The System

The engine behind the Docket Watch service.

Pocket Docket is the monitoring system that powers the managed service — intake, docket ingestion, lifecycle reconciliation, and a human-reviewed alert cascade. Built inside an active Ohio insurance defense firm and running on real cases. You don't buy the software; you get the outcome it produces.

This wasn't built in a demo environment. The court formats, deadline scenarios, and messy edge cases it handles were hit in production first — inside a real firm, on real matters. That operating history is why a pilot works on day one. It's deep discovery in one firm, not a customer testimonial, and we keep that distinction honest.

Daily
Scheduled scrape → reviewable action queue
11
Ohio counties in the production queue, validated court-by-court
Human
Review on uncertain alerts before delivery
Live
Operating history in a real firm, not a sandbox

Architecture

Five layers. One monitoring loop.

Most firms have a case management system. They don't have the layer that watches the dockets and reconciles what changed. That's what this engine does — and the managed service wraps a human around it.

01
Intake

AI Extraction

Referral emails parsed by AI — parties, insurer, venue, case type — into a structured record, so the case list starts clean.

02
Storage

Structured Record

An operational database plus a Notion workspace kept in sync — one source of truth the service reports against.

03
Monitoring

Court Scraper

Scheduled scraping of live docket events across validated courts. When a court fails to load, the failure stays visible.

04
Reconciliation

Lifecycle & Integrity

Events advance a case-state model, reconciliation catches contradictions, and an integrity check flags what needs a human look.

05
Alerts

Reviewed, Then Routed

Deadline-relevant changes post to a review channel; uncertain ones get a human check before they reach the firm. Signal, not firehose.

Before & After

What it replaces.

Before Pocket Docket
  • Manual intake — someone reads and re-types every referral email
  • Docket checks by memory — inconsistent, person-dependent
  • Deadline tracking in spreadsheets nobody fully trusts
  • Missed events: periodic, stressful, expensive
  • 4+ hours per week in pure administrative overhead
  • Malpractice exposure on every answer deadline
With Docket Watch
  • Intake structured automatically — email in, clean case record out
  • Dockets scraped on a schedule across validated courts
  • Deadline-relevant changes surface before they become emergencies
  • Uncertain alerts get a human check before they reach the firm
  • A short morning queue instead of a Sunday spent checking every case
  • Coverage and accuracy reported monthly — including where a court failed

See It On Your Cases

Want this watching your dockets?

You don't buy or run the system — we operate it for you as a managed pilot. It runs on our infrastructure against your defined case list, and your team just gets the daily reviewed queue. Start with a 15-minute review of a public or sanitized sample of your dockets.

Onboarding a small number of design-partner firms right now.

Book a 15-Minute Review See the Pilot & Pricing