How it works
From your first answer to a settled case, in seven steps.
You each work alone, in your own time, and only ever meet on the screen. Every step is one you choose to take; the first two are free and commit you to nothing, and plenty of people stop there.
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You answer, on your own
You · About seven minutes. Free.
Nobody gets contacted and nothing goes anywhere. You're not signing up for anything by starting.
Before anything about money, a few private questions about safety. If something comes up that makes dealing with each other directly a bad idea, we stop and point you somewhere better. The other person is never told how it went, or that it happened at all.
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You see where you stand
You · Straight away. Free.
Spousal maintenance and child support, run through the New York formulas on your numbers, with the arithmetic laid out at every step so you can see how it got there.
Everything you own, sorted into what's usually marital, what's usually separate, and what depends on facts nobody has pinned down yet. You can stop right here — plenty of people do, and the numbers are yours to keep.
12 of 16 settled4 left to work throughThe houseSell and splitRetirement50 / 50Child support$1,600 – $2,400Yours to keep — even if you stop right here.
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You invite them
You · Whenever you’re ready. The fee is charged here.
The invitation comes from the platform, not from you, so it never reads as you taking control. Nothing is sent until you say so, and the fee is charged here.
If they say no — or never get round to it — that's the end of it here and you get all of your money back. The fee is only kept once they finish their own side, so an invitation that goes nowhere costs you nothing.
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They answer, on their own
Them · In their own time.
They get their own account and their own login — not a way into yours. They answer the same questions, safety ones included, in their own time, and you never find out how that part went.
Then you each say what you actually want, one thing at a time: the kids, support, each account, the house. Nothing either of you says is shown to the other until you've both answered.
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Both sets, side by side
Both of you, apart · Both revealed at once.
Both sets appear at the same moment. Neither of you goes first, and neither of you sees the other's answer before giving your own. It matters because of what it stops: if either of you could see the other's number first, the smart move would be to wait, and two people both waiting is how a negotiation dies.
Two people braced to fight about everything usually find they agree on most of it and are apart on about three things. Those three become the whole job, instead of the whole marriage.
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Neutra™ works what’s left
Both of you, apart · Usually two to four weeks.
The things you're apart on go round by round: you each enter a position, sealed, and both are revealed at once. Neutra, the mediator built into the platform, is there when either of you wants it, talking to each of you separately and telling neither of you what the other said. Software, not a person.
Nothing is agreed unless the positions meet, and nobody is told who moved first. Nobody sits across a table, so there is no conversation that can turn into a fight, and either of you can put it down and come back tomorrow.
What a round looks like
They said$1,600Middle$1,850You said$2,400Would you accept $1,850 a month in child support? That sits between the two numbers you each gave, and inside what the guidelines allow.
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Settled, or handed on
Both of you · Whichever of the two you reach.
Everything settled
You're done, on your own terms. Your report carries every issue, every figure and the working behind it — enough for an attorney to draw the agreement from without starting over, and yours to take to any attorney you choose.
Some still open
You keep everything you did settle, with the arithmetic behind each figure, and take a short list to a mediator or an attorney. You turn up with the easy two thirds already done, a far smaller and far cheaper job than starting cold.
Either way, we'd strongly encourage each of you to have your own attorney read anything before you sign it. A court still has to adopt it, and where children are involved a judge takes its own view whatever the two of you agree.
Without your name
Nothing here asks who you are.
You sign in with an email address and a code. For the screens you choose any first name you like. No surname, no address, no phone number, no Social Security number.
So what you enter about your income, your property and your children sits under a name of your choosing, held against your email address and nothing else. It is never shared with any law firm and never used to train any AI model. Real names come in only if the two of you go on to a signed document that has to carry them.
How long it takes
None of this needs the two of you free at the same moment, which is usually what turns mediation into months instead of weeks.
What happens if you can't agree
On money and property
You each enter a position for the round, sealed, and both are revealed at once; if they meet or cross, it settles. The midpoint is on the screen as arithmetic, never put to you as a question. Neutra is there if you want it — to show what a position is worth over time, or to lay out ways of closing the gap as questions.
If nobody moves
You each give a private last word — what you would actually sign. If those overlap, it settles between them and neither of you is told the other's. If they don't, it stays open.
An issue left open
Nothing gets written down as agreed, and nobody invents a middle for you. You take that one thing to a mediator or an attorney, and keep everything else you settled.
Where your children are concerned, the platform never proposes an arrangement — not at any stage, and the same goes for the pets. Your kids aren't the ones negotiating, and a court looks after their side of it separately from both of you.
The first two steps cost nothing.
Start free — 7 minutesNo account, no card, and nobody hears from us.