Lucy is the legal-AI platform that would cost $2,000/user/month if it came from Harvey or CoCounsel — except we built it for pro se litigants and solo attorneys who can't afford either. Bring your own API key. Keep your own data. Pay once.
Lucy is software, not a law firm. Not legal advice. You are always responsible for your own filings. Read the full disclaimer below.
The category has a pricing problem
Here's what the same drafting job costs across the market. The right-hand column is what our users actually pay when they use Lucy with their own API key.
| Option | Who it's built for | Typical cost | One motion drafted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvey AI | BigLaw (enterprise only) | ~$1,000–3,000/user/mo | Bundled |
| CoCounsel (Thomson Reuters) | Mid + large firms | ~$500–2,000/user/mo | Bundled |
| Lexis+ AI | Attorneys with a Lexis seat | ~$125–400/user/mo | Bundled |
| Paralegal (drafting) | Anyone who can afford one | $60–150/hour | $300–600 |
| Attorney drafting a motion | People with a legal budget | $300–800/hour | $1,500–5,000 |
| Pro se litigant | Everyone else — and they lose | $0 | — |
| Lucy (Pro Se) | Pro se litigants + solo attys | $297 one-time + your API key | ~$48 in API fees |
Competitor pricing estimates reflect publicly discussed ranges from industry reporting in 2025–2026. Actual enterprise pricing is negotiated and typically higher. Lucy pricing is for the Pro Se plan during beta; final pricing may change.
The founder's own case
Trial is August 11, 2026. The pre-trial filing sprint is 47 documents. Every motion, subpoena, discovery response, and deposition prep packet is drafted, reviewed, and auto-filed through Lucy. Here's what it would have cost a human team — and what it actually cost.
What it would cost
$70K–235K
47 motions drafted by a Colorado attorney at $1,500–5,000 each.
What Lucy cost
~$2,250
Sequential auto-review at ~$48/doc, passed through to the Anthropic API.
Money saved
$68K–233K
On one case. Before trial. Without hiring anyone.
Nobody else in legal tech has this kind of receipt. Every other legal AI company is pitched by someone who has never had to pay their own legal bill. Lucy is software that its founder bet his own case on.
What Lucy actually does
Every one of these was built because a real pro se case actually needed it — not because it looked cool in a demo. If you're going into court with AI-assisted drafts, these are the things that decide whether the judge takes you seriously or throws your case out.
Safety
Every other AI writing tool will cheerfully invent facts. It'll give your expert witness 25 years of experience he doesn't have, cite court cases that don't exist, or conjure dollar amounts out of thin air. That's how pro se litigants get their cases thrown out and get sanctioned by judges. Lucy has a built-in lie detector that scans every draft for invented facts — made-up numbers, fake credentials, phantom citations, imaginary endorsements. If Lucy's AI even tries to slip something in that isn't backed by your actual evidence, Lucy catches it and removes it before you ever see it.
→ This is the single biggest reason Lucy is safe when a free AI is dangerous.
Quality
Before you file anything, Lucy runs a dress rehearsal. Your lawyer-AI writes the first draft. A second AI plays the opposing side's attorney and tries to tear it apart. Your lawyer-AI responds to every attack. Then a judge-AI grades the result — three times independently, and takes the middle score so one bad grader can't ruin the round. If any round made your draft worse, Lucy throws that round away automatically.
→ By the time you read your draft, it's already survived the worst arguments the other side can make. You're not the one getting surprised in court.
Proof
Most legal AI will generate a confident-sounding legal document out of thin air. That's how pro se cases get destroyed. Lucy works the opposite way: every sentence in every draft is traced back to a specific thing in your actual evidence — a specific email with a specific date, a photograph, a contract clause, a timeline entry. When the judge looks at you in court and asks "where did you get this?" — Lucy has the answer ready in one click.
→ You stop losing arguments because you couldn't find the email that proved you right.
Guidance
Real lawsuits aren't "write a motion." They're: research the right law, draft, have someone attack it, revise, check the citations, format it for the court, file it with the clerk, serve the other side, track the response deadline, decide whether to fight back. Lucy has ten baked-in playbooks for exactly these situations: filing motions, preparing depositions, responding to discovery, preparing for trial, preparing for mediation. You never guess what's next.
→ Lucy tells you "here's step 4 of 8, here's your deadline, here's the AI that'll help you." Like having a senior attorney walk you through every step of the case.
Deadlines
The moment you file a motion or serve a subpoena, a cascade of response deadlines starts ticking — the other side gets 14 days, or 21, or 35, and if the deadline lands on a weekend or court holiday the rule shifts. Missing even one of these is how pro se cases quietly die. Lucy does the math the instant you file anything: reads the type of document, computes every downstream deadline for you AND for the other side, handles weekends and court closures, and drops every date onto your calendar.
→ You wake up in the morning and Lucy tells you what's due today, what's coming up, and what you're waiting on from whom.
Speed
When you approve a draft, Lucy formats it in the exact font, margins, and spacing the court expects. It writes the email to the court clerk with the PDF attached. It writes a second email to serve the other side's lawyers. Both are ready for you to send. Click Send. Done. The five-minute ritual of copy-pasting, attaching files, double-checking addresses, and re-reading the local rules takes 30 seconds.
→ Every step is logged permanently, so if anyone ever challenges how or when you filed, you have the receipt.
Lucy has more features than these six — text selection → instant 5-agent analysis, evidence auto-enrichment from your email inbox, appeal-ready audit logging, court-ready PDF rendering in native court format, 44 domain-specific data models. These six are the ones that decide whether your case survives.
Pricing
Subscriptions on legal tools are a scam when you only need them for one case. Lucy is a one-time purchase with a full year of updates included. You bring your own API key — your actual AI costs (~$48 per drafted motion) go straight to Anthropic, not to us.
Lucy Pro Se
$197
$297
one-time
Founding 100 beta launch price. After the first 100 buyers: $297. After 500: $397.
ROI math: a Colorado attorney drafts one civil motion for $1,500–$5,000. Lucy costs less than one-fifth of the cheapest one, and drafts 50+.
For solo firms
$250/hr
Custom work · 4-hour minimum
Need Lucy tuned to your firm? I take on hands-on customization work for solo practitioners and small firms who want Lucy to feel like their tool, not a pro se litigant's tool.
What's in scope:
Legal aid clinics and law school pro bono programs: Lucy is free (sponsored) for qualifying 501(c)(3) legal aid organizations. Join the waitlist and mention your clinic in the form.
Invite-only beta
Lucy opens to early users after the founder's August 2026 trial. Spots are limited. Tell us about your case — priority goes to active civil litigants and solo attorneys.