Let's have a sidebar. Join the litigation.
Senior litigators know each judge's tendencies by heart — built over 20 years of hearings, war stories, and hallway conversations.
Same statute, same facts, different judge — outcomes diverge wildly. Motion grant rates, time-to-ruling, pre-trial settlement — all judge-specific.
Associates and solos walk in blind. Continuances lost. Wrong motions filed. Clients bill for the learning curve.
Every ruling that's ever been filed is in the record. Nobody has ever made it searchable by judge.Partner · 22 yrs · Business litigation, Palm Beach
Every Florida judge and every active lawyer — a searchable directory with verified Bar records, board certifications, firm affiliations, and ruling history.
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.
J. Waters, Martin County — 1,847 rulings analyzed, 31% MSJ grant rate, 14-day median turnaround.
Bill Lewis, Morgan & Morgan BTG — Bar #64936, double board-certified, 84 filings, 58% overall win rate.
40K litigators × $149/mo → FL-only ceiling
15K civil-trial · highest intent
Live today · $4.3M ARR in 2 counties
We are hereThe sidebar conversation has happened in every courtroom since we've had courtrooms. Sidebar is what happens when that conversation scales.
Every new filing enriches every dossier. By year two, the ruling database is untouchable — not because of the code, but because of the 7 years of historical ingestion behind it.
Our dossiers read like a senior partner's notes — not a Westlaw report. Lawyers trust them. That tone is hard to clone and impossible to outsource.
Once 30% of a county's litigators use Sidebar, the Judge × Attorney graph becomes the canonical reference for that courtroom. Competitors arrive to a closed network.
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.
Free public directory — 98 dossiers today. Indexed for SEO on every FL judge name. Drives inbound from associates, paralegals, and solos already searching.
$149/mo/seat, volume tiers at 10/25/50 seats. Direct-to-partner with a clean procurement story. No RFPs. No enterprise BS.
$240 blended CAC · $1,788 annual ACV per seat · 7.5× payback at contribution margin. Beachhead counties unit-economic positive by month 6.
The operating company. 8 portfolio products live, including Armstrong Marine CRM, Eagle Eye (107K PBC profiles), and BioSteamers fleet SaaS. Bias: we ship.
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.
FL clerks pipeline, Bar directory enrichment, board-cert crawler. Same stack that powers our 107K-profile Eagle Eye enrichment engine.
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.
$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.
$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.
Total capital in: $2.0M · Founder liquidity: $250K