API
Live in beta · v1
DraftGrade Verified.
For everyone else's tools.
If you ship a legal-tech product — brief assistant, drafting tool, e-filing integration, compliance dashboard — your users want to know which citations you generated are real. DraftGrade's verifier resolves every legal citation against the canonical CourtListener database. Drop it into your stack as a REST API; surface "DraftGrade Verified" badges to your users.
Free during MVP, including the API. Same mission as the web UI — access to justice scales when verification is free, not metered.
Quickstart
- 1. Create a token. Sign in at app.draftgrade.com, open the user menu, choose "API tokens", name your token, copy it once.
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2. Call POST /v1/verify.
Authorization header:
Bearer <token>. Body:{ "text": "..." }.
curl -X POST https://app.draftgrade.com/v1/verify \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $DRAFTGRADE_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"text": "We rely on Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)."}'
Returns a JSON object with each detected citation classified
as Verified, Hallucinated, or Unverified. Full endpoint
reference: GET /v1/methodology, GET /v1/runs,
GET /v1/runs/{id}, POST /v1/verify.
Rate limit: 60 requests per minute per token.
Available today
Citation verifier
POST a document, get a JSON array of every detected citation classified as Verified, Hallucinated, or Unverified. Volume/reporter/page triples are resolved against CourtListener; full-text is never sent off-platform.
- U.S., S. Ct., F., F. Supp., N.Y., A.D., N.Y.S., Misc. reporters
- 24h response cache per citation triple
- Bulk endpoint for batch verification
On the roadmap
Rubric & technique scoring
The open DraftGrade rubric (7 sections, A–F) and 32-technique register, available programmatically. Score any draft from your tool against the published methodology; expose tier and per-section feedback to your users.
- Pluggable jurisdiction modules and motion-type overlays
- Calibrated to the same rubric your in-house reviewers use
- Bring-your-own model option for confidentiality-sensitive deployments
Who this is for
Legal-tech vendors
Drafting tools, brief assistants, compliance scanners that need a neutral citation-verification layer.
In-house legal ops
Batch-verify the citations in a backlog of briefs, demand letters, or contracts before filing or sending.
Court technology teams
Flag hallucinated citations at intake. Integrate with e-filing pipelines to surface the problem before the judge sees it.
Early-partner program
Free during MVP for the first 3 integrators
In exchange for attribution ("Verified by DraftGrade"), product feedback, and a public case study, the first three legal-tech integrators get unmetered access while we tune the API. Usage-based pricing follows for general availability.
The API is open to everyone during beta; the partner program adds attribution placement, integration support, and a public case study.