Upload your draft court filing and select your state and county. We run a pre-filing check against the civil procedure rules and local court requirements we've loaded, including caption formatting, signature blocks, certificates of service, page limits, font and margin rules, and exhibit labels. We tell you exactly what to fix before you file, so the clerk can accept it the first time. We review formatting and procedural compliance only. We do not assess the strength of your legal argument.
A clerk-grade checklist for the document you are about to file.
$14.99 one-time, same-day written report
$75 – $300+ per review, or monthly subscription
Pricing reference: Regents RS paralegal price list
Free, but the clerks cannot advise you
We built this for people already overwhelmed by hearings, deadlines, evictions, divorces, and court paperwork. The process is fully online, document-based, and designed to be completed in about the time it takes to read a court form.
PDF or DOCX, up to 25 MB. Tell us the document type (motion, petition, response, answer), the state (or federal court), and (optionally) the county. Deepest local-rule coverage in Texas at launch; every other state runs the state-level rules-of-civil-procedure baseline. Federal court runs the FRCP baseline.
Caption, case number, party names, page limits, font, margins, signature block, certificate of service, exhibit labels, notarization flags, proposed-order check, filing-fee reminder, common typos. Every flag tied to a specific rule citation in the jurisdiction you selected: e.g. TRCP 21a/57 in Texas, FRCP 5/11 federally, CCP §§ 1010–1014 in California, CPLR 2101/2103 in New York.
Usually within minutes: every checklist item marked PASS / WARN / FAIL with the specific rule citation, a plain-English "Before You File" action list, and a jurisdiction reference card. Then you fix and file, with the clerk rather than against them.
There are three real options for this exact problem: a paid service in the same category, a DIY path, or Pro Se Check. Here is the side-by-side, with prices.
| Pro Se Check | Paid pro se motion review | DIY: pro se clerk + ChatGPT | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.99 one-time | $75 – $300+ per review | Free |
| Format | Written report | Phone call or subscription | Self-reading |
| Turnaround | Same day | 1 – 3 business days | Immediate, no checks |
| Specific to your document | Yes, your exact filing | Sometimes (generic templates) | No structured analysis |
| Cites the rule | Yes, paragraph by paragraph | Usually verbal | No |
| Conflict-free | Neutral third-party review | Marketplace bids vary | You are reading your own draft |
Competitor pricing referenced from Regents RS paralegal price list. Ranges reflect publicly listed prices at time of writing.
Borrowed from manufacturing: a serious quality program is not, we tried hard. It is layered checks, a measured defect rate, and a patch loop that improves with every report.
We will publish defects-per-thousand-reports here once we have a full quarter of real customer data; not before.
Every flagged issue feeds the patch loop. Every patch raises the floor for the next reader. That is the only quality program worth running.
Run a Pre-Filing Check · $14.99Five U.S. provisional patents pending. Filed by SELAH Enterprises, the operating company behind Nova Aurora.
Self-help guides can explain the law. Form generators can fill in blanks. But almost nothing checks whether your actual filing meets the procedural requirements a clerk will look for before you submit it. That's the gap we're solving.
The National Center for State Courts' landmark 2015 study of state civil dockets found that roughly three in four civil cases involved at least one self-represented litigant. The legal system has more pro se filers than represented ones, and almost no tooling pointed at the moment of filing.1
Pew's 2020 study of state civil dockets found that more than 70% of debt-collection lawsuits ended in default judgment, overwhelmingly because the defendant never filed an answer, or filed one that didn't meet local requirements. Procedural defects, not legal weakness, drive most of those outcomes.2
State law-help sites and county Guide & File programs publish helpful checklists, as static documents. None of them reads your draft. None tells you, line by line, whether this specific filing will pass clerk review in your jurisdiction. That's exactly what Pro Se Check does.3
We do not use made-up testimonials or vague promises. Instead, here is a real anonymized excerpt from an actual Pre-Filing Check Report, shown in the same format every customer receives before filing.
Original Petition for Divorce (anonymized) · 13 items checked · 8 PASS, 3 WARN, 2 FAIL. Citations include TRCP 21a (Certificate of Service), TRCP 57 (signature block), and Williamson County Local Rules on page limits and formatting. This sample shows the Texas format; every other state's report follows the same structure with that jurisdiction's rule citations (e.g. FRCP for federal court, CCP for California, CPLR for New York). Every report now also includes copy-paste AI fix prompts for each flagged item plus a reusable 10-prompt appendix, and a multi-state Filing Roadmap covering the procedural gate clerks apply in your state.
A motion that passes Pro Se Check is only useful if the clerk accepts it. Every report now ends with a Filing Roadmap covering the e-filing portal, the fee-waiver form and the rule that governs it, the self-help portal, the top three rejection causes clerks publicly report, the AI-disclosure rule (where one applies), and ten common filing mistakes drawn from federal district pro se manuals.
Covers TX, CA, FL, NY, PA, IL, OH, GA, NC, MI. More states added on demand. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
One draft or three on the same matter; the depth of the checklist is the same. Every item checked against the jurisdiction you selected (state rules of civil procedure + any loaded county-local rules), every flag explained in plain English, every fix tied to a specific rule citation.