Private Beta

The complete operating system for Philippine law firms.

Research, documents, cases, clients, tasks — one platform that connects your entire practice. Built on a hundred and twenty years of Philippine jurisprudence.

Section I — The Practice

An entire firm's working day, inside one private workspace.

Click through the five surfaces your firm will actually live in. Same paper, same ink, same rhythm as this briefing — because the product and this page were drawn from the same typecase.

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APR 18 · 07:14
Today · Monday, 18 April

Good morning, Atty. Santos.

Three filings due this week. One hearing rescheduled. Four unread briefs on the desk.

Docket · Today5 items
  • 09:00Castillo v. PLDT — pre-trial conferenceRTC Br. 34
  • 11:30Client call · Estate of Reyes (heirs)Zoom
  • 14:00File Reply Brief — MendozaCA 9th Div.
  • 15:30Review annulment memo v2 (assoc.)internal
  • 17:00Notarial book — sign off AprilIBP-compliant
Filings · This week3 due
  • Wed · 20TODAY+2
    Reply Brief — Mendoza
    CA 9th
  • Thu · 21DUE
    Answer — Castillo
    RTC 34
  • Fri · 22DRAFT
    Position Paper — Estate Reyes
    RTC 140
Wire · jurisprudenceupdated 06:30
  • G.R. 252870new
    SC en banc — Villanueva v. Sec. of Finance
  • CA-G.R. 1322113 cites
    CA 7th Div. — PLDT v. Alcantara
  • in effect Apr 15now in force
    RA 12022 — Electronic Commerce Amdts
102,418
SC decisions · since 1901
39
Document types classified
192
Bar-syllabus doctrines
7
Official sources tracked
Swipe to explore →

Fig. 02 — The firm's daily briefing, on opening.

Section II — Reading Room

Four modules, in the order a working day actually runs.

Most legal-tech splits research, documents, cases, and tasks into separate products — and asks you to copy-paste between them. Causa is one continuous briefing, written for the way Philippine firms actually work.

Module 01

Ask a question. Get an answer with verified citations.

Cleo searches over a hundred thousand Supreme Court decisions, codal provisions, and bar-syllabus doctrines in real time, drafts an answer, then checks every claim against its source before showing it to you. No hallucinated citations. No Anglo-American case law you don't need.

  • Hybrid BM25 + semantic retrieval across the official corpus
  • Citation verification — Cleo grades its own work, line by line
  • Deep research mode for novel or multi-issue questions
Cleo · thread07:14 · APR 18

“What's the prescriptive period for an action on a written contract under PH law?”

Ten years from accrual, per Article 1144 of the Civil Code (RA 386). Reaffirmed in Cornista v. CA (G.R. 157881, 2008).

  • RA 386Civil Code · Art. 1144verified
  • G.R. 157881Cornista v. Court of Appeals (2008)verified

Fig. 02 — Module 01 exhibit.

Module 02

Every pleading, contract, and notarial scan, sorted by what it is.

Upload, drop, or paste — Causa OCRs, classifies into one of thirty-nine Philippine document types, and links the file to its case automatically. Search by full text, by intent, by who edited what, when.

  • OCR for English and Filipino, scanned or digital
  • Auto-classification trained on Philippine pleading patterns
  • Folders, tags, comments, version history — everything kept
Recent documentsAll →
  • 01Estate of Reyes — Affidavit of Self-Adjudication.docxv31h ago
  • 02Castillo v. PLDT — Reply Brief.pdfv73h ago
  • 03Memo — Annulment grounds (Art. 45 FC).docxv1yesterday
  • 04Notarial book — Apr 2026.pdfscanApr 16

Fig. 03 — Module 02 exhibit.

Module 03

A case folder that knows it's a case.

Documents, emails, deadlines, comments, parties — joined to the case that anchors them. Gmail captures emails to the right matter on receipt; the timeline reconstructs how the matter unfolded; the client profile keeps every party straight.

  • Gmail-to-case capture with party-type classification
  • Audit logs and role-based access on every action
  • Calendar deadlines linked to the underlying pleading
Active cases3 of 12
  • !!
    Estate of Reyes v. Reyes
    G.R. 244629
    active hearing
  • !
    Castillo v. PLDT
    Civ. Case 4421
    filing due Wed
  • ·
    People v. Mendoza
    Crim. Case 2-9912
    discovery

Fig. 04 — Module 03 exhibit.

Module 04

Tasks, calendar, team. One day, one screen.

What's due today, who has it, what's blocking it. Assignments, reminders, and shared scheduling for the firm — without turning your associates into status-report generators or your partners into chasers.

  • Daily briefing surfaces what matters before you ask
  • Shared calendar with deadline-aware reminders
  • Granular permissions for principals, associates, and staff
Today · 18 APR3 due
  • Castillo motion — file by 4 PM
  • Estate of Reyes — call client
  • Annulment memo — review v2

Fig. 05 — Module 04 exhibit.

Section III — The Index

Six entries in today's edition.

Every capability Causa ships, listed plainly. No marketing pillars, no "AI-first" rhetoric — read the entry, decide for yourself.

01
Cleo — verified legal research

Hybrid retrieval across 102K+ Supreme Court decisions, codal provisions, and bar-syllabus doctrines. Citation verification, deep research mode, source filters.

02
Document management

Upload, OCR, auto-classify, search. Folders mirror case structure; versioning preserves every revision. PDF, DOCX, scans — English or Filipino.

03
Cases & client folders

A canonical case file. Documents, emails, parties, deadlines, comments — joined to the matter that anchors them. Gmail captures email-to-case automatically.

04
Tasks & calendar

What's due, who has it, what's blocking it. Deadline-aware reminders linked to the underlying pleading. One day, one screen.

05
Team workspace

Granular permissions for principals, associates, and staff. Activity feed, comment resolution, presence — without turning your team into status reporters.

06
Security & compliance

Encryption at rest and in transit, audit logs on every action, role-based access, attorney-client privilege protection. Hosted in a region you can name.

Section IV — Provenance

Sourced from the official record.

Causa indexes only first-party authority — Supreme Court decisions, the Official Gazette, the e-Library. No third-party legal-mill blogs, no AI-generated commentary, no Anglo-American case law smuggled in as precedent. If you can't cite it, we don't carry it.

0
Supreme Court decisions
indexed since 1901
0
Bar-syllabus doctrines
across the 8 PH bar subjects
0
PH document types
auto-classified
0
e-Library categories
+ Official Gazette, kept in sync
Citations on file

The full citation list, by source. Causa cross-checks every Cleo answer against this corpus before showing it to you.

  • Supreme Court of the Philippines
    sc.judiciary.gov.ph
    Decisions since 1901
  • Supreme Court e-Library
    elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph
    18 categories, synced nightly
  • Official Gazette of the Republic
    officialgazette.gov.ph
    Laws, EOs, proclamations
  • Civil Code of the Philippines
    Republic Act 386
    Codal — full text
  • Family Code of the Philippines
    Executive Order 209
    Codal — full text
  • Revised Penal Code
    Act No. 3815
    Codal — full text
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