Individuals
Know what governs your life before it becomes a legal problem.
A private legal foundation across work, housing, family, health, insurance, finances, contracts, rights, and obligations. The record stays answerable, the dates stay visible, and the path stays yours.
Before anything goes wrong
Legal capability should not begin with a crisis or depend on whether a dispute is large enough to justify a retainer.
The problem
Mortgages, policies, warranties, leases, estate documents, and employment or partnership agreements shape everyday life. Paying professional rates for every question is out of reach for most people, so the documents often sit unread until a crisis exposes the clause that mattered.
What Briefcase does
Offers, leases, mortgages, policies, warranties, agreements, benefits, rights, obligations, renewals, and deadlines become answerable and remain connected to the decisions they create. Briefcase surfaces grounded options and prepares the routine work. Vetted attorneys and, where permitted, allied legal professionals add scoped professional judgment when you choose it. The record stays yours and the matter keeps going.
“Why would I need this when nothing is wrong?”
The agreements and decisions that govern a life are already operating. Briefcase makes them understandable, keeps changes and deadlines visible, and keeps you ready before those terms become urgent.
When the clock has already started
Walk in prepared, not alone.
People do not lose on the facts. They lose to the process. Briefcase gives you a serious way to understand the problem, choose a path, and carry it through, and you can afford to understand your own case.
The problem
A notice, denial, demand, or dispute starts a clock. You have a story and a stack of documents but no organized matter, no reliable explanation, and no blank-check budget for counsel.
What Briefcase does
Tell Briefcase what happened. Briefcase builds a living record of what you face. It structures the story and documents, grounds options in the record and governing law, surfaces deadlines and missing facts, and prepares the path you choose. You act independently, request scoped professional judgment, or engage full representation.
“Can I trust software with something this important?”
Briefcase is confidential by design, grounds every answer in the record and governing law, checks citations before use, and makes human judgment available when you decide it matters. Being right isn't enough. Being ready is.
When you already have a lawyer
Stay informed, prepared, and in control alongside your lawyer.
You should not need to surrender ownership of your legal life in order to receive expert help.
The problem
A person can spend thousands and still struggle to explain the matter, evaluate advice, track the strategy, or know which decision is theirs to make.
What Briefcase does
Briefcase organizes your record, explains documents and developments in context, tracks deadlines and decisions, and prepares sharper questions. Your lawyer joins the relevant work in a space you control, when that helps. You keep the full record.
“Will this interfere with my lawyer?”
An informed, organized client makes the engagement more efficient. Briefcase prepares you to participate, and counsel's professional judgment stays counsel's.
When the nearest lawyer is a day away
The nearest lawyer is a day away. Briefcase is where you are.
Distance should not decide whether serious legal help is within reach.
The problem
The legal problem exists where appropriate professional help does not. Distance, local supply, conflicts, transportation, work schedules, disability, language, or broadband can leave you with a right to help and no way to use it.
What Briefcase does
Briefcase works from a phone or a computer, on the connection you have, with no office to reach. The Matter begins with your facts, documents, location, and process. You understand and prepare without travel, and, when you choose, reach appropriately authorized professional judgment beyond your own geography where the law permits. Take your record with you when the best local path is a court, a clinic, an advocate, or a professional outside Briefcase.
“There is no one here to help.”
Briefcase makes independent preparation useful and brings more professionals within reach where authority permits.
The record
Standing legal capability across work, housing, contracts, insurance, finances, rights, and life transitions, so you stay ready.
Justice is about just resolution, not legal services.
66%
of U.S. adults hit a legal problem over four years; only about 14% turned to a court.
IAALS and HiiL, 2021Justice Needs and Satisfaction in the United StatesA four-year window, civil and criminal problems combined.
1 in 5
problems brought to a lawyer by Californians came back valid but not financially worthwhile to pursue.
State Bar of California, 2024California Justice Gap StudyFor one in three problems the lawyer said the case was valid and should be pursued.
13 years
of later life a typical 18-year-old can expect to spend experiencing hardship linked to a justiciable event.
Sandefur and Teufel, 2021Assessing America's Access to Civil Justice CrisisNine years at 35, six at 45, four at 55, two at 65.
40%
of U.S. counties have fewer than one lawyer per 1,000 residents.
American Bar Association, 2020Profile of the Legal ProfessionApproximately. The ABA's own caveat: a lawyer counted in a county is not necessarily one the public can hire. Software removes the travel and scheduling barrier for those who can connect; it does not erase geography.
Use cases
Put the plans, authority, and information your family may need in place before the moment arrives.
Every use case for personal and familyThe digital estate, locked out
Scenario a husband dies and his wife can't get into his phone, email, password manager, or the family's only crypto wallet.
The POA the bank won't honor
Scenario a father's dementia advances and the bank refuses his nine-year-old durable power of attorney because it isn't on the bank's own form.
When a POA never got signed
Scenario a mother never executed a POA and now lacks capacity, making guardianship or conservatorship a possible court-supervised path.
Start with what happened, or with what you want to be ready for.
Join the waitlist and Briefcase will be in touch as access opens.
Pilots start as early as October 1, 2026.