Bridget McCormack

So as you know, in arbitration, both parties, they have to have an arbitration clause in the contract that says we're going to arbitration.

So for now, we will not take any case unless both parties agree that

And obviously, there's no businesses that have put it in their contract.

Well, I hope now there are because we've been talking to people now about it for two months.

But we'll start seeing cases once contracts start showing up that have it in their contract.

One of the things we've heard from a lot of parties is they're eager to use it as an early case evaluation tool.

They want to be able to run it just on their own with their, you know, they want to put all of their evidence up into it and get an early case assessment.

about where their case is likely to go so they can figure out whether they even want to spend any time in arbitration.

So that's actually one of the next use cases we're building out, which isn't very hard based on what we've already built.

Yeah, actually, in fact –

You're right that many larger construction projects with extremely sophisticated parties on both sides have these smaller disputes along the way for which this tool will probably be perfect.

Many of those disputes at this point they just think are not even worth, you know, even the large parties who know how to access every dispute resolution system don't bring them because it's just not worth their time.

And that'll change.

This will give everybody an option to resolve every dispute.

We're seeing, not yet, again, because nobody has it in their contract yet, but our self-represented parties in commercial and construction cases are just on the rise and have been for a couple of years.

I mean, I follow our sort of case filings day by day.

And the self-represented parties in commercial and construction disputes are right now, I mean, it's one month, so who knows, maybe it was a weird month, but January of 2021.

was double what it was in January of 2025.

So in fact, I think this system is kind of perfect for the smaller party construction disputes.

And as you know, there are also lots of those smaller construction projects where people really don't want to have to hire a lawyer to go figure out how to sort it out.