Every motion you've filed. Every argument you've made. Every ruling you've received. Structured, searchable, and ready for your next draft. Built by a litigator, for litigators.
Your best arguments are buried in old case files that no one can find when they need them.
New associates start from scratch on legal issues you've already won — because the knowledge lives in a partner's head.
You draft the same motion structure for the tenth time this year, knowing you wrote a better version six months ago.
Court rulings that shaped your legal strategy exist only in your memory — not in a searchable system.
Sidebar Code fixes this. Not with another document management tool — with a platform that extracts, structures, and remembers your legal thinking.
Upload your motions, complaints, court orders, demand letters, and discovery responses. PDF or Word. Every document you've ever filed becomes raw material for your knowledge base.
Cortex reads the full document and extracts every discrete argument, every statute cited with reasoning, every authority with its proposition, and every court ruling with the judge's analysis. You review the extraction and commit it to memory.
When you need to draft, Cortex searches your entire practice history. It finds the arguments that worked, the statutes you cited, the outcomes you got, and the authorities that won — then drafts in your voice using your writing style profile.
Sidebar Code combines matter management, AI-powered drafting, and a structured legal knowledge base into one platform. No more switching between five tools.
Every argument you've ever made, searchable by legal issue, statute, authority, or outcome. Know which arguments won, which were denied, and why — across every case in your practice.
Search: "lien priority arguments from granted MSJs citing § 33-1807" → instant results with source documents
Talk to your knowledge base. Ask questions about your cases, search your filing repository, draft documents, and create tasks — all through a conversation with full context from your practice history.
"What arguments have we used on statute of limitations in the last two years?" → cited results from your own filings
Cases, deadlines, tasks, and documents — all in one place. Assign work to partners, associates, and paralegals. Track everything from intake through resolution.
Dashboard: upcoming deadlines, open tasks, recent activity, knowledge base stats — at a glance
Cortex learns how you write. Auto-extracted from your committed filings or configured manually with your drafting rules. Every AI draft matches your voice.
Rules: "Use active voice. CRAC structure. Never say 'clearly.' Cite Arizona authorities before federal."
Pre-built drafting skills for motions, demand letters, discovery, and complaints. Each skill teaches Cortex how to draft and extract knowledge for a specific document type. Add more from the marketplace.
Included: MSJ, MTD, Answer, Demand Letter, Discovery. Available: HOA Enforcement, Depo Prep, Family Law Pack
Draft in the built-in editor with headings, numbered paragraphs, and formatting. Generate formatted Word documents with court captions, signature blocks, and certificates of service.
Draft in the editor → click Generate → download .docx ready for filing
Every plan includes the full platform — matter management, filing repository, AI chat, document generation, and writing style profiles. 30-day money-back guarantee.
For solo practitioners and two-attorney firms who want AI-powered drafting with institutional memory.
For small firms that want collaboration, shared knowledge, and automated oversight across the team.
For established firms that want custom workflows, practice-area configuration, and dedicated onboarding.
All plans require a Claude API key from Anthropic (billed separately). AI costs are usage-based and paid directly to Anthropic.
Optional onboarding services for firms that want a guided setup. Your Sidebar Code subscription is separate.
A focused 90-minute session where we configure your firm on the platform, upload your first documents, and train your team on the workflow.
Everything in the Setup Session, plus we build custom skills for your practice area, upload your full document library, and train your entire team.
Sidebar Code exists because its founder got tired of losing institutional knowledge every time a case closed. As a practicing litigator carrying an active caseload in Arizona, he watched the same arguments get researched and rewritten case after case — because there was no system that remembered what worked. So he built one.
The platform started as an internal tool for his own firm. Matter management, document extraction, argument tracking, AI-assisted drafting — all built to solve real problems on real deadlines. When it started producing measurably better work product in less time, the question became: why should this only work for one firm?
Sidebar Code is now a platform any litigation firm can use. The difference between this and a legal tech startup is simple — every feature was built by someone who files motions, takes depositions, and stands up in court. The platform does not guess what attorneys need. It was built by one.
Book a demo and see how Sidebar Code extracts, structures, and retrieves your legal knowledge. We will walk through the platform on a real case so you can see exactly how it works.