These are free and they ask nothing of you. No login, no payment, and none of them route back to me. The belief is simple: most of the law isn't hard, it's hidden — and the hiding is a choice I don't make. If you use one of these and never speak to me, that's it working as intended.
A family emergency plan, before the emergency. Free, bilingual planning tools so a trusted person can step in — care for the kids, keep the household running, reach a lawyer fast — if a parent or caregiver suddenly can't. Built for immigrant and mixed-status families first, useful to anyone. Documents are generated on your own device; nothing you enter is stored or sent. The code is open so that promise is checkable, not just stated.
Your state's child-support guideline isn't an estimate. By federal law it's the number a court starts from. So it shouldn't live inside a macro-enabled spreadsheet not every computer can run. These calculators compute it in your browser, show the rule behind every line, and produce a worksheet you can file. Seven states live — Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida — with the rest planned. Open-source, MIT-licensed. When we find our own numbers running on a stale schedule, we say so on the page and fix it.
A two-course law-school seminar arc, the same method taught in a clinic: students take a statute and ship an open public good — then draft the rule that makes every state ship one. The worked examples are the calculators and the Red Binder Project; Washington State is the proof it can be done.
On a renewable energy project, three stories run at once: what the contract promised, what the builder certified, what actually stands in the field. Disputes live in the gaps between them. DIG reconciles all three to the dollar, line by line, on the map the project is built from — so the argument over what happened ends, and the only question left is what to do next. This is a contract made operational: every party sees exactly what it's entitled to, enforced by the database, not a settings page. The public walkthrough runs a synthetic $108M solar project end to end; every number is fake on purpose and graded against a sealed answer key, because a record you can't prove is just another claim. Unlike its neighbors on this page, this is commercial work, not open source. It's here because it's the method these courses teach, at full scale: one lawyer, one real problem, a working system.
I'm not going to pretend the free work has no effect on the practice — people remember who showed them how the thing works. But that's a by-product, not the mechanism. The day this work starts being built to feed the practice is the day it stops being trustworthy. So I keep them separate. You can use everything here and owe me nothing.