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Docketry
Casework software for state charity regulators policing platforms and fake charities
Case management built for state charity bureaus: intake from complaints and platform reports, automated evidence capture of scam pages before they vanish, domain and registration lookups, cease-and-desist and takedown letter workflows, and cross-state referral when the organizer sits elsewhere.
- Software subscription
- Government and public sector
- California enforces its fundraising-platform law
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similar startups, last 2 years (11 all-time)
yes
8 matching federal grants and programs
Direction supported by government programs and grants
Test it before you build it
$2,200 · 6 weeks · 15 prospects
For $2,200 and 6 weeks, this test proves whether a state charity bureau outside California will sign a dated pilot MOU under small-purchase authority, settled by two signed MOUs from twelve briefings.
Riskiest assumption · A state charity bureau outside California can commit to a sub-$10,000 pilot under its small-purchase authority within one quarter, rather than every sale routing through an RFP cycle that outlasts a two-person team's runway.
1Focus group: who and where
The charity bureau chief or assistant attorney general running the charitable trust section in a state that is drafting or copying AB 488-style platform rules, whose team today tracks complaints in shared inboxes and watched California go from first platform reports to a cease-and-desist inside four months
where to find 15 · NASCO's (National Association of State Charity Officials) public directory of state charity offices, which lists the responsible official in every state; the NASCO annual conference held jointly with NAAG each October; each state attorney general's published charities-section staff pages and consumer complaint press releases, which name the exact deputies bringing these cases
2Sell first, build later
A 12-month enforcement pilot for one state bureau: evidence capture of scam pages before they vanish, domain and registration lookups, and cease-and-desist letter drafting, live for up to 10 named users within 30 days of the MOU start date
the ask · $9,500 per state per year, priced under most states' small-purchase thresholds so no RFP is required
a real yes · A real yes is a signed pilot MOU with a dated start plus a purchase requisition or PO moving through the state's system; conference enthusiasm, 'put it in next year's budget request', and unsigned letters of interest do not count
3Small experiments
The first one attacks the riskiest assumption; each ends with a number that says whether to run the next.
1. Small-purchase briefing calls
$100 · 14 days
Email the NASCO-listed charity officials in the 15 states with active platform-rule activity and book 12 twenty-minute briefings. In each, ask the two deciding questions: can your office buy under its small-purchase threshold without an RFP, and what is a realistic signature date this fiscal year. One founder runs all calls.
keep going if · 6 of 12 briefings confirm sub-threshold purchase authority (typically $10,000 to $50,000) and name a signature date this fiscal year
2. Sample case pack demo
$400 · 7 days
Build a clickable Figma demo around California's public November 2025 cease-and-desist: complaint intake, timestamped evidence capture of an archived scam page, registration lookup, and the auto-drafted letter. Walk interested bureaus through it on a second call and ask who else must approve.
keep going if · 4 of 6 interested bureaus bring their division chief or procurement contact to a second meeting
3. NASCO conference MOU push
$1,700 · 21 days
Attend the NASCO annual conference in October, run 10 in-person demos on a laptop between sessions, and hand each interested bureau the one-page pilot MOU with a January 2027 start date and the $9,500 annual price already filled in. Ask for signature or a named signature date before leaving.
keep going if · 2 MOUs signed with dated starts, or 3 bureaus open a purchase requisition in writing
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.
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no cash yet: take a signed commitment
how · No money can credibly move before a purchase order in this market, so collect a signed pilot MOU with a dated January 2027 start, up to 10 named users, and the $9,500 price stated, paired with a purchase requisition opened under the state's small-purchase authority; the bureau chief signs the MOU and procurement processes the requisition
what it reserves · One of three pilot-state slots, a January 2027 go-live, and the $9,500 first-year price locked through the pilot term
refund · The bureau may cancel in writing any time before the start date at no cost, and no invoice is issued until the purchase order clears
target · 2 signed MOUs with dated starts and 1 open purchase requisition from 12 briefings within 6 weeks
before taking money · Before a signed agreement and each state's data rules are settled, the team must not receive live complaint or investigation files and must run every purchase through the state's small-purchase process rather than offering free work that trips gift and ethics rules.
Go: build it if
2 signed pilot MOUs with January 2027 start dates and at least 1 purchase requisition opened, from 12 briefings in 6 weeks
Kill: stop if
Fewer than 4 of 15 bureaus take a briefing, or every interested bureau says any purchase requires a formal RFP on a 6-to-12-month cycle
5 Scripts to run itoutreach message, landing copy, deposit terms · click to open
outreach message
California's charity bureau went from collecting its first platform reports in July 2025 to issuing its first cease-and-desist that November, and did it out of email and shared drives. If your office is drafting platform rules now, we build the enforcement side: evidence capture of scam pages before they vanish, registration lookups, and letter drafting. We are signing three pilot states this quarter at $9,500 a year, under small-purchase authority. Do you have 20 minutes this week for a briefing?
landing page
Turn a charity scam complaint into a takedown in days $9,500 per year: evidence capture, registration lookups, and cease-and-desist drafting for your bureau Book a 20-minute briefing and get a pilot MOU your office can sign under small-purchase authority
deposit terms
No payment moves today. Signing the pilot MOU reserves one of three state slots for a January 2027 start, with evidence capture and letter drafting live for up to 10 named users within 30 days of that date, at $9,500 for the year invoiced only after your purchase order clears. You may cancel in writing any time before the start date at no cost.
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.
81
Idea Score, 0-100 · raw 49.4 x 1.64
Warm
competition: more crowded than 44% of ideas · headwind x0.78
+3.7
government priorities, secondary (25 matching grants)
Trend
58
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)92
- Rounds announced 2025+ in the sector33
- Sector direction (live batch)50
Demand
61
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)92
100x potential
57
Can it return a fund? The venture judge (double weight), market-size and moat axes, neighbours still alive, the technologist judge.
- Neighbours still alive57
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 casework, state, charity, regulators, policing, platforms, fake, case.
The concept in full
- What
- Case management built for state charity bureaus: intake from complaints and platform reports, automated evidence capture of scam pages before they vanish, domain and registration lookups, cease-and-desist and takedown letter workflows, and cross-state referral when the organizer sits elsewhere. Sold to attorney general charity sections that today run enforcement out of email and shared drives. This stops fraud before more money moves: it turns a complaint into a takedown in days instead of months.
- Grounded in (2025-2026 signals)
- AB 488 first annual reports due July 15, 2025; November 2025 cease-and-desist from the California AG; spread of platform regulation to other states (Charity Lawyer Blog, December 22, 2025). The caseload is the FBI's January 16, 2025 count of 4,500 complaints and $96 million lost in 2024.
- What it rides
- California enforces its fundraising-platform law, and other states are drafting platform rules of their own. Docketry is the tooling those new enforcement mandates need on day one.
- Why now
- Between July 15, 2025 and November 2025 California went from collecting its first platform reports to issuing its first cease-and-desist, and states copying AB 488 will need enforcement tooling before their own first reporting deadlines.
- Wedge: first customer and entry point
- One state charity bureau outside California drafting platform rules now; start with the evidence-capture and letter-generation module as a small annual contract, the procurement-light piece a two-person team can deliver.
- Closest real companies, as the generator saw them
- None tracked. No 2025-2026 cohort company in this collection sells to regulators.
- Main risk
- Government sales cycles outlast a small team's runway even when the bureau wants the product.
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