Thanks for the comment. As I've mentioned in other replies we have been warned about the dangers of the procurement process and read a ton about it too. The fi

Thanks for the comment. As I've mentioned in other replies we have been warned about the dangers of the procurement process and read a ton about it too. The first iteration of this idea was actually to try and sell to courts to create precisely the kinds of open systems and standards that you describe here. After spending some time (more than I care to admit) talking to people who sell to government, reading about procurement, and reading through RFPs we realized that it would be a ludicrous for the two of us to try and sell to a court. So, we decided to try and work with PDs first because we saw a need and an opportunity to get to know the players in the space, become familiar with the data, and make sure that we could scratch their itches better than anyone else. Once we are able to do that we are hoping to get to a small court that will let us prove that we can provide software that creates the outcomes they care about (money saved, happy judges, happy lawyers, happy clerks, and better access to justice). Then we'll start to work with procurement. Eventually, we would love to say that we are developing an open "standard" for handling legal data, but we think that should come later, once we've been able to build something that people care about and are willing to pay for.