name: Legit Patents
description: >-
  Enrichment-pipeline review of Legit Patents (legit.ai), a Seedcamp portfolio
  lead. Filed as the documented fallback: the company is defunct and no API or
  developer surface exists to harvest.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/legit-patents/refs/heads/main/review.yml
created: '2026-07-19'
modified: '2026-07-19'
reviews:
  - date: '2026-07-19'
    rating: 0
    summary: >-
      Legit Patents is defunct and has no API surface, so no enrichment artifacts
      were authored. Seedcamp still lists the company on its companies page
      ("Legit Patents", AI category, 2016 cohort) linking to http://legit.ai, but
      that domain is now parked: it serves a 114-byte redirect stub to /lander,
      which 302s to an Afternic "legit.ai is for sale" listing. DNS confirms the
      handover — nameservers are ns3/ns4.afternic.com, the MX record is the null
      "0 ." form, and TXT carries only the GoDaddy parking default "v=spf1 -all".
      Because the parking page is a catch-all, EVERY probed path returns HTTP 200,
      including /.well-known/security.txt, /.well-known/openid-configuration,
      /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server, /.well-known/api-catalog,
      /.well-known/ai-plugin.json, /llms.txt and /openapi.json. These are all
      false positives — the bodies are either the redirect stub or, in the case
      of /llms.txt, GoDaddy's own domain-for-sale text. No well-known, llms.txt or
      security artifacts were written, since capturing them would misattribute
      GoDaddy parking infrastructure to Legit Patents. A full Wayback CDX sweep of
      the legit.ai domain (169 captured URLs) contains no /api, /docs, /developer,
      /swagger, /openapi, /graphql or reference path at any point in the site's
      history; the only machine surfaces ever archived were marketing feeds
      (atom.xml, feed.xml) and a React app bundle under /app. Homepage snapshots
      collapse from ~11KB in April 2021 to under 1KB from October 2021 onward, and
      the LinkedIn company page (linkedin.com/company/legitai) now returns 404.
      The last substantive capture (2021-04-29) shows the mature product: an
      expert-network marketplace, "The Most Effective Way To Message Life Sciences
      Experts", charging $20 per expert reply against a claimed two-million-expert
      index, based at 234 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139. Recommend leaving this
      repo as a defunct stub; re-evaluate only if the brand relaunches on a new
      domain.
    endpoints:
      - url: https://legit.ai/
        status: 200
        note: 114-byte JS redirect stub to /lander; not company content.
      - url: https://legit.ai/lander
        status: 200
        note: Redirects to afternic.com "legit.ai is for sale" listing.
      - url: https://legit.ai/.well-known/security.txt
        status: 200
        note: FALSE POSITIVE — body is the parking redirect stub, not RFC 9116 text.
      - url: https://legit.ai/.well-known/openid-configuration
        status: 200
        note: FALSE POSITIVE — parking catch-all.
      - url: https://legit.ai/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
        status: 200
        note: FALSE POSITIVE — parking catch-all.
      - url: https://legit.ai/.well-known/api-catalog
        status: 200
        note: FALSE POSITIVE — parking catch-all.
      - url: https://legit.ai/.well-known/ai-plugin.json
        status: 200
        note: FALSE POSITIVE — parking catch-all.
      - url: https://legit.ai/llms.txt
        status: 200
        note: FALSE POSITIVE — GoDaddy domain-for-sale llms.txt, not the company's.
      - url: https://legit.ai/openapi.json
        status: 200
        note: FALSE POSITIVE — parking catch-all.
      - url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/legitai
        status: 404
        note: Company page removed; link harvested from the 2021 archived site.
      - url: https://seedcamp.com/companies/
        status: 200
        note: Still lists "Legit Patents" (AI, 2016) linking to http://legit.ai.
      - url: https://web.archive.org/web/20210429093757id_/https://legit.ai/
        status: 200
        note: Last substantive homepage capture (~11KB), 2021-04-29.
    dns:
      domain: legit.ai
      nameservers:
        - ns3.afternic.com
        - ns4.afternic.com
      mx: '0 .'
      txt:
        - v=spf1 -all
      note: >-
        Records are GoDaddy/Afternic parking defaults, not operator-controlled.
        No domain-security artifact was written, since probing would characterize
        the parking host rather than the company.
    artifacts_considered:
      - {artifact: openapi, written: false, reason: No specification ever published.}
      - {artifact: packages, written: false, reason: No first-party SDK on any registry.}
      - {artifact: well-known, written: false, reason: All 200s are parking-page false positives.}
      - {artifact: llms, written: false, reason: Live /llms.txt belongs to GoDaddy, not the company.}
      - {artifact: mcp, written: false, reason: No OpenAPI to derive candidate tools from.}
      - {artifact: security, written: false, reason: DNS/TLS now describes Afternic parking, not Legit.}
      - {artifact: skills, written: false, reason: No OpenAPI to ground skills in.}
      - {artifact: asyncapi, written: false, reason: No event or webhook surface.}