Manual intake eats your margin
Chapter 7 and 13 filings are high-volume, fixed-fee work — every minute of paralegal time spent chasing documents is margin gone. Manual intake can eat hours per case that fixed-fee work can't spare.
Bankruptcy is a volume business with fixed fees and thin margins. GavelGrow automates the intake, pre-qualification, and document collection that junior staff shouldn't be spending billable hours on — so your firm can handle 3x the cases at the same headcount.
Chapter 7 and 13 filings are high-volume, fixed-fee work — every minute of paralegal time spent chasing documents is margin gone. Manual intake can eat hours per case that fixed-fee work can't spare.
Too many consultations end with 'you don't qualify for Chapter 7' — attorney time burned on leads who could have been filtered out at the intake form.
Pay stubs, tax returns, 910 creditors, means-test data — clients forget, stall, or send wrong files. Getting documents in can take round after round of back-and-forth, case after case.
Intake form asks income, household size, and state — auto-calculates means-test result before attorney involvement. Disqualified leads get a polite response + debt-relief resource links.
After intake, a 7-step sequence auto-requests pay stubs, tax returns, bank statements, and creditor list — with a client upload link and reminders (e.g. every 48 hours) to help collect what's outstanding.
Based on income and means-test result, leads are routed to Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 intake flows with the right questions for each filing type.
Track retainer payments and filing-fee installments per case. See which leads converted to filings and which paid in full — all linked back to the campaign that generated them.
500+ Firms benchmarked. See your real cost per signed case against firms your size — measured from our 500+ firm dataset since 2015, not an industry estimate.
Yes. Our pre-built bankruptcy intake collects income, household size, and state, then compares against median income as a routing aid — leads below median are flagged toward Chapter 7 intake, others toward Chapter 13, and anything borderline routes to an attorney. It's a routing tool, not a means-test determination, and doesn't replace attorney analysis.
Yes. Every document request sends a secure upload link (no login required for the client). Uploads are encrypted at rest (AES-256) and attached to the case record automatically. Attorneys and paralegals can flag documents as verified.
No. GavelGrow handles marketing + intake + document collection. NextChapter / Bestcase / Stretto handle the actual filing preparation and court filing. We export a CSV of collected client data formatted to import into tools like NextChapter, Bestcase, and Stretto.
Two separate intake flows. No-asset flow asks about house, car, and retirement accounts. Means-test-fail flow routes to Chapter 13 questions (income, monthly expenses, disposable income). Attorneys see the filing type recommendation at the top of every case record.
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