pitch.docketing.legal
Never miss a statutory deadline again.
One deterministic deadline clock over every asset that carries a statutory deadline — patents, trademarks, entity good standing, UCC-1 lapse windows, court dockets. $12 per monitored asset, per month. Closed only by evidence. Dead air always has a named owner — a watch with none reads VACANT, by design.
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Most legal deadlines are not judgment calls — they are dates. A statement of use, a §8 declaration, a maintenance fee, a franchise-tax filing, a UCC-1 continuation, an answer date. Miss one and the asset is gone or the client is exposed, and no amount of skill undoes it afterward.
The tooling built for this problem has one shape: enterprise portfolio-management software — an annual seat license, an implementation project, a portfolio you migrate. That shape assumes a docketing department. A solo, a small firm, or one in-house counsel watching a handful of assets pays for all of it and uses none of it — so in practice the handful is watched by memory, a calendar app, and hope.
You do not need a portfolio-management platform. You need one clock that never sleeps, one alarm that fires before it is too late — and the honesty to tell you when a docket has no owner.
docketing.legal serves: the full offer — the four-step watch, posted per-asset terms, the live-and-described endpoint tables, the VACANT posture, and the dead-air ownership block that names exactly what is sold and what is only described.
The clock is not a metaphor — it is the Deadline Ladder on the api.lawyer substrate, driven verb by verb:
| method | path | what it does |
|---|---|---|
| POST | /deadlines/{asset}/monitor | name who holds the watch — clears the vacancy alarm |
| GET | /deadlines/{asset} | the live snapshot: countdown, alarm, rungs |
| POST | /deadlines/{asset}/tick | advance the deterministic clock; fires rung events |
| POST | /deadlines/{asset}/satisfy | close by evidence — the filing receipt |
| POST | /deadlines/{asset}/resolve | choose the enumerated terminal outcome at t-0 |
One rung is deliberately absent: the final-week daily human acknowledgment. That is a reserved duty of an independent attorney — described on the next slide, never performed by this service.
The ladder endpoint answers today, typed: GET /deadlines/{asset} for an
unknown asset returns the JSON refusal {"error":"no Deadline Ladder for Asset demo"} — a live, typed machine surface, not a brochure path.
Each asset class feeds its clock from a status read — USPTO prosecution history for a patent, TSDR dates for a mark, Secretary of State standing for an entity, lien and docket reads behind them.
Candour on the reads: the root surface labels the patent, trademark, and entity status reads live and the lien and court-docket reads described. At drafting time the documented read paths did not answer with typed responses to an outside caller, so this deck posts none of them as live. The claim flips read-by-read, each with its response in evidence.
UCC-1 and federal-docket watches are described capability, enrolled the same way once their jurisdiction rules are ratified — stated on the surface in exactly those terms.
$12 per monitored asset, per month — the posted price on the live surface, and the whole pricing model:
Why a flat per-asset subscription: the watch is software — a deterministic clock and a set of reads. The subscriber pays for coverage of one more asset, not for a practitioner's hour. The one thing software cannot do — a human owning the dead air between acts — is a separate, described engagement with an independent attorney, and it is never sold on this page.
The $12 per-asset monthly price, the no-seats-no-minimums terms, and the at-cost pass-through are posted product facts on the live surface — quoted here, not projected.
▮▮▮posts when stack#1 §A5 resolves · ▮▮▮posts when stack#1 §A5 resolves — no volume or revenue figure appears in this deck. The posted price above is a product fact; everything behind it is gated until the numbers gate resolves.
A machine watch tells you a deadline is coming. It cannot be responsible for it. Between the atomic acts, the duty to a live docket belongs to a person — and this brand is precise about that line, in public, on its own surface:
The described human path runs on the legal cell — the single designed entity holding the api.lawyer demand rail and the gigs.lawyer supply door. That entity is designed, not formed; until formation and licensure close, the Monitoring Engagement is a described arrangement, not an offered one, and both the live surface and this deck say so on purpose.
in the legal vertical, everything around the reserved act migrates — intake, research, drafting for review, docketing, billing. Docketing is the function this estate runs all the way to Code: a deterministic clock and a set of reads, sold at software economics. The reserved boundary — the final-week acknowledgment, the Monitoring Engagement — is drawn precisely and left to the licensed cell.
The cell's own decks state the floor: reserved acts of law stop the migration cold, because a statute names a person. This brand is the complement of that story — the piece of legal operations with no statutory floor, so the margin structure is software, and the honest architecture is to sell it as software: flat, per-asset, cancellable, with the human duty priced separately by the humans who carry it.
Primary motion: the counsel enrolls an asset on the surface and deterministic code runs the watch — no sales conversation, no implementation project, no seat count to negotiate. The channel is the name itself: the domain is the function, exact-match for a human who already knows the word docketing and a clean namespace position for agents. Secondary is B2A — the live surface carries a for-machines block pointing at the ladder snapshot and the substrate catalog, because a practice-management system or an agent holding a portfolio should be able to open watches without a human on this page.
The family feeds the funnel by design: a filing wants to become a watch. The sibling doors that create deadline-bearing assets — a provisional's priority-date clock at patent.click, an entity's good-standing and franchise-tax clocks at incorporations.legal — are the natural upstream of enrollments.
The root surface states the design plainly: a filing becomes a watch, with no re-keying. That cross-brand handoff is designed, not yet demonstrated — this claim posts when a sibling door's filing arrives here as a live watch, with the enrollment in evidence.
docketing.legal is the horizontal watch across the legal family: the substrate holds the machinery, the licensed cell holds the reserved duties, and the filing-first doors mint the assets that need watching. Each face serves today, each with its own evidence:
api.lawyer serves — the legal cell's demand rail, whose catalog carries the Deadline Ladder this brand drives.
gigs.lawyer serves — the cell's supply door, where the independent attorneys who can hold a Monitoring Engagement enroll.
patent.click serves — the filing-first sibling whose provisional filings carry exactly the priority-date and maintenance clocks a watch exists for.
incorporations.legal serves — the formation sibling whose entities carry good-standing and franchise-tax deadlines from the day they exist.
Serving is a liveness fact, not a tenancy claim: each green above asserts that the named surface answers today, nothing more.
The front door serves: offer, posted per-asset terms, endpoint tables with their live-and-described states, the dead-air ownership block, and the VACANT posture — all public today.
The claim that matters — a paying subscriber's asset enrolled, rungs fired on the deterministic clock, and the watch closed by a real filing receipt — posts when it has happened, with the receipt in evidence. Until then this deck asserts the live machinery and the posted terms, nothing narrower.
The honesty feature is also unproven in the field: VACANT has not yet fired on a real subscriber's docket. The design is live; the incident record is not. This amber flips with the journaled alarm in evidence.
The pending gates are a sequence, not a pile: the status reads answer at their documented paths → the first external watch clears on a receipt → the sibling handoff lands a filing as a watch → the legal cell forms and the described Monitoring Engagement becomes an offerable one. The machinery and the terms are already public; the ambers above mark exactly what is not.
The front door is docketing.legal — it serves today.
If this was forwarded to you: docketing.legal is a deadline watch as software — one deterministic clock over any asset that carries a statutory deadline, rung alarms before it is too late, closure only on filed evidence, and an out-loud VACANT alarm whenever a live docket has no named owner. It sells the machine watch only; the human duty it describes belongs to an independent attorney, and the line between the two is printed on the page. Every claim above carries its own state and evidence. If you hold dates for a living, open a watch on one asset at docketing.legal. If you know who does, forward this.