Hello Divorce

Court filing is a logistics nightmare — every jurisdiction has different rules (e-filing vs paper, specific cover sheets, local requirements), deadlines are non-negotiable, and small firms can't afford a full-time filing runner or courthouse messenger

Solo/small attorney sees the market moving toward flat-fee unbundled legal services (estate plans, LLC formations, uncontested divorces) but can't build client-facing intake-to-document-to-payment workflows without custom software development or expensive consultants — the gap between 'I know this should be automated' and actually doing it is too wide

Solo or small firm attorney pays $25-50/month per user for DocuSign or Adobe Sign just to get engagement letters and retainer agreements signed — the firm sends maybe 15 documents a month and doesn't need enterprise features, but there's no middle ground between free tools with no audit trail and expensive enterprise platforms

Patent attorney drafting a 30-page specification has to manually verify that every reference label ('processor 235', 'memory 240', 'display 245') is used consistently across the specification, claims, and drawings — one mislabelled reference or antecedent basis error can trigger a USPTO objection that costs the client $2,000+ in additional prosecution fees and delays the application by months

Board meeting prep is a quarterly fire drill — the corporate secretary scrambles to assemble board books from 6 different sources, track director consents across time zones, maintain minutes archives, and ensure governance resolutions are properly filed, all while the GC changes the agenda 48 hours before the meeting.

Couple going through a relatively straightforward uncontested divorce is quoted $10,000-15,000+ per person by traditional family law attorneys — for what amounts to filling out state-specific forms, negotiating a few asset splits, and filing paperwork. They don't need a full-service attorney for every step, but they also can't afford to mess up court filings that affect custody, property division, and their financial future. Need a middle ground between 'hire a $350/hr attorney for everything' and 'download blank forms from the court website and hope for the best'

Government records officer gets a FOIA request for social media posts from 18 months ago — the agency's Twitter account has 12,000 posts, nobody saved the deleted ones, and the agency has 10 business days to respond before the requester escalates. Manual scrolling through social media history is not a compliance strategy

Family law solo practitioner wants to offer affordable unbundled services — document review, limited-scope representation, mediation — to the growing market of people who can't afford full representation but need more than a DIY form tool. But building a client self-service portal, automating state-specific forms, handling intake and scheduling, and marketing to price-sensitive consumers is a full startup's worth of work for a one-attorney shop