the operating system for solo & small firms

The firm that can't forget.

Casebound runs your practice — matters, drafting, billing, and compliance on one data model, with the ethics rules enforced by the database instead of your memory.

Built inside a real California practice
Every AI draft carries provenance and your sign-off
Conflicts checked before any matter can open
 matter/2026-0114 · finalize draft
draftengagement_letter_v3 · claude · provenance ✓
precedent001 · APPROVED ✓
dispositionnone recorded
RELEASE BLOCKED

This draft cannot reach the client until an attorney disposition is recorded. Not "shouldn't." Cannot.

the problem

You're running five systems by hand.

Demand, conversion, production, delivery, economics. Production eats the rest — and the tools don't help each other.

Your practice management system knows the matter but not what the documents say. Your AI tool drafts but doesn't know the client, the fee posture, or the deadline. Compliance lives in a spreadsheet, and the spreadsheet lives on your discipline at 11pm.

The result is re-keying, shadow systems, and judgment time lost to administration.

what changes

Whole categories of work stop existing.

delete

The work disappears

  • First drafts. Generated from your own precedents with full matter context. You review and sign. You don't retype.
  • The conflicts ritual. A matter structurally cannot open without a cleared check on file.
  • Docketing as a job. Deadlines and obligations spawn from the matters themselves.
  • File reconstruction. The answer to "what happened" already exists — append-only, versioned, attributed.
consolidate

One data model

Practice management, documents, drafting, billing, and compliance aren't integrated — they're the same system. The safety guarantees are only possible when everything lives together: you can't block an invoice that contradicts the fee agreement when billing lives in another product.

Integration is what makes ethics structural instead of aspirational.

convert

Discipline, as software

  • A matter cannot open without conflicts cleared.
  • A matter cannot close without a closing letter.
  • No AI draft reaches a client without your recorded review.
  • Trust facts are walled off from operating money. Reconciliation stays at your bank.
  • Every mutation is audited. Even from an admin. Even from us.
You stay the lawyer. The system holds.
lexwright — the drafting engine

AI drafts. You sign.

The bench inside Casebound is called Lexwright. It works from your precedents with full matter context. It makes; it never releases.

Every draft records which model wrote it, from which precedents and sources, under which prompt — and what you decided about it. Accepted, edited, rejected, and why. Your corrections make the next draft better. Your file can answer questions before they're asked.

No autonomous actions. No advice to your clients. No exceptions — because it's enforced as data, not policy.

the gap

The resource gap is why good lawyers give up.

Ask a lawyer why she left solo practice for a 250-lawyer firm and you'll hear the same answer: the difference in resources.

The technology. The precedent bank. The staff. Someone down the hall.

Casebound exists to close that gap. The drafting leverage of an associate pool. A precedent bank that remembers every matter you've run — how you did it last time, as data, not as a memory. Infrastructure that big firms build with millions and you get with a login.

Solo, not small.

proof

Dogfooded is an understatement.

Casebound isn't built from customer interviews. It runs a real California practice every working day.

Intake to engagement to drafting to invoice to closing letter. Nothing ships until it has billed a real matter in a real firm with a real bar number on the line.

When we say the gates hold, we mean they've held on us.

objections, welcomed

You've been burned by legal tech. Fair.

How is this different from the AI tools I've tried?

Casebound makes one kind of claim: mechanisms, not outcomes. Every promise on this page is a database constraint you can watch refuse to break. The AI never acts alone — every output carries provenance and waits for your recorded disposition before it can reach a client.

Where does my client data go?

Your tenant's data is isolated at the database layer, encrypted at rest, and AI context is assembled only from the matter at hand. It goes to exactly one approved AI provider, and nowhere else.

What about my trust account?

Casebound records trust obligations as facts and keeps trust rails and operating rails physically separate. It will never take a payment into trust, and it does no ledger math — your bank reconciliation stays authoritative.

Will it fit how I bill?

Flat, hourly, subscription, capped — fee arrangements are first-class, and invoices are generated from them, not from a template you fight.

Practice law. The rest is handled.

Casebound is opening to a small number of solo and small-firm design partners. Bring one real matter type — we'll show you it running end-to-end.

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