ThreadLock: case management for people representing themselves

Context

People who handle civil matters without an attorney (landlord-tenant, small claims, custody, divorce, child support, visitation) lose ground not on the merits but on the mechanics. Evidence lives in texts, photos, and memory; filings get rejected for assembly errors; deadlines pass. The gap isn’t usually the case. It’s the absence of a system to hold it together.

Approach

ThreadLock is a web-based legal case management platform built for self-represented litigants. Each case is a structured workspace: a daily Journal for logging events, a Timeline that anchors dated incidents to evidence, an Exhibits system with automatic Bates numbering, an Inbox for staging incoming files, and Forms and Filings builders pre-populated with jurisdiction-specific documents.

AI assistance (powered by Vertex AI / Gemini) auto-tags journal entries, extracts incidents, identifies evidence gaps, and drafts declarations, with every output carrying a clear disclaimer that it is not legal advice. The intake behind it runs on SmartBox (patent pending), CompVer’s multi-modal ingestion engine, here tuned to legal evidence: files dropped into the Inbox are read, tagged, and mined for incidents, with the litigant confirming before anything enters the record. Attorneys and paralegals can be invited into a case at controlled access levels, and a built-in marketplace lets a user request limited-scope professional help when they want it.

Outcome

A litigant ends up with a centralized, audit-ready evidence record and properly assembled court filing packages (PDFs with Bates-numbered exhibits and declarations) instead of a folder of loose files. The barrier to competent self-representation drops, without the platform ever standing in for the judgment of a licensed attorney.