pitch.filings.legal
Every government filing, behind one verb.
One endpoint, one verb — FILE — across every agency. Open filings complete end to end, metered on the government receipt. Reserved filings return a typed answer and route to a licensed human. Reads are keyless from your first call.
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The caller is an agent, so this deck opens the way an agent would read the surface: contract, boundary, meter. The story comes later, for the humans.
An agent runs a workflow until a document has to reach a government. filings.legal makes that step a call. One verb — FILE — the same shape across every agency, and every filing classified before the call by whether the law lets an agent complete it:
| Surface | The contract | Gate |
|---|---|---|
status (read) | file-wrapper, prosecution events, receipt confirmation — a filing's status is a fact, and facts are never reserved, so reads are keyless from the very first call | none |
provisional (open act) | the pro-se provisional patent filing — an applicant may file their own, so the agent assembles and submits on the applicant's behalf; no credential, no signature, no Legal Fee | none · receipt-metered |
reserved (acts) | utility filings, office-action responses, trademark OA responses — a signature the law reserves to a licensed human; the agent never signs | requiresSigner |
filings.legal serves: the full surface above is live on the root page — hero contract, gate-columned catalog, three worked calls, pricing posture, and machine surfaces — with its preview posture stated on the page itself.
The keyless read surface answers today: GET /filings returns a typed OK envelope with a seeded demo Matter — meter predicate uspto.receipt, released: false — no key, no signup.
The live build is a preview on in-memory demo state — its own footer says "no live government filings," and so does this deck. The claim that matters posts when a real filing's real receipt releases a real Meter, with the record in evidence.
A signature on a utility patent, an office-action response, or a trademark OA is reserved to a licensed human — definitionally, not as a model-quality problem. Most software handles that boundary with a disclaimer. This endpoint compiles it: call a reserved filing and the response is a typed PENDING_SIGNER that carries the credential the act requires (uspto-registration, state-bar), where the Signer comes from, and a refusal stated in the payload itself — an agent cannot sign a reserved filing, and filings.legal will not forge a signature. Never a dead end, never a silent failure, never an implied signature.
Reserved rows are described, not sold. Each is published in full — endpoint, gate, credential — and none takes money until the row is ratified. The boundary between open and reserved is drawn by licensed counsel, row by row and jurisdiction by jurisdiction, not by this deck and not by the model.
No reserved filing is sold today, and no ship date is promised on the page or here. The live surface marks every reserved row "described, not sold — awaiting ratification," and each row opens only when counsel ratifies it.
Discovery is the distribution channel — an agent that can find, read, and type-check this surface without a human in the loop is the funnel. Each machine surface is posted separately because each is separately checkable:
Publishing an AXP probe manifest is not conformance. The conformance run is a design target verified by api.qa; no run has been published, and the claim posts with the run.
Billing releases on exactly one kind of fact: a deterministic, government-issued receipt. That receipt is the proof predicate — if it never issues, nothing is ever charged, and no state in the machine ever holds an unearned fee. Government fees pass through at cost, itemized, never marked up. Nothing on the surface is hourly, and nothing is a percentage of anything.
The live page posts the figures and labels them honestly — a preview build's targets, not live-service claims, and this deck keeps that label: $199 flat for the pro-se provisional, released only on the USPTO receipt; $0 when no receipt issues. Reserved acts price flat per act, floored by the professional's own flat Legal Fee — which is 100% theirs, disclosed before they claim, and never divided with anyone.
▮▮▮posts when ratified rows resolves — the shape is fixed (flat per act, receipt-released, Legal Fee floored and undivided); the figures post when the rows do, never before.
Everything around the signature migrates — assembly, formatting, docketing, status reads have already left the human path. The signature itself does not: the statute names a person, and that floor is where the migration stops. Open filings run at software economics; reserved filings carry remittance to the licensed human who signs.
Primary motion is B2A — the caller is an agent acting for a business, and the endpoint is the product. Secondary is B2D: the human who points the agent here reads the OpenAPI contract and the docs first, and the keyless read surface exists so that evaluation costs nothing and asks permission of no one. Fulfilment of a reserved filing is A2H2A — the H is not a user persona but a required supplier, because the statute names a person.
The funnel is deliberately unguarded at the top: curl https://filings.legal/filings works before any signup exists. An endpoint that lets the machine verify the contract before the human ever appears is the whole go-to-market.
filings.legal never runs a second marketplace. The independent licensed professionals who sign reserved filings — attorneys and USPTO patent agents, under their own credentials, with coverage required to be in force on every act — come through the legal cell's one supply door, gigs.lawyer. The cell is designed as one licensed operating entity with a demand rail, api.lawyer, and that supply door; this brand is an instrument door riding the same cell, specialized to the FILE verb. The reserved acts belong to the cell, never to this brand: a licence is not a brand.
The cell's operating entity is designed, not formed. Until formation and licensure close, every reserved path in this deck is a designed contract, not a live service — and this deck says so on purpose.
The pending gates in this deck are a sequence, not a pile: entity formation and licensure of the cell → reserved rows ratified by counsel, Rule 5.4 survey first → the reserved rate card posts → the api.qa conformance run → the first live government filing metered on a real USPTO receipt. The surface, the typed boundary, and the keyless reads are live today; everything that takes money for a reserved act sits behind ratification, and the deck's ambers are worn openly rather than rounded up to green.
▮▮▮posts when stack#1 §A5 resolves · ▮▮▮posts when first ninety days of live filings resolves — no figures are presentable until the numbers gate resolves, and nothing is measured before the first live filing exists.
If nothing changes: the filing step stays the un-API'd break in every agent workflow — a handoff, a quote, and a meter at exactly the step that makes the work real.
If it works: the filing step is one typed call — open acts complete and meter on the receipt, reserved acts route to a licensed human on the same Meter, and an agent's cost function finally contains the whole workflow.
The front door is filings.legal — reads are keyless today.
If this was forwarded to you: filings.legal is the endpoint an agent calls when a workflow has to reach a government — one verb, FILE, across every agency. Filings the law leaves open complete end to end and are billed only on the government receipt; filings the law reserves to a licensed human return a typed answer and route to an independent professional who signs under their own credential and can refuse. The build is an honest preview — no live government filings yet, and it says so — and every claim above carries its own state and evidence. Try the keyless read at filings.legal; if you know who's building the agent, forward this.