For solo & small employment firms — plaintiff & defense
Every new matter starts the same way: a pile of notes, emails, and half-remembered dates — and no clear order to any of it.
Turn scattered case details into a clear line of events.
Matterline turns intake notes into a structured, reviewable timeline — so you screen matters faster, catch what's missing early, and spend your time on the advocacy you do best.
Matterline organizes information for attorney review. It does not provide legal advice or replace professional judgment.
- Mar 3
Hired as Operations Manager
- Jun 12
Reported a safety concern to HR
- Jul 1
Written warning issued
- Aug ??
Meeting with HR — date unclear
- Aug 15
Employment terminated
How it works
Three steps from a pile of notes to a plan.
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Paste what you have
Intake notes, an email thread, a call summary — drop it in, however messy or out of order.
- 2
Get a structured timeline
Matterline orders the events, maps the people, and flags what's missing — in seconds.
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Review & refine
Edit anything, work through the suggested questions, and export a clean chronology.
The problem
The facts rarely arrive in order — so you spend the first hours just untangling them.
Before you can think about the matter, you have to reconstruct what happened, when, and who was involved. That work is slow, easy to get wrong, and you do it again at every review.
Deadlines buried in the story
Right-to-sue windows and pivotal dates hide inside a long intake. One missed date can change the whole matter.
Clients don't tell it in order
Emotional calls and 40-message email threads arrive every which way. You rebuild the sequence in your head.
The chronology you keep rewriting
Every demand letter, mediation brief, and complaint starts by re-drawing the same timeline from the file.
Gaps you find too late
The unnamed witness or missing pay record surfaces in discovery — when it's harder and costlier to chase.
Lead triage eats the day
Dozens of intakes, only a few worth signing. Sorting signal from noise is slow, unbillable work.
The cost: hours lost to assembly you often can't bill — and case-critical facts noticed late, when they're hardest to act on.
The shift
Paste what you have. See the matter organized.
Matterline reads your notes and structures them into an editable summary and timeline — surfacing not just what's there, but what's missing.
The payoff
It replaces the work you can't bill — not the work you can.
Matterline automates the intake assembly and case screening — the grind that eats your day. The analysis, strategy, and advocacy stay yours. Plaintiff-side on contingency? That time is capacity to take more cases. Defense-side billing hourly? It's low-value hours you convert to high-value work. Either way, you focus on the case.
More cases, not fewer hours
Work up and screen matters faster, so you can take on more without adding headcount.
Catch what makes or breaks a case
Missing dates, unnamed witnesses, and absent documents surface during intake — not months in, when they're hardest to chase.
Screen leads without the sunk cost
Evaluate a potential matter in minutes and pass on the weak ones early.
Delegate the grunt, keep the judgment
Staff produce a first-draft chronology; you review and decide. Every output is draft work product for attorney review.
The point: less time on assembly means more time on the work you do best — whether you're fighting for an employee or advising an employer.
For firm owners
The math at the firm level.
Beyond any single matter, the same shift moves the numbers a managing partner watches.
Higher realization
Low-realization assembly time becomes capacity or higher-value billable work — profit per attorney goes up.
Real leverage
Push first-draft chronologies to paralegals and junior staff; attorneys review. Lower cost to serve, same quality bar.
Less risk
A missed deadline or fact is malpractice and bar exposure. Surfacing gaps early is cheap insurance.
Faster case assessment
Turn a new matter around quickly — it wins the client and builds trust from the first call.
See the math for your firm
Put in your numbers.
Estimate the time Matterline could hand back on intake assembly — as capacity, or as cost you can redeploy. Adjust everything to your firm.
Your numbers
Estimated a year
9 full workdays of attorney time back
~72 more intakes you could screen with the reclaimed time
Illustrative estimate based on your inputs — not a guarantee. Matterline produces draft work product for attorney review.
Built for careful practice
Trust you can verify — not just claim.
You have to answer for the tools you use. Here's exactly how Matterline handles your work — with the full detail one click away.
It flags gaps — it doesn't invent facts
Missing dates, people, and documents are surfaced, not fabricated. No made-up quotes or events.
Always draft work product
Every output carries a review notice, with confidence levels and “needs clarification” flags. Built for your judgment, never a substitute for it.
Your notes stay server-side
The AI runs on our server; your key is never in the browser. Notes are processed for a single request, aren't stored unless you save, and prompts are never logged.
Organizes — never advises
No legal conclusions, no ruling on whether a violation occurred, no outcome or settlement predictions.
Scoped to your firm
Access is re-checked server-side on every request. Audit logs record actions and identifiers only — never case content.
No hollow claims
We publish exactly what's implemented and what isn't — no “military-grade” theater. Read it for yourself.
Questions attorneys ask
Straight answers.
Is my data used to train AI models?
Your notes are sent to Google's Gemini API for a single request, aren't stored by Matterline unless you save the analysis, and are never written to logs. Matterline is in early access on fictional demo data — we won't process real client matters until our security and data-processing review is complete.
What happens if the AI gets something wrong?
It's draft work product. Matterline flags what's missing and marks low-confidence items for review instead of inventing facts — but you always verify against your sources and your own judgment.
Does Matterline give legal advice?
No. It organizes information for attorney review. It doesn't provide legal advice, decide whether a violation occurred, or predict outcomes or settlement value.
How is confidentiality protected?
AI requests run server-side (your key never touches the browser), notes are processed transiently, and audit logs record identifiers only — never case content. You remain responsible for privilege; we're plain about what we do and don't guarantee.
Who can see my firm's data?
Everything is scoped to your firm and re-checked server-side on every request. Changing an id in the URL never exposes another firm's data.
Can I delete my data?
Yes. You control retention windows and can delete matters; deleted data follows the schedule on our retention page.
Take on more matters — without the intake grind.
Be first in line when early access opens for solo & small employment firms.
Matterline organizes information for attorney review. It does not provide legal advice or replace professional judgment. All AI-generated content is draft work product and must be reviewed for accuracy, completeness, confidentiality, and privilege.