Recourse

Court-ready eviction paperwork, without the lawyer's bill. Recourse is built around what it does and, just as carefully, what it won't do.

It serves three kinds of people the process treats as if they had law firms: the tenant with a notice and a court date, the master tenant whose roommate stopped paying, and the landlord with two units and rules written for corporations. For each, it prepares the exact California forms the case needs, checks them line by line, tracks the deadlines, and explains filing in plain English or Spanish. A deposit kept past its twenty-one days becomes a small-claims packet. A subsidized tenancy goes to assisted handling, because those have extra moving parts.

It fills forms and never advises. It won't tell you which defense to raise or whether you have a case. When your situation needs that judgment, it sends you to Access, where an attorney reviews it.

Today it runs as a live demonstration: the real engine, on made-up cases, with a watermark on every form it generates. It opens to the public once California counsel has reviewed the method.