Public-records intelligence

The questions people ask government are public before the documents are.

Every day, thousands of people file records requests with city and state governments. Read one at a time, they are errands. Read at scale, every day, they are an early-warning feed of who is about to sue whom, whose loss is being worked, and what deal is being diligenced. PreDocket reads them and delivers the ones on your watchlist first.

Pre-launch. Access is granted by request. Sample data shown throughout.

The insight

A signal forms weeks before it reaches a docket.

By the time a case is filed or a claim is litigated, the work started long ago. The investigator, the carrier, the opposing firm, the diligence team have all been pulling records for weeks. Those pulls are public the moment they land, and nobody reads them together.

A request names the parties, the loss date, and the theory in plain language before a single document is produced. PreDocket reads that record at scale so you see the matter form while it is still early.

One event, read from the request log

When a warehouse in Los Angeles burned, the same building drew six separate records requests in two weeks. One of them pulled the same building's 2024 prior fire.

That pull is prior-notice evidence, filed in the open, weeks before anyone brought a claim.

How it works

We watch, daily

We monitor hundreds of public-records portals every day, across cities and states, so no window closes before we see it.

We classify and cluster

We type each request into the signals that mean money in motion, then cluster the ones that point at the same event, party, or property.

We deliver, first

You get the signals on your watchlist before anyone else is reading them, with the request text and why it matters attached.

Six signal types
Subrogation

An insurer or its investigator pulls a loss report. The insured, carrier, and loss date, named before any suit.

Pre-litigation

A firm pulls a property's dispatch or incident history. A premises or liability theory being built.

Regulatory heat

Repeated requests around one operator or site signal an enforcement or compliance action forming.

Corporate distress

Requests for permits, liens, or code history that read like a company or asset under strain.

Competitive diligence

A records pull on a company or building that looks like a deal being diligenced ahead of a transaction.

Unclaimed assets

Finder and recovery activity around estates, property, and funds that are owed and unclaimed.

Who it's for

Subrogation teams

See a recoverable loss the day the investigator starts pulling records, not the day the file lands on your desk. Get to the subrogation lead before the trail cools.

See the subrogation sample →

Litigation funders

Read the pre-litigation window at scale. See which matters are being worked, by whom, and against whom, weeks before a complaint is on file.

See the funder sample →

Insurers

Watch for the loss reports, incident pulls, and regulatory activity that touch your book, and price or reserve against them earlier.

See the full feed →

Diligence shops

Catch the records pulls that read like a deal in motion or a company under strain, and know who else is already looking.

See the full feed →
Why not do it yourself

Reading one portal is easy. Watching all of them is an operation.

Any analyst can read one city's request log for one matter. Watching hundreds of portals every day, and resolving the noise into named, clustered events, is a machine and a staff you would have to build and run. The most sophisticated requesters already do a version of this by hand, one portal at a time.

PreDocket does it across every portal at once, refreshed daily, typed and clustered, with your watchlist applied.

LexisNexis — multi-carrier fire-report pipeline NEFCO — origin-and-cause, volume format Carriers — pulling loss reports directly Unclaimed-property finders

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