For individuals
You're facing a dispute on your own, a debt, a deposit, a contract, a service that went wrong, and you've decided to handle it yourself.
Build your case on structure, not guesswork.
Portia helps people bring or defend a civil claim without a solicitor. It organises your evidence, helps you prepare properly structured legal documents, and keeps your case on track from start to finish.
The problem
The hard part usually isn't whether you're in the right. It's showing it in the form a court needs.
When a case isn't set out the way a court expects, what happens next often has little to do with its merits. Claims are struck out on technicalities. Defences miss the points they were required to answer. Cases with real merit are dismissed, or never properly heard at all.
Strike OutSummary Judgment
A case a court can act on needs three things:
- A recognised cause of action. The legal basis the case rests on.
- Each element it requires. The specific points that basis has to establish.
- Evidence for every element. Drawn from your own documents, not assertion.
This has never been a knowledge problem. It is a structural one. That structure is what legal representation has always provided, and what most people facing a court alone have never been able to reach.
The approach
Portia starts where a court starts. With the structure, before a word is drafted.
Most tools begin by writing. Portia begins by working out what your case has to establish, and whether your evidence reaches it. Only then does anything get drafted.
Ground it in your documents.
Your evidence goes in first. Everything Portia does is built on it, not on assumption.
Find the cause of action.
Portia identifies the recognised legal basis your situation may rest on, and what each one requires.
Check what's supported.
Element by element, it shows you which points your evidence reaches, and where the gaps are.
Draft on that foundation.
Only what's grounded gets drafted, structured around what the court needs to see.
Portia doesn't tell you what your case is worth, or whether you'll win. It helps you put it in the form a court can properly consider.
Safeguards
Built to be careful, not clever.
Everything Portia produces is tied back to the documents you give it. It doesn't invent facts to fill a gap, and when your evidence doesn't reach a legal point, it tells you plainly instead of papering over it. It won't tell you what your case is worth or whether you'll win, because that isn't something any tool can honestly promise.
The fact that it will stop is what makes everything else worth trusting.
And the case stays yours. Portia helps you prepare it, not run it, and everything you file is your decision.
What this is
Not a chatbot. Not advice. Infrastructure.
Most legal AI is built to answer questions, the more it says, the better it seems. Portia is built the opposite way, around what it will and won't do with your case.
Comparison: not this, this.
Not this
- Answers legal questions
- Sounds confident
- Tells you what it thinks
This
- Structures your case
- Shows its evidence
- Tells you what your documents support
It behaves less like someone giving advice, and more like the rails a case runs on. The same standards a court expects, made reachable without a solicitor.
Who it's for
Two ways in. One set of standards.
Portia works the same way whoever you are. Where you start depends on why you're here.
For business
You're running a business and a matter needs dealing with, an unpaid invoice, a contract in dispute, a claim to answer, without reaching for a solicitor every time.
Before you start
Your documents stay yours,encrypted,never sold,never used to train anything, and you can see what Portia can and can't do before you commit a single word.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
The questions people ask before they start, answered plainly.
Early access
Portia isn't open yet.
It's in active development, and access is opening in stages. Leave your details and we'll tell you when it's ready, no marketing, no queue-jumping to buy.
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