Local and Municipal Courts
Small courts carry full caseloads without dedicated technology staff. Our engagements are sized so a small court can buy them and absorb them.
The situation
You have the same obligations as a court twenty times your size, with a fraction of the staff and no one whose job is technology. The public still expects to do things on a phone.
Most vendors are not built for your budget, and most consultancies are not interested in an engagement this size. The work that would help most, a usable public portal or a process that no longer generates paper, often does not happen at all.
The work that usually comes first
Each page sets out what the work involves in verbs, the artifacts it produces, how the engagement runs phase by phase, and what your agency owns at the end.
Custom Digital Solutions
We design and build the public-facing side of your court: websites, portals, self-help services, and applications.
AI Implementation
We build a working pilot to your adopted AI policy, with a person reviewing every decision that touches a case, and measure it against criteria agreed in advance.
AI Readiness and Strategy
We assess your systems and data for AI readiness, draft an AI use policy for your adoption, and deliver a sequenced plan with costs.
A reasonable place to start
Nothing here requires a full modernization program to begin. This engagement is scoped in writing, priced on its own, and ends at a decision your agency makes with everything it produced already in hand.
What you own at the end
Every artifact is yours in editable source, written so another firm could execute it. Anything we build sits in your own repository from the first commit. If we operate it for you afterwards, self-hosting stays available and moving between the options is priced in advance.
Readiness and Modernization Roadmap
We interview your staff, review your systems and data, and deliver a modernization plan your agency can act on: what to do first, what it costs, and what it depends on.
- Price
- From $18,000
- Timeline
- 6 to 8 weeks
What your team uses
- An AI use policy drafted for your adoption, with a tool-vetting rubric and an approved-tool list for staff
- Your agency's modernization knowledge base, delivered as a working wiki: the systems, data, and integration inventory, the interview findings, and the decisions, ready for your team to keep current
- A scored readiness baseline, by system and capability, that your team can re-score to track progress
- A sequenced roadmap with costed options, prepared for your budget process
What we need from your team
- A working session with your IT lead and clerk of court
- Interviews with the people who do the work, about 6 hours total
- Read access to system documentation, not to case data
The safe first step
The readiness assessment is free, takes about 20 minutes, and returns a scored report you keep. It creates no obligation, no call, and no follow-up.