Know where every matter stands.
Get back into a case with its history, recent developments, and outstanding work in view. Spend less of your day searching through scattered information to reconstruct the story.
An AI-powered legal operating system for litigation.
Designed to improve organization, communication, preparation, and time capture—with the attorney in control.
Built around the work of litigation
Your caseload moves fast.
Your practice should keep up.
A new medical record. A changed hearing date. A settlement demand. A client waiting for an answer. Every development creates work—and every matter competes for your attention.
For litigation firms and practicing attorneys, the challenge extends beyond knowing the law. It is keeping the facts, preparation, communication, and follow-through aligned across an entire caseload.
TRACE is designed to bring those demands together in one attorney-directed operating system. The goal: more time focused on the substance of your cases, with less spent piecing together what happened and what comes next.
Stay ready. Move matters forward.
Make your work count.
TRACE is being designed for the moments that define a litigation practice—from the first review of a file to the next hearing, client update, or settlement discussion.
Turn developments into progress.
Keep attention on the work that moves a case forward. TRACE is designed to help attorneys recognize what needs action and maintain follow-through as priorities change.
Walk in prepared.
Bring greater continuity to hearing, deposition, and trial preparation. Keep the relevant facts and unresolved issues connected to the work ahead, even as the case evolves.
Keep people informed.
Support timely, substantive communication with clients and the people involved in each matter. Prepare updates and correspondence grounded in the case, ready for attorney review.
Give your work product a stronger foundation.
Carry the context of the matter into drafting and preparation. TRACE is designed to support work product that reflects the facts, developments, and issues the attorney needs to address.
Capture the work while it is fresh.
A busy day should not end with reconstructing it from memory. TRACE is designed to prepare contemporaneous time entries from completed work, ready for the attorney to edit and approve.
The ambition is simple: make the entire practice more organized, more responsive, and better prepared—one matter at a time.
Attorney-directed by design
Your judgment.
Your practice.
Your control.
Litigation requires judgment, accountability, and a clear understanding of the case. Those responsibilities belong to the attorney.
TRACE is designed to support that responsibility with better context and prepared work for review. The attorney directs strategy, reviews work product, approves time entries, and controls consequential external actions.
The purpose is to give litigators more capacity to exercise their judgment throughout the day—and a more organized foundation for doing so.
Marcus Schantz
Founder, TRACE
TRACE is based on the litigation workflow Marcus uses in his own practice. Its design grows out of how he organizes matters, responds to new developments, prepares for proceedings, communicates with clients, and captures completed work.
As a practicing litigation attorney, Marcus conceived TRACE to bring that practical approach into an AI-powered system for other litigators. The product design starts with the demands of an active caseload and the way the work actually gets done.
Help shape the next chapter of litigation practice.
TRACE is at the pre-build stage, with a detailed product design and development plan. We welcome conversations with litigation firms, prospective partners, and investors who share the vision. Connect with Marcus to discuss what comes next.