Firmbinder LLC
Legal technology, built from the courtroom up.
Firmbinder builds software that turns raw evidence — message dumps, screenshots, scattered documents — into a defensible, court-ready record. One disciplined engine, delivered through focused brands: a professional platform for the people who do the work, and a guided front door for the people living through the case.
API + MCP · Bring your own AI
Your casework. Connected to your tools.
Connect your local AI assistant or build your own integration. Upload files, organize folders, add labels and categories, manage hearings, and prepare documents through the same capabilities you use on the website.
Work with your own AI or use Ours
Use MCP to give a compatible AI tool access to your workflow. You choose which abilities it can use.
Build with a complete API
Explore the interactive Swagger reference, connect your scripts, and automate repeatable work.
Keep control of access
Create scoped tokens with an expiration date or no expiration. Revoke access anytime. Your account permissions and usage limits still apply.
What we build
One engine. Two front doors.
Evidence work is the same hard problem whether you're a paralegal billing the hours or a parent up at 2 a.m. Firmbinder builds the shared engine once, then meets each audience where they are.
CourtBriefly B2B platform
The litigation evidence engine for paralegals, attorneys, and self-represented litigants. Turns raw message exports and scattered files into chronological, Bates-numbered, SHA-256-fingerprinted exhibits — across family, civil, eviction, small-claims, and contract matters.
Visit courtbriefly.com →Custody Commander Consumer
The guided, consumer-facing front door for parents navigating family court alone. Organize evidence, turn texts into court-ready logs, and walk in prepared — built on the same engine, with a real free tier and a hardship program.
Visit custodycommander.com →The corporate umbrella
Firmbinder is the parent entity. Holding the brands under one company lets us share the hardened evidence engine, security posture, and integrity standards across products — and launch new legal-tech tools without starting from zero.
How we build
Principles that hold up under scrutiny.
Evidentiary integrity first
Hashing, preserved originals, and recorded change histories aren't features bolted on later — they're the foundation everything else is built on. We build for scrutiny: originals preserved, files fingerprinted, changes recorded.
Privacy and safety by default
Our users are often in the hardest moments of their lives, sometimes under surveillance. Discreet design, strong defaults, and data that stays the user's own are non-negotiable.
Accessible by design
Good organization shouldn't depend on what you can afford. Real free tiers, one-time options, and hardship programs are part of the product, not an afterthought.
Built from real cases
Every product starts from a real problem someone actually faced in court, then gets generalized — not the other way around. The result is software that fits the work, because it was forged in it.
About Firmbinder
A focused legal-tech company, not a feature factory.
Firmbinder exists to do one thing extremely well: make the evidence behind a legal matter defensible, organized, and usable — for professionals and for the people representing themselves. We build deliberately, hold a high bar on integrity and privacy, and grow by adding tools that share the same trustworthy core.
Partnerships, press, and product questions.
Working with legal aid or a clinic, exploring a partnership, or writing about legal tech? We'd like to hear from you.
For product support, reach out from within CourtBriefly or Custody Commander.