Four platforms now help self-represented litigants organize documents and draft filings. None of them help a person figure out whether they even need an attorney, find the right one based on real case history, reach that attorney with a pitch worth answering, and carry the work from one rejection to the next. The preparation lane stopped at the packet. Bonne Foi is the bridge.
Five things the preparation tools do not, built to route rather than rebuild:
A paying company cannot tell a paying user "you don't need us, go use this other product." We can, because the mission is the person's outcome, not our revenue. That same honesty is why clinics, legal aid offices, and the access-to-justice programs Anthropic backs can stand behind a named nonprofit. It is a structural advantage, not a slogan.
We are assembling three to five founding advisors: a litigation pro bono leader, a legal aid director, a clinical professor, an access-to-justice figure, and an ethics expert.
With one founding name attached, every later conversation shifts from "I have an idea" to "we have institutional backing." No financial commitment is required.
A working interactive prototype and a live product walkthrough exist today. This is a build in motion, not a pitch.
Designed as the missing triage and outreach connector for Claude for Legal. Routes to Courtroom5, Prosei, and legal aid.
A bar-ethics opinion gates outreach in week one. Public case data only. The client always initiates and personalizes.
She is not a lawyer. She is an inventor who stumbled into this. A polymath born in New Orleans and raised across the Deep South, she began in politics and community organizing for the next generation and underserved communities. Founder and CEO of Preemadonna, creator of Nailbot. Lead inventor on 9+ utility patents across hardware, computer vision, and software. Cofounded Soorma Ventures. Entrepreneur-in-Residence at JumpStart. MBA from the University of Chicago Booth, BA from Northwestern. Former board member at MakerGirl. Prior training as a domestic violence counselor. When she hit a complex multi-party legal problem, she called firm after firm, got no calls back, and taught herself the law. The hailstorm has not let up: in the past eight months an eviction notice plus civil and corporate matters have converged in her own life. She runs at startup intensity and deliberately chose the nonprofit structure this problem requires, which is the whole reason the quadrant below stayed empty until now.
Two axes describe the legal-tech landscape today. The consumer-initiated infrastructure quadrant was not buildable before AI made the routing and translation tractable. Bonne Foi is the first thing in it.
The empty quadrant was not buildable before AI made the routing and translation tractable. Upsolve proved a nonprofit can serve this side at scale, for a single form. Bonne Foi does it across every civil matter, and integrates into the systems that exist instead of rebuilding them. We are filling the quadrant.