The law is public. Finding it shouldn't be hard.
Factbound is an AI-powered legal research platform for anyone facing the court system — with or without a lawyer. Plain-English answers, verified sources, and your case documents organized in one place.
Every year, millions of people handle civil court matters — family cases, small claims, landlord-tenant disputes, employment claims — without a lawyer. The laws, court rules, and deadlines that govern their cases are public information. But that information is scattered across dozens of government websites, written in dense legal language, and difficult to connect to the documents piling up in their own case.
Factbound brings it together in one place.
With Factbound, you can:
Search official legal sources in plain English. Factbound's AI understands everyday questions — no legal jargon required — and searches statutes, regulations, court rules, and case law for your state. Every result includes a verified link to the official government source, so you can read the actual law and cite it with confidence.
Organize your own case documents. Upload your filings, notices, and correspondence to a private, encrypted workspace. Factbound's AI reads your documents, identifies key dates and details, and builds a searchable timeline of your case. Then ask a question once, and Factbound searches both at the same time — your own case file and the official law — showing you what your documents say and what the law says, side by side, with citations for both.
Understand court procedures in plain language. We surface self-help materials published by the courts themselves, with short AI-generated previews that are always attributed and linked to the original source.
AI you can check. Unlike a general chatbot, Factbound's AI doesn't answer from memory — it searches a curated library of official government sources and shows you where every piece of information came from. If you can't click through to the source, we don't show it.
Not a search engine. Not a chatbot. Something better.
A search engine gives you a list of links and leaves the reading to you. A general chatbot gives you a fluent answer — and sometimes invents the citations. Factbound does what neither can: it reads official legal sources and your own case documents, and gives you a clear, plain-English answer with the actual sources linked underneath.
Ask questions like:
"What does California law say about returning a security deposit?" — and get a readable explanation of what the statute actually says, with a link to the statute itself.
"What are the steps for responding to an eviction complaint in my county?" — and get the court's own published procedure, explained clearly and linked to the source.
"What did the other side claim in the complaint I uploaded?" — and get an answer drawn from your own case file. No search engine on earth can do that.
"What dates and deadlines appear in my documents?" — and see your case laid out on a timeline, built automatically from your uploads.
Every answer shows its sources. If you can't click through and verify it, we don't show it.
What Factbound is — and isn't.
Factbound is a legal research tool. It helps you find, read, and organize public legal information and your own documents. It does not tell you what to do, predict how your case will turn out, or take the place of a lawyer. The decisions in your case are always yours — and if you need legal advice, a licensed attorney is the right resource.
Public legal information, organized around your case.