[View this page on Briefcase](https://nextbriefcase.com/investors) Investors # The next great legal AI company will not replace lawyers. It will help millions of people who never had one. Briefcase is creating Personal Law, the market that becomes possible when legal capability belongs to the individual. Pressure-test the thesis in the data room. It runs on Briefcase itself, so reading the plan is your first look at the product. [Request access to the data room](https://nextbriefcase.com/investors#connect) The company ## Reengineering the justice system. Briefcase Legal Empowerment, Inc. is a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation, venture-standard, with no cap on returns or exit. The first wave of legal AI makes lawyers more efficient. Briefcase turns the demand the profession cannot economically serve into a new category. [See why](https://nextbriefcase.com/attorneys#record) Legal services made people clients. Briefcase gives people legal autonomy. AI made legal preparation scalable. Trust will decide who owns the category. Answers commoditize. Continuity compounds. The model generates. The system remembers, governs, verifies, and acts on your decision. Our moat is earned trust made structural. The Justice Fund Once Briefcase turns an operating profit, one percent of revenue funds access for the people paid access still leaves out. The market ## The largest unbuilt market in law. The legal market was built for matters a lawyer can profitably take. Everything else is too important to ignore, too small for full-service counsel, and too complex for a chatbot. Briefcase solves this through Personal Law, and sized that market from the bottom up. 120M civil justice problems go unresolved in the United States each year, out of as many as 250 million that arise. Sandefur and Burnett, 2024 Justice Futures Unresolved or resolved unfairly, civil and criminal. 25M justice problems Americans are already taking action to resolve, every month. Hagan, 2022 The Supply and Demand of Legal Help on the Internet People already in market for help. $15.2B U.S. online legal services market in 2026, growing more than five times faster than the law-firm market. IBISWorld, 2026 Online Legal Services in the US 4.8% a year, against 0.9% for law firms. 76% of civil cases had at least one unrepresented party, usually the defendant. Conference of Chief Justices and NCSC, 2016 Call to Action: Achieving Civil Justice for All The courts' own finding, formally endorsed by the chief justices. $41.7B total addressable market, modeled bottom-up. Briefcase, 2026 SAM and scale model Briefcase's own model. The construction is in the data room. $10.8B serviceable addressable market, priced lane by lane at Briefcase's own rate card. Briefcase, 2026 SAM and scale model The derivation is in the data room. The platform ## One legal foundation, and everything that stands on it. The record is the spine. The intelligence, the education, the community, and the professional network stand on it, and the person stays in control of all of it. 1. ### The living record A Matter carries one consequential legal objective or situation from the first question through everything that follows, and standing knowledge lives beside it. Nothing restarts when the situation changes. 2. ### The intelligence A proprietary, event-driven agentic architecture that keeps a whole matter intelligent as it moves. Structured matter state with late-stage context injection. Contextual grounding over the record and the governing law through Available under NDA 3. ### Contextual education Short lessons that teach a person just enough law to act, woven into the work at the moment it matters. What they have learned stays visible. 4. ### A community of people facing the same things A living, social place to learn from people who have navigated the same kind of matter, built for legal sensitivity. Before a post goes live, an AI safety layer reframes anything that could identify a person or put a case at risk. 5. ### The professional network A two-sided marketplace of vetted attorneys, allied legal professionals, and the investigators and experts a matter needs, each within the role, service, and jurisdiction that permits it. Flat-fee limited-scope engagements at a transparent price, shown before purchase. Representation the professional offers directly, on terms stated before acceptance. The person keeps the matter. The professional brings judgment. Why Briefcase wins ## AI made legal preparation scalable. Trust will decide who owns the category. Trust is the one advantage that can’t be bought, rushed, or copied. And everything else Briefcase builds is an instrument for earning it. 01 Trust is the distribution engine. Better preparation and stronger continuity build trust. Trust drives word of mouth, and word of mouth brings the next person. In a category built on trust, that loop is the advantage, and each turn lowers the cost of the next customer. 02 Answers commoditize. Continuity compounds. Every approved fact, document, deadline, and decision makes Briefcase more useful to the account and harder to replace. A contract reviewed today can be the founding exhibit of a lawsuit in five years. 03 Software scales preparation. Professionals sell judgment. Briefcase turns small matters that were uneconomic into prepared, scoped work a professional can serve profitably. The market grows. It does not shift. The bar becomes an ally in closing the access gap. 04 Our moat is earned trust made structural. Confidentiality by contract with every model provider. A sealed matter no one at Briefcase can read. Controls that run on every change. And a mission bound in law, a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation, which is more credible to courts, regulators, and professionals than a mission asserted in marketing. 05 The first wave of legal AI makes lawyers more efficient. Briefcase turns the demand the profession cannot economically serve into a new category. The vertical winners validate the wedge. The funded horizontal players validate the market. In a market the profession itself polices, trust discipline is non-negotiable. 06 Founder-market fit is the unfair advantage. The technology, the security discipline, the commercial instinct, and the lived experience rarely reside in one founder. He built the platform he needed. Now he is building the category millions need. In this category, trust is the moat. Every matter deepens it. Why now ## Consumer AI opened the courthouse door and stopped at the answer. Self-represented filings surged. Outcomes did not move. Judged blind by law professors, the models’ answers now beat the professors’ own, and a grounded tool makes far fewer mistakes. Briefcase carries the matter from the first question to resolution. 25% fewer submissions containing hallucinations when law students worked with retrieval-grounded AI than without AI in one randomized trial. Schwarcz, Manning, Prescott and colleagues, 2026 AI-Powered Lawyering Three submissions contained hallucinations with Vincent AI versus four without AI—a small descriptive difference, not a statistically established reduction in risk. 75% of blinded head-to-head comparisons in which law professors preferred an AI answer to a fellow professor's, on first-year contracts questions. Stanford Law School, 2026 Law Professors Prefer AI Over Peer Answers Salinas, Nyarko and colleagues: sixteen U.S. law professors, 40 questions, 2,918 comparisons. The models were flagged as pedagogically harmful in 3.5% of evaluations against 12.1% for the professors. 47% rise in self-represented federal civil filings in two years: 16.8% of filings in fiscal 2025, from 11.4% in 2023 after two decades near 11%. Shah and Levy, 2026 Access to Justice in the Age of AI: Evidence from U.S. Federal Courts Non-prisoner federal civil filings only. Case outcomes did not detectably change, and self-represented wins stayed under 1%. 2× the quality-adjusted legal work from law students working with AI on the most demanding tasks, with gains of 50 to 130 percent across five of six, largest for the least experienced. Schwarcz, Manning, Prescott and colleagues, 2026 AI-Powered Lawyering The same trial. Productivity rose 50 to 130 percent, most where legal infrastructure is absent. > For those who cannot afford a lawyer, AI can help. It drives new, highly accessible tools that provide answers to basic questions, including where to find templates and court forms, how to fill them out, and where to bring them for presentation to the judge—all without leaving home. These tools have the welcome potential to smooth out any mismatch between available resources and urgent needs in our court system. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. 2023 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary, 2023 The founder ## Founder-market fit is the unfair advantage. [Tim Wickstrom](https://www.linkedin.com/in/timwickstrom/) is a 4x founder. At Built Technologies, Nashville’s first fintech unicorn, he was founding CTO and a named inventor on its founding patent filings. After more than two decades building secure, high-stakes software, he fought his own case alone, across from a seasoned attorney. Briefcase is the platform he needed in that courtroom. ## Request access to the data room. Tell Briefcase who you are. 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