Build it

cat brand.ts

import { Brand } from 'services.dev'

// A legal brand shaped like api.lawyer. Its words render every surface its
// buyers, agents and signers read: /matters, matter.ordered, get_matter. `also` keeps api.lawyer's own paths
// for the same rows: a matter's journal and attestations are its record, its documents are its files, and a
// signer's conflicts ledger is /conflicts.
export default Brand({
  domain: 'api.lawyer',
  words: { job: 'matter', subject: 'asset', task: 'review', member: 'signer', pool: 'network', end: 'outcome' },
  also: {
    'job.record': ['/matters/:id/journal', '/matters/:id/attestations?type=attested'],
    'job.files.list': '/matters/:id/documents',
    'job.files.put': 'POST /matters/:id/documents',
    'job.end': '/matters/:id/terminal',
    'member.ledger.get': '/conflicts',
    'member.ledger.add': '/conflicts/entries',
  },
})

npx services.dev check   # after brand.ts

No Services here.
  next    npx services.dev init

$ cat rules.ts
import { Rules } from 'services.dev'

// Rows per Service, frozen and versioned. A brand's counsel authors its real
// table, and every row records its position. An advice row reserves a class of answer, held in the job's thread until
// the attorney on the matter adopts it. An attorney's fee is the signer's own, sold on their account at the same
// checkout; a practitioner's act on a patent is the brand's.
const practitioner = ['patent attorney', 'patent agent']

export default Rules({
  version: '2026-10',

$ cat pools/attorneys.ts
import { Pool } from 'services.dev'

// One Pool, shared by every legal Service: attorneys join, the verifier checks each admission, and
// a cascade offers each Task one member at a time, because `check` names parties. Tiers are computed from outcomes,
// so the default fill ladder widens to the next one down. An attorney's own malpractice policy covers their act; one
// who carries none is covered by the Pool's, at $4 an act. A claim holds three times the step's estimate, at least a day.
export const attorneys = Pool({
  name: 'attorneys',
  roles: {
    attorney: { credential: 'bar admission' },

$ cat services/trademark-response.ts
import { Service } from 'services.dev'
import { attorneys } from '../pools/attorneys.ts'
import rules from '../rules.ts'

// The attorney comes from the attorneys Pool, admitted anywhere, and signs and files on their own
// account. The office action's three-month clock sits on the family, and an extension moves it.
export default Service({
  name: 'Trademark Office Action Response',
  description: 'An office action answered and filed.',
  input: { serial: 'text: such as 97123456', action: 'file: the office action', issued: 'date: such as 2026-10-01', client: 'party' },

npx services.dev check   # after services/trademark-response.ts

brand.ts · 10 lines · legal · api.lawyer · words job → matter, subject → asset, task → review, member → signer, pool → network, end → outcome
rules.ts · 36 lines · rules 2026-10 · 6 Services · 16 rows · 1 shared
pools/attorneys.ts · 20 lines · attorneys · 4 roles: attorney, practitioner, watcher, student · joins in 3 steps · cascade · hold 24h
inert   rules rail on 9 rows: the ledger names who sells each fee; money moves at payout

services/trademark-response.ts · 21 lines · $349 per job, within 48 hours, charged on file's receipt.
  who     An attorney signs every response before it is filed. (rules 2026-10) The client consents first and uploads at evidence.
  roles   attorney · bar admission · from attorneys · $175 an act
  steps   consent · client · consent → read · ai · cites source → evidence · client · upload → draft · ai → attack · ai · adversarial · 3 lenses → respond · attorney · * · stamped · 2-item checklist → file · USPTO → fee · USPTO · routed
  bounds  reserved respond and file to bar admission · the attorney sells the fee · open fee · refused litigate
  agent   order_trademark_response · 30 of 30 words · add "such as …" to client for an agent to try it
  ledger  +$349.00 · attorney's fee $175.00, sold by the attorney (rail member) · brand $174.00 · AI $2.10 (example) · coverage $4.00 · you $167.90
  margin  at least $100.20 when the first attorney signs ($349.00 − $175.00 attorney − $69.80 AI cap − $4.00 coverage) · $12.70 at the ladder's cap, the lower of 50% and what the floor leaves · −$78.80 after a decline and a second attorney
          a job that stops costs you at most $244.80
  apps    customer portal · delivery portal · owner console
  ✗ The rules table binds a name nothing reads: a key that names no Service file, or a row no step performs that is neither an advice class nor refused. Rename it to what it means, or take it out. rules.services has a key 'provisional-patent', and no Service file is services/provisional-patent.ts. rules.services has a key 'contract-review', and no Service file is services/contract-review.ts. rules.services has a key 'demand-letter', and no Service file is services/demand-letter.ts. rules.services has a key 'docket-watch', and no Service file is services/docket-watch.ts. rules.services has a key 'formation', and no Service file is services/formation.ts.
    at rules.ts:12 · rules.services['provisional-patent']
    https://services.dev/docs/reference/check/rule_unread

mcp     13 buyer tools · 4,633 of 8,000 tokens · 9 more with ?toolset=sandbox

$ cat services/docket-watch.ts
import { Service } from 'services.dev'
import { attorneys } from '../pools/attorneys.ts'
import rules from '../rules.ts'
import trademarkResponse from './trademark-response.ts'

// A subscription on the patent family, $12 a month. Every Monday the AI checks the docket, and inside
// the last week before a date on the family, the watcher acknowledges it too. An office action routes to its own Service.
export default Service({
  name: 'Docket Watch',
  description: 'A docket watched every week, and an office action routed to its response.',

npx services.dev check   # after services/docket-watch.ts

services/docket-watch.ts · 10 lines · $12 per month, charged at the start of each month.
  ledger  +$12.00 · AI $0.84 (example) · watcher $4.00 · coverage $4.00 · you $3.16
  ✗ The rules table binds a name nothing reads: a key that names no Service file, or a row no step performs that is neither an advice class nor refused. Rename it to what it means, or take it out. rules.services has a key 'provisional-patent', and no Service file is services/provisional-patent.ts. rules.services has a key 'contract-review', and no Service file is services/contract-review.ts. rules.services has a key 'demand-letter', and no Service file is services/demand-letter.ts. rules.services has a key 'formation', and no Service file is services/formation.ts.
✗ 1 to fix

$ cat services/provisional-patent.ts
import { Service } from 'services.dev'
import { attorneys } from '../pools/attorneys.ts'
import rules from '../rules.ts'
import docketWatch from './docket-watch.ts'

// The practitioner comes from the attorneys Pool, and the rules reserve signing and filing. price.self
// lets the applicant sign and file it themselves, for $79. The practitioner who signs stays of record on the patent
// family; if their registration lapses, another practitioner covers it, then the brand. The docket watch keeps its dates.
export default Service({
  name: 'Provisional Patent Application',

npx services.dev check   # after services/provisional-patent.ts

  ✗ The rules table binds a name nothing reads: a key that names no Service file, or a row no step performs that is neither an advice class nor refused. Rename it to what it means, or take it out. rules.services has a key 'contract-review', and no Service file is services/contract-review.ts. rules.services has a key 'demand-letter', and no Service file is services/demand-letter.ts. rules.services has a key 'formation', and no Service file is services/formation.ts.
services/provisional-patent.ts · 24 lines · $199 per job, within 5 days, charged on file's receipt.
✗ 1 to fix

$ cat services/contract-review.ts
import { Service } from 'services.dev'
import { attorneys } from '../pools/attorneys.ts'
import rules from '../rules.ts'

// The attorney comes from the attorneys Pool, admitted where the client is, and rules.ts ratifies
// the advice in US-CA, US-NY and US-TX. Advice the AI drafts in the thread is held for the attorney who claimed advise,
// included in their fee, up to three answers. The client consents before any attorney reads the parties' names.
export default Service({
  name: 'Contract Review',
  description: 'A contract flagged, then advised on.',

npx services.dev check   # after services/contract-review.ts

services/contract-review.ts · 16 lines · $99 per job, within 48 hours, charged on acceptance.
  ✗ The rules table binds a name nothing reads: a key that names no Service file, or a row no step performs that is neither an advice class nor refused. Rename it to what it means, or take it out. rules.services has a key 'demand-letter', and no Service file is services/demand-letter.ts. rules.services has a key 'formation', and no Service file is services/formation.ts.
✗ 1 to fix

$ cat services/demand-letter.ts
import { Service } from 'services.dev'
import { attorneys } from '../pools/attorneys.ts'
import rules from '../rules.ts'

// The attorney comes from the attorneys Pool, and signs on their own account. Whether to settle is the
// client's decision alone (rules.ts): every offer reaches them, and an offer under their floor raises below_floor rather
// than being turned away. The floor is merits: only the client sets it, and it is their default answer.
// The draft doesn't cite here: under cite: 'source' every output field is { value, source }, which the
// typed `settlement` doesn't say (a finding for the next pass).
export default Service({

npx services.dev check   # after services/demand-letter.ts

  ✗ The rules table binds a name nothing reads: a key that names no Service file, or a row no step performs that is neither an advice class nor refused. Rename it to what it means, or take it out. rules.services has a key 'formation', and no Service file is services/formation.ts.
services/demand-letter.ts · 26 lines · $149 per job, within 48 hours, charged on send's receipt.
✗ 1 to fix

$ cat services/formation.ts
import { Service } from 'services.dev'
import { attorneys } from '../pools/attorneys.ts'
import rules from '../rules.ts'

// The brand forms the entity, an open act; which entity, and the 83(b), are an attorney's advice, admitted
// where the founders are. Two clocks recur on the company and outlive the job: its end asks the client to own them.
export default Service({
  name: 'Company Formation',
  description: 'A company formed, papers signed.',
  input: {

npx services.dev check   # after services/formation.ts

services/formation.ts · 30 lines · $299 per job, within 48 hours, charged on form_entity's receipt.
✓ ready to sell · 6 Services · each keeps at least 3% of every job