SmartProBono helps people understand what they have, organize the facts, prepare useful documents and questions, and connect with the right next step — without pretending to replace a lawyer or other qualified professional.
Choose a path
Legal matters and IP records need different questions and safeguards. SmartProBono keeps those workflows distinct while giving them one clear home.
Understand what you have, organize the facts, prepare drafts and questions, and get ready for the next practical step.
Build an IP readiness record before expert review, beginning with the patent workflow that is already live.
The platform model
The same operating model applies across SmartProBono, while each subject area keeps its own facts, workflows, and safety boundaries.
Get plain-language orientation so you understand the issue, vocabulary, documents, and questions that may matter.
Organize facts, timelines, evidence, drafts, and unanswered questions into something another person can actually review.
Move the prepared record to the right human next step — a professional, clinic, legal aid organization, court resource, or partner.
Legal side
The legal experience focuses on factual organization, document understanding, draft preparation, and guided workflows.
Organize a legal question, turn a messy situation into clearer facts, and prepare questions or next steps for review.
Create letters, summaries, timelines, checklists, and other editable drafts for your own review or professional handoff.
Work through structured preparation flows such as record-clearing and jurisdiction-specific pilots without pretending to decide your case.
IP side
The canonical IP record and professional handoff work remains intact rather than being flattened into a generic legal form.
Capture invention facts, contributors, disclosure history, ownership context, prior filings, and evidence in one reusable record.
Map facts into professional intake questions, resolve missing information, and explicitly approve what gets shared.
Bring a clearer packet and factual record into a conversation with a patent professional, clinic, university, or partner organization.
Why combine them
One trusted front door. Specialized workflows behind it.
People should not have to understand SmartProBono's internal product structure before they can get started. The platform chooses the right preparation path while preserving the differences between legal matters and IP readiness.
The platform can help organize information, explain general concepts, prepare questions and drafts, and support professional handoff. It does not create an attorney-client relationship, make legal decisions for a user, or replace qualified professional review.