gigs.lawyer — Your licence, at leverage.

The most expensively produced labor in the economy, sitting unsold

You hold a live credential. If you are at a firm, it earns when someone else bills it. If you are solo, it earns until the slow weeks. If you are between roles or retired, it costs you bar dues and CLE every year and earns nothing.

What keeps the credential idle is the overhead stack:

No compliant unit of sale. There is no compliant way to sell twenty minutes of professional judgment. Any side matter demands the full apparatus: your own coverage, your own conflicts clearance, your own engagement letter, your own invoicing. And your firm's policy does not follow you out the door.
The bar-complaint fear. A hard-won credential that is economically idle, and the correct fear that improvised outside work is a bar complaint waiting for its moment.
The fee belongs to the professional. A licence should be a productive asset, not a cost center — and the fee for judgment work belongs, whole and undivided, to the person who holds it.

What membership is

Membership is the supply door of the legal cell — one licensed operating entity with two faces. Its demand rail, api.lawyer, is where agents and business systems buy reserved acts of law; this door is where licensed humans supply them. You join once; demand reaches you routed to your credential, with coverage and funding required to be in force before any act is signable — from api.lawyer and every brand we operate that touches a reserved act of law. The platform carries the overhead verbs — match, verify, carry, meter, pay. You keep the licensed verbs — review, sign, send back, decline.

The authority claims are mechanics, not adjectives:

The Legal Fee is 100% yours. Flat, fixed and disclosed before you claim, never a share of anything. The platform's economics live entirely on the other side of the fee line.
Conflicts before commitment. You see a Conflicts Sheet — parties, adverse parties, matter type, jurisdiction, exposure band — before you claim. Passing costs nothing and is invisible. Your conflicts data stays yours: the platform stores hashes; you hold the names.
Coverage that names you. The cell carries an umbrella E&O program that names you as the insured — and nothing is signable until that coverage is verified in force.
Pendinggate: umbrella E&O master policy bound at the entity
We plan to carry this program; the claim posts when the policy is bound and the insured is named. Nothing is signable before then.
Your credential is the routing rule. Work reaches you only inside your licence, your jurisdictions, your declared competence — checked fresh against the authoritative roster at act time. No score ever overrides a licence, and no algorithm's mood widens your scope.
Your no is sovereign. A Declination is paid in full, requires only your reasoned memo, and is final against every process, meter, and operator. The economics are designed, not generous: the declination fee is priced into the demand-side charge, and the memo is the audit trail. Structurally — the system cannot commit past your refusal.

The plan

Verify. Your bar admission, checked against the official roster. No essays, no interviews, no profile to groom.
Clear and claim. A matched review reaches your phone with the Conflicts Sheet already structured — parties, adverse parties, matter type, jurisdiction, exposure band. You run the one check that must professionally remain yours: against your own book. Passing costs nothing and is invisible; clearance is logged as hashes, never names; the full Packet unlocks only after you clear.
Sign — or don't. Minutes with a prepared draft and its flagged questions. Sign it, send it back with defects noted, or decline with a memo. Every one of those outcomes is completed professional work, and every one pays your flat fee.

The engagement is limited-scope by design: review and, in your independent judgment, sign or decline. No client relationship outlives the act unless you take one on — a watch is always a separate, named, flat-fee engagement, never ambient duty.

fee levels and turnaroundPendinggate: StartupsStudio/stack#1

▮▮▮posts when stack#1 §A5 resolves · ▮▮▮posts when first ninety days of measured completions resolves — the structure is a design fact and stated in the indicative; the figures are measured, then published, never asserted in advance.

A statute names a person — so the motion is B2H2A

B2Abusiness serves an agent — the machine is the customer

A2Aagent to agent — pure machine commerce

B2A2Ba business system calls the rail on its own behalf

B2A2Dour agent serves the deputized developer

B2A2Cour agent serves the consumer

B2H2Aa statute names a human — the licensed supplier in the pathprimary

A2H2Athe human is a required supplier: the regulated-cell shape

Every gigs.* cell is B2H2A — business to licensed human to agent — and only B2H2A, because a statute names a person. The H here is not a user persona; it is the licensed human whose judgment and signature make the work lawful. On the cell's fulfilment path — A2H2A, agent to licensed human to agent, run by api.lawyer — you are the required supplier, which is exactly why the reserved acts stay with you and never with the platform.

The economics, candidly

Human~95% of function cost

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Agenticorchestration-priced

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Generativeinference-priced

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Codenear-zero marginal

Functions migrate Human → Agentic → Generative → Code until they hit their vertical's floor, and legal has the highest floor of any vertical we operate: the reserved acts stop the migration cold, by statute. Everything around the reserved act — intake, research, drafting for review, docketing, billing — migrates. The act itself does not. That is why this membership exists, and why it stays valuable as the software gets better: the software makes your minutes more productive; it cannot replace the licence.

One cell, two doors

Demand rail — api.lawyer · supply door — gigs.lawyer · one entity — https://schema.org.ai/Organization/legal-cell.

gigs.lawyer and api.lawyer are not two businesses. They are the supply door and the demand rail of one licensed operating entity — two segments of one path, one entity. The demand rail is the interface; you are the implementation the statute requires.

Where it stands, stated plainly

Pendinggate: entity formation and licensure of the legal cell

The operating entity is designed, not formed. No memberships go live before the entity and its coverage exist.

Pendinggate: first routed reserved act settles cold end-to-end

The full path — demand in at api.lawyer, routed act, practitioner performance, per-act coverage, payment out — flips to posted on its first cold settlement, with the evidence URL, not before.

supply pool depth and routed-act volumePendinggate: StartupsStudio/stack#1

▮▮▮posts when stack#1 §A5 resolves · ▮▮▮posts when stack#1 §A5 resolves — no figures are presentable until the numbers gate resolves. The pool is asserted, not sourced; we say so because you would find out anyway.

If nothing changes: your licence keeps earning for everyone but you — or the improvised alternative, which is the ethics trap this platform exists to replace.

If it works: minutes of actual judgment between other things, paid same day, coverage in force, conflicts cleared and logged — a licence gone from cost center to productive asset.

What applying now gets you: a place in the verification queue, held in order of application; membership in the first-jurisdiction cohort when the entity forms; and a voice on the fee schedule before it posts — the schedule is set with the founding cohort, not announced to it.

Apply for early access. The fee memo — how the money works, why the fee is flat and entirely yours, who insures what — is the first thing we send every applicant.