Governments and corporations don't usually win by being right. They win by being expensive — by making the fight cost more than the thing you lost. We build free, open-source tools that make small justice cheap enough to actually pursue.
Here's a thing everyone in the legal system knows and nobody says out loud: the law is on your side far more often than you can afford to prove. The denied records request, the stonewalled agency, the contract someone quietly ignored, the fee that shouldn't exist — these are winnable fights. They just aren't worth winning at $500 an hour.
So institutions play the odds. Deny, delay, ignore — because 99% of people do the math and walk away. Every one of those walk-aways teaches the institution it can do it again. That's how accountability actually erodes: not in scandals, but in ten thousand petty defeats nobody could afford to contest.
AI just changed the math. The work that made small fights expensive — knowing what the law says, knowing what to ask for, drafting the letter, meeting the deadline, filing the form — is now nearly free. We package that into tools anyone can run: journalists prying records loose, citizens contesting the uncontested, people standing in front of institutions that expected them to fold.
We're a nonprofit. Everything we build is free and open source. We're not against government or business — we're against the pricing-out of accountability. A free people shouldn't need a law firm to exercise rights they already have.
A records law, a small-claims court, an appeals process — if using them requires money or expertise most people don't have, they're decoration. Tools should make paper rights real ones.
Every confusing form, blown deadline trap, and "please resubmit" is a decision someone made — because friction filters out the people who can't afford to push through it. We delete friction.
The cheapest justice is the kind that never needs a courtroom: records opened, deadlines flagged, violations documented in public. Most institutions behave the moment behaving is cheaper than stonewalling.
A public-records war room for Virginia journalists. Tell it the story you're chasing; it maps the government paper trail, drafts legally precise FOIA requests, tracks every statutory deadline, and — when an agency stonewalls — writes the fight: rebuttal letters, free FOIA Council opinions, and a ready-to-file court petition under Va. Code § 2.2-3713. Runs privately on your own computer inside Claude. No servers, no accounts, no fees.
Multi-state FOIA packs are next. After that, we're exploring the rest of the small-fight universe — security deposits, junk fees, small claims. If you're a lawyer, journalist, or builder who wants small justice to be cheap, we'd love the help.