Cedent AI
AI matter assistant · California family law

From first email to review-ready matter.

Cedent reads every email and attachment, files it to the right matter, calculates the deadline on your county's rules, and proposes the tasks that follow. Ask what a local rule requires or what your own documents establish, and the answer arrives with its source. You accept, or you don't.

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Never trained on your dataSOC 2 Type II underwayNo migration needed
Your briefThursday, 7:12 AM
14 matters · 3 need you
Responsive declaration due tomorrowMarriage of Quintero · 9 court days before the Aug 14 hearing. I've drafted it - 12 citations to the record.
Opposing counsel wants to move the CMCOkafor · reply drafted, holds your two open dates in September.
FL-150 needs six answersQuintero · filled from the record as far as it goes. The rest I couldn't verify.
Everything else is filed and calendared.Open review queue
This arrives twice a day
Same nightA filing served at 9 PM is read, filed and calendared before your morning brief.
County by countyAlameda, Santa Clara and San Francisco, down to courthouse departments, clerk hours and filing fees.
Source-groundedEvery fact in a draft traces to a document in the record. Anything unverified is flagged, not used.
Approval-gatedOutbound mail, filings and bills wait in your review queue for your sign-off.
A week on one matter

Marriage of Quintero, start to signed off.

Three moments from a typical family law matter. Step through them.

What arrived
Ramos & Blake LLP9:02 PM
Re: Marriage of Quintero - Request for Order filed. Hearing set for Aug 14 in Dept. 503. See attached.FL-300.pdf · 14 pages

Nine o'clock on a Wednesday. Nobody is opening this tonight - and the clock started the moment it was served.

What Cedent did - 42 seconds
Filed the email and the FL-300 to Marriage of Quintero
Read all 14 pages and pulled the requested relief - a change to the custody schedule
Calendared the hearing and set the response deadline for Aug 1
Started the responsive declaration from the matter record
Waiting in your brief at 7:12 AM. No alert at 9 PM - nothing needed you tonight.
The application

A real matter, actually open.

Another matter in the same firm, and this time a screenshot rather than an illustration. The summary at the top was written from the ten things that arrived on this matter since yesterday. The deadline underneath it is counted on San Mateo's calendar. On the right, five things Cedent is proposing to do next, and every one of them is still only a suggestion.

The Cedent application with a family law matter open. A written summary of the week sits at the top, a settlement response deadline is six days away, 89 extracted facts wait to be reviewed, and a panel down the right lists five actions the assistant is proposing, none of them carried out.
Elena Rossi v. Marco Rossi is a matter in our demonstration firm, so the parties are invented. Everything around them is the product running: 89 facts pulled from the documents and waiting on review, 9 documents filed to the matter, and a settlement response due in six days.
Why Cedent

Storing the work is not the same as doing it.

Cedent works alongside the system you already keep your files in, and exports back to it. The difference is who does the typing.

A system of record alone
You read the email, then file it to the matter yourself
You count court days against the local rules and hope you got the holiday right
Forms retyped from documents you already have
Facts live in your head and in six PDFs
Time reconstructed on Friday from memory
With Cedent alongside it
Read, filed, and triaged in under a minute - attachments included
Deadlines computed county by county, with the arithmetic shown
FL-150, FL-142 and RA-010 filled from the record, gaps asked for not guessed
A fact ledger ranked P0–P5, every entry traced to its document
Time captured as it happens, exported to your billing system in one click
Privileged by designEvery email Cedent reads is attorney-client material. That's the design assumption, not a compliance checkbox.Read the security docs →
You sign off on everythingOutbound email, filings, bills - all of it waits in your review queue. Cedent drafts. You decide.
Built for your courthouseAlameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara - local rules kept current as they change.
Professional responsibility

Built for the duties you already carry.

Cedent is attorney-in-control by design. It is built around the rules that govern AI use in practice, and names them as precisely as it names a filing deadline.

Competence · Rule 1.1Every deadline shows the rule it applied and the calendar it counted on, so you can verify the work rather than trust it.
Confidentiality · Rule 1.6Client material stays inside your firm's workspace, access is scoped per user, and your data is not used to train models.
Supervision · Rule 5.3Cedent prepares, you review and sign. It is treated as nonlawyer assistance, never as a substitute for judgment.
ABA Formal Opinion 512Built for how bar guidance expects generative AI to be used in practice: supervised, disclosed where required, and reviewable afterwards.

This describes how Cedent is built, not legal advice about your obligations. Your duty of competence stays yours, and Cedent is designed so you can discharge it quickly.

Read the AI and Professional Responsibility Addendum

A contract term, not a marketing page. It sets out what the AI does, what it will not do, and who carries the duty to verify each output.

Pricing

One plan, priced per person.

Every seat after the first costs less. No per-matter fees, no setup charge and no annual contract.

See the full pricing →
First seat$249 /mo
Each after$199 /mo
3 people$647 /mo
Every account starts free: 14 days on your own matters. Cancel before the trial ends and you are not charged.
Questions attorneys actually ask

The hard ones, answered plainly.

Is client material confidential?

Every email Cedent reads is treated as attorney-client material. Data stays inside your firm's workspace, access is scoped per user, and your content is not used to train models. SOC 2 Type II is underway.

What stops it from inventing a citation?

Drafts are source-grounded: each fact traces to a document in the matter record, ranked P0 to P5 by how well it is supported. Anything unverified is flagged for discovery and kept out of the draft rather than guessed at.

Who is responsible if a draft is wrong?

You are, which is why nothing leaves without you. Cedent is approval-gated: outbound mail, filings and bills wait in your review queue, and every deadline shows the arithmetic behind it so a check takes seconds.

Do I need to tell my client I use AI?

That depends on your engagement terms and your jurisdiction's guidance, so treat it as your call. Cedent keeps a record of what it did on each matter, which makes disclosure straightforward when you decide it is warranted.

Can I see what it did and why?

Yes. Each matter carries a timeline of what was filed, calculated and drafted, and each fact carries the document it came from. Deadlines show the rule and the calendar used to reach the date.

Does this replace my paralegal?

No. It removes the retyping, the court-day counting and the filing that nobody wants to do at 9 PM, so the people in your firm spend their time on work that needs judgment.

What if I practice outside the Bay Area?

Alameda, Santa Clara and San Francisco are loaded in depth today - local rules, courthouse departments, clerk hours, filing procedures and fees. Elsewhere in California, deadlines still calculate on the statewide judicial holiday calendar, you just do not get the local layer yet. Adding a county is a data change rather than a rebuild, and the architecture takes other states the same way. Tell us where you practice and we will tell you honestly whether we are ready for you.

Book a demo

Twenty minutes in the product, no sales deck.

We walk a California family law matter end to end in the working product: the filing arrives, the deadline is computed on the county's rules, the FL-150 fills from the record. It runs on our demonstration firm, where the parties are invented - so nothing of your clients' has to change hands to see how it behaves.

A product expert runs every demo, not an SDR
Bring your hardest question about how we handle client confidences
No client data required - we demo on invented matters
Free trial14 days on your own matters, no charge if you cancel first. See pricing
Pick a time this weekPacific time · 20 minutes · a product expert runs it.See available timesNo card, no contract. You'll get a calendar hold and a short note on what we'll cover.
cedere - to yield

The burden yields. The evening is yours.

Tomorrow's deadlines calculated, the forms filled, the drafts waiting for your review. Close the laptop.

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