Send Us Your Word Docs. We Handle the Rest.

One of the most common questions we get from attorneys evaluating DocketDrafter is not about the technology. It is not about AI, hallucinations, or pricing. It is some version of: "How much of my time is this going to take to set up?"

The answer is about 30 minutes.

That is not the time it takes us to build your playbook. That takes a few weeks. It is the total time you, the customer, will spend doing anything at all before the platform is ready to use. You send us Word documents. We do the rest.

What You Send Us

We need two or three .docx files for each document type you want the system to handle. If you want answers, send us two or three recent answers you have filed. If you want summary judgment oppositions, send us two or three of those. Discovery demands, same thing.

These do not need to be templates. They do not need variables or placeholders or any special formatting. They just need to be recent filings that represent how your firm currently drafts. The most recent ones are best, because those reflect your current style, arguments, and case law.

That is it. That is everything you send us.

What We Do With Them

This is where the work happens, and none of it is yours.

First, we make sure the output formatting is going to match. Margins, fonts, caption layout, signature blocks, table of contents, table of authorities. Every firm has specific conventions for these, and most of them are invisible until they are wrong. We get them right before anything else.

Then, for each document, we go through every section and determine what is static and what is dynamic. Static sections are the ones that stay identical across cases: your legal arguments, your case citations, your standard of review, your boilerplate. AI never touches these. They are copied from your work product exactly as you wrote them.

Dynamic sections are the parts that change with each new case. Party names, dates, agreement terms, dollar amounts, exhibit references, procedural history. These are the sections where the system reads the new case file and fills in the facts. The AI is doing fact extraction and insertion, not legal reasoning. It is doing the same job your paralegal does when they pull up the last motion and swap in the new details.

For more complex documents like motions, the line between static and dynamic is not always obvious. Some arguments only apply to certain fact patterns. Some sections need to reference multiple agreements or handle edge cases in the underlying contracts. We read your samples carefully, identify every branch, and build the playbook to handle them. The AI writes as little as possible. The goal is always to preserve your language and your arguments while adapting the facts.

We Test Before You Ever Touch It

Before you get your login, we test the system against real cases. Your cases are on NYSCEF. The filings are public. We pull documents from cases your firm has handled and run them through the entire system, checking everything: formatting, language, argument selection, fact extraction, exhibit references, citation accuracy.

We do this repeatedly. Every change we make is versioned and timestamped with a full audit history of what was changed, by whom, and why. By the time you log in, the system has already produced outputs for cases you recognize, and we have already verified that those outputs match your standards.

You Log In and It Works

There is no configuration screen. There are no settings to adjust. There are no prompts to tune. When you get your logins, the system is already built around your work product. Your paralegal uploads a complaint and gets back a formatted answer and discovery demands. Your attorney uploads a summary judgment packet and gets back an opposition. The output is a Word document and a PDF, formatted the way your firm files.

We offer a training call when you go live. We walk through the workflow step by step, which is simple: upload, review, download. We answer every question. The monthly subscription includes priority support, so if anything comes up later, you email us directly and we respond.

Customers have filed DocketDrafter outputs on their first day of use.

You Do Not Pay Until It Is Ready

The timeline from signing a contract to getting your logins is typically two to three weeks. During that entire period, you are not paying anything. The first monthly payment is due when the platform is ready and you have your logins. Not when you sign. Not during onboarding. When it is ready.

The first month also comes with a 100% money-back guarantee. If the system does not work for you, let us know within 30 days and we refund everything. All we ask is a short feedback call so we can learn what to improve.

The worst-case scenario is that you spent 30 minutes sending us Word documents and got your money back.

The Playbook Keeps Getting Better

Onboarding is not the end of the process. It is the beginning.

Every time your team uses the system and gives us feedback, the playbook improves. An attorney notices a phrasing they want adjusted. A paralegal flags an edge case in how multiple agreements are handled. New case law comes out and you want to update a section. The process for all of this is the same: send us an email or a Word document with the changes, and we update the playbook. There is no settings page to learn, no prompt engineering, no technical configuration. Anyone at your firm can provide feedback, even someone who does not use DocketDrafter directly, because the feedback is just a marked-up Word document or a note in an email.

Every edge case you flag, every argument you refine, every formatting preference you specify lives in the playbook permanently and carries forward into every future filing. The system gets more sophisticated the longer you use it. Six months in, your playbook handles situations that did not exist on day one, and every new case gets the benefit of everything that came before it.

The Point

Most legal tech asks the attorney to do the work of learning the software. Configure your settings. Write your prompts. Watch the tutorials. Migrate your data.

DocketDrafter inverts that. We study your filings and come to you ready. Your only job during onboarding is to send us the Word docs you have already filed. Your only job after that is to review the output and tell us what to fix. The system adapts to how you already work. You do not adapt to it.

If your firm drafts by pulling a prior motion and swapping in the facts, this is that workflow, with someone else doing the swapping.