For boutique litigation firms
Take the cases you used to turn away.
A good case can die in the workup — the document review, the chronology, the exhibits that bury an associate for a month before you even know what you've got. Matterfile puts that work in the client's hands, AI-assisted, and hands you back a sourced, filing-ready case file.
The intake math
The workup is where good cases go to die.
Every matter starts the same way: a client with a mountain of documents and a story only they fully know.
Turning that into something you can evaluate — let alone file — is weeks of associate time. The client resents paying to have their own records organized; you write the hours down.
So the document-heavy case, the mid-value case, the one you'd take if it cost less to find out — gets a measured no. Not for lack of merit. For lack of hours.
What it is
You point it at the folder. It does the workup.
Point Matterfile at the case material — emails, contracts, filings, texts, notes — and it triages, maps, builds a sourced chronology, and drafts the first pleadings.
How it works
From a shoebox of files to a case you can read.
Triage
Reads the whole pile and surfaces what matters: the documents, the people, the threads worth pulling. The shoebox becomes a map.
Chronology
Extracts the facts into a sourced timeline; nothing asserted without a verbatim quote and a path to the document behind it.
Pleadings
Drafts the opening filings from the record the client built — a petition you redline, not a blank page.
The client builds the record; you get the work product, ready to read. See the pipeline in depth →
What lands on your desk
Filing-ready, not a folder dump.
What you receive is work product — ordered, sourced, and ready for counsel — not a tidied-up download.
See the full case file →A sourced chronology
Who did what, when — with the verbatim quote and the path to its source.
An exhibit index
The documents that matter, pulled from the noise, numbered and ordered.
Draft pleadings
A first petition you redline, not write from scratch.
A reading order for counsel
The case in the order you'd want to learn it.
Why it pays
Run the math on a case you'd have declined.
Whichever way you bill, the workup is the cost. Move it off your desk and the math changes.
On contingency
- Less of your capital at risk — the client pre-builds the record.
- More cases worth the bet — the barrier was the workup, not the merit.
On the clock
- Bill strategy, not sorting — higher realization, fewer write-downs.
- Faster to filing, and a lower-maintenance client.
Sourced, not summarized
Every fact shows its work — the verbatim quote and the document behind it. Nothing asserted you can't stand behind.
Get started
Take the next one.
Open a matter and the workup starts the same afternoon — the first one is free for fourteen days, no card.
If you handle complex, document-heavy matters — commercial, partnership, IP, employment — and you've passed on cases the workup made impossible, this is built for you.