It reads the record
Docket entries, orders, motions, exhibits, parenting-app exports, email, and a call log, extracted and indexed once. OCR when a scan needs it.
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Case Bound reads a family court record, the docket, the orders, the messages, and checks what was ordered against what happened, with a page cite on every finding. It is a new category in a market where 72% of the parties have no lawyer.
Most losses are procedural. The record is the product.
These are the custody-documentation apps a parent finds in September 2026. Each stores what a parent types. Not one ingests the court's order, reads it, and measures the record against it. That step is the difference between a diary and evidence, and it is the step Case Bound does. It matters because people without a lawyer lose 80 to 90 percent of the time, and most of those losses are on the record, not the merits.
| App | From | What it does | Reads the order |
|---|---|---|---|
| OurFamilyWizard | $110/yr | shared messaging, calendar, expenses | No |
| TalkingParents | $7/mo | unalterable message record, call recording | No |
| Custody X Change | $6/mo | schedule builder, parenting-time maths | No |
| AppClose | $7.99/mo | certified records, AI tone assistant | No |
| Evidexi | free / $9/mo | incident logging, binder export | No |
| Family Court Corner | subscription | private journal, lawyer portal | No |
| Alimentor | $6.99 once | parenting-time and expense log | No |
| Case Bound | $39/mo | reads docket, orders and messages; cross-references; cites pages | Yes |
Docket entries, orders, motions, exhibits, parenting-app exports, email, and a call log, extracted and indexed once. OCR when a scan needs it.
An order says eight calls. The log says five. Case Bound says so, cites the order's page and the log's rows, and waits for the parent to confirm.
Every automated reading is a draft until a human confirms it against the source. That is a design boundary, and it is the unauthorized-practice-of-law posture.
Reviewed findings, a chronology, and an attorney packet a parent can hand to counsel. The lawyer is paid to think, not to read.
Steve is a US Army aviation officer with two decades in special operations aviation, including developmental test and acquisition roles, and an Executive MBA candidate at Georgetown. He is also a parent who has spent years in family court, and Case Bound exists because he could not afford to have a lawyer read every filing in his own case.
The product has run on that case first: the full docket, every order and motion, and a year of parenting-app messages, before it ran on anyone else's. The founder is the first user, the first tester, and the person the product has to satisfy.
Founder-market fit is the traction at this stage. The rest is below.