LOST.guide - Trademark Knockout Agent + Tower Pipeline

An AI agent that sees the live web to clear trademarks before you file - built for the DeveloperWeek New York 2026 Hackathon (Nimble + Tower challenges). Part of LOST.guide (Lawyer Outlined Self-help Tutorials), an attorney-built front door to U.S. legal forms.

A trademark filing fee is non-refundable, and the conflicts that sink an application often are not in the government register - they are live on the App Store, Google Play, GitHub, and Product Hunt. This agent uses Nimble to search those live sources, scores each hit for name similarity and class overlap, and returns an attorney-style verdict (PROCEED / PROCEED_WITH_AMENDMENT / DO_NOT_PROCEED).

What is here

File	What it is
nimble_knockout.py	The agent: multi-source live-web knockout search via Nimble, risk scoring, attorney-style narrative. CLI + importable.
pipeline.py	Tower Data-to-AI pipeline: acquire (Nimble) -> feature-engineer -> land in an Iceberg lakehouse (knockout_runs, knockout_conflicts).
Towerfile	Tower app + parameter definitions.
requirements.txt	nimble-python, pyarrow.
README_TOWER.md	Tower deploy guide.

Run the agent (CLI)

pip install nimble-python
export NIMBLE_API_KEY=<your Nimble key>   # omit to run in offline demo/stub mode
python nimble_knockout.py --mark "BANKSY AI" --classes 9,42,41 --niche mobile-app

Verified live (2026-05-29): "BANKSY AI" -> 6 Nimble calls across USPTO TESS, App Store, Google Play, GitHub, Product Hunt, and web -> 25 conflicts -> HIGH / DO_NOT_PROCEED. A nonsense control mark returns 0 conflicts -> PROCEED.

Run as a Tower pipeline

See README_TOWER.md. In short:

pip install tower pyarrow
tower login
tower secrets create --name=NIMBLE_API_KEY --value=<your key>
tower deploy && tower run

Hackathon challenges

• Nimble - "Build an Agentic App That Sees the Live Web": an autonomous trademark-clearance research workflow over real-time web data.
• Tower - "Pipeline Challenge: Data-to-AI": acquire web data -> Iceberg lakehouse -> feature engineering -> AI-agent interpretation.

No secrets are stored in this repo; the Nimble key is read from the environment / Tower secrets at runtime.