AI-native · runs in your cloud · scales without limit

The operating system for
appeals

Legal, insurance, finance, public sector — wherever a request comes in and a decision must come out, Briefcase runs it. One bright, AI-native platform, built on two decades of real casework, that scales from ten cases to ten million.

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BUILT FOR THE WORK THAT MATTERS
Justice Insurance Finance Public sector Regulators
Complaints · live queue
List Board Timeline
IN PROGRESS
Ingest & extract documents
AI In progress Done
Triage & route to team
JM In progress
Draft decision & letter
AI Drafting
UP NEXT
Senior review & approve
RP To do
Send response & close
KD To do
128 cases live Clerk handled 14 today
Clerk · AI teammate
SLA breach predicted 2 cases · auto-flagged
The reckoning

Everywhere cases pile up,
the software is the bottleneck.

These are public-sector numbers because they're published — but the pattern is universal. Insurers, banks, regulators and councils all run the same machinery: a queue, a form, a clock and a letter, on systems that can't keep up. The case isn't slow. The system is.

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Crown Court cases outstanding — highest since 2016, double pre-Covid.
House of Commons Library, 2025
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Open employment tribunal claims — some hearings now listed into 2028–29.
MoJ / People Management, 2025/26
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Open asylum appeals — nearly doubled in a single year.
Migration Observatory, 2025
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Written NHS complaints a year, rising 6% annually.
NHS England Digital, 2024–25
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Typical wait to register a power of attorney in Scotland — on 95,000 a year.
Law Society of Scotland, 2026

Different sectors. Different rules. The same tired machinery underneath.

Why the old stack fails

Built to sell products.
Never built to solve cases.

The big CRMs are brilliant at what they were designed for — pipelines, deals, products. Bend one into a case system and you inherit twenty years of assumptions that were never about eligibility, harm or fairness. Legacy case systems are worse: monolithic, on-premise, and architecturally allergic to AI.

Legacy CMS & bolted-on CRM

The old way

  • Monolithic builds where everything shares one database — change one thing, regression-test everything.
  • A new field or form means a vendor change request, a release cycle and an invoice.
  • AI bolted on the side, if at all — never in the workflow where decisions happen.
  • Sales-shaped data: "opportunities" and "accounts", not parties, roles, evidence and outcomes.
  • Scaling means a migration project. Tied to one vendor, one cloud, one model.
Briefcase

The operating system for cases

  • A universal case core — intake → triage → resolve → close — configurable per case type, no code.
  • Add a field, form, rule or whole workflow yourself, in minutes, and deploy it instantly.
  • AI native to every stage: reading documents, triaging, drafting, summarising, predicting.
  • A data model built for casework: cases, parties, roles, evidence, decisions, audit.
  • Cloud-native and elastic — your tenant, your AI, scaling automatically as volume grows.

We didn't study CRMs. We studied two decades of real casework across justice, insurance, finance and government — and rebuilt it for the AI era.

The platform

One universal lifecycle.
Every case type fits.

A complaint, a claim, an appeal, an application — strip away the jargon and they all move through the same nine stages. Briefcase is that spine, configurable per domain, with AI woven into each step. Click a stage.

The architecture

An AI-built workflow engine at the centre.
Everything else clicks in.

At the core is a workflow engine that AI designs and continuously tunes. Around it, independent modules — document AI, payments, bundling, identity, scheduling and more — snap on per case type. Add, remove or replace any module without touching the rest.

Core engine Pluggable module AI-built / AI-powered

Not a chatbot bolted on.
Intelligence is the architecture.

AI is the canopy over the whole stack — reading what comes in, driving the engine, powering the modules, and learning from one unified case-data model.

AI intelligence layer
reads · reasons · drafts · learns — across every stage
Extraction Classification Triage Drafting Summarisation Prediction Redaction Semantic search
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Channels in
however it arrives
Web portals Email Document upload API Partner systems Contact centre
AI Workflow Engine
The brain. Designed & continuously tuned by AI — orchestrates every case across every module.
Triage Prediction Redaction
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Pluggable modules
snap on per case type
Intake Payments Bundling Scheduling Notifications Decisions Correspondence Reporting
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Unified data & trust
inside your boundary
Single case-data model Audit trail Your tenant Bring your own AI Retention & RBAC
Intelligence, end to end

From the moment something lands,
AI is working the case.

Every capability here is drawn from real casework — including a pattern already proven in production: AI reading an uploaded document, extracting the parties, and opening the case automatically.

Meet Clerk

Describe it.
Clerk builds it.

The breakthrough isn't just AI in the workflow — it's an AI that extends the platform itself. Clerk is the built-in builder agent. Your team describes a new field, form, rule, report or whole mini-workflow in plain English, and Clerk creates it, previews it and deploys it — safely, with full audit. No vendor. No release cycle. No invoice.

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    Plain-English to working feature

    "Add a vulnerability flag that pauses the clock and alerts a manager." Done in minutes.

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    Safe by design

    Every change is sandboxed, previewed, version-controlled and reversible — with a full audit trail.

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    Owned by the people doing the work

    The caseworkers who feel the friction are the ones who fix it. The platform compounds, daily.

clerk · briefcase
+ Vulnerability flag + New claim type + Weekly breach report
Built to scale

From ten cases
to ten million.

Briefcase runs cloud-native on Kubernetes. Each module is an independent service that scales on its own — so when volume spikes (a deadline, a disaster, a new caseload), the platform adds capacity automatically and releases it when the wave passes. No migration projects. No re-platforming. The same system grows with you.

Cases in flight1,240
2
Engine replicas, live
99.99%
Designed-for uptime
Auto
Horizontal scaling
Your cloud tenant · Azure / AWS / GCP / private
Kubernetes cluster · auto-scaling
Your tenant · your AI · your data

Sovereign by default.

Briefcase deploys into your environment, not ours — and bends to your AI strategy, not the other way round. Casework is sensitive; the platform is built so your data and your decisions never leave your control.

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Run in your own cloud

Deploy into your Azure, AWS, GCP or private cloud — single-tenant and isolated, inside your security boundary and compliance regime.

AzureAWSGCPPrivate / on-premUK / EU regions
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Bring your own AI

Plug in the models you trust — commercial, open-weight or on-prem. Swap them per task or per case type. No lock-in to a single provider, ever.

Azure OpenAIAnthropicOpenAIOpen-weightSelf-hosted
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Data that never leaves

A single unified case-data model inside your tenant, with end-to-end audit, retention and access control. Built for OFFICIAL, regulated and privacy-first workloads.

Unified data modelFull audit trailRetention & RBACEncryption
One platform, every sector

If it has an intake, a queue
and an outcome — it's a Briefcase.

The same universal core, configured per domain. Wherever a request comes in and a decision must come out, Briefcase fits.

Why us

Two decades of casework, distilled into one platform.

Briefcase isn't a startup's first guess at how cases work. It's built by people who spent twenty years designing and running real systems across justice, insurance, finance and the public sector — and who finally got to rebuild them the way they should have been built.

20+
Years building case systems
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Sectors, one core
9
Lifecycle stages, universal
Case types, configurable
Legal & judicialInsurance & claimsFinance & disputesPublic sectorRegulators & ombudsmen
Close the gap

See your backlog
become a workflow.

Bring your hardest case type. We'll show you Briefcase running it end to end — in your cloud, with your AI.

No spam. A real conversation about your caseload.