For family-law counsel

We read the four hundred pages.You practice the law.

The Dads Standard is an ancillary service. We take the financial records off your desk and hand back a cited reconciliation. What any of it means is yours.

What we do not do
  • Practice law
  • Advise your client
  • Compete with you for anything
What we do
  • Set the sworn affidavit line by line against what the documents actually show
  • Trace every figure to a document and a page
  • Clear every finding with a named human before it ships

Firms buy it in blocks, at up to 25 % off the retail price.

Register your firm See the dashboard
Firm accounts are not open yet.

The analysis engine is built and tested; firm accounts and firm billing are not built yet, and nothing on this page takes payment. The dashboard below is a working demonstration filled with invented matters. We would rather show you exactly what you'd be buying and ask you to wait than take a retainer against something that isn't running.

Retail, per case$999
Firm price, block of 25$749
Records covered as standard1 full year
Each additional year+$79
Unused cases roll for12 months
Human review before deliveryEvery line
Analysis on an incomplete setNot started

Where we sit

We are not your competition. We are the part of the file nobody wants to read.

This needs saying plainly, before anything about price. We hold no retainer, sign no engagement letter, and have no relationship with your client beyond one upload link. We give no legal opinion and no advice — not in the memo, not on a call, not when your client asks us directly, and they do ask. Every question of what a number means, what to file and what to argue comes back to you, because that is your work and we are not qualified to do it.

What we are is a way to stop billing attorney hours for tick-and-tie. Every figure comes back cited to its page, and the lines that agree are marked as plainly as the lines that do not. You spend your time on the two worth fighting about instead of the twelve that are not.

Stays with you Everything that is practicing law
  • The client relationship, the engagement, the retainer
  • What a variance means, and whether it matters in this matter
  • Strategy, argument, what to plead and what to concede
  • Every filing, every hearing, every deposition
  • Whether to retain a forensic CPA, and what to instruct them
  • Any advice your client receives, from first call to final order
Comes off your desk Everything that is reading paper
  • Four hundred pages of statements, read line by line
  • Proving the set is complete before a single figure is used
  • Normalizing every transaction — date, payee, amount, category
  • Separating internal transfers from real income
  • Tying each sworn affidavit line to the records behind it
  • Citing the document and the page for every number we report
  • Telling you which lines agree, so you can stop looking at them
The last line on that list is the one that saves you the most time.

An analysis that flags everything is useless to you, because you still have to read all of it. Ours reports the lines that match the affidavit as prominently as the lines that don’t, and says so in the memo. On a typical matter that clears most of the financial picture in one pass and leaves you with a short list — which is the whole point of handing the work out in the first place.

It is the work nobody in your office wants

Four hundred pages of statements, read line by line, tied back to an affidavit. A paralegal can do it. The question is whether that is what you want to bill for, and whether the result will survive someone checking it.

It is cheaper than the alternative and narrower than it

A forensic CPA starts around five thousand dollars and produces an expert opinion. This produces a cited reconciliation. On most contested matters the reconciliation is what you actually needed, and it tells you whether the CPA is worth retaining.

Your client handles their own records

Statements go to a separate secure portal, not to your inbox and not onto your file server. That is one less place the material lives, and one less thing for your firm to hold, log and eventually destroy.

Step 1 · Choose your setup

Whose name goes on the documents.

One decision, made once when your firm is set up. It changes nothing about the analysis — same method, same reviewer, same citations, same turnaround — and it does not change what a case costs. Pick one, then buy a block below.

Standard

$699 oncethen $250 a month

Our name on the documents.

  • Every document carries The Dads Standard — the client invitation, the upload portal, the reconciliation and the memo
  • You are named as the firm that commissioned it; we are named as the independent analyst who performed it
  • Nothing to set up. A matter opened today is delivered this way by default

Independence is the point. An outside analyst working to a published method is harder to wave away than a document the office arguing the case produced itself.

White label

Your Brand

$699 oncethen $499 a month

Your name on the documents.

  • Your firm’s name, colors and logo on everything the client sees — the invitation, the upload portal and the summary
  • Your client deals with your practice throughout — the portal, the emails and the summary all carry your firm. Who performed the work is disclosed on the document itself, because concealing it is not something we would help a firm do
  • A signed technical report sits behind the summary and is produced only if provenance is challenged

Identical analysis, identical review, identical delivery times. The difference in the monthly fee buys whose name is on the front of it.

Either way, the case price is the same. The branding choice is a setup decision; what you pay per matter is decided by the size of the block you buy next.

Step 2 · Buy a block

Buy cases in a block. The more you hold, the less each one costs.

One case is one matter, covering one full year of records. A second year on any matter is $79, billed against the block. Unused cases roll for twelve months.

5cases
$4,495
$899 per case · 10% off $999
You SAVE $500

A firm testing it on the cases where the affidavit already smells wrong.

Most firms start here
10cases
$7,990
$799 per case · 20% off $999
You SAVE $2,000

The usual first block for a family-law practice of three to six attorneys.

25cases
$18,725
$749 per case · 25% off $999
You SAVE $6,250

A firm that runs financial discovery on most contested matters.

A case only leaves your block when the analysis is delivered. A matter that stalls because the client never uploaded, or one that is blocked because the records have a gap, costs you nothing and stays on the shelf until it moves. You are buying completed analyses, not attempts.

How a matter runs

Six steps, and you are only involved in two of them.

1

Open a matter

You open it from the dashboard: matter number, the client's email, and which year the analysis should cover. Thirty seconds. One case comes off the block.

2

We invite the client

They get a link to the secure intake portal — not email, not your file share. Records go straight there. You never handle the statements, and neither does anyone in your office.

3

Records are checked for completeness

Before anything is analyzed, every statement must prove arithmetically and every month must join the one before it. A gap stops the matter and says which two statements it sits between, so the client is asked once, for the right thing.

4

The analysis runs

Statements are parsed to transactions, transactions are classified, and each sworn affidavit line is set against what the records show. The method does not estimate, and a figure that cannot be traced to a page is reported as untraced rather than carried into the summary.

5

A person reviews every finding

A named reviewer clears, amends or rejects each one, with a written reason required to amend or reject. Nothing is delivered while a finding is open.

6

You get the email

Subject line carries your matter number. The workbook and the memo are in the dashboard, and the reviewer log travels with them, so opposing counsel can see what was rejected as well as what was kept.

The dashboard

What your firm logs into.

Below is the real thing, running, filled with invented matters. Click any matter to open it. The two delivered matters have live sample files behind them — the same workbook and memo a real matter produces.

Rowe & Castellan LLP Demo · invented data signed in as practice manager
4 of 10 cases remaining
Block expires 14 Nov
Six matters · two delivered · one blocked on incomplete records · every figure on this screen is invented

What lands in your inbox

Three emails, and you never have to check the dashboard to know where a matter is.

Every subject line carries your matter number, so they thread and file themselves.

The Dads Standard → your firm
Matter 2026-0142 — analysis delivered

The workbook and the memo are in your dashboard. 6 findings, all cleared by R. Okafor. Two affidavit lines agree with the records and are reported as agreeing. Reviewer log attached to both files.

The Dads Standard → your firm
Matter 2026-0163 — records incomplete, nothing has been analyzed

Two statement months are missing between April and July. We have asked your client for those two months only. No case has been drawn from your block, and nothing will be analyzed until the set is complete.

The Dads Standard → your firm
Matter 2026-0166 — client has not uploaded (day 7)

Two reminders have gone out and we will not send more. If the invite should go to a different address, you can reissue it from the dashboard.

What the documents look like

The same matter, shown both ways.

Firms put their name on vendor work constantly — e-discovery, document review, record summarization. Below are four specimen documents from a single matter, and you can flip each one between your branding and ours. One constraint is worth stating first, because it is narrower than most firms assume.

The one line that does not move.

A firm cannot be named as the author of an analysis that a person outside the firm performed. Not because of branding — because it creates an advocate-witness problem for you. If opposing counsel asks who did this work and how, the only person who can answer is the lawyer trying the case, and that is a position no one wants to be in. Everything short of that line is available, and there is more room there than most firms expect.

On Your Brand you get both documents, and you choose per matter which one goes out — the branded summary, or ours as an independent analyst. On Standard every matter goes out the second way.

Goes out Branded summary

Your letterhead, and your firm named as the party who commissioned it and who interprets it. Used in negotiation, at mediation, in a demand letter. The interpretation is your work product; the document reports what the records show and says on its face that it was prepared at the request of counsel.

Held in reserve Technical report

Methodology, the arithmetic proof, the classification rules, the full reviewer log and the reviewer's name. Signed, retained, and produced only if anyone questions where the figures came from.

What it actually looks like Four specimen documents from one matter. The firm below does not exist and every figure is invented — but the layout, the type and the structure are exactly what the system produces.
From
To d.k​@​example.com
Subject Your financial records — secure upload, matter 2026-0142

Dear Mr. K.,

To move your case forward we need one full year of your financial records. Please use the secure link below — do not email these documents to anyone, including this office.

Upload my records securely

The link is yours alone and expires in thirty days. You will need:

  • Twelve months of statements for every account, all pages
  • Your most recent full tax return, with all schedules, W-2s and 1099s
  • Every pay stub in those twelve months
  • Twelve months of credit-card statements, if there are any (optional)
  • Peer-payment and payment-processor history, if you have any

Complete sets matter more than speed. A missing month is the first thing the other side will point at, so please send everything even where a month looks empty.

Very truly yours,

Which one is safer depends on where the document is going.

Keep it internal — strategy, negotiation posture, deciding whether a forensic CPA is worth retaining — and Your Brand is the comfortable one: your client deals with your practice and nobody else. Send it to a mediator, opposing counsel or a judge and independence is most of what the document is worth; an outside analyst lands harder than a document your own office produced, and a challenge to methodology is answered with a signed report from a named reviewer How you use that, and whether you would rather the work sat in-house, is your call. On Your Brand you keep both, and choose per matter which one goes out.

Three things to settle with your own counsel first. Pricing here is deliberately flat — a one-time setup fee, a flat monthly fee and a price per case, never anything indexed to your recovery, because sharing fees with non-lawyers is its own problem. Conflicts: we run a matter-level duplicate check that flags where two firms on opposite sides of the same case are both analyzing it here, and that check is not a substitute for yours. Supervision: the rules on non-lawyer assistance are what make every tier above work, and they put a duty on you as well as on us, which is why it sits in the agreement rather than being discovered later. None of this is a legal opinion. We are not lawyers, which is rather the point of the page.

What we won't do

The limits, stated before you ask.

A vendor sitting between you and your client's financial records should tell you where it stops before it tells you what it does. Nothing on this list is a service tier we might sell you later — these are the edges of an ancillary service, and they do not move.

We do not give your client legal advice

Not on the call, not in the memo, not in the portal. The deliverable reports what the records show. What it means for the matter is yours.

We do not contact the other side

Ever, for any reason. Everything we hold came from your client.

We do not decide what a variance means

The memo quantifies the gap and cites the page. It does not argue intent, and it says so in its own limits section — What that section is worth in any particular hearing is your judgment, not ours.

We do not hold records longer than we need to

Records are encrypted at rest, deleted on a schedule that starts the day the analysis is delivered, and every access is logged. You can trigger deletion early from the dashboard.

We will not analyze an incomplete set

A missing month is the single easiest thing to attack, so a gap stops the matter instead of being averaged over. This costs us delivery speed and is not negotiable.

We do not take your client

No retainer, no engagement letter, no ongoing relationship. When the analysis is delivered our involvement ends. If your client asks us what to do next, the answer is to ask you, every time.

We do not run conflicts for you

We will tell you if a matter number or client email already exists on another firm's account. That is a duplicate check, not a conflicts check, and it is not a substitute for your own.

Register a firm

Tell us you want it and we'll tell you when it opens.

No payment, no commitment, no retainer. Firms on this list get first access, the founding block price held for twelve months, and an honest answer about the date rather than an optimistic one.

Nothing is charged. Nothing is shared.

Registering puts your firm on the list and nothing else. No payment, no account, no follow-up beyond the one message when firm accounts open.

Questions counsel actually asks

Straight answers.

Who actually does the review?

A named person, and the name is on the memo. The parsing, the arithmetic proof, the classification and the reconciliation are software. The judgment calls are not, and every one of them is logged with a reason.

What happens to an unused case on the block?

It rolls for twelve months from purchase. If your block expires with cases on it, we would rather extend it than keep the money — ask.

Can I white-label it?

Yes. Your Brand puts your firm's name, colors and logo on everything the client sees, for $499 a month instead of $250. The section above sets out both options. The one line that does not move: a firm cannot be named as the author of an analysis a person outside the firm performed. Every other part of this — the portal, the branding, the letterhead on the summary — is available.

What if the analysis finds nothing?

Then the memo says the records support the affidavit, in the same detail. That is a useful answer and it costs a case off the block like any other. An outfit that only ever finds problems is not running an analysis.

Will you testify?

Not today. The deliverable is a document analysis prepared for counsel, and the reviewer is not offered as an expert witness. If you need testimony, you need a forensic CPA, and the workbook is designed so one can check our work quickly rather than start over.

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