Every citation. Every pin cite. Every holding. Verified before it ever reaches your draft.
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No account, no credit card. Streaming, real-time, against the live system. Every citation is verified before you see it. 50 questions per day from your IP — more than enough to know whether this is what you need.
Ask anything in Utah civil, criminal, family, housing, employment, appellate, or discovery practice. Try one of the prompts below, or type your own.
The work that can't go wrong.
Four pillars. One outcome: an answer that holds up — to a court, to opposing counsel, to your own next read. Discovery and case management for attorneys. Verified law for everyone.
Discovery & case management
The most stressful part of practice, made the most predictable. Interrogatories, requests for production, RFAs, disclosures, subpoenas, depo notices, meet-and-confer letters, privilege logs — drafted to the format your court expects. Opposing discovery audited for what's missing, evasive, or sanctionable. Every deadline tracked, every docket update surfaced, nothing slips. The week you used to dread, run on rails.
Ask & get
Plain-English questions. Plain-English answers from real, current law. No invented cases. No probabilistic guessing. Every citation is one you can verify yourself against the actual opinion. Whether you're a litigator chasing a quick standard or a pro se litigant trying to understand what just got served on you — the answer is the answer.
Draft & defend
Motions, briefs, complaints, responses, declarations — drafted in the format each court actually accepts. Drop in your own draft and it tightens the argument, supplies the authority, fixes the format, leaves your voice. You stay the author; the work gets sharper.
Audit & strategize PRO
Drop in any filing — yours or the other side's — and get the truth back: what's solid, what's broken, what's fabricated. On PRO, that audit becomes strategy: case-strength score, theory of the case, the moves available, the moves the other side is telegraphing, and a structured deliberation across multiple top-tier systems before anything reaches you.
Briefs that survive the structural cut.
Appellate work has rules most trial lawyers don't think about until the brief gets bounced. We do — every structural element, every word limit, every standard of review, every preservation question — so the substance is what gets read.
Brief audit.
Paste any opening, answering, or reply brief. Get back a structural read in seconds — what's missing, what's malformed, what's about to get the brief rejected — plus a substantive read on PRO that grades issue statements, matches the standard of review to the ruling, and flags arguments that look unpreserved.
Standard-of-review lookup.
Describe the ruling. Get the governing standard with the canonical citation. Curated, not improvised. The kind of answer you'd otherwise spend an hour confirming.
Deadline engine.
Trigger date in, due date out. Tolling motions handled. Cross-appeal clocks restarted. Government-party windows expanded. The whole appellate calendar on one calculator instead of in your head.
Appellate drafter.
Opening, answering, reply, cross-appeal, petition for rehearing, petition for review, motion to stay, motion to supplement, amicus — drafted to structure with verified citations and the word limit honored.
Cannot hallucinate. By design.
Most "legal AI" is a probabilistic chatbot wired to the open internet — confidently wrong on the things that matter. We built something fundamentally different. The full architecture is proprietary and the math is the moat. What you see is the result.
Doesn't fabricate.
Every fact, every citation, every claim is checked against an actual source before it reaches you. There is no "the model said it, so it must be true" step. If the answer can't be backed up, you're told — clearly, with the reason — instead of being handed a confident lie.
Knows the law.
Curated. Comprehensive. Continuously refreshed. Not scraped from the internet at request time, not borrowed from somebody else's index — held in a closed, deliberate library and tended carefully so the answer you get today reflects the law as it stands today.
Multi-system verified.
Several independent verification layers must agree before a result carries our verified stamp. No single model, no single source, no single point of failure. Disagreement is surfaced; consensus is earned, not assumed.
Built for stakes.
Designed by a trial attorney with over a decade in court. Tuned for the cases — and the lives — that can't go sideways. Every design decision answered the same question: would I bet a client's outcome on this? If not, fix it.
POST /api/tools/appellate-audit on production, structural-only pass. No account, no token, no model invocation. Response is the real JSON.Three tiers. No gotchas.
PRO is the full system — every tool, every depth, every verification. Pick how you want to pay. Every plan holds the same verified-answer guarantee.
- All nine tools, full depth
- Discovery + case management suite
- Audit + strategy depth
- Unlimited matters + linked cases
- Everything in PRO Monthly
- Priority verification queue
- Premium model access
- Direct line to the builder
- Everything in PRO
- Top-tier deliberation access
- Team seats + shared matters
- White-glove onboarding
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"I built it because I'd rather the record be right than the answer be fast."
I'm Richard Sanders — a Utah trial attorney, Bar #15728, admitted 2015. I built BenchSlap PRO because I watched too many attorneys, including myself, spend a Friday night proofing cites by hand when the math should do it. Nothing in this tool is magic; every claim is either in the stored text or blocked. If you use it and it's wrong, tell me. richard@option.black.