LOWLAW
Your legal life, in one place.
Record what happened. Own your case. Choose who helps next.
Before a case. During a case. After a case.
Start here
What happened?
Pick the situation, not the feature. No account needed to begin.
A letter, a summons, a demand, a notice
Import it from the public docket in 30 seconds
It is not a case until you say it is
Public court records · free · no account
Preserve it for them in five seconds
Search everything LOWLAW can do
Seal a real file right now — your device computes the hash, our server signs the hash and the time, never the content. Anyone can verify it afterwards without an account.
18 moments
3 active
47 verified
2 open offers
appeal · relief
↑ Your Legal Life + the five-stage barGPT — ten seconds to understand that this covers before, during and after a case.
🔁 Two sides, each complete on its own
A person can protect moments and search entities on day one with zero lawyers on the platform. A firm can claim its public court record and publish a verified Case Feed with zero clients on the platform. That is why there is no cold start here.
Google Photos remembers what you saw. Gmail remembers what you sent. Calendar remembers where you said you'd be. LOWLAW remembers what happened — and, on the other side, what every lawyer in America actually did.
🔄 The sentence that reorganizes the whole market
Today, America has a market where
a person goes looking for a lawyer.
LOWLAW builds a market where
the case summons the services it needs.
The case stays. Services come and go.
And the record grows before, during, and after the case.
🧭 The whole company in four lines
Evidence establishes what exists.
Experts explain what it means.
Legal professionals decide what to do.
LOWLAW keeps the whole case together.
Each line is a different supply side. Each one is a product that stands on its own. And the fourth line is the only one nobody else is building.
Access-to-justice is usually framed as "lawyers are expensive, make them cheaper." That's a zero-sum fight nobody wins.
This is the other direction: make legal services buyable in units people can actually afford, sell provider capacity that is currently worth zero, and pull in demand from people who were paying nothing at all. Providers earn more, clients spend less per decision, and the market gets bigger for everyone in it.
Action CenterGPT
With this many screens, "what do I do now" gets scattered. Everything that needs you, in one list.
| 🟠 | Review new invoice — $4,800 from Smith LLP | 2d |
| 🔵 | New court record — docket #83 added automatically | today |
| 🟣 | Jane Smith requested a Case Room | 1d |
| ⚪ | 3 records need context — who / where / what happened | — |
| 🟢 | Move-in recipient acknowledged — landlord confirmed receipt | 3d |
👁 Since you were hereGPT
Case Activity Strip — last 30 days. Tap a dot to jump to that day.
This is the living record made visible: the file moved while you were gone, so coming back is rewarding instead of guilt-inducing. No app has ever guilted someone into keeping a legal record, and none ever will.
Protected MomentsKEVIN
A false accusation can land on anyone — famous or not. So the record isn't only for attacking. It's your alibi. The trigger isn't "I have a case." It's "that felt off."
Your file is hashed on this device. We receive the hash, never the file. The receipt below proves this exact file existed at this exact moment.
Protected 4 hours ago · 6 items · not a case
If nothing happens it stays a Moment for life. If six months later the other person tells a different story, one button makes it the opening timeline of a CaseGraph.
🕐 Contemporaneous vs. added laterCLAUDE
A memory written three weeks later is worth something. A record made that night is worth far more. We never let the two blur, and we never quietly backdate.
📅 Protect My DayGPT
🔐 Private by defaultCLAUDE
Capture SystemGPT
GPT's sharpest note: don't build a file uploader, build a capture system. Uploading is one method. LOWLAW is where the record gets made.
Half-height sheet. Nine choices. No folders, no legal words.
🧰 Twelve tools
Shoot in-app. Capture time, original file and device creation data bound together. Multiple shots auto-group.
Original untouched. A copy gets crop, rotate, brightness, redaction, arrows. Two tabs always: Original / Annotated.
Voicemails and voice messages. Transcript on-device. 4:32 PM · Voice message · 1m 42s. Bookmark at 00:43.
Speak your own memory right after. Audio + transcript + timestamp. Twenty seconds for people who won't type.
Contracts, receipts, cards, handwriting. Edge detection, multi-page merge. Keeps both PDF and raw photo.
Paste a URL — we fetch the page and store screenshot, URL, title, capture time. Scam sites vanish; this doesn't.
A pile of screenshots becomes one conversation in time order. Image and extracted text side by side.
Number what matters — ① ② ③ — with your note beside each. Damage, a clause, one line in a thread.
Two photos, one screen. Move-in vs move-out, damage, vehicles, contractor work.
Who · Where · What happened · Related payment · Related person. Five fields, zero legal vocabulary.
Turn it on for "Aug 15 · Business meeting" and 30 minutes of photos, PDFs, voice and notes land in one session.
A readable, de-skewed version to send a lawyer. Original always beside it, untouched.
📴 Offline CaptureCLAUDE
There is no signal at an accident scene, in a basement apartment, or in a courthouse hallway. Capture works fully offline: hashes compute locally, the item is queued, and when connectivity returns the Seal Receipt records both the device capture time and the server seal time. We never pretend they were the same.
✋ The moment it lands
A stamp, not a toast. This single screen is what makes someone feel their record went in and is alive.
Capture ModesGPT
A camera that stops you missing the thing you'll need later.
photos · documents · business card · notes · files received
photos · receipts · messages · private voice note
photos · video · other party · witnesses · costs
document scan · counterparty · payment · communications
website · messages · payment · identity · what was promised
room-by-room camera · before/after · repair records
🏠 Guided example — Property
Twelve months later the move-out dispute is already decided — because someone had a guided seven-step walkthrough instead of a vague intention to take some pictures.
People don't fail to record because they're lazy. They fail because they don't know what will matter later. A mode is that answer, handed over at the exact moment it's useful.
Scam FileGPT
Created the second someone thinks "this deal feels wrong" — not after the money is gone, but before the next payment.
How it organizes itself
💰 Money Trail
The most valuable row is the last one — the payment that hasn't happened yet.
📁 Promotion path
Look up anyone.
Your future landlord. The contractor bidding on your kitchen. The company about to hire you. The lawyer someone recommended. US court dockets are public record — we made them searchable by a human.
Live, nationwide, every jurisdiction carried by CourtListener and RECAP. Free. No account. Nothing about you is stored to run a search.
These are public court records. A name appearing here is not an accusation, a judgment, or a finding of any kind — people appear as plaintiffs, defendants, witnesses and creditors, and most cases end without anyone being found to have done anything wrong. LOWLAW does not interpret them and does not give legal advice. A blank result means nothing was found in this dataset, not that nothing exists.
🧊 Why this kills the cold startKEVIN
We were stuck for days on one thing: nobody preserves evidence before they need it. True. But people absolutely search other people — before a lease, a deposit, a job, a first date. Enormous existing volume, and it costs us nothing because the data is already public.
ABC Corp. 🔵 Public record
Delaware corporation · 2,400 employees · everything below is from public court dockets. We computed nothing.
What kind of cases
| Employment | 14 | |
| Contract | 9 | |
| Consumer | 5 | |
| Other | 3 |
How they end
We publish no win rate. A dismissal can be a great settlement or a collapse — the docket doesn't say which.
🛡️ Right of ResponseCLAUDE
"Of the 14 employment matters listed, 11 relate to a 2019 reduction in force resolved through a court-approved collective settlement."
Unedited, permanent, at the top. We publish only public court facts and the subject always gets the last word beside them.
🚫 What never appears here
| ✅ Filed cases — public dockets | 🚫 Private matters nobody filed |
| ✅ What the court entered | 🚫 A user's accusation |
| ✅ Dates, courts, case types | 🚫 Anything from a sealed Vault |
| ✅ The entity's own response | 🚫 Our opinion of anyone |
All Matters
One person, several problems, one place. A matter never dies — it changes stage.
Filed Feb 2, 2026 · day 195 · Smith LLP · next: deposition Aug 29
Started 24 days ago · 31 items sealed · no counsel yet
Closed Mar 2026 · $6,200 recovered · archived at $19/mo
Hwang v. ABC Corp.
Employment · Federal · N.D. California · 3:26-cv-01234 · Plaintiff side
Case VitalsCLAUDE + Case Activity StripGPT — the reason someone opens this monthly.
Case header
3:26-cv-01234What you want — you set this, not us
LOWLAW never says which of these is realistic. That's a licensed judgment.
🗂️ CaseGraphGPT
🛡️ Defense ModeCLAUDE
Plaintiff mode
Goal: maximize recovery
Vitals: claimed · offered · recovered · days open · spend
Defense mode
Goal: minimize exposure
Vitals: exposure · defense spend · days to respond · insurer position · offers made
There are exactly as many defendants as plaintiffs in US civil litigation, and they get less than half the service.
Import an Existing CaseGPT
GPT's best single idea today. Millions of Americans are already in litigation. Telling them "start entering documents" will never work. So we rebuild their case for them.
Everything imported is classified on your device, not on our servers.
A person mid-lawsuit has the highest possible motivation, the most money at stake, and the worst organization. They are already paying $400/hour for someone to be confused about their file. Handing them a rebuilt case in ninety seconds is the most persuasive thing this product can do.
Master Timeline
🔵 the public court record and 🔒 your sealed private record on one axis.
Evidence Vault
Your device computes the hash. Our server signs the hash and the time — never the content. LOWLAW preserves the record. Even LOWLAW can't read it.
2026-01-08 16:22:41 UTCa7f2…3c91b4e8184,220 bytesmodified_by_lowlaw = falseAWS KMS · asymmetric · verified✅ Evidence Completeness
We state facts. We never say whether it's enough. Never "3 of 4 defamation elements met" — that sentence is legal advice.
Court Record 🔵 Auto-synced
One case number. Everything the court does flows in, and keeps flowing.
| Dkt | Date | Entry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 2026-02-02 | Complaint | Filing |
| #8 | 2026-02-11 | Summons Returned Executed | Service |
| #12 | 2026-02-26 | Motion to Dismiss | Motion |
| #24 | 2026-03-19 | Order Denying Motion to Dismiss | Order |
| #31 | 2026-04-08 | Answer | Filing |
| #41 | 2026-06-11 | Scheduling Order — Discovery | Order |
| #58 | 2026-08-29 | Deposition of Defendant | Event |
CourtListener RECAP API + webhooks for dockets, entries, documents, parties and attorneys, plus PACER Case Locator for nationwide federal case discovery. CourtListener covers 3,359 jurisdictions across federal and state courts and holds close to half a billion PACER items. State courts handle roughly 98% of all US cases — that's where the long build and the moat both are.
DeadlinesCLAUDE
What destroys people in litigation isn't the argument — it's a date. Every date here came out of the docket. We surface deadlines that exist; we don't calculate legal ones.
| Date | What | Source | In |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24 | Settlement offer expires | Offer | 9 d |
| Aug 29 | Deposition of defendant | Dkt #58 | 14 d |
| Sep 30 | Fact discovery closes | Dkt #41 | 46 d |
| Oct 21 | Dispositive motion deadline | Dkt #41 | 67 d |
14 / 7 / 3 / 1 days out
Countdown sits on the lock screen
One .ics per matter
Discovery
The stage where clients feel most lost — "what am I even supposed to hand over?"
| Set | Type | Served | Due | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RFP Set 1 | Documents | Jun 24 | Jul 24 | Complete |
| ROG Set 1 | Interrogatories | Jun 24 | Jul 24 | Complete |
| RFP Set 2 | Documents | Aug 13 | Sep 12 | 6 open |
| Depo — Defendant | Deposition | — | Aug 29 | Scheduled |
"All communications with HR between Oct 2025 and Jan 2026" — the Vault already knows which sealed items fall in that window and shows a candidate set. It does not decide what is responsive; the lawyer does. It just stops the client hunting through a phone at 2am.
People & Entities
Everyone a new lawyer would otherwise reconstruct from scratch.
| Name | Role | Side | Linked |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABC Corp. | Defendant | Opposing | 182 |
| M. Reyes | Direct supervisor | Opposing | 64 |
| T. Okafor | HR director | Opposing | 19 |
| L. Brennan | Witness — present at termination | Neutral | 3 |
| Dr. A. Silva | Expert — economic damages | Ours | 2 reports |
| Hartford | EPLI insurer | Opposing | — |
Before a firm can request review, this entity list is hashed and checked against the firm's own conflict database. A conflicted firm can't open the matter — and never sees the names to find out. This is the single thing that makes a real firm trust a marketplace.
Communications 🔐 End-to-end encrypted
🟢 Portable — your materials, public filings, timeline, costs → travels to any new lawyer
🟣 Sealed off — counsel correspondence → travels nowhere
Matter LineageGPT
When a case ends and an appeal opens, that is not a new case. It's the same story. LOWLAW remembers the whole family.
Cost LedgerCLAUDE
Almost no client knows what they've spent. Yet this is the number that decides whether they change lawyers.
| Date | Item | Provider | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12 | Initial consultation | David A. | $350 | manual |
| Mar 04 | Retainer | Smith LLP | $7,500 | invoice |
| Apr 30 | April — 12.4 h | Smith LLP | $4,340 | invoice |
| Jun 15 | Filing & service fees | Court | $610 | docket |
| Jul 31 | July — 16.0 h | Smith LLP | $5,600 | invoice |
| — | Total | $18,400 |
📧 Forward the invoice to vault-4471@lowlaws.com — parsed on device for date, hours, rate, total.
🔵 Court fees come straight from the docket.
✍️ Anything else is one line, ten seconds.
"A lawsuit happens once in a lifetime" was the wrong frame. An active case bills every month. Every invoice is a reason to open the app — and the moment someone opens an invoice is exactly the moment they wonder if there's a better option.
Offers & Settlement
| Date | From | Amount | Terms | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 06 | ABC Corp. | $8,000 | Full release + NDA | Declined |
| May 19 | Us | $195,000 | Release, no NDA | No response |
| Aug 02 | ABC Corp. | $40,000 | Release + NDA + no rehire | Open · exp Aug 24 |
Facts on a chart. We never write "this offer is low." A second-opinion lawyer can — and that is what the market window is for.
Counsel History
The case outlives the lawyer.
Explore Other Options
This file is private by default. Offers arrive only after you open the door — that order is what keeps this clean.
Practice area · jurisdiction · stage · age · item counts · reported damages · what you want
Your name · contact · opposing party · document contents · your narrative
👀 Professional InterestGPT
LOWLAW never said "you have a case." Licensed people put their own time on the line.
🧱 Build My RecordGPT
If nobody raises a hand, the matter isn't killed. We show what reviewers of similar matters asked for:
Compare Offers
Side by side, like contractor quotes. Almost no American has ever done this with legal services.
First three actions
🔵 Verified record
23 in this court · 11 employment · 4 trials
🟣 Verified reviews
18 reviews · 15 would hire again
First three actions
🔵 Verified record
9 in this court · 31 employment · 0 trials
🟣 Verified reviews
6 reviews · 6 would hire again
5 days left
2 of 5 received
| ✅ Sorted newest-first, never ranked | 🚫 No LOWLAW score or ranking |
| ✅ Facts pulled from public dockets | 🚫 No "top / vetted / expert" badges |
| ✅ Flat monthly subscription only | 🚫 No per-case fee, no % of legal fees |
| ✅ The user opens the door and picks | 🚫 We never recommend anyone |
Avvo died on the right column. Keep the left one and this shape is already permitted.
The 30-Minute HandoffGPT
A new lawyer opens this and understands the case in half an hour.
Stage · court · judge · parties · current counsel · next dates
Master Timeline compressed to the 20 events that matter
Complaint → motions → key orders → current posture
Claimed $280,000 · spent $18,400 · offer $40,000 · recovered $0
The Snapshot leaves our marketplace. Send it to a lawyer you already know, a legal aid clinic, anyone. It has to actually be portable or the promise is a lie — a vault you can't leave is just a nicer cage.
Access LedgerGPT
Who has looked at my case? Every view, every export, every share — permanent and revocable.
| When | Who | What they opened |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 15 · 4:21 PM | Jane Smith, Esq. Jones Law · verified | Timeline + Court Record |
| Aug 15 · 4:33 PM | Jane Smith, Esq. | Exhibit #14 — termination_notice.pdf |
| Aug 15 · 4:51 PM | Jane Smith, Esq. | Cost Ledger |
| Aug 16 · 4:21 PM | — | Access expired automatically |
| Aug 18 · 9:02 AM | You | Exported Snapshot → email |
This is also what a lawyer needs later to defend the record's integrity — an unbroken chain of who touched it and when.
Relief & AppealsKEVIN
A judgment feels like the end. It isn't — but reducing, modifying or overturning one takes time, effort and money, and there is no arrangement for any of it. The emptiest room in the American legal market.
| Path | Window | Who does this work |
|---|---|---|
| Post-trial motions | 12 d | Trial counsel · post-trial specialist |
| Notice of appeal | 18 d | Appellate specialist · brief counsel |
| Costs & fees | 26 d | Fee counsel |
| Enforcement defense | ongoing | Judgment-defense · exemption · bankruptcy counsel |
Civil — build first
Appeal · reconsideration · vacating a default · post-judgment settlement · enforcement defense · exemption claims · satisfaction.
Criminal — bigger need, later build
Sentence modification · direct appeal · post-conviction relief · habeas · record sealing and expungement · clemency · parole.
Start with expungement — civil in form, procedurally clean, enormous demand, existing provider market.
Provider ReviewsKEVIN
Legal reviews are useless today because nobody can tell if the reviewer was a real client, what the case was, or how it ended. We know all three.
Employment · San Francisco · 24 verified reviews
❓ What we ask — facts, not feelings
| Question | Answer type | This firm |
|---|---|---|
| Did they respond within the time they promised? | Always / Usually / Rarely | Usually |
| Were fees explained before you signed? | Yes / No | 24/24 |
| Did the final bill match the estimate? | Under / Matched / Over | Over · 9/24 |
| Did they meet every court deadline? | Yes / No / Don't know | 22/24 |
| Did you understand your options at each stage? | Yes / Somewhat / No | Somewhat |
| Would you hire them again? | Yes / No | 19/24 |
No "he was mean to me." No "I lost so one star." Every question is about conduct the client actually observed — the only thing a bar association considers reviewable.
🎫 The badge nobody else can print
Employment · N.D. California · counsel Mar–Aug 2026 · $18,400 billed · matter open
Only a platform holding the case file and the docket at once can print that.
"Discovery expanded after the court denied the motion to dismiss, increasing hours beyond estimate. We should have flagged it earlier and have changed our process."
Permanent right of reply. Firms can flag factual errors. They can never pay to remove, reorder or bury anything.
Recovery CenterGPT
In an end-to-end encrypted product this is not a settings page. It is the trust.
Your LOWLAW Recovery Kit
XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXQR + printable key. New phone → Recover Vault → scan → decrypt VMK → sync encrypted blobs.
Key model
🕊️ Legacy & incapacityCLAUDE
Legal records outlive people. A judgment can be enforced for a decade; an estate dispute starts the day someone dies. So the vault needs an answer for that.
SafetyCLAUDE
Some people will use this to document assault, abuse or stalking. That isn't an edge case — it is a design requirement, and it is the one item I refuse to trade away.
Built in from the first release
We will not build a disguised app icon — it teaches people to hide something on a phone that another person may already control, and it fails badly when it fails. We will not offer covert call recording. We will not assess anyone's danger. We hold the record and get out of the way.
🌎 Language
Spanish at launch, not later. A large share of US self-represented litigants work in Spanish, and a legal record that a person cannot read in their own language is not their record.
Protect for SomeoneKEVIN
Kevin's dashcam insight, and it's the best viral idea in this whole product: the odds that I capture evidence about my own problem are lower than the odds that someone else sees it first.
So far LOWLAW has been "I record my own life." With this it becomes "people build each other's legal memory."
📲 The flow — five seconds from the share sheet
Step 1 — who is this for?
Step 2 — what the recipient sees
Then they choose: Add to Protected Moments · Add to an existing Case · Start a new Case · Keep separately.
A third party can never write into your CaseGraph. It arrives in your inbox and you adopt it — or you don't.
🎁 We call it an Evidence Gift
"Sarah saved something that may matter to you."
This is the phone call that already happens — "hey, someone posted something about you" — except it doesn't end there.
A legal product that is, weirdly, an act of friendship. That is not a feature you can copy with an engineering team.
🚀 And it recruits people who never signed up
One user reliably produces one new user or company. Highest K-factor mechanic in the entire product — and the person doing the inviting isn't marketing, they're helping someone they care about.
🛡️ Two guards I'm putting on thisCLAUDE
1 · Contributors can stay anonymous. Someone preserving evidence about a harasser or a fraudulent business has a real reason to fear retaliation. Identity is never revealed to the subject of the record without the contributor's explicit consent, and never to anyone else at all.
2 · This must never become a pile-on tool. Contributions are private to the person they were made for. We never publish "7 people reported this company." Only the subject sees their own cluster. The moment a public counter exists, this feature becomes a weapon and we would deserve everything that followed.
Capture RouterGPT
The real insight: capture isn't storage, it's a router. The same photograph means ten different things depending on where it goes next.
Shown immediately after every capture. Multiple choices allowed.
Goes to Protected Moments. Nobody sees it.
"This looks like it concerns you." → Evidence Gift.
Family, friends, staff, partners — not case parties. "If this ever matters, it's here."
Straight into an existing CaseGraph.
As a third party, into a matter that already exists.
Case Room or a restricted link, to a lawyer, investigator or expert.
Share directly with the other side to start an exchange of answers, offers and records.
Don't send anything now — bundle it when a related record appears.
Read-only, no login. 24h · 72h · 7 days · until revoked.
No purpose right now. Sealed. Can be promoted to a Case later.
🎯 One capture, three destinations at once
Watch CircleGPT
"People looking out for me." Everyone in your circle gets a permanent one-tap shortcut: Protect something for Kevin.
Kevin's Watch Circle
4 people · 6 contributions this year
Brand Watch Circle
A company registers staff, PR, family, partners, franchisees, even loyal customers.
Right now when an employee sees a damaging post, the options are: tell the boss verbally, screenshot it into a group chat, or do nothing. All three lose the original. A Watch Circle turns every employee into a preservation endpoint — and it costs the company nothing to set up.
Incident ClusterGPT
When several people preserve the same attack, we don't get seven copies. We get one claim with seven independent witnesses — and the earliest timestamp anyone has.
"Dr. Kevin Clinic uses illegal products"
In a defamation or harassment matter, when it first appeared and how it spread are the two hardest facts to establish — and they're usually gone by the time anyone thinks to look. Seven people capturing at seven different moments reconstruct that spread automatically, and four of those posts no longer exist anywhere else.
A cluster is visible only to the person or company it concerns. We never publish a count. We never show the world "7 people reported this business." The instant that number is public, this becomes a mob tool.
Witness RequestGPT
The dashcam idea, run in reverse: instead of waiting for someone to bring you a record, ask everyone who was there.
ABC Store incident · Aug 15 · 7–8 PM
If you have a photo, video, message, receipt or any other record
from this time, you can privately preserve it for this matter.
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Scan to contribute
Show the QR at the scene. Witnesses upload before they drive away.
Colleagues who saw the same pattern, over months.
Anyone who saw the post before it was taken down.
A witness uploads, receives their own contribution receipt, and it's delivered to the matter. They can stay anonymous to the parties. They never have to sign up for anything — which is exactly why they actually will.
Legal Opportunity RadarGPT
The biggest one. Today the legal market only contains people who already decided they need a lawyer. Everyone upstream of that decision is invisible — and that is most of the market.
We are already standing upstream of that. A Protected Moment, a Scam File, a documented loss, a repeated incident, a court filing — the record exists before the person has decided anything.
This does not take demand from anyone. It creates legal demand that never existed — and it does it without us ever telling someone they have a case.
📭 Why "no answer" is the wound we healCLAUDE
64% of prospective clients say a firm they contacted never got back to them.
That's the industry's own number. Silence is the default experience of trying to hire a lawyer in America.
So we make silence impossible. When a provider passes, the anonymized reason comes back:
Nobody is judging the case. These are logistical facts about the provider, not opinions about you. But for the first time, a person hears something back instead of nothing — and "below my published matter-size threshold" tells them more in four words than a month of unanswered calls.
Service MenuGPT
Legal services are sold in one giant unit: "representation for your case." Someone who can't buy $20,000 of that can absolutely buy $400 of judgment.
| Service | Typical price | Turnaround | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Document review | $250 | 2–3 days | 12 available |
| 30-minute strategy consultation | $400 | this week | 27 available |
| Second opinion | $750 | 2–4 days | 9 available |
| Demand-response review | $1,200 | 3–5 days | 6 available |
| Mediation preparation | $2,500 | 1–2 weeks | 3 available |
| Appeal record review | $3,500 | 1–2 weeks | 2 available |
| Full representation | — | — | Request proposal |
A $20,000 decision they can't make becomes a $400 decision they can. And often that $400 is the thing that tells them whether the $20,000 is even worth it.
Too busy to take a whole case is not the same as having no capacity. "Five second opinions this week" is revenue from time that was otherwise worth zero.
We are not taking existing clients from anyone. We are selling small legal services to people who were paying nothing at all, because the only thing on the menu was too big to order.
Market context: 64% of midsize firms already offer flat fees, and more than half of prospective clients say they prefer alternative payment structures. The demand for unbundling exists; the shelf doesn't.
🌐 Public price transparencyCLAUDE
Publish observed median prices per service, per state, publicly and without a login —
lowlaws.com/prices/texas/second-opinion.
It is a public good, it is the single most searched-for thing in this category ("how much does a ___ lawyer cost"), and it is an enormous SEO and AI-answer asset that no law firm will ever build because none of them wants the answer known.
Availability ExchangeGPT
Directories tell you someone's experience. They never tell you the thing that actually matters: can this person take me, now, at my stage, in my budget?
| Second opinions | 🟢 3 slots this week |
| Existing case takeover | 🟢 2 openings |
| Trial matters | 🟠 next opening Sep 8 |
| Appeal reviews | 🟢 48h turnaround |
| Currently active matters | 14 |
⏱ Response commitment — and whether they keep itCLAUDE
A provider sets their own SLA: 15 min · 1 hour · 4 hours · 24 hours. Then we measure it and publish the result next to it.
This is the direct fix for the 64%-never-heard-back problem, and it's a fact, not a rating. A firm that answers fast finally gets credit for it — which is the incentive that has been missing from this market forever.
"Available within 24h"
Full? Join the queue instead of hitting a dead end
Filter by language actually spoken at consultation
Case TeamGPT
A case is not one lawyer. It's a rotating team — and today the client has to assemble it one panicked phone call at a time.
| Role | Who | Status |
|---|---|---|
| ⚖️ Lead counsel | Jones Law | Engaged |
| 🔍 Investigator | David Lee | Engaged |
| 📊 Forensic accountant | ABC Forensics | Engaged |
| 💻 Digital forensics | — | Open |
| 🤝 Mediator | To be selected | Scheduled |
| 📝 Expert witness | Dr. Silva | Engaged |
| 📑 Appellate counsel | — | Not needed yet |
The relationship stops being a closed line between one firm and one client, and becomes a case-centric professional team the client can see and control.
Case EconomicsGPT
The question every client has and nobody in America can answer: "Am I spending a normal amount?"
Observed legal spend
Median discovery duration
Matters reaching mediation
Based on 3,281 verified stage records.
This is not outcome prediction. We do not say you will win, or what you should settle for, or whether your lawyer is overcharging. Those are all legal judgments and none of them are ours.
It is descriptive: what time, money and services matters like this actually consumed. Same restraint as the Verified Court Record — we publish observed facts and let the client draw the conclusion.
Nobody has ever been able to show a small firm where it actually stands. That alone is a subscription.
Scope & BudgetGPT
"My bill was three times the estimate" is almost never dishonesty. It's a scope change nobody wrote down.
Included
✓ Document review
✓ Written discovery
✓ Up to 2 depositions
✓ Weekly client update
Not included
○ Expert witness
○ Trial
○ Appeal
Written down, timestamped, approved by the client. It protects the firm as much as the client — which is why firms will agree to it.
That turns the Cost Ledger from a spending diary into a contract history — and it produces a number the provider can be proud of:
Three public numbers, all derived from behaviour, none of them a rating we invented. A firm that is good at these finally has somewhere to prove it.
Universal Legal InboxGPT
When you have a legal problem, it arrives through nine channels at once — email, text, postal mail, a firm portal, a court notice, an insurer, a PDF, DocuSign, a phone call.
kevin.4HF8@in.lowlaws.comForward legal email here · scan postal mail in the app · use it as your sharing address with any firm · court alerts and provider invoices land here too
Sorted by who sent it, which is the only sort order that matters when nine channels are shouting at you at once.
Everything else on this platform asks the user to do something. This one asks them to stop doing something — stop maintaining the mental index of where each piece of their case is. Forward and forget.
Legal WatchGPT
Entity Search shouldn't end at one search. Watch a person, a company, a case, or a provider — and the federal index updates every single day.
| Watching | Type | Last change |
|---|---|---|
| Kevin Hwang | Myself | — |
| Dr. Kevin Clinic | My business | — |
| ABC Corp. | Opposing party | 2 new filings · 3d ago |
| 3:26-cv-01234 | My case | docket #83 · today |
| Sarah Jones, Esq. | Provider I'm considering | new verified case · 6d |
| 412 Oak St. LLC | My landlord | new eviction filed · 11d |
Everything lands in the Action Center. The federal index refreshes daily, so this is a retention loop that runs with no effort from the user at all — the most reliable kind there is.
Most people have no idea a case has been filed against them until service arrives — sometimes not even then. Watch your own name and your own business and you find out the day it hits the docket. For a small business owner that alone is worth the subscription.
Legal MailroomGPT
Something legal arrived. Before you panic, before you reply — put it here.
Photograph the envelope too. The postmark and the delivery date are often the single most contested fact in a dispute, and they live on a piece of paper people throw away.
"I got a scary letter" is the most common moment a normal person first thinks about law. It is the highest-intent second in the entire funnel — and today the only options are to Google the letterhead or call a lawyer. Fourth quick action on the home screen.
Insurance & CoverageGPT
In most real disputes the question isn't only "who is handling this" but "who is actually paying for it." That's usually an insurer, and nobody tracks it.
| Insurer | Hartford |
| Policy | EPL-2026-884120 |
| Claim number | CL-9931-A |
| Adjuster | R. Delgado · assigned Feb 14 |
| Coverage position | Defense under reservation of rights · letter sealed Feb 20 |
| Panel counsel | Smith LLP — appointed by insurer |
| Correspondence | 11 letters sealed |
When an insurer appoints counsel, the client didn't choose their lawyer — the insurer did. That is exactly the person who most needs a second opinion and a portable file, and today they have neither. Insurance & Coverage links straight into the Cost Ledger and into Explore Options.
Engagement HubGPT
Compare Offers ends the moment someone says yes. That's exactly where the real relationship starts — and where every existing marketplace drops the user.
Because the engagement letter, the scope, every invoice, every scope change and the end date all live here, a review can carry the badge nobody else can print. The Cost Ledger stops being a budgeting tool and becomes an engagement history.
Scope change · +$8,000 · approved Jul 15 — the single most common source of
"my bill was three times the estimate" is a scope change nobody wrote down.
Written down, it protects both sides.
LOWLAW for BusinessGPT
GPT's answer to "what are we underestimating" — and it's right. An individual has a legal problem rarely. A small business has one constantly, and has no legal department.
Every one of these produces records. Almost none of them get kept. And there is no in-house lawyer to keep them.
🏢 Company Legal Desk
What's inside
Company Legal Identity · Protected Records · Active Matters · Contracts & Disputes · Entity Watch · Insurance & Coverage · Legal Spend · My Provider Bench · Open Market Windows
Roles
Personal · Family · Business — the same product, scoped by who can see what.
"Put everything that happened with that vendor into a LOWLAW matter."
The moment an owner says that to an employee, LOWLAW is the company's legal system of record — not an app someone downloaded.
💳 Business pricing
One entity · 3 seats · unlimited matters · entity watch
10 seats · contracts · insurance · provider bench · spend analytics
Multiple companies · API · SSO · outside counsel access
Individuals churn when a case closes. A business never stops having legal events — so this layer lifts retention and ARPU at the same time. It may end up larger than the consumer side.
My Legal SearchGPT
One search across everything you own here — and it runs on your device, never on our servers.
Protected Moments · Cases · Evidence · People · Providers · Payments — all indexed locally with SQLite FTS5. The one search we could never sell to a server.
Sharing & PermissionsGPT
Everything you have ever opened up, on one screen, with one button that closes all of it.
| What | Who | Type | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matter #M-4471 — full | Jane Smith, Esq. | Case Room | in 71h |
| Snapshot PDF | david@ · emailed | Share link | in 6h |
| Move-in Record | 412 Oak St. LLC | Acknowledged | — |
| Evidence Gift | Sent to Dr. Kevin Clinic | Contribution | — |
| Anything for Kevin | Sarah · James · +2 | Watch Circle | until removed |
Pairs with the Access Ledger: this screen is what is open, that one is what was opened.
Record CorrectionGPT
Entity matching will get things wrong — same names, merged companies, an attorney credited with a case that isn't theirs. If we publish public records we owe people a way to fix them.
| Smith v. Hwang · 2019 · Nevada | Flagged — not me |
| Hwang v. ABC Corp. · 2026 · N.D. Cal. | Confirmed |
| In re Hwang Holdings · 2021 · Delaware | Under review |
Right of Response is "here is my side of a true record." Correction is "this record is not about me at all." Two completely different problems, and conflating them is how public-records companies end up in court.
Delegated AccessGPT
People already share passwords with a spouse, an assistant or a CFO to handle this stuff. That is a security disaster we can simply remove.
| Person | Role | Can do |
|---|---|---|
| Partner | Viewer | See matters and timelines. Nothing else. |
| Clinic manager | Contributor | Add records and moments. Cannot share or delete. |
| Bookkeeper | Finance | Cost Ledger, invoices, scope approvals. No evidence. |
| Operations lead | Case Manager | Everything except sharing and permissions. |
| You | Admin | Everything, including revocation. |
A bookkeeper can approve a scope change and reconcile invoices without ever seeing a single piece of evidence. That separation is exactly what makes a business willing to put a real dispute into this system.
Download My Legal LifeGPT
The feature that proves the whole philosophy — or exposes it as marketing.
No "export your data" buried in settings. A first-class screen.
We tell people their legal record belongs to them, not their law firm. A product that says that and then makes leaving painful is doing the exact thing it criticised.
And practically: the seal receipts are verifiable without us. That's the point of signing a hash instead of holding content — the record survives even if this company doesn't.
The First 90 SecondsGPT
No tour. No signup wall. Action first, account second.
Protect → photo / file / website / note → saved.
Case → case number → public court record found.
Search → a person, company or lawyer → Entity Profile.
A real result has to exist within 30 seconds.
"Keep this in your Legal Life" — Apple / Google / Email.
Then recovery, briefly: [Set up recovery] [Do this later]
At ninety seconds the user must not have been explained anything. They must own one piece of real data inside LOWLAW.
Three Verbs & Five TabsGPT
GPT's answer to "how does this fail": not from having 62 screens — from a user thinking "so what do I press?"
Too many features, and no idea what the first action is.
The fix is not deleting features. It's progressive disclosure plus one Action Center — and a grammar so small nobody can get lost in it.
🗣️ The entire product has three verbs
Find out about someone or something.
Record something.
Make it a case, share it, or get help.
Every call-to-action on all 62 screens must resolve to one of these three. A legal operating system with a three-word manual.
📱 Bottom tabs — five, and they change with the mode
Individual
Me holds: Legal Identity · Watch Circle · Sharing & Permissions · Recovery · Safety · Settings.
The market is not a tab. It opens from inside a case, as Get Help — because that's the only moment it means anything.
Legal Provider
Profile holds: Passport · Experience Matrix · Verified Court Record · Performance Graph · Reviews · Reliability · Firm.
Expert
Contributor is deliberately not a fourth mode.
It enters through Protect: For me · 🎁 For someone else · 📣 Contribute to a case.
A mode you only use twice a year shouldn't be a mode.
🎨 Each mode gets one accent, everything else stays identical
| Mode | Accent | Feel |
|---|---|---|
| 👤 Individual | #2457D6 | Stability, control |
| 🏢 Business | #155EEF | Operations, management |
| ⚖️ Legal Provider | #6D28D9 | Professional standing |
| 🔬 Expert | #0F766E | Knowledge, analysis |
Try the switch at the top of this page — the accent moves, the status colours never do. Status meaning is universal; identity is what changes.
An individual remembers five. A provider remembers five. Everything else is reached from inside the thing it belongs to.
Grow your practice on LOWLAWKEVIN
Build a verified record before you ever meet a client. This side works with zero clients on the platform — which is exactly why the network closes.
We already built it from public dockets. Confirm it's you and it's yours.
Firm passport, team graph, capacity, service catalog, Case Feed.
👤 Unclaimed Public ProfileGPT
Texas attorney · 86 public matters observed · 12 trial-stage · 6 appeals
We do not start from zero lawyers. The Attorney Graph is built from public court records first. Every lawyer in America already has a page here — they just haven't claimed it yet.
🧑⚖️ Who can register
Much wider than a lawyer directory. This is a Legal Services Registry — because a case needs six kinds of professional over three years, not one.
Registration — 8 screensGPT
Registration isn't an ad listing. It's building a verifiable legal résumé.
Attorney / Firm / Specialist / Other service provider
Identity · business · license or professional credential. State bars publish license status and public discipline — we match against the official directory, and identity goes through a KYC provider.CLAUDE
Name + bar number → "We found 87 possible court appearances."
This also improves entity resolution across the whole Performance Graph.
Practice · jurisdiction · plaintiff/defense · and stage — Pre-suit / Filing / Discovery / Mediation / Trial / Appeal / Enforcement / Post-conviction
Real products with real numbers, plus your response-time commitment
Live.
Legal Service PassportGPT
Business litigation · Employment defense · Appeals · Dallas, TX
Career Record — the number that growsKEVIN
Credibility — six facts, not one score
A "LOWLAW Score 93" tells you nothing. Six reasons to believe tells you everything.
Five layers, clearly labelled
Firm name · address · domain · principals · team · bar numbers · jurisdictions
verified by LOWLAWThe firm cannot edit this.
Business litigation 16 yrs · Employment defense 11 · Appeals 8
Languages: English / Spanish / Korean
Clients: Individuals / SMB / Enterprise
Matter size: <$25k · $25–100k · $100k–1M · $1M+
A profile that ends at "civil litigation" is useless. Real products with real numbers.
Only from clients whose matter, dates, invoices and docket appearance all matched. Permanent right of reply. No paid removal, ever.
Experience MatrixGPT
"20 years of experience" is noise. This is signal — and it answers the only question a client actually has: is this person right for where my case is right now?
| Pre-suit | Discovery | Trial | Appeal | Enforcement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Employment | 18 | 31 | 9 | 4 | 2 |
| Contract | 12 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 5 |
| Personal injury | 4 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Consumer | 7 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Your matter is Employment · Discovery · N.D. Texas, so that cell is highlighted automatically. Every number links to the actual case list.
Directories answer "is this person famous?" This answers "has this person actually done my exact situation, at my exact stage, in my exact court?" Nobody in America can currently answer that question, and the data to answer it has been public the whole time.
Matter WorkspaceKEVIN
Kevin's move: lawyers keep their live cases here too. Not as marketing — as the place they actually work. That changes what this company is.
N.D. Texas · joined at Discovery · 4 months active
Because the docket syncs itself, the deadlines extract themselves, the client's own records arrive already organized through the 30-Min Handoff, and everything is sealed with a verifiable receipt. It's a better case-management tool than the one most solos and small firms are using — and that's a product they'd pay for even if the marketplace didn't exist.
📤 Share Progress — one button, granular
The client's identity is never shareable. Everything else is a checkbox the firm controls.
Manage internally → publish only what you chose → it becomes a Case Post automatically. The work and the marketing are the same action.
Live MattersKEVIN
Every lawyer directory shows what someone did years ago. This shows what they are doing right now — and nobody else can show that.
Morgan & Lee LLP · Dallas, TX
Career Record
On Instagram the number you show off is followers. Here it's Verified Matters — and it ticks up on its own: 184 → 185 → 186. A career asset that accrues just by doing the work.
🔴 Currently handling
📍 Federal court · ⚖️ Joined 4 months ago · 🔵 126 records organized
📍 State court · ⚖️ Joined at filing · 🔵 74 records organized
A directory says "20 years experience · business litigation · Best Lawyers award." Static claims, none of them checkable.
LOWLAW says: "3 contract-defense matters right now, 2 in discovery, 1 moving to mediation."
That tells you this person doesn't just claim the practice area — they're in it this week.
Provider NetworkKEVIN
Once live matters are visible, a second marketplace appears that we never designed for — professionals hiring each other. This may be easier to monetize than the consumer one.
No cold email. No conference. The appellate lawyer knew the case existed the day it became appealable, because the stage is public and the client isn't.
🔔 Who follows what
| Professional | Follows | Signal they act on |
|---|---|---|
| Appellate specialist | trial matters in their circuit | Judgment entered |
| Mediator | matters entering mediation | Stage → Mediation |
| Forensic accountant | damages-heavy matters | Damages expert needed |
| eDiscovery vendor | matters entering discovery | Stage → Discovery |
| Local counsel | out-of-state firms in their venue | New filing in my court |
| Enforcement counsel | judgments unpaid | Judgment unsatisfied |
👁 Four things worth following
Stage changes, milestones, outcome
All employment-defense activity
Everything in N.D. Texas
New matters, new hires, capacity
Referral between lawyers is one of the largest, most inefficient markets in American law —
it runs on golf, bar associations and who someone met in 2009.
We can make it run on "who is provably doing this work in this court right now."
And it's a market where both sides already pay for software, both sides are easy to reach,
and neither side needs a single consumer to show up first.
Case FeedKEVIN
Kevin's idea: professionals post their work like a feed. Not photos — what cases they actually handled, verified against the public docket. Three post types, colour-coded by how verifiable they are.
Closed · public docket matched · outcome recorded
In progress · stage published by the firm · client hidden
Provider-written, not tied to a specific docket
The colour is the honesty. A reader can tell in one glance what is court-verified and what is just someone talking. No other professional feed on the internet does that.
📍 N.D. Texas · ⚖️ Joined at Discovery · 4 months active
Updated automatically when the stage changes · Sarah Jones · Morgan & Lee LLP
📍 N.D. Texas · 🗓 2025–2026 · ⚖️ Joined at: Discovery
What the matter involved
Dispute over a terminated software-services agreement.
My role
Lead defense counsel
What happened
Summary judgment motion filed · mediation completed · matter resolved before trial
Handled by Sarah Jones · Morgan & Lee LLP
📍 5th Circuit · 🗓 2024–2026 · ⚖️ Joined at: Appeal
What happened
Took over after an adverse judgment · briefed and argued the appeal · remanded for new trial
| ✅ Every post tied to a real docket | 🚫 No "we won $10M!" numbers |
| ✅ Stage joined and stage reached | 🚫 No result guarantees |
| ✅ Client identity never revealed | 🚫 No client confidential facts |
| ✅ Unverifiable posts labelled clearly | 🚫 No paid placement in the feed |
This is a portfolio, not a billboard. The verification badge is the product — anyone can claim experience, almost nobody can prove it.
A profile is checked once, when someone is already looking for you. A feed is browsed — by clients comparing, by other firms looking for co-counsel, by appellate specialists looking for referrals, and by every journalist and researcher covering litigation. The supply side gets a reason to log in weekly with no client involved at all.
Firm Passport
14 attorneys · 621 public matters observed · 8 jurisdictions
Team experience
Current capacity
Response time
Service CatalogGPT
People don't only search for a lawyer. They search for a thing they need done.
🛒 The catalog
from $750 · 2–4 days
retainer $10k–25k
from $2,500
hourly or flat
consultation first
flat fee, by state
per device / per volume
hourly
per hearing
This difference is enormous. "Find a lawyer" is a directory anyone can build. "I need my civil judgment appealed in the Fifth Circuit, fixed price, starting next week" is a transaction — and nobody in America can serve that query today.
Provider Command CenterGPT
3 new court appearances matched to you this month.
2 new Verified Matter Reviews awaiting your reply.
7 new open case files match your filters.
Their public record keeps growing whether they participate or not. Every new filing anywhere in the country updates their page. The only question is whether they control the page or watch it from outside. That is a permanent, structural reason to keep an account.
Opportunity Feed
Only matters whose owner opened the door. All anonymous.
↑ Nobody in America is serving this person right now.
🎛️ Filters
Review Room
Matter #M-4471 · granted Aug 21 16:04 · expires in 71h 12m
Visible to you
✅ Master Timeline
✅ Evidence Vault + originals
✅ Court Record
✅ Cost Ledger
✅ Offers history
✅ People & Entities
✅ Client's own narrative
Never visible
🚫 Correspondence with current counsel
🚫 Any other matter this person has
🚫 Anything once your window closes
🚫 Matters you're conflicted on — you never see they exist
📨 Submit Offer
Verified Court Record
No stars, no "⭐4.9 · 15 years." Just what the public docket observed. We didn't compute it, so nobody can argue with it.
Observed public docket record · 2019–2026
Cases found
How far they went
Observed disposition
Median time to close
6 appeals
4 affirmed · 1 reversed · 1 remanded
No win rate. No success score. Dockets don't record who won in a way that survives comparison — a voluntary dismissal can be a superb settlement or a collapse. We publish only what the docket literally says. That restraint is what makes it defensible.
Legal Performance GraphGPT
API
Buyers: legal insurance · litigation finance · ALSPs · corporate legal · legal-benefit providers · firms · other marketplaces. Roughly 1.37 million US lawyers — structure that supply by observed court behavior and the database itself is the product.
📈 Legal Mobility DatasetGPT
There is no reliable national statistic for how often clients change lawyers mid-case. Log every counsel change and in a few years only we know:
Expert ModeKEVIN
Kevin's point, and it's correct: in a lot of disputes the person who actually knows the answer isn't a lawyer. Medical damages need a physician. Property needs an appraiser. A murder case turns on the forensic pathologist. So the third supply side isn't legal at all — it's everyone whose expertise a case needs.
Not a profile to decorate. A feed of paid work in your own specialty — which is why an expert opens this daily and a lawyer opens theirs weekly.
🧩 A case is not one lawyer. It's a stack of human expertise.
🩺 A medical matter
🏠 A property matter
📊 A fraud matter
One case stops being "a lawyer" and becomes a CaseGraph plus five to ten human specialists, each doing the piece they're actually best at.
🛡️ The line that keeps this cleanCLAUDE
An expert opinion here is factual and technical, never legal. Same code-level separation as everything else in this product.
| ✅ "These three line items are duplicated." | 🚫 "You should sue." |
| ✅ "This crack pattern indicates foundation movement." | 🚫 "You'll win on this." |
| ✅ "The billing code doesn't match the procedure." | 🚫 "That's malpractice." |
| ✅ "Metadata shows the file was modified Aug 12." | 🚫 "This is evidence tampering." |
And expert compensation is flat or hourly, never tied to outcome — contingent expert fees are a real ethics problem in US litigation. Fits us perfectly: we never take a percentage of anything either.
On the small missions the expert sees the materials but not which side is asking. An opinion is only worth something if it wasn't shaped by knowing the answer someone wanted. That single design choice is what makes a $25 Quick Look credible enough to build on.
Expert MissionsKEVIN
"People come in every day, help with cases in their own field, and get paid." That's the loop. Here's what it looks like.
🏠 Real Estate / Construction · posted 2 hours ago
🩺 Medical billing / coding · posted 5 hours ago
🩺 Physician reviewer · 184 pages
Mission LevelsGPT
The point is the small end. Expert time is currently sold only in units so large that most cases can never buy any of it.
| Level | Time | Price | What it is | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quick Look | 10–15 min | $25–100 | "What construction elements are visible in these 5 photos?" |
| 2 | Expert Check | 20–45 min | $100–300 | 12 pages of estimates → duplicated items, major cost categories, what's missing |
| 3 | Case Review | 1–3 hours | $300–1,000 | 184-page medical record → chronology + which specialties are relevant |
| 4 | Specialist Memo | days | $750–3,000 | A 3–5 page technical memo, under the expert's own name |
| 5 | Formal Engagement | weeks | $2,500+ | Expert report · inspection · deposition support · trial testimony |
Levels 1–4 are LOWLAW SKUs we propose, not market statistics. Level 5 is the existing market and the expert prices it themselves.
A $25 twelve-minute look from a real appraiser is the same expert as the $500/hour one. It's just a unit small enough to exist in a case that could never have afforded them. Today that case gets zero expert input — not because no expert was willing, but because nobody was selling twelve minutes.
Fields & TaxonomyGPT
Kevin: "forensic scientists, police, video analysts, AI experts — there are a huge number of professions who can give an opinion." He's right, and the list is long.
| Matter type | LOWLAW experts |
|---|---|
| 🩺 Medical | Physician reviewer · nurse reviewer · medical billing & coding · life-care planner |
| 🏠 Real estate | Appraiser · inspector · surveyor · broker specialist |
| 🧱 Construction | Engineer · contractor · estimator · building code specialist |
| 🛟 Insurance | Public adjuster · damage estimator |
| 📊 Fraud & money | Forensic accountant · valuation expert · fraud analyst |
| 🏢 Business disputes | Business valuation · damages expert · accountant |
| 💻 Digital | Digital forensics · cybersecurity · AI systems specialist |
| 🚗 Auto | Repair estimator · vehicle valuation · accident reconstruction |
| 👔 Employment | HR specialist · compensation specialist · vocational & economic expert |
| ©️ Content & IP | Licensing / valuation specialist · damages analyst |
| 📦 Consumer products | Engineer · product specialist |
| 📸 Photo & video | Metadata / forensic image specialist · deepfake analyst |
| 🔬 Forensic | Forensic pathologist · toxicologist · ballistics · former investigator |
Courts already admit experts with scientific, technical or specialized knowledge. Forensic accountants already do fraud, damages and valuation work. Appraisers already value property in litigation. Public adjusters already represent policyholders in claims. Digital forensics is already a profession. None of it is reachable by a normal person, and most of it is invisible to small firms too. We're not inventing a supply side — we're giving one that already exists a front door.
Ask the FieldGPT
The killer feature on this side. From inside any case, an individual or their lawyer can put a question to an entire profession.
💵 And experts price it against each other
Licensed GC · 18 yrs · 2 days
PE structural · deposition experience · 3 days
Certified estimator · same day
Price competition on a bounded piece of technical work is far more natural than price competition on "represent me in a lawsuit" — the thing everyone finds distasteful about legal marketplaces. Nobody is bidding on justice; they're quoting for thirty minutes of estimating.
Expert Feed
Same idea as the lawyer's Case Feed, for everyone else.
Real Estate Valuation · Texas
📍 Texas · litigation support · valuation range delivered in 4 days
📍 Florida · insurance dispute · post-storm condition comparison
📍 California
Same three-colour honesty rule as the lawyer feed: what's verified, what's live, what's just stated.
Expert Reputation
Stars are worthless here too. Same philosophy as the Provider Passport — behaviour, measured.
"Lawyer found useful" is the one that matters — it's rated by the professional who had to actually use the work, not by a client's mood.
🪜 Levels — earned, not bought
Small missions. Anyone with a credential can start here.
Credentials confirmed. Higher-value missions unlock.
Substantial case work. Memos under their own name.
Formal engagement history — reports, depositions, testimony.
A retired appraiser starts at $25 missions on a Sunday and, three years later, has a documented, verifiable litigation record they never could have built otherwise — because there was no ladder between "no experience" and "expert witness."
Expert EconomicsCLAUDE
Kevin asked for the economics. Here they are — with the real market numbers underneath.
💵 What expert time actually costs today
| Specialty | File review | Deposition | Testimony |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical | ~$493/hr (report) | $400–600 | ~$597/hr |
| Medical specialists orthopedic, neurosurgery | — | — | $600–1,000/hr |
| Engineering | ~$350/hr | $400–600 | ~$450/hr |
| Accident reconstruction | — | — | $500–600/hr |
| Economic / financial | ~$425/hr | $400–600 | ~$525/hr |
| Forensic accounting complex fraud | — | — | $500–700/hr |
| Vocational | ~$250/hr | — | ~$350/hr |
| General range | $250–400/hr | $400–600/hr | $500–750/hr |
The expert witness services market is growing at roughly 8.7% CAGR.
🔑 The two economic facts this whole layer rests on
Expert time is sold only in $250–750/hour formal blocks. So it exists only in cases big enough to justify a multi-hour engagement.
Every smaller case gets zero expert input — a $12,000 property dispute never sees an appraiser, and a $40,000 medical claim never sees a physician reviewer. Not because nobody was willing. Because nobody was selling twelve minutes.
A radiologist between shifts. A retired appraiser. A contractor on a rained-out day. A former investigator. A structural engineer with a slow Tuesday.
That inventory earns nothing today because there is no channel that packages it into 15-minute paid units. We are not competing for expert hours — we're monetizing their dead time.
📈 What that does to the numbers
This grows the professional-services market, it doesn't divide it. Nobody's $500/hour engagement is being replaced. A floor is being built underneath it where there was previously nothing at all.
💳 How LOWLAW earns from it
| Expert Passport | Free forever — same rule as legal providers |
| Expert Pro | $49/mo — mission alerts, priority routing, analytics |
| Mission platform fee | Flat per mission by level ($3 / $8 / $20 / $50), never a percentage |
| Ask the Field | Included in the individual's plan; the expert is paid directly |
Flat fees only. Expert compensation tied to case outcome is an ethics problem in US litigation — and we don't take a percentage of anything, anywhere, by design.
Expert AttestationKEVIN
Kevin asked whether an expert opinion needs something like a seal — who said this, what facts and documents they provided. Yes. And what's needed in the US is more precise than a notary stamp.
A notary attests that a person signed — not that the opinion is sound. Meanwhile a formal federal expert report must be written and signed by the expert and must state their opinions, the basis for them, the materials considered, their qualifications, prior testimony, and their compensation. So we build a ladder between those two extremes.
🪜 Four tiers
| Tier | Typical work | What it carries | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Note | $30–200 | Identity ✓ · credential ✓ · materials listed · signed · sealed |
| 2 | Expert Attestation | $200–1,000 | Full fixed schema + expert's own confirmation statement |
| 3 | Verified Declaration | $1,000–3,000 | Declaration form suitable for filing, expert-signed |
| 4 | Formal Expert Report | $2,500+ | Full report meeting federal expert-report requirements |
🔏 What an Attestation looks like
The Limitations field is not optional. An expert opinion that never states what it couldn't determine is the kind that falls apart on cross-examination — and taking it seriously is what separates this from an internet Q&A answer.
🔗 The seal chain
Four links, each independently verifiable, all on one CaseGraph. Nobody in American law has this chain in one place today.
📝 Amendments, never deletionsCLAUDE
An expert who later gets more material must be able to change their mind without erasing what they said before. A version chain protects the honest expert and exposes the one who quietly rewrites history.
Expert PanelGPT
On a serious question, don't rest everything on one person. Ask three — and structure the disagreement instead of hiding it.
| Expert A | Completed |
| Expert B | Completed |
| Expert C | Pending |
Points of agreement
3 of 3 found an encoding discontinuity at 00:41.
Where they differ
We structure the opinions and show the agreement and the disagreement side by side. Picking the correct expert is the job of a lawyer, a judge or a jury — never a platform.
No panel member sees another's opinion before submitting their own. Otherwise it isn't consensus, it's anchoring — and three anchored opinions are worth less than one independent one. The blind step is the entire value of running a panel.
Earnings
The screen that makes an expert open this app on a Sunday.
| Date | Mission | Level | Paid | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15 | Texas property — repair scope review | Expert Check | $125 | 28m |
| Aug 14 | Storm damage — 9 photos | Quick Look | $40 | 11m |
| Aug 11 | Commercial valuation memo | Specialist Memo | $1,850 | 6h |
| Aug 06 | Boundary survey review | Case Review | $420 | 2h |
Every mission is a fixed price agreed before the work starts. Nothing here is ever tied to how a case turns out — outcome-linked expert pay is an ethics problem in US litigation, and it would poison the credibility of every attestation on the platform.
What Needs UnderstandingGPT
A normal person does not know they need a "forensic video analyst." They know they don't understand something. So we ask that question instead.
Case → the knowledge it needs → the person who has it. Never make someone learn a professional taxonomy in order to ask for help.
🧩 Expertise needed — on the case itself
| 🩺 Medical record reviewer | Engaged |
| 📊 Forensic accountant | Open |
| 💻 Digital forensics | Open |
| 🔍 Investigator | Open |
| 🤝 Mediator | Scheduled |
| ⚖️ Appeal counsel | Not needed yet |
Case EconomyGPT
The Cost Ledger is what you spent. This is the entire professional-services market operating inside one case.
| Category | Amount | |
|---|---|---|
| ⚖️ Legal services | $12,000 | |
| 🔬 Experts | $4,300 | |
| 🔍 Investigation | $1,200 | |
| 🎁 Evidence rewards | $450 | |
| 🏛 Court & filing | $470 |
💸 A case pays many people, in sequence
Two kinds of supplier now earn here: Evidence Contributors — "looking for anyone who has footage from that hour, $250" — and Domain Experts. One case, one acquisition, many payments, over years.
What a dispute of this type, in this state, at this stage, actually costs to run — broken down by profession. Not billing-rate surveys. Observed spend on real matters.
Where This Record WentGPT
In LOWLAW a file doesn't sit still. It moves. So every piece of evidence carries a map of everywhere it has been.
Chain of custody is usually reconstructed from memory and email threads months later. Here it's a record that wrote itself as it happened — and it's attached to the exhibit, not buried in someone's inbox.
Case Command CenterGPT
With this many screens there must be one page that answers everything at a glance.
Your case
Team
Next
Eighty screens exist. A person only ever has to remember this one. Every item on it is a tap into the screen that owns it — which is what makes an operating system feel simple instead of enormous.
My Contributions
Every piece of work you have put into a case, and what happened to it afterwards. This is the expert's career record building itself.
| Date | Matter | Output | What happened next |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15 | Texas property — repair scope | Expert Note | Shared with counsel |
| Aug 11 | Commercial valuation | Attestation | Cited in a filing |
| Aug 06 | Boundary survey review | Expert Note | Matter settled |
| Jul 28 | Storm damage assessment | Specialist Memo | Panel — 2 others |
| Jul 14 | Foundation crack review | Quick Look | No further action |
It's the only place an expert can see that their work actually reached a court — something almost nobody in this profession can currently demonstrate, because the paper trail lives inside a law firm they'll never hear from again.
Availability
You control exactly how much work reaches you. An expert with a day job needs this more than a lawyer does.
Verify a SealGPT
GPT's point, and it's the one that makes the whole seal concept real: anyone must be able to verify a document without a LOWLAW account.
Paste a receipt, or pick the original file to check it has not changed. No account needed.
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Verify Expert Seal
Printed on every Attestation, Declaration and Report. Scan it, or type the ID at
lowlaws.com/verify.
Verification proves integrity, not correctness — exactly like a notary, and exactly like our evidence seals. The moment a platform starts implying it has vouched for an expert's conclusion, the whole thing is worthless.
An opposing lawyer, a judge, an insurer or a journalist can check a document without trusting us and without an account. That's what turns a LOWLAW attestation from a nice PDF into something that travels — and it works even if this company disappears.
Community WatchGPT
The public version of a Watch Circle. A business puts this on its own site, and every customer becomes a preservation endpoint.
Seen impersonation, fake claims, or suspicious use of our name?
No account needed. Anonymous if you want.
An embeddable badge for the company's own website, email footer, receipts, and social profiles.
Contributions land in their Incident Clusters — visible only to them. Never a public counter, ever.
Right now a customer who spots a scam account impersonating a business has two options: tell nobody, or post about it publicly and make the problem bigger. This gives them a third one that actually helps — and it costs the company nothing but a line of embed code.
Component LibraryGPT
GPT's instruction, and it was right: don't design 93 screens — build 27 components and assemble screens from them. Everything in this prototype is already one of these.
| Component | Used on | What it does |
|---|---|---|
AppShell | everywhere | Top bar, mode switch, nav, content frame |
BottomNav | mobile | Five tabs, swapped per mode |
GlobalSearch | everywhere | Entity search and My Legal Search share one field |
ThreeButtonHero | Home | Protect / Case / Search |
QuickProtectFAB | mobile, all screens | The ＋ Protect sheet |
CaseVitals | Case, Command Center | Five-cell status strip |
ProtectedMomentCard | Moments, Home | A moment with its item list |
CaptureSheet | everywhere | Nine capture types, half-height |
CaptureModeCard | Modes | Situation preset with guided steps |
SourceBadge | everywhere | 🔵 docket · 🔒 sealed · ⚪ manual — where a fact came from |
StatusPill | everywhere | The five meanings, one component |
LiveCaseSpine | Timeline | The vertical line, newest at top |
PulseDelta | Home, Action Center | "Since you were here" + the last-checked marker |
TimelineItem | Timeline, Counsel, Lineage | One dated event with its source |
EvidenceTile | Vault, Discovery | A sealed item with its hash and receipt |
DeadlineRail | Deadlines, Case, Live Activity | Dated obligations pulled from the docket |
MoneyMetric | Cost, Case Economy, Earnings | One financial number with its context |
LedgerRow | Cost Ledger, Earnings | Date · item · party · amount · source |
CourtRecordCard | Court, Entity, Passport | Docket-derived facts, never editable |
EntityCard | Search, Watch, People | A company or person with their public record |
IdentityCluster | Entity, Correction | Matched records + "this isn't me" |
ProviderCard | Compare, Catalog, Team | A professional with verified facts attached |
OfferCard | Compare, Review Room | Scope · fee · start date · first three actions |
CompareTable | Compare, Ask the Field | Offers or expert quotes side by side |
CaseRoomPermission | Access, Permissions, Review Room | Who can see what, and for how long |
VerifiedReview | Reviews, Passport | A review with its verification block |
SnapshotPreview | Handoff, Export, viral links | The one-page case summary as others see it |
Ninety-three screens designed individually is an unmaintainable product and an inconsistent one. Twenty-seven components assembled ninety-three ways is one product — and it's the difference between a solo founder shipping this and a solo founder drowning in it.
First Release — 17 ScreensGPT
GPT's answer to "what ships first," and it's smarter than mine was. Don't cut features — cut navigation. Ninety-three capabilities live inside seventeen doors.
Public · acquisition — 3
1. Start Here (What happened?)
2. Look Up Anyone
3. Entity Profile + Right of Response
Carries all inbound search traffic.
Pre-case · retention — 3
4. Protected Moments
5. Capture System
6. Capture Modes
Scam File enters as a Capture Mode preset, fully functional.
Case OS — 6
7. CaseGraph Dashboard
8. Timeline + People + Communications
9. Evidence Vault
10. Court Record + Deadlines
11. Cost Ledger + Offers
12. Relief & Appeals
Case Vitals, Case Pulse, Live Spine and Defense Mode all live inside #7.
Legal market — 3
13. Explore Options / Market Window
14. Compare Offers
15. 30-Min Handoff + Snapshot Export
Provider — 2
16. Opportunity Feed + Review Room
17. Provider Profile
Passport, Experience Matrix, Verified Court Record, Performance Graph, Reviews and Reliability are all tabs inside #17.
🗄️ Alive on day one, just not a top-level door
| Discovery | a CaseGraph tab |
| Communications (E2EE) | a Timeline tab |
| Scam File | a Capture Mode |
| Defense Mode | a case setting |
| Counsel History | inside CaseGraph |
| Offers | inside Cost / Market |
| Conflict Check | part of the market workflow |
| Pricing | onboarding and paywall |
Nothing is deleted. Ninety-three capabilities become seventeen mental models — and that is the difference between a product that feels enormous and one that feels complete.
Who Cheers FirstKEVIN
Kevin's question, and it's the most important strategic one in the whole project. Who you delight first decides where you dig. Here's the honest ranking.
🏆 Tier S — cheers immediately, pays immediately
Import Existing Case rebuilds their file in ninety seconds. They are already paying $400/hour to someone while having no idea where their own documents are. This is the demo that makes a person emotional.
The most desperate and worst-served moment in American law — and nobody markets to them because no list of them exists. We read every docket entry, so we have the list. Half of new federal appeals are filed without a lawyer.
They cheer for completely different reasons: a free verified profile they didn't have to build, intake that arrives already organized, and Live Matters as marketing that isn't advertising. Reachable through bar lists, and they pay $499.
🥈 Tier A — cheers loudly, converts more slowly
Highest-intent single moment in the funnel. But episodic — you can't schedule it.
They will love the Mission Feed. It's money on dead time, and nobody else is offering them anything at all — easiest supply in the whole market to recruit.
They don't cheer for themselves — they cheer for the person they helped. Not revenue. The viral engine.
🥉 Tier B — big, but slow
Highest ARPU, never churns, but a real sales cycle.
Small population, extraordinarily loyal.
Biggest cheque eventually. Irrelevant for three years.
🚫 Tier C — will not cheer, and that's fine
| Someone with no legal problem | Won't care. Don't build for them. They arrive through Entity Search or an Evidence Gift, not on purpose. |
| Someone who wants to sue | Dangerous. They want validation and we deliberately never give it. This is precisely the audience that has ruined every legal marketplace before us. |
| Large law firms | Never. They have their own systems and no reason to change. |
📊 GPT scored the same question independently
| Segment | React | Pays | Returns | Viral | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stuck mid-lawsuit | 10 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 🔥 first core customer |
| Just got sued / served / demanded | 10 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 🔥 strongest acquisition |
| Unhappy with their current lawyer | 10 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 🔥 second-opinion market |
| Pro se — going it alone | 10 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 📈 largest volume by far |
| Small business / brand | 9 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 💰 highest ARPU |
| Solo & small firms | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 💰 core supply |
| Experts & specialists | 8 | paid | 10 | 9 | 🧠 daily activity engine |
| Lost, seeking appeal or relief | 10 | 9 | 8 | 6 | ⚖️ high-intent niche |
| Doesn't know if it's a case | 9 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 📡 Opportunity Radar |
| Third party who saw something | 6 | paid | 5→9 | 10 | 🎁 strongest viral engine |
| Anxious, no case yet | 6 | 4 | 6→9 | 7 | 🛟 long-term mainstream |
Market backdrop: about 55% of state-court cases now have at least one self-represented party, and 92% of low-income Americans' substantial civil legal problems get inadequate or no legal help. Meanwhile 73% of firms already use cloud legal tools and 85% of litigators e-file — the supply side is not technophobic.
🧠 The framing that changes go-to-market
Payer ≠ Retention creator ≠ Viral creator
These are three different people, and that is a strength, not a confusion. Trying to make one segment do all three jobs is how consumer legal products die.
And GPT caught something I missed: a normal person doesn't have a legal event every day. A lawyer doesn't get a new case every day either. But missions accumulate every day. So the daily-active number this product eventually reports will most likely be driven by the Expert Economy — the side we invented last.
💡 Two things I'd bet on
The loudest cheer will not come from someone who has a case.
It comes from the friend who preserved evidence for someone they care about — emotional reward, zero cost — and from the solo lawyer who receives a 30-Minute Handoff — six hours of their life handed back, for free. Both are people LOWLAW did something for without them having a problem at all.
There are two first users, not one — and they come from the same pipe.
No other marketplace can say that. Everyone else has to buy one side and beg the other. We build one pipe and both sides fall out of it.
Emoji SystemKEVIN
Emoji as information structure, not decoration. Every one below is permanently bound to a single concept across all 93 screens. A user learns them once.
🚦 Status — the five meanings, locked
| 🟢 | Done · safe · verified | Sealed, confirmed, on time, accepting |
| 🟠 | A deadline or attention | Days remaining, expiring, open item |
| 🔵 | Public record · fact | Docket-derived, court-verified, not our claim |
| 🟣 | A professional is involved | Lawyer, expert, attestation, provider action |
| ⚪ | Unknown · user-entered | Self-reported, unverified, manual |
| 🔴 | An actual adverse result | Judgment against, claim live, request refused. Never used for "legal". |
🧩 Objects — one emoji, one object, forever
| 🔒 | Sealed evidence | 🎁 | Evidence Gift from a third party |
| 🛟 | Protected Moment | 🧬 | Incident Cluster |
| 📁 | A case / CaseGraph | 📣 | Witness Request |
| 🏛️ | Court record | 🔬 | An expert |
| 📅 | Deadline | 🔏 | Expert Attestation |
| 💵 | Money you spent | 🎯 | Expert mission |
| 🏦 | Case Economy | 🫂 | Watch Circle |
| 👔 | A lawyer or firm | 👁️ | Watching something |
| 📤 | Handoff / export | 🗝️ | Access & permissions |
| 🔎 | Search someone | 📮 | Legal Inbox |
📏 The three rules
An emoji is never reused for a second concept anywhere in the product.
If removing it loses no information, it should not be there.
Snapshots, attestations and anything a court might see are plain. Emoji are for navigation, not for evidence.
Full Tech Stack
Front to back, everything named. Agreed items plus the ones we hadn't decided yet.
| Layer | Choice | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Mobile | React Native New Architecture + TypeScript, native modules in Swift/SwiftUI and Kotlin/Compose | Shared CaseGraph logic; camera, share extensions, widgets and crypto go native |
| Web | Next.js on Vercel | Entity search, public SEO/AEO pages, desktop case file, provider portal |
| Repo | Turborepo + pnpm | One monorepo, shared types across all clients |
| Edge / API | Cloudflare Workers + Hyperdrive | Close to R2, cheap, and Kevin already runs Cloudflare |
| Database | Postgres (Supabase to start) | Standard schema so it can move to Aurora later without a rewrite |
| Blob storage | Cloudflare R2, presigned direct upload | Encrypted blobs only; no egress fees |
| Device crypto | CryptoKit + Secure Enclave · Android Keystore, AES-256-GCM | Vault Master Key never leaves the device |
| Seal signing | AWS KMS asymmetric | Private signing key never leaves KMS; independently auditable |
| Private search | SQLite + FTS5 + SQLCipher, on device | The one index we can never put on a server — and the index itself is encrypted too |
| Row security | Supabase RLS on every table | A leaked key still cannot read another user's rows |
| Event engine | R2 event notifications → Cloudflare Queues | Object change → metadata update → Case Pulse → notification, with no polling |
| Public search | Postgres FTS → OpenSearch at scale | Entity corpus only; nothing private ever enters it |
| Court data | CourtListener RECAP API + webhooks · PACER Case Locator | 3,359 jurisdictions, federal and state, ~half a billion items |
| Jobs & queues | Cloudflare Queues + Cron Triggers | Docket sync, recheck runs, alert fan-out |
| Payments | Stripe Connect — subscriptions, expert payouts, contributor rewards | Three payee types on one rail. Flat platform fees only — never a legal fee, never a percentage |
| Identity / KYC | Stripe Identity or Persona | Provider and expert verification, and verified reviews |
| Inbound email | Cloudflare Email Routing → Worker | Powers the Legal Inbox and invoice parsing |
| Outbound email | Resend or Postmark | Transactional only; deliverability matters for evidence links |
| OCR & transcription | Apple Vision / VisionKit · Android ML Kit — on device | Content never leaves the phone, by design |
| On-device AI | Apple Foundation Models · Gemini Nano | Classification, chronology, summaries — locally |
| Web capture | Headless Chromium in a Worker/container | We fetch the page, which is what makes the capture worth anything |
| Push | APNs · FCM · Live Activities via ActivityKit | The lock-screen deadline countdown |
| Analytics | PostHog, self-hosted | Product analytics without shipping user behaviour to a third party |
| Errors | Sentry, with PII scrubbing on | Never log content, ever |
| CI/CD | GitHub Actions · EAS Build for mobile | Standard, boring, fast |
| Region & backup | US-only primary, cross-region R2 replication, PITR on Postgres | US product, US data residency, no surprises |
| Docs & PDF | Typst or React-PDF for Snapshots and Attestations | Deterministic output — the same input must always produce the same bytes |
Any service that could see user content is either on the device or not in the stack. OCR, transcription, classification and private search are all local. The server holds ciphertext, hashes and public court data — nothing else. Every architectural choice above is downstream of that one sentence.
Design System
Agreed jointly. Light, calm, readable. Not a law firm brochure.
🎨 Tokens
| Token | Hex | Use |
|---|---|---|
canvas | #F5F7FA | page background — bright but not glaring |
surface | #FFFFFF | cards |
border | #DDE3EA | default separation |
text-primary | #18212F | headings, numbers — 15.1:1 |
text-secondary | #445164 | body — 7.5:1 |
text-tertiary | #667085 | metadata — 4.64:1 |
brand | #2457D6 | CTA / active |
🚦 Status colours — meaning-locked
| Meaning | BG | Text | Border | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🟢 Done / safe | #ECFDF3 | #067647 | #ABEFC6 | Sealed |
| 🟠 Deadline / attention | #FFF7ED | #9A3412 | #FED7AA | 14 days |
| 🔵 Public record / fact | #EFF6FF | #1D4ED8 | #BFDBFE | Docket #41 |
| 🟣 Professional | #F5F3FF | #6D28D9 | #DDD6FE | Verified firm |
| ⚪ Unknown / user-entered | #F8FAFC | #667085 | #E2E8F0 | manual |
| 🔴 Actual adverse result | #FEF2F2 | #B42318 | #FECDCA | Judgment |
Law is not red. Red appears rarely and only for a real adverse outcome. The entire emotional register of this product depends on that restraint.
📐 Type & space
💓 Four things that make the record feel alive
The vertical line. New events arrive at the top.
+2 court records, +$3,840 spend — and a line in the timeline reading YOU LAST CHECKED HERE.
A new record pulses twice over 1.5s, then stops. Never a looping animation.
30 days of dots under the vitals. Tap one to jump to that day.
No serif headlines. No scales of justice, no gavels, no columns. No navy-and-gold "prestigious firm" palette. The reference points are calm medical and financial apps — longitudinal data, a transaction history, a little warmth — because that is what living with a legal problem for three years actually needs.
Architecture
📱 Clients
Not "everything in React Native." Core UI and CaseGraph logic shared; camera, share extensions, widgets and crypto go native.
🔐 On-device
I originally reached for a hosted search index here. That would have quietly broken the one promise the whole brand rests on. On-device it is.CLAUDE conceded
🧾 Seal Receipt
🗄️ Storage
🏛️ Docket ingestion
GPT and I found this source independently and landed on the same answer. It also means our earlier assumption — "we have to build state connectors one by one" — was wrong.
Phone Integration
This is where a capture product is won or lost. If protecting something takes more than two taps from wherever the user already is, it doesn't happen.
| Integration | iOS | Android | LOWLAW feature |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share | Share Extension | Sharesheet / Direct Share | any app → Protect |
| Shortcut | App Intents | App Shortcuts | Protect a Moment |
| Action button | App Shortcut binding | — | One-tap Protect |
| Widget | WidgetKit | Glance widget | Protect / My Case |
| Lock screen | Live Activity | Ongoing notification | Case Pulse · deadline countdown |
| Dynamic Island | ActivityKit | — | Capture Session running |
| Quick access | Control Center | Quick Settings tile | Quick Protect |
| Photos | PhotosPicker | Photo Picker | Evidence import, no full-library access |
| Files | Document picker | Storage Access Framework | PDF / audio / documents |
| Camera | native | CameraX | Evidence Camera |
| Browser | Safari share | Chrome share | Web Capture |
| Calendar | EventKit | Calendar Provider | Protect My Day · deadlines |
| Contacts | Contact picker | Contact picker | People & Entities |
| Voicemail | share / import | share / import | Voice File |
| After a call | App Intent | Shortcut | Protect this interaction |
| Receipts | share PDF / email | share PDF / email | Cost Ledger · Money Trail |
Live Activity. A countdown to the next real deadline sitting on the lock screen —
Deposition · 14 days — is a legal product that is present in someone's life without ever
sending a push notification. That is the entire retention argument in one OS feature.
Viral Loops
Targets below are instrumentation goals, not forecasts.
Every other loop needs the user to have a problem first. This one only needs them to care about someone who does — a vastly larger population, triggered by something they see every single day.
Target ≈ 1 contribution → 1 new user or claimed entity. The inviter isn't marketing; they're doing a favour for a friend.
The lawyer just saved five to eight hours of intake. The next thing they say to a new client is "put it in LOWLAW first." Our supply side markets us.
Target ≈ K 0.06/user on the consumer count, but each conversion is a paying firm.
Result pages are permanent, public, and readable without login, with an OG card. Recipient can Search · Watch · "Is this your company?"
Target ≈ 8% share × 2.5 visitors × 15% watch-signup ≈ 0.03 users/search. SEO and AEO acquisition sit on top of this, separately.
The second button is the killing point — the other party records their side into the same moment.
Target ≈ 35% share × 2.0 recipients × 40% signup = K 0.28
User picks only what to reveal, and sends a warning card to friends or family. Later, aggregate signal becomes possible: "3 other people have privately created records involving this entity."
"Invite colleague to review" · "Invite conflict administrator". One matter can pull 2–4 seats out of a single firm.
Plans & Pricing
Four businesses on one file.
🔎 Free
Not a loss leader. The top of the funnel, and nearly free to serve because the data is public.
👤 Individual
Vault · Protected Moments · timeline · sealed originals · closed matters
Everything: CaseGraph · docket sync · deadlines · Cost Ledger · counsel history · 30-Min Handoff · Market Window · relief & appeal continuation
Multiple matters · multiple people · shared access · entity watchlist
When a case closes it drops to Archive. Nobody churns to zero — they churn to $19.
🏢 Business
One entity · 3 seats · unlimited matters · entity watch
10 seats · contracts · insurance · provider bench · spend analytics
Multiple companies · API · SSO · outside counsel access
⚖️ Providers
Claim your profile · verified identity · public court record · Case Feed · reviews · service catalog
Opportunity Feed · advanced filters · market participation · analytics
Team · routing · multiple lawyers · firm analytics
Multi-office · API · CRM · organization-wide opportunity intelligence
The first thing we sell a lawyer isn't a lead — it's "own the one page that shows what you have actually done." That has to be free, forever, or supply can never arrive before demand.
Same price at 0 engagements or 10. Same price on a $5,000 settlement or a $5M one. Benchmarks: LegalMatch attorney membership starts around $455/mo; leads run $75–90 for employment up to $550–1,500 for auto injury; Darrow reports 22,000+ legal professionals on platform.
🔌 Data
💰 The math
Build Plan
🧊 There is no cold start
Three independent reasons, and none of them requires the other side to exist.
📅 First 90 days
| Days | Ship | Proof it worked |
|---|---|---|
| 1–14 | Look Up Anyone — federal entity search from CourtListener. Free, no account. | 1,000 searches from strangers |
| 15–30 | Capture System + Protected Moments + Seal Receipt. Watchlists. | 100 accounts · 50 sealed items |
| 31–48 | Import Existing Case — case number → reconstructed file. Deadlines. | 25 reconstructed cases claimed |
| 49–62 | Cost Ledger · 30-Min Handoff · Snapshot Export · Access Ledger · Recovery Center. | 10 Snapshots sent to a real lawyer |
| 63–76 | Provider Passport + Case Feed. Claim-your-profile campaign. Free. | 200 claimed attorney profiles |
| 77–90 | Market Window · Compare Offers · firm subscriptions live in Texas + Arizona. | First 10 paying firms |
Note the order: supply is invited before demand is monetized. Two hundred lawyers with claimed, verified profiles is a real marketplace on day 76.
📍 Why Texas + Arizona first
Rule 5.4 repealed · ABS licensing exists · Legal Paraprofessionals can handle justice-court civil under $10,000 and harassment matters. Three tiers of legal supply are legal in one state.
Volume, a $20,000 Justice Court limit, a self-help software carve-out, no referral-service certification trap. California and New York stay off the list deliberately.
🎯 The one number
Not signups. Not searches. Not sealed items. Handoff Exports.
Someone exporting their case file to hand to a lawyer is the whole thesis firing at once: the record was worth building, it was legible to a professional, and it moved. Everything else is downstream of that single action working.
📰 The launch headline — and the three flows that have to make it true
LOWLAW wants your legal case to belong to you — not your law firm.
The straighter version, if a reporter wants the mechanics: "LOWLAW launches a client-owned legal OS that keeps evidence, live court records and legal-service options in one portable case file."
| 1 | Capture → Seal → Share real file · real hash · real signed timestamp · actually shared with another person or case |
| 2 | Case number → Living CaseFile a real US docket · Court Record AUTO · Vitals · Timeline · Deadline Rail · and the Case Pulse visibly moves when a new docket entry lands |
| 3 | Case → Provider → Portable Handoff a genuinely claimed Provider Passport · user opens a service or second opinion · provider sends an offer · user shares a Case Room or Snapshot |
Get those three running on live data and the other 59 screens stop being decoration and become expansion.
🎤 One line, three audiences
To an investor
LOWLAW is the client-owned operating system and marketplace for the entire life of a legal matter.
Doesn't sound like "a LegalMatch competitor." Sounds like system of record + marketplace.
To a journalist
LOWLAW gives people one place to preserve what happened, follow their case, compare legal services, and carry their legal record wherever they go.
To a lawyer or firm
Your actual work becomes your reputation — and clients can bring you a case file that's already organized.
Case Feed + Performance Graph + 30-Min Handoff, in one sentence.
🏁 And the product line
Your legal life, in one place.
Record what happened. Own your case. Choose who helps next.
Before a case. During a case. After a case.
My Vault
Not a settings page. This is what you own. Everything you have preserved, who has touched it, what it cost you, and the fact that you can walk out with all of it — today.
You can take all of it and leave, any time. Standard formats, nothing locked, seals stay verifiable after you are gone from LOWLAW.
💎 What you own
| Holding | Count | What it is worth to you |
|---|---|---|
| 🛟 Protected Moments | 18 | Things you saved before they became anything |
| 📁 Matters | 3 | 1 active · 1 pre-suit · 1 closed with appeal window open |
| 📄 Documents & evidence | 1,102 | Photos, PDFs, audio, screen captures, web captures |
| 🏛 Court records linked | 47 | Docket entries pulled and kept in sync |
| 💬 Communications preserved | 96 | Email, SMS, chat — with headers intact |
| 🧠 Expert attestations received | 2 | Signed by a credential-verified expert |
| ⚖️ Counsel history | 3 | Everyone who has ever worked on your matters |
| 🎁 Given to others / received | 6 / 11 | Evidence gifts in both directions |
📊 Vault Statement — August
A bank sends you a statement so the account feels real. So do we.
| New records added | 41 |
| Sealed this month | 41 · 0 failed |
| Times someone opened your records | 9 · 1 person · access since expired |
| Legal spend this month | $4,800 · running total $18,240 |
| Deadlines in the next 30 days | 2 · nearest in 18 days |
| New docket activity on your matters | 3 |
Sent monthly by email and push. This is the retention loop — not a growth hack, a reason to trust that the vault is alive.
🗝️ Who has access right now
| Who | Scope | Expires | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jane Smith, Esq. Jones Law · ⚖️ verified |
Hwang v. ABC — Timeline + Evidence | Dec 31, 2026 | Revoke |
| Your accountant delegated · 🪪 verified |
Cost Ledger only — no evidence | Ongoing | Revoke |
| Dr. Chen 🧠 credential verified |
Exhibit #14 only | Expired Aug 16 | — |
Every open, every export, every share is written to the Access Ledger and cannot be edited — not by them, not by us, not by you.
🕐 Your legal life, in order
| 2024 | 2 protected moments · no case |
| 2025 Q2 | Scam File opened → payment stopped before it left |
| 2025 Q4 | Hwang v. ABC filed · counsel #1 engaged |
| 2026 Q1 | Counsel changed · 30-Min Handoff · nothing lost |
| 2026 Q3 | Discovery · 2 expert attestations · appeal window mapped |
A case file ends when the case ends. A legal life does not. That is the difference.
🩺 Vault Health
A bank tells you the account is fine. A vault should tell you whether what is inside is actually recoverable — not just that it exists.
| Seal chain re-verified | 1,284 / 1,284 ✓ Aug 15 |
| Recovery method last tested | 42 days ago ✓ Test again |
| Incomplete uploads | 0 ✓ |
| Orphaned encrypted records | 0 ✓ |
| Unknown active sessions | 0 ✓ Review devices |
We can re-verify every seal you hold, cheaply, forever — because a seal is self-contained. No other vault can show you this line.
🧬 Where this came from
You already have Where Records Went. This is the other half. Together they make one unbroken chain: where it came from → what happened to it → where it went.
| Created by | You · Aug 02, 2026 · 4:21 PM |
| Captured on | iPhone · on-device hash, never uploaded in the clear |
| Received via | Evidence Gift — contributor identity verified privately |
| Original hash | f4ee956d…04cec16 |
| Annotated copy | Created Aug 09 — original untouched, both sealed |
| Used in | Expert Attestation #EA-42 |
And what we cannot tell you: for anything received from someone else, we can attest to what happened after it reached us — never before. We say so on the record rather than letting the chain imply more than it proves.
🗑️ Keep or remove
If it is really yours, you must be able to destroy it too — and understand exactly what destruction does and does not reach.
| Keep forever | Default |
| Export, then remove | You take it, we stop holding it |
| Delete local copy only | Frees the device, keeps the vault |
| Delete the LOWLAW copy | We no longer hold the encrypted object |
| Remove shared access | Cuts future access, not past copies |
| Scheduled deletion | Set a date now, forget about it |
| A seal receipt someone else holds | Stays verifiable. It is self-contained by design. |
| A copy an authorised recipient exported | Already theirs. We cannot reach into their device. |
| A public court record | Belongs to the court, not to us or to you. |
Deleting your vault copy does not delete a copy already exported by another authorised recipient. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something.
🧊 Emergency Freeze
Revoking sharing and freezing the vault are different things. Freeze is the brake you pull when the phone is gone, the account feels wrong, or someone is standing over you.
| 🛑 | All share links stop |
| 🛑 | All provider and expert access stops |
| 🛑 | Successor release is halted |
| 🛑 | New exports blocked |
| 🛑 | Payout and authority changes locked |
| 🔍 | Every device session listed for review |
Unlocking requires a verified device. And because a stolen phone means you may have no device at all, freeze can also be triggered from anywhere using verified identity alone — freezing is always allowed, unfreezing never is.
🔔 How the vault talks to you
A vault that nags becomes the app that reminds you of your problem. Three separate channels, deliberately:
| Channel | Rhythm | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Vault Statement | Monthly | Trust and ownership. The account feels real. |
| Case Pulse | Weekly · opt-in, active matters only | Retention while something is actually moving |
| Action Alert | Immediately | Only when you must actually do something |
Nothing sensitive ever leaves the app. A push says "Your August Vault Statement is ready." and nothing more. Never a case name, never an amount, never who opened what — a lock screen is read by whoever is holding the phone.
Statement in-app only · no legal detail in email, including the subject line · no legal detail in notifications. On by default for anyone who arrives through a safety pathway — they should not have to know to ask for it.
The vault proves what existed and when, and that nothing changed since. It does not make anything in it true, and it does not decide anything for you. Evidence establishes what exists · experts explain what it means · legal professionals decide what to do.
Identity Center
Logged in is not the same as verified. We keep those two things apart on purpose, and we only ask for more when what you are about to do can affect somebody else.
🎭 One account. Several roles.
A doctor can also run a clinic and also be a party in her own lawsuit. Those are three different capacities, and every record you create stores which one you were acting in.
| Role | Status | What it unlocks |
|---|---|---|
| 👤 Individual | 🪪 Identity Verified | Share evidence, receive offers, be a party |
| 🏢 Company representative | Entity claimed · authority pending | Act for a business |
| ⚖️ Attorney | Not started | Provider mode, take matters, get paid |
| 🧠 Expert | Not started | Paid missions, sign attestations |
🏷️ The only four badges we will ever use
| 🪪 Identity Verified | Government ID matched to a live selfie |
| ⚖️ Attorney Verified | Bar licence active and found as counsel of record in public dockets |
| 🧠 Expert Credential Verified | Licence or certification matched against the issuing body |
| 🏢 Company Verified | Entity registry + representative identity + proof of authority |
Anything not on this list is self-declared and is labelled as such, everywhere, without exception.
🪜 What each level can do
| Level | What we check | What you can do |
|---|---|---|
| 0 · Guest | Nothing | Look Up Anyone · Verify a Seal · contribute to a Witness Request |
| 1 · Account | Email / Apple / Google + passkey | Protect a Moment · Evidence Vault · your own matters |
| 2 · Identity | Gov ID + selfie | Send records to another person · receive offers · be a party |
| 3 · Professional | Level 2 + licence + domain email | Provider / Expert mode · get paid |
| 4 · Signing | Level 3 + live credential + registered signing device | Sign an Attestation |
The rule: verification scales with what you can do to other people — never with who you are. We verify at the moment of consequence, not at the door.
🎬 "Acting as" — recorded every time, asked almost never
Every record stores the capacity you were acting in. That does not mean asking you 40 times while you photograph 40 pages. The workspace sets it; only consequence re-confirms it.
| Silent — inherited from where you are | Re-confirmed before you act |
|---|---|
| Saving a photo, a note, a PDF | 🔏 Signing an Expert Attestation |
| Searching, browsing a case | ⚖️ Sending a provider offer or engagement |
| A personal Evidence Gift | 🏢 An official response in a company's name |
| Importing a docket | 🎓 A professional report or declaration |
| Reading your own vault | 💰 Receiving a payout · 🏢 Claiming an entity or changing authority |
A small chip is always visible — 👤 Acting as Kevin Hwang — and switching capacity is itself confirmed. The data records the role at every act. The interface asks at almost none.
A witness can be Identity verified privately — we confirm who they are, the recipient only sees "Contributor identity verified by LOWLAW." Anonymity and verification are not opposites, and treating them as opposites is what kills every evidence network before it starts.
Your vault is encrypted with keys on your devices. We cannot read it, so we cannot reset it. If you lose every device, verified identity is the only anchor that can prove you are you — which is why we ask for it once, and why we keep it separate from your content.
Verify My Identity
Two minutes, once. After this you can send records to other people, receive offers, and recover your vault if you lose your phone.
| 1 | Government photo ID Passport, driver licence or national ID — 120+ countries |
| 2 | Live selfie Matched against the document so a stolen ID does not pass |
| 3 | Done 🪪 Identity Verified appears on your account |
The check runs at a specialist identity provider. LOWLAW stores the result and a reference — not your ID image. Your identity record and your evidence never sit in the same place, so a breach of one is not a breach of the other.
| ID document + selfie match | $1.50 per verification |
| Name / DOB / ID number lookup only | $0.50 per lookup |
| Provider & Expert payout identity | $0 — the payout rails already require it |
We only pay when someone is about to do something consequential — which is exactly when we would want to have paid.
Verify a Professional Credential
This is the layer nobody else builds properly, and it is the reason a stranger should believe anything on this platform.
⚖️ Attorneys — two independent proofs
| 1 | State bar directory Licence status (active / suspended) and public discipline history. Admission is per state, so every state you claim is checked separately. |
| 2 | Counsel of record in public dockets Your name appearing as counsel in real court filings. You cannot write this yourself. |
Directories can be stale and self-reported profiles are marketing. The cross-check of the two is the product. A claimed record that no docket supports is shown as unsupported, not hidden.
🧠 Experts — by issuing body, per field
| Field | Checked against |
|---|---|
| Medical | State medical board licence + board certification |
| Engineering | State PE licence |
| Accounting / forensic | State CPA registry |
| Appraisal / real estate | State appraiser or broker licence |
| Everything else | Manual review — with the evidence of review shown publicly |
A licence verified in 2026 means nothing in 2028. Credentials are re-checked on a schedule, and an attestation always records the credential state at the moment of signing — so a later suspension does not silently rewrite history, and does not silently validate it either.
If Something Happens to Me
Legal records outlive the person who made them. A bank has a plan for this. A will has a plan. A safe deposit box has a plan. Legal records have none.
Going quiet is not the same as being gone. People take holidays, lose phones, go into hospital, delete the app. Inactivity can only ever start a verification process — it can never, by itself, release a key.
🔐 How a release actually happens
| 1 | Someone requests succession, or long inactivity starts the clock |
| 2 | Every trusted device and email you own is notified — you can cancel instantly |
| 3 | Waiting period runs. You choose it: 30 / 60 / 90 days |
| 4 | The succession condition must be independently established — not merely asserted |
| 5 | Only then is our key share released |
👥 Who you can name
| Successor | Condition | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| A family member 🪪 identity verified |
Steps 1–5 above, in full | Matters and cost ledger — never Protected Moments |
| Your attorney of record ⚖️ attorney verified |
Only if you pre-authorised it, per matter, in writing | That one matter — nothing else |
An attorney does not get automatic access to anything because they are your attorney. Being counsel is a relationship, not a key.
Your key is split so that no single party — including LOWLAW — can open the vault alone. A successor holds one share. Releasing ours requires every step above, and you are told at each one for as long as you are able to be told.
This is the most abusable feature in the product. A controlling partner naming themselves successor is the exact scenario we design against: successors are always visible to you, always cancellable by you, always delayed, and Protected Moments are excluded by default — because the reason you saved something may be the person asking for it.