tortlconnect · The attorney directory
Most "lawyer referral" services are auctions in a trench coat: the firm with the highest bid wins the lead, and the consumer is what's being sold. tortlconnect is the opposite. It shows every attorney on tortl who is licensed and practicing in your state, verified and presented identically, in a random order that rotates daily. You filter. You choose. We never decide which lawyer you see.
Consumer access opens at public launch. Billing begins then — not now. Founding-rate enrollment closes the same day.
· Flat fee, never per-lead
· Bar-verified attorneys only
· Your data is verified manually, never sold
· Founding cohort, open until launch
Where the product stands
tortl is currently in a soft family beta. The consumer app is on the App Store; the directory you are reading about lights up when public consumer access ships. Until that day, no consumer is searching for attorneys through tortlconnect, and no attorney is being billed.
Apply to the founding cohort now and your listing is built, your bar standing is verified, and your listing goes live in the directory the moment it opens. The $149 monthly rate is locked for the lifetime of your listing — for every attorney who joins before consumer access goes live. After that, founding rates close and future onboarding moves to the public price.
Nothing about your tortlconnect listing costs anything until a consumer can actually use it.
The problem we're solving
A driver is hit on a Tuesday afternoon. By Tuesday evening they have been called by three personal-injury firms, none of whom they ever contacted directly. Each call ends with a soft pitch and a paper retainer. None of the callers know the case — they bought a lead.
The infrastructure that produced those calls is profitable, well documented, and almost universally unaccountable to the people it serves. Lead brokers rank attorneys by who pays the most. Consumers can't see how they're being routed. Attorneys pay full price for leads that don't fit their practice. The only winner is the broker.
The principle
A directory shouldn't rank at all. The first thing tortlconnect does is show you everyone who qualifies — and get out of your way.
tortl is consumer software. tortlconnect is the directory that sits between a consumer and every attorney qualified to take their case. It does not score attorneys. It does not rank them. It verifies them against a public bar, shows the ones who clear it in a random order, and hands the consumer the filters to narrow the list themselves.
How tortlconnect is different
tortl does not order attorneys by quality, price, or anything an attorney can pay for. There is no premium tier, no boost, no featured slot. Everyone who clears the bar is shown identically, in a random order that rotates daily. There is no position to buy, because there is no position.
The consumer narrows the list by neutral, verifiable facts — language, location, case type, whether the attorney is taking clients. tortl exposes the filters and never decides which one matters. Narrowing is the consumer choosing; it is never tortl choosing for them.
Every fact on a profile is sourced. Bar standing and licensure come from bar data. Anything an attorney tells us about themselves is shown as attorney-attested, in the open, so the consumer always knows what is checked and what is claimed.
If nothing matches, tortl says so and names the filter doing the work — "no Mandarin-speaking attorneys within 5 miles; 3 within 25" — then lets you relax it. We never quietly drop a criterion to fill the screen. Which of your requirements to discard is your call, never ours.
Founding member pricing
Founding attorneys lock in $149 per month, indefinitely. No price escalators. No tiers. No surprise increases when the platform matures. It is a single line item, the same every month, for as long as you carry a tortlconnect listing — and the first invoice is dated the day consumer access opens to the public.
One product, one price. A flat monthly listing fee, the same for every attorney. There is no second, pay-to-win surface — because the entire point of tortlconnect is that no attorney can pay to be seen first.
The founding rate exists because launching a directory requires the people on the directory. The attorneys who sign on now get the price that reflects that.
Apply to the founding cohort
Onboarding takes about ten minutes. We confirm bar standing and the practice areas your listing will be filtered on. Your listing goes live the moment the directory opens — and billing does not begin until consumer access opens at public launch.
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