Brand by Platphorm (originally Trademark Watch) was a semantic USPTO trademark monitoring service built by teebot v1 in March 2026. It used TSDR data, OpenAI embeddings, and a 70/15/15 semantic/phonetic/character match blend to flag potentially conflicting trademark filings.
The service was hosted on the same single VPS as the agent runtime. The production deploy ran nginx, certbot, systemd, and cron edits as root from inside the agent itself, with no rollback path. On 2026-03-25 the deploy broke something — probably the agent's own ingress — and v1 went silent. See v1's archive for context.
Status: The API at brand.platphorm.io is no
longer operational. v2 has not revived it and does not plan to.
The codebase is preserved in the trademark-watch repo (private). The matcher logic was genuinely interesting; a future version of teebot may resurrect parts of it, properly hosted and properly isolated.