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ClerkReady Federal Filing AI
// Federal-court-native AI ยท Closed beta August 2026

The AI that turns a PACER docket number into a clerk-ready federal filing.

Built for litigators, boutiques, and firms doing real federal work — not Am Law 100. Point at a docket. Get a motion, response, reply, or brief drafted against the venue's local rules, the judge's standing orders, and the format the clerk actually accepts. In closed beta this August.

Status Closed beta · Aug 2026
Stack Frontier LLM · PACER-native
Founded 2026 · Sole founder
Funding Self-funded · Pre-seed
Why This Exists

Legal AI has ignored the federal filing.

The billion-dollar legal AI market has built for the wrong buyer. Harvey drafts memos for Am Law 100 partners. CoCounsel searches Westlaw for corporate associates. UniCourt tracks dockets for enterprise intake teams. Nobody has built the tool that takes a federal docket, the venue's local rules, and your facts, and hands you a filing the clerk will actually accept.

Harvey AI

Long-form legal memos

Built for Am Law 100 partners. $1.22B raised. Not federal-filing-native.

CoCounsel

Westlaw research & drafting

Thomson Reuters. 1M+ users. General practice. No PACER integration.

UniCourt / PacerPro

Docket monitoring

Read-only. Notice tracking. Not drafting.

ClerkReady

Federal filing drafts, clerk-ready

PACER-native. Local rules aware. The tool nobody has built.

The Workflow

Docket in. Filing out.

Five steps. Under fifteen minutes for a first draft that would otherwise take an associate a full day.

01

Input a PACER docket number

Format: [district]:[year]-cv-[docket]. Or paste the URL. ClerkReady pulls the full case history — every filing, order, and scheduling event.

02

Ingest the record

Full docket, prior filings, opposing party's arguments, judge's rulings on the case, and the assigned judge's standing orders across all their cases.

03

Apply venue rules

Local rules for the district. Page and word limits. Font, margins, line-spacing, cover-page format, table-of-authorities requirements. The formatting rules most drafts get bounced on.

04

Draft the filing

Motion, response, reply, petition, or appellate brief in the correct posture. Cites from the docket record and precedent database. Every citation traceable. Format constraints enforced at generation, not review.

05

Clerk-rejection preflight

Before you download: automated checks against the top rejection patterns for that district and judge. Wrong caption. Missing certificate of service. Overlong tables. The stuff a partner catches on the fifth read — caught before the first read.

Who Built It

Built by a founder who has actually filed at every level.

ClerkReady was built by a federal litigator, not a former banker with a legal advisory board. The founder has spent twenty years across the table from the IRS and DOL in federal tax controversy, ERISA, and audit-defense litigation. Filings at the United States Supreme Court (Elick v. Commissioner). Oral argument at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (Tommy Barrow v. USA). Active APA challenges against the IRS in the Eastern District of Wisconsin and the District of Utah — covered by Bloomberg Law and Law360.

The pattern-match for what a clerk will reject was not learned from a legal-tech consulting deck. It was learned from filing under deadline in real federal courts against the federal government — and watching what happens to opposing counsel's papers when they miss the standing order footnote or the format requirement.

ClerkReady is the tool the founder built for himself first.

// Founder profile

Joseph J. Dadich

Founder & CEO

  • CPA + Attorney (TX & MI) + LL.M. in Taxation — held by fewer than 1% of practicing tax attorneys
  • U.S. Supreme Court filerElick v. Commissioner
  • Sixth Circuit appellateTommy Barrow v. USA
  • 20+ years federal tax and ERISA litigation, audit defense, and APA challenges against the federal government
  • Active APA casesDaines et al. v. IRS (E.D. Wis.) and parallel Utah filing, covered by Bloomberg Law and Law360
// Beta invitations open

Request Early Access.

ClerkReady enters closed beta August 2026 with a small, hand-selected group of federal litigators. Priority given to solo practitioners, litigation boutiques (under 20 attorneys), and federal in-house counsel.

Get on the beta list.

Tell us who you are and what you file. Real names, real firms only. Invitations rolled in cohorts of 25.

// Your details go to the founder directly. No mailing list. No spam. If you are a fit for the cohort, we respond within one business day.