Sunday, May 10 · 2026 — LATE EDITION — Vol. I · No. 01 · $0
— Established 2026 · Solo + small-firm · Plain English · No annual minimums —

The Referent

A daily edition of legal AI for the practice you actually run.
Wordmark· Landing· Palette· Product
For 1–10 attorney shops
Day-one useful
Every citation · on the page
Annual minimum · $0
I.

The wordmark.

Display · App · Favicon · Tagline
Referent
Front-page legal AI · for the small practice
Referent
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II.

The landing.

Front-page · Above the fold
FRONT PAGE FILED FROM THE OFFICE NEXT DOOR · ON RETAINER, NOT FOR LIFE SECTION A · 1 / 4

The senior partner you can’t afford, on call.

For the 1–10 attorney practice you actually run. No platform speak. Every citation, fetched.

Referent is built for the lawyers Harvey doesn’t bother selling to: solo practitioners and three-person family-law shops, the immigration attorney above the coffee shop, the boutique IP partner who left the V100 to take her best three clients with her. We don’t do enterprise rollouts. We don’t require an IT department. Sign up on a Tuesday and ship work that afternoon.

“Real legal AI for the practice you actually run, not the brochure you don’t.”

Referent reads, drafts, and reasons alongside you. It learns your voice from the briefs you’ve already written — not from a generic legal corpus that talks like every other AmLaw 100 deck. Every claim is sourced. Every footnote checks out. Bluebook clean.

The pitch is simple. The big firms are busy charging six figures a year for AI “platforms.” We charge by the matter, no minimums, and the product is useful inside of an hour. If your shop has fewer than ten lawyers, we built this for you.

FOR
1–10
DAY ONE
7min
CITATIONS
98.4%
FLOOR
$0
III.

The palette.

Newsprint · Ink · Arterial red

Newsprint & red.

Broadsheet is the colour of a Sunday edition you don’t want to put down. Heavy ink on warm newsprint cream, broken only by a single arterial red — the color of a banner, a kicker, a stop-press. The palette commits to authority. The red commits to consequence.

Background · newsprint
Newsprint cream
oklch0.965 0.012 78
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Foreground · ink
Heavy ink
oklch0.16 0.006 50
hex#1F1C19
Accent · arterial red
Arterial red
oklch0.5 0.21 25
hex#A82E1B
Rule · hairline
Bone rule
oklch0.74 0.014 78
hex#B6B0A2
Ink on newsprint
13.4 : 1
AAA · BODY
Newsprint on ink
13.4 : 1
AAA · MASTHEAD
Newsprint on red
5.6 : 1
AA · KICKER
IV.

The product.

Sidebar · Empty state · Composer

The desk.

Inside, the masthead recedes — the broadsheet voice carries into the sidebar (Playfair as the row type), but the chat empty-state stays restrained. Red appears only on the active row and the matter title. The product is the calm copy desk under the loud front page.

Ortega · I-589 Tue 09:14 · continuance hearing in 14d · 38pp packet ⌘ K

What runs in tomorrow’s edition?

Pull a draft, run a citation check, file the country-conditions packet. Every claim sourced. No corrections needed.

FILE Tell Referent what to publish… ⌘ ⏎
DRAFT Continuance motion citing the new I-589 backlog data.
RESEARCH 9th Circuit credibility-finding standards, last 24 months.
READ 38pp country-conditions packet · surface the 4 pages that matter.
INTAKE A one-page client memo from Tuesday's call notes.