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Judicial Intelligence · Florida

Know the judge.
Know the lawyer.
Win the hearing.

Let's have a sidebar. Join the litigation.

Round
Seed · $1.5M
Post-Money
$8–12M
Stage
Live Beta · FL
Market
115K FL Bar · 40K litigators
Sidebar02 / 16 · The Problem
What every litigator already knows

Who the judge is matters more than what the law says.

The open secret

Senior litigators know each judge's tendencies by heart — built over 20 years of hearings, war stories, and hallway conversations.

The pattern is real

Same statute, same facts, different judge — outcomes diverge wildly. Motion grant rates, time-to-ruling, pre-trial settlement — all judge-specific.

The cost of not knowing

Associates and solos walk in blind. Continuances lost. Wrong motions filed. Clients bill for the learning curve.

Florida state-court civilSource: Florida Bar 2025 Practice Survey
Sidebar04 / 16 · The Product
A pre-hearing brief, in one page

Your judge. Opposing counsel. The pattern between them.

The Library

Every Florida judge and every active lawyer — a searchable directory with verified Bar records, board certifications, firm affiliations, and ruling history.

56 Judges 40 Attorneys 98 Dossiers Live Beta

The Brief

Load a case. Sidebar assembles the pre-hearing read: judge's base rates for your motion type, opposing counsel's history in this courtroom, and the live docket feed for every change.

Docket ingestion Motion fingerprint Judge × Attorney graph
Dossier Depth
12 sections
Bio, playbook, tendencies, cases, writing sample.
Docket Sources
20 counties
FL clerks + myflcourtaccess + DCA feeds.
Brief Time
<60s
From case number to printable brief.
Cross-Linked
100%
Every judge → attorneys. Every attorney → judges.
Sidebar05 / 16 · Inside a Judge Dossier
The Judge

Every bench, read.

Ruling styleMSJ grant rates · turnaround days · continuance policy
PlaybookLead with · avoid · discovery · scheduling · oral argument
Recent rulingsCase · motion · outcome · days-to-rule — fully indexed
Frequent counselWho appears, how often, with what outcomes
Courtroom logisticsHearing days · remote policy · judicial assistant

J. Waters, Martin County — 1,847 rulings analyzed, 31% MSJ grant rate, 14-day median turnaround.

armstrongalliancegroup.io/sidebar/dossier.html?id=j-waters
Judge Waters dossier
Live dossier · 56 judges in coverageSource: 19th Circuit public records
Sidebar06 / 16 · Inside an Attorney Dossier
armstrongalliancegroup.io/sidebar/dossier.html?id=a-lewis
William B. Lewis dossier
The Lawyer Across the Table

Every filing, fingerprinted.

Bar recordBar # · status · eligibility · board certs — verified against FL Bar
Motion fingerprintMSJ cadence · discovery style · continuance rate · brief length
Win rates by judgeOpposing counsel's track record in this courtroom
Recent casesCase · court · role · result · client-facing summary
ReputationSuper Lawyers · Best Lawyers · ABOTA · Chambers — linked

Bill Lewis, Morgan & Morgan BTG — Bar #64936, double board-certified, 84 filings, 58% overall win rate.

Live dossier · 40 attorneys · 40/40 verified against The Florida BarSource: FL Bar · forthepeople.com · PBC Clerk
Sidebar07 / 16 · The Library
Live beta · armstrongalliancegroup.io/sidebar

Every judge, every attorney — in one place.

Live iframe · 56 judges · 40 attorneysFL Bar data verified April 2026
Sidebar08 / 16 · Market · Florida
The Florida numbers

Every courtroom in Florida. Every lawyer who walks into one.

FL state-level judges
1,006
Trial + appellate · every circuit & county indexed
FL Bar members
115K
Active-status attorneys · public record
Active civil litigators
40K
SAM · the exact buyer for Sidebar
Board-cert civil-trial
15K
Tip-of-the-spear wedge · highest willingness-to-pay
FL SAM
$72M

40K litigators × $149/mo → FL-only ceiling

Wedge · Board-cert + BigLaw lit
$27M

15K civil-trial · highest intent

Beachhead · PBC + Martin
2,400

Live today · $4.3M ARR in 2 counties

We are here
Sources: FL Bar 2025 member report · FL OSCA judicial roster · FL Bar BLSE certsAll figures from public record
Sidebar10 / 16 · Competition
The legal-tech landscape

Giants built for federal. We're state-first, judge-first.

Lex MachinaIP & federal analytics
Federal dockets, patent litigation, employment. Strong on PACER data. Weak on state courts.
Not state
PremonitionWin-rate analytics
Attorney win rates cross-referenced by court. Thin judge profiles. Enterprise-only pricing.
Not judge-depth
Westlaw Litigation AnalyticsThomson Reuters
Bolt-on to Westlaw. Expensive. Federal bias. No daily docket feed.
Not daily
Bloomberg Law Litigation AnalyticsBloomberg
Strong antitrust & securities. Limited state coverage. Built for BigLaw.
Not small-firm
SidebarState-first judicial intelligence
Every FL judge and every active FL attorney. Daily docket ingestion. $149/mo, solo and small-firm pricing.
State · Judge · Daily
Sidebar12 / 16 · Traction
Day 22 of live beta

Product built. Dossiers live. Bar data verified.

Live dossiers
98
19th + 15th circuits · expanding to 17th + 11th
Bar records verified
40/40
Every attorney cross-referenced to FL Bar
Board certs cataloged
18
Business Lit · Civil Trial · RE · Appellate · more
Discovery interviews
27
Partners · solos · in-house · judicial clerks
Q2 2026 · Now
Live beta · Martin + PBC · 98 dossiers shipped
Q3 2026
Broward + Miami-Dade · 400 dossiers · first 50 paid seats
Q4 2026
Full 20-county FL · 1,200 dossiers · $50K MRR
2027
Georgia & Texas expansion · Series A
Sidebar13 / 16 · Go-to-market
How we win the first 1,000 seats

Not Westlaw. Not a cold sales team. A real product lawyers talk about.

Ground game

Partner briefings at PBC, Martin, and Broward bar associations. CLE-adjacent demos. One county at a time until our Judge × Attorney graph is the reference.

The Library as magnet

Free public directory — 98 dossiers today. Indexed for SEO on every FL judge name. Drives inbound from associates, paralegals, and solos already searching.

Firm-wide pricing

$149/mo/seat, volume tiers at 10/25/50 seats. Direct-to-partner with a clean procurement story. No RFPs. No enterprise BS.

CAC target

$240 blended CAC · $1,788 annual ACV per seat · 7.5× payback at contribution margin. Beachhead counties unit-economic positive by month 6.

Sidebar14 / 16 · Team
Who's building this

Operators + editors + technologists — in one room.

Armstrong Alliance Group

The operating company. 8 portfolio products live, including Armstrong Marine CRM, Eagle Eye (107K PBC profiles), and BioSteamers fleet SaaS. Bias: we ship.

8 products · live South Florida · since 2023

Editorial desk

Former legal journalism + long-form editorial. Every dossier passes an editor before it's shipped. This is why lawyers read them instead of scanning them.

Editor-first Voice over volume

Data engineering

FL clerks pipeline, Bar directory enrichment, board-cert crawler. Same stack that powers our 107K-profile Eagle Eye enrichment engine.

20 county clerks 107K profile system live
Sidebar15 / 16 · Round Structure
How the $2M comes together

A credentialed co-founder, a syndicate of lawyer-angels, a priced seed.

§01 · Chief Legal Officer — Co-founder

Senior FL litigator joins as CLO on 10–12% equity, 4-yr vest, 1-yr cliff. Brings Bar credibility, docket access, and the .law domain. No cash in — this is the hire, not the raise.

Equity onlyCo-founder

§02 · Lawyer-angel syndicate

$500K on a $5M SAFE cap from 3–5 senior partners at $50–150K each. Each becomes a paying firm on day one and a referral source in their section of the Bar.

$500K SAFE~8% effective

§03 · Priced seed — institutional VC

$1.5M at $6M pre (~20% dilution). Legal-tech-literate fund with state-first thesis. 18–24 months to $1M ARR and Series A. Founder secondary of $250K negotiated into the round.

$1.5M priced20% post
Post-close cap table

Total capital in: $2.0M · Founder liquidity: $250K

Founder
~60%
CLO / Legal
10%
Lawyer angels
8%
Seed VC + pool
22%
Illustrative · subject to diligence & final terms4-yr vest, 1-yr cliff · standard seed docs