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.
When the clock has already started
Walk in prepared, with your whole case in hand.
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. Anyone can now afford to understand their 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.
When you already have a lawyer
Stay informed, prepared, and in control alongside your lawyer.
You should not have to surrender ownership of your legal life to get 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.
In a legal desert
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
A legal desert is a county with too few lawyers for the people in it, or none at all. The legal problem exists where 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. When you choose to bring in a professional, distance stops deciding who that can be: an authorized professional anywhere the law permits starts from your prepared record. Take your record with you when the best local path is a court, a clinic, an advocate, or a professional outside Briefcase.
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.
21%
of problems brought to a lawyer by Californians came back valid but not financially worthwhile to pursue.
State Bar of California, 2024California Justice Gap StudyThe study headlines it as one in five; its chart of what Californians hear from lawyers puts it at 21 percent. For 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 needs in place before the moment arrives.
The digital estate, locked out
The situation
A husband dies and his wife can't get into his phone, email, password manager, or the family's only crypto wallet.
With Briefcase
Briefcase builds the digital inventory and access directive, names a digital executor, and holds the recovery paths for release.
The POA the bank won't honor
The situation
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.
With Briefcase
Briefcase organizes the POA, shows whether it is springing or durable, and prepares the bank's acceptance packet and a physician's capacity letter.
When a POA never got signed
The situation
A mother never executed a POA and now lacks capacity, and the family may face court-supervised guardianship or conservatorship.
With Briefcase
Briefcase explains guardianship and conservatorship, prepares the petition and disclosures, and readies the family for the hearing.
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.