Content Scraping / Data Copying — employer claiming my side project IP

Looking for advice on a legal issue. Here's what happened.

employer claiming my side project IP. I've been dealing with this for about 2 months now and the situation isn't improving.

This involves content I created over the past 15 months. I do not have documentation proving my ownership and timeline.

Has anyone been through something similar? What worked for you?

Have you tried reaching out to your state's consumer protection office? They sometimes have free resources or mediation services.

Just want to point out — the statute of limitations might be a factor here. In some states it's as short as 1-2 years. Don't sit on this too long.

I work in this industry and unfortunately this is very common. The good news is that when people actually push back with legal representation, companies usually settle.