Free public help

Make useful progress before deciding whether to pay anyone.

These tools are available now. Each one explains what it does, what stays on your device, and what still requires a court, agency, attorney, tax professional, or other qualified reviewer.

A complete starting journey

Choose the step that matches what you have.

Available now

Find a starting path

Describe the problem in ordinary language. The rules-based starting tool suggests a likely path, related options, and details that may help.

  • No account required
  • Your description is not saved
  • Uncertainty and urgent concerns are shown
Describe the situation
Device only

Review or compare text

Open supported text files or paste text to identify stated dates, actions, amounts, contacts, headings, and line-by-line changes.

  • Text stays in the browser tab
  • Exact one-based line references
  • Embedded instructions are never executed
Open document tools
Device only

Build a source-linked action plan

Select exact findings, add your own questions and next actions, preserve corrections separately, and download the plan locally.

  • No invented deadlines
  • User-chosen target dates only
  • No account, analytics, or professional sharing
Prepare next steps
Device only

Organize dates without guessing

Record dates exactly as they appear in notices, orders, agreements, emails, or appointment records, keep uncertain dates visibly separate, and download a local verification checklist.

  • No legal deadline calculation or reminder
  • Source-stated, uncertain, and user-created dates stay distinct
  • No account, server save, analytics, AI, or professional sharing
Build a date timeline
Device only

Keep a communication and evidence log

Record calls, messages, meetings, observations, source references, preservation status, and follow-up tasks in one local chronology.

  • No call recording, message capture, or file collection
  • Exact wording stays separate from your summary
  • No account, server save, analytics, AI, reminder, or professional sharing
Build a factual log
Device only

Prepare a factual question or letter

Select exact source findings, add only facts and requests you confirm, then build an editable draft with a separate source appendix.

  • No invented facts or automatic sending
  • Source excerpts remain separate
  • No account, AI, analytics, or professional sharing
Prepare a draft
Device only

Assemble a preparation binder

Combine exact source findings with your own summary, action plan, separate corrections, and editable draft in one local package.

  • Original source and user notes stay distinct
  • Text and structured local downloads
  • No upload, account storage, sending, or automatic sharing with a professional
Build a preparation binder
Device only

Check preparation quality

Review a packet for missing source labels, date labels, record references, questions, next steps, possible duplicates, contradictions, stale source dates, and possible sensitive-number patterns.

  • No truth, credibility, merit, sufficiency, or case-strength conclusion
  • No score, legal deadline calculation, save, AI, filing, or routing
  • Local text and structured reports
Run a quality check
Device only

Prepare for a focused portal

Choose a legal or tax portal, organize confirmed facts, materials, dates, questions, goals, and access needs, then download a local handoff pack.

  • No upload, account, AI, or analytics
  • No deadline calculation or automatic routing
  • Text and structured local downloads
Build a portal pack
Device only

Create a minimal journey handoff

Choose a destination product and preparation step, then download a fixed-choice handoff pack without entering a story, name, contact information, or document text.

  • No upload, account, analytics, or automatic transfer
  • Only fixed non-narrative selections
  • Local JSON and text downloads
Build a local handoff
Device only

Compare legal-help options

Compare self-help, court or agency assistance, legal aid, limited-scope help, a focused consultation, and full representation.

  • No lawyer match, lead, upload, or transmission
  • Clear fit, limits, and questions to ask
  • Local text and structured downloads
Compare help paths
Device only

Verify a suspicious message or AI-assisted draft

Build an independent contact-verification plan or record which AI-draft checks are still open before you rely, respond, send, or file.

  • No authenticity verdict or deadline calculation
  • No notice or draft upload
  • No save, AI transmission, lead, report, or routing
Open Trust & Verification Center
Device only

Map the whole situation

See how legal, housing, money, health, safety, benefits, family, business, and property concerns may connect before choosing a next step.

  • Transparent reasons for every path shown
  • No advice, score, lead, save, AI, or automatic sharing
  • User-controlled text and JSON handoff downloads
Build a whole-situation map
Public-source facts

Find and compare professionals

Search documented services and locations, then compare up to three individual or firm profiles without hidden paid ranking.

  • Unclaimed and verification states stay separate
  • No inquiry is created
  • Contact does not create a professional relationship
Search the directory

What is not active

Clear limits protect users from false promises.

Confidential uploads

Private server storage and confidential document upload are not open. The current document workspace is device-only.

Paid Human Review

Public paid Human Review and professional review purchasing remain paused until staffing, security, payment, support, and legal gates pass.

Automatic filing or routing

Smarter Justice does not automatically file forms, contact a professional, create a commercial lead, or guarantee that a professional will accept a matter.

Important

Smarter Justice is not a law firm, court, government agency, insurer, or tax authority. Free tools provide organization and general starting information, not individualized professional advice or guaranteed outcomes.