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Legal technology · The operating system for divorce · Ongoing

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The problem

Divorce is an emotional event wrapped in an enormous administrative machine, and the machine is billed by the hour by somebody whose meter starts when you say hello. Most of it is paperwork that does not need a lawyer at all, but the parts that do are buried inside the parts that do not, so people either overpay for everything or attempt all of it alone.

The constraintLegal guidance that is wrong is worse than none, so every answer has to show the source it came from and say when a licensed human is worth the hour. And the case file holds the most private facts of a life.

What I did

Founder, product designer and engineer. Counsel and its sourcing, the fifty-one state guides and the checking against official court sources, the document drafting, the money and parenting tools, Untangle, the professional marketplace and booking, the plans, and the public site.

Scale
  • 51 state and DC guides
  • 12 documents drafted from a case
  • 9 kinds of professional by the hour
  • 0 retainers
ArchitectureKindSplitIX
  1. 01Counsel: an AI divorce lawyer that answers from the state rules and the case
  2. 02Every answer shows its sources, and says when a licensed lawyer is worth the hour
  3. 03Fifty-one guides, every state and DC, checked against the official court sources
  4. 04Forms and filing: twelve documents drafted from the case, with the deadlines tracked
  5. 05Money and property: classify the assets, run the support and division formulas
  6. 06Parenting: custody schedules and a parenting plan built from them
  7. 07Untangle: the accounts, titles and beneficiaries to move after it is over
  8. 08Nine kinds of professional bookable by the hour, no retainers, pay on booking
  9. 09Three ways through: self-guided, guided with a case specialist, attorney-backed
  10. 10A free tier with a daily question limit, so nobody is priced out of the first step

Split fairly. Stay kind.

Divorce is an emotional event wrapped in an enormous administrative machine. Forms, deadlines, disclosures, formulas, titles and accounts, all arriving at the worst possible time, and all of it priced by the hour by somebody whose meter starts when you say hello. Most divorces do not need a lawyer for everything. They need the right expert for the right hour.

So the machine is the product. Counsel is an artificial intelligence divorce lawyer that answers from the rules of your state and the facts of your own case, shows every source behind an answer, drafts the letters and the documents, and tells you plainly when this is the hour to pay a licensed lawyer. Behind it sit fifty-one guides, one for every state and the District of Columbia, each checked against that state\'s official court sources rather than summarised from the internet.

Around Counsel are the parts of a divorce that are pure administration. Forms and filing drafts twelve documents from the case and tracks what is due when. Money and property classifies the assets and runs the support and division formulas. Parenting turns a custody schedule into a parenting plan. Untangle handles the part nobody warns you about: the accounts, the titles and the beneficiaries that still have the wrong name on them a year later.

Where a person is needed, nine kinds of professional are bookable by the hour, with no retainers and nothing paid until a booking is made. Three ways through, depending on how much help the case wants: self-guided, guided with a case specialist, or attorney-backed with a licensed lawyer. Free to start, and the case file holds the most private facts of a life, which is the standard the whole thing is built to.

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Where to next

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Independent practice

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TypeFraunces · Instrument Serif · Inter Tight · JetBrains Mono
PaletteCream · Obsidian · Oxblood · Saffron
BuiltBy hand, in the open
RuntimeShared hosting · No third-party trackers
MotionLenis smooth scroll · WebGL atmosphere · Reduced-motion honored