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Use cases

# For the day it gets real.

A Matter carries one consequential legal objective or situation. These are the ones people, families, founders, and operators bring, named plainly and grouped the way they arrive. One platform for every contract, decision, deadline, and dispute.

127 named situations across three domains

What Briefcase does

## Name the situation. Briefcase carries it.

Every situation here is answered in the same five moves. What Briefcase does in each one is written beside it.

1. 01

   Establish it.

2. 02

   Understand it.

3. 03

   Keep it current.

4. 04

   Work through it.

5. 05

   Ready when it counts.

The three domains

## Three domains, one record.

The affairs of a family, the company being built, and the business being run. Every situation here belongs to one of them, and the record carries all three.

- 01 · Personal and family · 45 situations in 11 groups

  Put the plans, authority, and information your family needs in place before the moment arrives.

  Caregiving and the slow slide into incapacity · The scam economy · Digital and modern life · Family formation · Health and the law · and 6 more

  [Every use case for personal and family](https://nextbriefcase.com/use-cases/personal-and-family)

- 02 · Founders and startups · 27 situations in 6 groups

  Build the company on a legal foundation you understand and control.

  Formation, ownership and founder control · Fundraising and investor readiness · People, equity and intellectual property · Customers, vendors and routine agreements · Governance and cross-functional operations · and 1 more

  [Every use case for founders and startups](https://nextbriefcase.com/use-cases/founders-and-startups)

- 03 · Business and teams · 55 situations in 14 groups

  Turn the documents your business runs on into an intelligent operating record.

  Landlords and property managers · Restaurants, retail and hospitality · Trades, construction and contractors · Healthcare and professional practices · Creators, influencers and e-commerce · and 9 more

  [Every use case for business and teams](https://nextbriefcase.com/use-cases/business-and-operator)

One record

## Your legal life should not start over with every legal matter.

One living record carries every one of them. Each situation begins from the understanding, documents, deadlines, and decisions already in the record, so a new decision, transaction, or dispute starts from the legal capability you have already built. A lawsuit is one event the foundation carries.

Pilots start as early as October 1, 2026.