Company
protectNIL Inc. builds infrastructure that gives enterprises control over their AI systems.
Mission
Epic AI® Praetor is an enterprise intelligence platform that replaces dashboards and manual analysis — turning your enterprise systems into real-time actions and escalations. Instead of monitoring a screen and deciding what to do, your team sets the rules once. Epic AI® Praetor executes, escalates, or waits for approval depending on the tier you assign.
Principles
The local SLM keeps sensitive data local. Credentials are never serialized into prompts. Raw system output never crosses a network boundary without your explicit direction.
Every tool invocation carries a tier: Auto, Escalate, or Approve. The system cannot bypass this hierarchy. Uncontrolled AI actions are structurally impossible, not just policy-prohibited.
The @epicai/legion SDK is published under Apache 2.0. The code is yours to inspect, fork, and deploy. The Epic AI® name and mark are federally registered and protected.
About
Legal Counsel
Trademark registration, IP enforcement, and portfolio strategy for the Epic AI® mark.
Corporate governance, contracts, and general commercial legal matters.
Founder
Founder & CEO
8× entrepreneur · 3 exits · U.S. patent holder · UC Berkeley · Pepperdine MBA
“I patented federated network orchestration at ROLM in 1982. The nodes were telephone switches then. Today they're AI models and enterprise APIs. The architecture is the same — distributed systems making coordinated decisions across a packet network. I've been building this for 44 years.”
AI is not hidden in the backend. It's the interface. Epic AI® Praetor replaces dashboards entirely — the assistant federates across your enterprise systems, governs every action with tiered autonomy, and keeps your data on your infrastructure. No dashboard. No swivel chair. The AI acts. You govern.
First call on the Sprint network — Network Control Center Manager at 24. U.S. Patent 4,313,036 at ROLM Corporation (acquired by IBM for $1.8B). First U.S. company to receive investment from British Telecom plc.
Friend Technologies → Pacific Bell (AT&T). VoiceCom → Premier Technologies ($20M to $100M revenue). First mobile gaming product in Nevada with MGM Resorts — team of 2.5, live on 10 Las Vegas Strip properties in under 5 months.
1982: Federated voice switches over packet networks (ROLM patent). 2014: Federated gaming machines making group decisions (MGM). 2026: Federated AI assistants orchestrating across 4135enterprise tools (Epic AI®). The nodes changed. The architecture didn't.
2 operators. 9 AI agents. 280,000+ lines of production code. Ship velocity of a 20-person engineering team at 2-person cost. Agentic acceleration with human-in-the-loop institutional control.
Contact
For demos and enterprise licensing, reach out directly. Security disclosures go to the security alias — we acknowledge within 48 hours. Legal correspondence to legal@protectnil.com.