Upload your draft court filing. Tell us your state and county — we run a pre-filing checklist against that jurisdiction's rules of civil procedure and any local rules we've loaded: caption, signature block, certificate of service, page limits, font, margins, exhibit labels. We tell you exactly what to fix before you walk into the clerk's office. We check what a clerk checks. We do not score your legal argument.
We built this for filers who are already stressed about a hearing, an eviction, a divorce, or a small-claims deadline. The whole flow is async, document-based, and finished in roughly the time it takes to read a court form.
PDF or DOCX, up to 25 MB. Tell us the document type (motion, petition, response, answer), the state (or federal court), and — optionally — the county. Deepest local-rule coverage in Texas at launch; every other state runs the state-level rules-of-civil-procedure baseline. Federal court runs the FRCP baseline.
Caption, case number, party names, page limits, font, margins, signature block, certificate of service, exhibit labels, notarization flags, proposed-order check, filing-fee reminder, common typos. Every flag tied to a specific rule citation in the jurisdiction you selected — e.g. TRCP 21a/57 in Texas, FRCP 5/11 federally, CCP §§ 1010–1014 in California, CPLR 2101/2103 in New York.
Usually within minutes: every checklist item marked PASS / WARN / FAIL with the specific rule citation, a plain-English "Before You File" action list, and a jurisdiction reference card. Then you fix and file — with the clerk, not against them.
Self-help guides exist. Form generators exist. What doesn't exist is a tool that reads your specific draft and tells you, before you walk in, whether the clerk will accept it. That's the gap. A few of the data points behind it:
The National Center for State Courts' landmark 2015 study of state civil dockets found that roughly three in four civil cases involved at least one self-represented litigant. The legal system has more pro se filers than represented ones — and almost no tooling pointed at the moment of filing.
Source: NCSC, “The Landscape of Civil Litigation in State Courts” (2015)
Pew's 2020 study of state civil dockets found that more than 70% of debt-collection lawsuits ended in default judgment, overwhelmingly because the defendant never filed an answer — or filed one that didn't meet local requirements. Procedural defects, not legal weakness, drive most of those outcomes.
Source: Pew Charitable Trusts, “How Debt Collectors Are Transforming the Business of State Courts” (2020)
State law-help sites and county Guide & File programs publish helpful checklists — as static documents. None of them reads your draft. None tells you, line by line, whether this specific filing will pass clerk review in your jurisdiction. That's exactly what Pro Se Check does.
See: U.S. Courts — Federal Court Locator · LawHelp.org (state-by-state self-help) · Travis County (TX) Guide & File
Pro Se Check is a technology tool operated by Nova Aurora Ventures LLC, a Wyoming company. It is not a law firm. The boundary is simple: if a court clerk reviewing your filing for acceptance would check it, we check it. If a licensed attorney reviewing it for legal merit would check it, we don't.
We don't show testimonials we don't have. Instead, here's an excerpt from an actual Pre-Filing Check Report — the same format every customer receives. See it before you pay.
Original Petition for Divorce (anonymized) · 13 items checked · 8 PASS, 3 WARN, 2 FAIL. Citations include TRCP 21a (Certificate of Service), TRCP 57 (signature block), and Williamson County Local Rules on page limits and formatting. This sample shows the Texas format — every other state's report follows the same structure with that jurisdiction's rule citations (e.g. FRCP for federal court, CCP for California, CPLR for New York).
One draft or three on the same matter — the depth of the checklist is the same. Every item checked against the jurisdiction you selected (state rules of civil procedure + any loaded county-local rules), every flag explained in plain English, every fix tied to a specific rule citation.