Your clients’ documents are kept in your office.
A Feldstead is a document appliance for law practices: a machine that sits in your office, holds your files, and prepares each matter the same way every time, for you to review.
What it does
- Keeps.
- Your documents are kept on the Feldstead in your office. Nothing leaves it. Offsite backup is coming: a second copy, encrypted under a key only your firm holds, so that no one else can read it, not us and not whoever stores it.
- Prepares.
- It takes a matter’s files as they are, puts them in order, and answers questions across them.
- Shows its work.
- Every answer points to the page it came from, so the person who signs can check it.
What it does not do
It does not give legal advice. It does not replace a lawyer’s judgment or a lawyer’s review. It does the preparation; the lawyer decides.
With the network off
A Feldstead does its work without an internet connection. Unplug it from the network and it keeps working. Updates come by hand: a Feldstead representative brings each one to your office and installs it over USB. Updating it does not give us access to your documents.
Who makes it
Feldstead LLC is a Missouri company, founded by Aaron Torres, an engineer who holds patents in data storage and in the storage of personal information. Aaron has co-founded a cloud infrastructure company, been a director at mid-sized game companies, and written Go Programming Cookbook, a book on the Go programming language, now in its second edition. Feldstead began at home, with round after round of paperwork for daughters with special needs; it is built so that such work is done the same way every time, for a person to check.
First pilots
We are arranging first pilots. To see a Feldstead at work, write to aaron@feldstead.com.