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Veracite

Citation verification and AI work records for solo attorneys who draft with Claude

A desktop and browser tool where a solo attorney runs their AI drafting, and every cited case is checked against primary law before it reaches a filing.

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similar startups, last 2 years (2 all-time)

yes

1 matching federal grants and programs

Direction supported by government programs and grants

Test it before you build it

$700 · 4 weeks · 20 prospects

For $700 and four weeks, prove that solo attorneys who draft with Claude will pay real money for standalone citation verification even though the Westlaw or Lexis subscription they already carry claims to cover it.

Riskiest assumption · A solo attorney who drafts with Claude or ChatGPT will pay separately for citation verification even though the Westlaw or Lexis subscription they already carry includes a citator they believe is good enough.

1Focus group: who and where

A solo or two-lawyer litigator who files briefs in state or federal court, already pays for Claude Max or ChatGPT Pro plus Westlaw or Lexis, and has a brief due in the next 30 days - the person who reads each new AI-sanctions order and wonders if their own checking routine would survive one.

where to find 20 · The ABA Solosez listserv and state bar solo and small firm section listservs (community); PACER and state e-filing dockets to pull solo practitioners who filed briefs in the last 60 days, cross-checked against state bar member directories filtered to firm size 1-2 (directory); r/LawFirm and r/Lawyertalk threads on AI drafting, reaching commenters by DM (channel).

2Sell first, build later

Every citation in every AI draft verified against primary law before it reaches a filing, plus a signed record of what the model produced and what you verified - sold now as a 24-hour manual check of your next brief for $79, converting to software access when the first cohort onboards December 1, 2026.

the ask · $79 per brief checked now; $49 per month founding subscription locked for 12 months, list price $79 per month

a real yes · A real yes is a $79 card charge with a brief attached or a $100 deposit cleared through checkout; 'I'd definitely use this,' requests for a free trial, and offers to test it later count as no.

3Small experiments

The first one attacks the riskiest assumption; each ends with a number that says whether to run the next.

  1. 1. Fifteen AI-drafting attorney calls

    $150 · 10 days

    DM r/LawFirm and r/Lawyertalk commenters on AI-drafting threads and email 30 solos pulled from dockets and bar directories, offering a free citation spot-check of one filed brief as the hook. On each 20-minute call, walk their actual last brief: how they drafted it, how they checked each cite, and whether KeyCite or Shepard's would have caught a citation that does not exist or does not say what the model claims. End every call by offering the paid check in experiment 2.

    keep going if · 10 of 15 say they verify AI citations by hand or not at all, and 6 of 15 agree on the call to a paid check of their next brief

  2. 2. Paid manual brief check

    $400 · 14 days

    Sell a concierge check because the deliverable is identical to the product's promise: every citation in one AI-drafted brief verified against primary law via CourtListener, PACER and a one-month Westlaw solo plan, returned within 24 hours as a validated-or-flagged list with pin cites. Charge $79 per brief, card up front, offered to all 20 prospects on calls and by follow-up email. The founder does every check personally.

    keep going if · 8 of 20 offered pay the $79 and send a brief

  3. 3. Founding cohort deposits

    $150 · 14 days

    Put up a one-page site (Carrd plus domain) with the founding offer: $49 a month locked for a year against a $79 list price, first cohort onboarded December 1, 2026, 20 slots. Take a $100 refundable deposit through the site's checkout - credible here because solos buy their practice software self-serve by card with no procurement. Pitch it at the end of every call and in one follow-up email.

    keep going if · 6 deposits from 20 prospects pitched

4Collect a deposit up front

Tesla took $1,000 refundable reservations for the Model 3 and $100 for the Cybertruck before building either: the deposit is the measurement, not the revenue.

$100

per prospect, refundable

how · A $100 refundable reservation taken through the landing page checkout - roughly 2 percent of the $588 founding year and the natural instrument for a buyer who purchases all practice software self-serve by card; the attorney checks out, no signature needed. set up: Stripe Checkout ↗

what it reserves · One of 20 founding slots, the $49 monthly rate locked for 12 months, and a December 1, 2026 onboarding date with their home jurisdiction's courts covered first

refund · Refunded in full, no questions asked, any time before the first subscription charge on December 1, 2026.

target · 6 deposits from 20 prospects pitched within 30 days

before taking money · Client filings are confidential, so run the manual checks only on already-filed public briefs or under a signed confidentiality agreement, and label every deliverable as attorney-supervised work support, not legal advice.

Go: build it if

8 of 20 pay $79 for a manual brief check and 6 of 20 put down $100 deposits - at least $1,200 collected from 20 prospects in four weeks.

Kill: stop if

Fewer than 4 paid brief checks and fewer than 3 deposits from 20 prospects, or 10+ of 15 calls demonstrate that their existing citator workflow already catches fabricated cites to their satisfaction.

5 Scripts to run itoutreach message, landing copy, deposit terms · click to open

outreach message

You're solo, you draft with Claude or ChatGPT, and every cite still gets checked by hand before it goes to the judge - the AI-sanctions orders are almost all solos and small firms. I'm building Veracite: paste the draft, every citation verified against primary law, with a signed record of what you checked. Before I build it, I'll verify every cite in your next brief within 24 hours for $79. Open to a 20-minute call this week?

landing page

No hallucinated citation ever leaves your desk $49 a month, locked for a year (list $79) - every cite in every AI draft verified against primary law; a $100 refundable deposit holds your slot Reserve one of 20 founding slots

deposit terms

Your $100 deposit reserves one of 20 founding slots at $49 a month, locked for 12 months, with onboarding on December 1, 2026. It is fully refundable, no questions asked, any time before your first subscription charge. Until then your card is charged nothing else.

Would you run this test?

One tap. The yes-share feeds the Demand pillar of this idea's score; nobody sees who answered.

Budgets are out-of-pocket estimates for a team of one to three, US market. Size the deposit to the deal, and check the terms before taking money in a regulated line.

Scorecard

Ranked against every idea in the catalog: trend, demand and 100x potential from the corpus, competition relative to the other ideas. A generated concept has no judges or swipes yet, so its pillars use the data signals only.

43

Idea Score, 0-100 (partial) · raw 26.8 x 1.61

Open

competition: more crowded than 12% of ideas · headwind x0.94

+1.4

government priorities, secondary (1 matching grants)

Trend

17

Is the wave forming now? 2025-26 entrants vs 2023-24, rounds since 2025, the sector's live-batch direction, the 2026 trend analyst.

  • Entrants 2025-26 vs 2023-24 (similar companies)1
  • Rounds announced 2025+ in the sector0
  • Sector direction (live batch)50

Demand

23

Does anyone want it? YC's current RFS, companies already paid for something similar, the operator judge, founders' yes-rate in decks, readers who would run the test.

  • YC asks for it (current RFS: idea / sector)30
  • Someone already pays (similar companies, recent / all-time)17

100x potential

50

Can it return a fund? The venture judge (double weight), market-size and moat axes, neighbours still alive, the technologist judge.

  • no signal yet, taken as 50

Score = 100 x cbrt(Trend x Demand x 100x) x (1 - 0.5 x crowding) + government bonus (max 5), calibrated so the 95th-percentile idea scores 90 (order never changes). A geometric mean: a weak pillar cannot be papered over. Percentiles are among the 382 ideas in the catalog; the terms matched were citation, verification, records, solo, attorneys, draft, claude, desktop.

The concept in full

What
A desktop and browser tool where a solo attorney runs their AI drafting, and every cited case is checked against primary law before it reaches a filing. It keeps a signed record of what the model produced, what the lawyer verified, and what changed, so the attorney can answer a judge or a bar inquiry about AI use. In the first hour a lawyer pastes a draft brief and gets every citation validated or flagged.
Grounded in (2025-2026 signals)
'ainative law' is an emerging term with 3 companies in 2025-2026 vs 1 before; Agent Skills became an open standard on December 18, 2025 with about 40 products supporting it by June 2026; MIT NANDA (published August 2025) found more than 40% of knowledge workers using personal AI tools at work; Claude Max launched April 9, 2025 at $100 and $200 a month for people who collaborate with AI extensively.
What it rides
Agent Skills: launched October 16, 2025, an open standard since December 18, 2025. Veracite ships as a skill pack plus a verification service the attorney's own assistant loads, so it works inside Claude, Copilot or Cursor rather than as another chat window.
Why now
By June 2026 about 40 products support Agent Skills, so one skill pack reaches every assistant a lawyer already pays for; 'ainative law' went from 1 company to 3 in 2025-2026, and the crowded-phrase list shows 8 companies pitching 'law firms' while none of the tracked companies sells verification to the solo practitioner under their own bar license.
Wedge: first customer and entry point
Solo and two-lawyer practices already paying for Claude Max or ChatGPT Pro, entered through one narrow promise: no hallucinated citation ever leaves your desk. Ship the citation checker for one jurisdiction's courts first and let the audit record pull the rest of the practice in.
Closest real companies, as the generator saw them
Third Chair is an AI-native IP enforcement agent that does the work for you; Veracite is the opposite, tooling for the lawyer who does the work. The 8 'law firms' companies in the crowded list sell to firms as organizations, not to the individual license holder.
Main risk
Westlaw and Lexis bundle a good-enough citation check into subscriptions solo attorneys already carry.

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Public money in this direction

US federal grants and open opportunities matched to the concept's terms.

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