Matter management that stays out of your way.

Matters, contracts, documents, time tracking, and billing in one local-first app — with Bates numbering, client correspondence, and a hosted option for firms that want their data managed for them.

No credit card required. Free while in early access.

Local-first by default

Your firm's data lives on your own machine unless you choose hosted. No vendor lock-in, no forced cloud upload.

Built for how firms actually work

Matter numbering, client/counterparty tracking, and contract lifecycle fields — not a generic project tracker with legal terms bolted on.

Hosted when you're ready

Move to a managed, multi-user hosted plan without changing how your data is structured — same app, same schema.

Everything a matter touches, in one place

Matters & Contracts

Auto-numbered matters, contract lifecycle tracking (renewal dates, obligations, auto-renew flags), and relationship links between related matters.

Documents & Bates Numbering

Version-tracked document storage with drift detection, and one-click Bates stamping that creates a numbered copy sized to the document's page count.

Time & Billing

Per-matter time entries roll straight into generated invoices, with per-client billable summaries and matter-numbered invoice tracking.

Client Correspondence

Email intake with local, on-device AI matter suggestions — nothing sent to a third party for classification.

Global Search

One search across matters, documents, notes, time entries, and correspondence — find anything without knowing which table it lives in.

Secure by construction

Local desktop mode never leaves your machine. Hosted mode isolates every firm's data in its own database — never shared tables, never shared rows.

Security, stated plainly

We'd rather tell you exactly what's true today than lean on vague badges. Ask us anything — we'll give you a straight answer.

Local-first by default

The desktop app can run entirely on your own machine. Nothing is required to leave your building unless you choose hosted.

Isolated hosted databases

Hosted mode gives every firm its own database — never shared tables, never shared rows with any other firm's data.

Encrypted in transit

Every hosted connection runs over TLS, terminated with an auto-renewing certificate — not a self-signed placeholder.

Hashed credentials, hashed keys

User passwords are hashed with bcrypt. API keys are hashed before storage. Neither is ever stored or logged in plain text.

Local AI

Email/matter classification runs on-device with an embedded model — nothing is sent to a third-party AI service to process it.

Encrypted at rest, precisely

Hosted data sits on a LUKS2 volume (AES-256-XTS). Being specific about the limit: the volume unlocks automatically at boot, so this protects the disk if it's detached, snapshotted, or decommissioned — it is not protection against someone who already has root on the running server.

Early access, honestly

We're not SOC 2 certified — no early-stage company legitimately is. A formal third-party audit is on our roadmap, not a claim we're making yet.

Simple, per-seat pricing

Early access — pricing may change as we finalize the hosted plan. Talk to us for current rates.

Local

Free

Desktop app, your own machine, your own database.

  • Full matter & document management
  • Time tracking & invoicing
  • Local AI email classification
  • No account required
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