The drafting bench

The tool drafts. A human with a license signs.

Countersign turns a consumer's facts into a cited, ready-to-review legal artifact — a debt-validation dispute, a fair-hearing request — in milliseconds, then structurally refuses to release it until a credentialed professional countersigns. There is no code path from draft to consumer that skips the human.

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Debt-validation dispute — draft #1042
15 U.S.C. §1692g · 12 C.F.R. §1006.34 · template: SAMPLE
RELEASED
  • Credential wall — attorney, attestation verbatim
  • Completeness wall — zero unresolved placeholders
  • Holding-out wall — no outcome promises in final text
  • Grounding wall — every figure traces to a provided fact
"I have reviewed this draft, verified its factual content against the intake record, and take professional responsibility for its release."
Free for the consumer, always. The professional's bench is what's licensed — money changes who reviews, never what the draft says.

Four walls between a draft and the world. All of them fail closed.

The state machine is the product. A draft becomes RELEASED only when every wall passes — and every transition, including every refusal, lands in the artifact's audit trail.

1

Credential wall

Only an allowed credential — attorney, DOJ-accredited representative — can countersign, and the attestation must be entered verbatim. No credential, no release.

2

Completeness wall

Facts the consumer didn't provide become [BRACKETED — NOT PROVIDED], never invented values. A draft with an unresolved placeholder cannot release.

3

Holding-out wall

No outcome promises, no "robot lawyer," no "no attorney needed." The wall runs on the final text at release time — the FTC/DoNotPay lesson, enforced in code.

4

Grounding wall

Every dollar amount and date in a released body must trace to a fact a person provided — consumer intake or reviewer edits. The guard refuses anything untraceable.

Built for the supervision the profession already requires

ABA Formal Opinion 512 (2024) addresses exactly this shape: lawyers may use assistive tools when they supervise, verify, and take responsibility. Countersign doesn't just permit that posture — it enforces it, and the audit trail is your evidence of it.

Facts in

A consumer's intake becomes a draft built from a cited template — the citation, source, and verification date travel with it.

Review against a checklist

The bench generates a review checklist from the cited rule, so a limited-scope engagement is a structured review, not a from-scratch drafting session.

Countersign or refuse

The reviewer's attestation releases the artifact — or the refusal, with its reason, is stamped into the audit trail. Both are your professional-responsibility record.

Who the bench is for

Consumer-law firms

Flat-fee, limited-scope work priced so clients can actually say yes — with the drafting overhead moved into code and the responsibility kept where the rules put it.

Legal aid organizations

Turn-away rates are the sector's defining number. A supervised drafting bench multiplies what one reviewing attorney's hour covers.

Pro bono programs

Volunteer attorneys review structured, cited drafts instead of starting from a blank page — and every release carries their explicit sign-off.

Honest status, in writing

The working core is machine-verified by a 29-assertion self-check. What isn't verified yet is labeled, gated, and priced into the plan — not glossed over.

Before this touches a real consumer

  • Every template ships labeled SAMPLE — pending attorney verification until licensed counsel reviews it against primary sources. The label is removed per template, per review, never globally.
  • Reviewer credentials go live only against real rosters (state bar, DOJ EOIR list) — never self-attested.
  • The deterministic core runs offline. If a model-assisted intake step is ever added, it ships disabled behind a two-key no-training gate: client facts are never training data.

Licensing, plainly

Firms and organizations license the bench — flat, per-seat, or per-released-matter. Never a share of any legal fee, award, or recovery. The consumer never pays.

See a draft refuse to release — then watch a countersign let it through.

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