Run your whole solo law practice from one place, without hiring a paralegal you cannot afford.
The problem
If you are a solo attorney, you are the whole firm. You do the intake, you clear the conflicts, you open the matter, you docket the deadlines, you draft the documents, you check your own privilege, you log your own time, you reconcile your own trust account, and you send your own invoices. Most people who do this end up stitching together five subscriptions and a spreadsheet, and the thing that eventually breaks is not the software, it is the deadline nobody was watching, or the trust reconciliation nobody had time to run.
Big firms solve this by hiring people. You do not have that option, and the enterprise practice-management tools are priced for the firms that do.
How it works
Solo Practice OS is one conversational surface over the work, not another set of forms to fill in by hand. You ask it to open a matter, and it runs the conflict check first (before the matter exists, not after). You ask what is due this week, and it reads your docket across your active matters. You ask for an invoice, and it drafts one from the time you already logged, and holds it for you to review before anything goes out.
It is built from the same SCE legal engine that powers the firm-scale suite, deliberately narrowed to the solo subset. It leaves out the parts a one-person shop does not need (team assignment, dual-authorization approval chains), and it keeps the parts a one-person shop cannot afford to skip (the conflict check and the privilege check are ethics gates, and they surface, they never silently pass).
What you get
- Intake and conflict checking (the conflict check runs before a matter opens, and a hit blocks the open)
- Client and matter management (open, update, and list your book of business)
- Docketing (create deadlines, and ask what is coming up across every active matter)
- Drafting and review (draft a document, review it, and run a privilege check on it)
- Legal research (search caselaw and statutes by jurisdiction, and format the citations)
- Time-keeping (log billable time against a matter as you work)
- Trust balance (see where each client trust stands, gated so nothing moves without your say-so)
- Invoicing (draft an invoice from logged time, held for your review, never auto-charged)
Who it is for
Solo attorneys and freshly-hung shingles who are the entire firm. Two-to-three-person micro-firms who want practice-management without enterprise pricing. It is the paid on-ramp from the free ARGUS Docket Watch, so if you already trust the free docket alerts, this is the next step.
It is not for mid-size and large firms that need matter staffing and multi-approver sign-off, that is the firm-scale SCE suite, not this.
Pricing
These are starting hypotheses, and we would rather hear from you than guess.
- Free trial, up to three active matters, no card, so you can open a matter and clear a conflict before you pay anything.
- Solo, around 79 dollars a month, one seat, everything above with unlimited matters.
- Micro-firm, around 129 dollars a month, two to three seats with a shared book.
Every step that touches money or trust is FAIL-CLOSED. An invoice is drafted and held for your confirmation, and nothing charges a card or moves trust funds without you explicitly saying yes.
Proof (the honest dogfood)
We run this on ourselves before we sell it to you. The founder has a real, active pro se housing matter (440 Irving), and that matter is the test case: it is opened as a matter, its deadlines are docketed, its documents are drafted and privilege-checked, and its research is run through the exact same SCE atoms this product composes. We practice on a case that actually matters, on zero spend, with the money steps kept draft-only.
An honest note
We are not going to tell you this runs your practice today, because we have not proven that yet. Here is exactly where it stands. The deliverable is built as a composition of eighteen already-verified SCE capabilities, it passes our pattern-quality bar (score 85, grade B), and every capability it references resolves on disk. What we have not done is run it end to end on a live system: no booted mesh, no live database write, no invoice actually drafted against a running acolyte. The capabilities exist, and existing is not the same as executing. The first real test is a live run opening the 440 Irving matter end to end, and until that run terminates with captured evidence, we will not claim it runs your practice. When it does, this note gets updated with the receipt.
*This page is a specification. The capability it describes is not built yet, and nothing here is a claim that it runs today.*