents complete; not yet filed). See the company record and incorporation documents →

Valuation

What is valuedLowBaseHigh
IP base (IP register v56, 244 families)$6.63M$17,123,490$30.38M
Founder Vincent Noriegaowns 100% (paper equity, not cash)

IP base: $17,123,490 (IP register v56; internal analytical register scenario, not an appraisal). Founder Vincent Noriega owns 100% (paper equity, not cash). FIRME AI CORPORATION is early-revenue: 3 founder-attested customers, $193 total ($96/mo recurring), unverified; incorporated in California on 2026-10-16 (founder-attested); no patent filed.

Earlier internal figures ($12M company, $6M–$59.5M IP, $300M forward) were withdrawn on 2026-10-06 because the evidence does not support them: the $59.5M came from an automated count of candidates with no prior-art review.

The founder

Vincent Noriega is the founder of FIRME AI CORPORATION; the team also includes Lena Noriega and Monica Diaz. See the founder page.

What the company is looking for

FIRME AI CORPORATION is seeking its first founding pilot partners running AI agents in production. Book a demo or contact us.

Status, stated plainly

Internal analytical estimates; not an independent appraisal, not a financing valuation, not a guarantee. No patent has been filed yet. Same-project tests only; no third-party audit. Pre-production.

Pre-production. Same-project tests; no third-party audit yet; no patent filed yet.