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SOUTH CAROLINA · VERBATIM-OR-ABSENT · FAIL-CLOSED
South Carolina civil procedure is unforgiving. Your next move doesn't have to be a guess.
The complete litigation platform: guided case paths, the Discovery War Room, the SERVED-in-30 answer clock computed with the loaded counting rule linked, a verbatim rule corpus loaded per rule from the court's own pages that attacks its own drafts like opposing counsel, circuit-by-circuit court intelligence with the master-in-equity on the map, and attorney routing when your facts get risky.
Legal information, not legal advice. No attorney–client relationship unless separately engaged. Urgent deadline? The Deadline Engine computes it with the citation attached.
of drafts face the Self-Audit Mirror — no exceptions, no opt-out
South Carolina authorities — verbatim or absent, hash-pinned
public bench checks on every release — a failing suite is a failing release
deadlines computed by a language model — ever. Pure functions, full citation trace
NO OTHER LITIGATION PLATFORM DARES DO THIS
The Discovery War Room
Every other tool tells you your request is fine. Ours is under standing orders to read it like the other side's senior partner on a bad day — hunting the dragnet phrasing, the missing date bound, the objection you just handed over. On every draft, every time. The first opposing counsel your discovery ever meets works for you.
of drafts cross-examined
good-faith framing — Rule 37's own fee sanction at the door
person in charge of the final word: you
THE MIRROR — LIVE EXAMPLE
Produce any and all documents relating to the project.
⚔ SELF-AUDIT MIRROR — FINDING · HIGH
Overbreadth — “any and all” hands them the objection
“This is the phrase the other side's lawyer reads twice — and the objection machinery it invites is a LOADED unit here. Name the categories: which transactions, which accounts, which communications.”
KEYED AUTHORITY · Rule 26, SCRCP · Rule 34, SCRCP · Rule 37's good-faith line
Deterministic checks — reproducible, never simulated. Legal information, not legal advice.
WATCH THE WAR ROOM WORK
1 · A SUMMONS LANDS
Construction-contract dispute · Richland County
Served August 5. $412,000 in dispute — the Court of Common Pleas, Fifth Judicial Circuit. Two entities, one former employee, a vendor with the records that decide it.
TrialVector opens the matter. The 30-day clock is already running — and the verb is SERVE: “a defendant shall serve his answer within 30 days after the service of the complaint” (Rule 12(a), SCRCP).
WHILE OTHER AI DESCRIBES THE LAW, THIS ONE RUNS THE PROCEDURE
The South Carolina arsenal, verbatim
Operative legal text enters the corpus byte-for-byte from official sources and is hash-pinned. A section not loaded does not exist to the engine — and the engine says so instead of guessing. Watch it live-counted on the corpus board.
S.C. Code sections — SIXTEEN WHOLE TITLES from the General Assembly's own chapter pages (the civil core, the UCC, insurance, the licensing title with § 40-5-310, criminal traffic, probate, children), the unofficial-compilation status stated on every unit
rules across SIX statewide collections — the SCRCP, the magistrate rulebook, ADR, e-filing, evidence, appellate — each loaded PER RULE from the court's own pages: no vendor boundary exists
Constitution sections, verbatim — art. V, § 4A is the 90-day silence mechanism itself
federal book — the D.S.C. Local Civil Rules whole; the Fourth Circuit book lives with North Carolina: one corpus, one copy
the answer clock — SERVED, by the rule's own verb: 'a defendant shall serve his answer within 30 days after the service of the complaint'
THE SILENCE MECHANISM — rule amendments take effect unless BOTH houses disapprove by three-fifths; the April 30, 2026 wave landed exactly this way and the loaded text already carries it
the magistrate ceiling — three ways, one number, by the statute's own enumeration, with its own loaded rulebook and a one-year cap on relief from judgment
THE GOV-SUIT INVERSION — the Tort Claims Act is 'forever barred' at two years, a year SHORTER than the three-year core, and the verified claim is the purchase of the third
the appeal clock — LOADED HERE: served on all respondents within thirty days after RECEIPT of written notice of entry, with tolling motions that cross-reference other loaded rules
THE OLD SAFE HARBOR, KEPT — the pre-2015 federal ESI harbor the federal courts replaced; South Carolina still runs it, and the loaded page's own note states the lineage
deadline formulas and limitation lines, every parameter pinned to verbatim text — the counting rule linked on every trace
corroboration pins across the engines — the law and the parameters are never allowed to drift apart silently
A South Carolina filing carries its signer's certification — § 15-36-10 binds attorneys AND pro se litigants by name to the reasonable-attorney line, and sanctions ride every frivolous filing. TrialVector was built for that world: every export runs the citation gate; the AI-hallucinated authority that ends careers gets flagged before you sign.
Six nuclear engines. One operating system.
Battle-tested across Florida, Texas, North Carolina, Arizona, Washington, Nevada, and Colorado — re-keyed to South Carolina civil procedure and the serve-first era.
The Discovery War Room
no other litigation platform dares do this
The proof graph finds the holes an opponent will find. The Self-Audit Mirror reads every draft from the other chair — a request that would flunk TrialVector's own deficiency engine does not serve. And in South Carolina every shield the Mirror cites is a LOADED unit: Rules 26 through 37, per rule, from the court's own pages.
The Good-Faith Gate + the Escalation Zone
the governors the law itself wrote
Rule 37's own text sanctions a party who fails to participate in good faith in framing the 26(f) discovery plan — fees follow before any motion war begins. The Escalation Zone runs the loaded governors: the reasonable-attorney line that names PRO SE litigants expressly, the contemporaneous expert affidavit, the Tort Claims Act's forever-bar pair. Build to the line. Never over it.
GOVERN + the Rule Stack
no vendor boundary — and that IS the story
Layers of authority resolved per matter and hash-sealed — with South Carolina's own wrinkles honored: the court publishes EVERY rule on its own page (the stack loads per rule, whole), the compilation states its own unofficial status on every unit, and amendments become law through the 90-day silence mechanism — the April 30, 2026 wave already integrated in the loaded text.
The Deadline Engine
the citation rides every date
The answer clock runs on SERVICE — 'shall serve his answer within 30 days' — with the 15-day post-ruling rhythms and the cost motion's 20-day line the 2026 wave doubled. Raw calendar counts with the LOADED Rule 6 linked as a unit, computed by pure, unit-tested functions with the trace and the rule attached. A language model never touches a date.
Cite Check SC + the Integrity Rail
registry-locked, all nine rows solid
Every citation shape resolves only into South Carolina's own registered families — nine shapes, every one backed by a live loaded unit, and a sibling state's cite never resolves as South Carolina law. Every export runs existence and verbatim checks against the hash-pinned corpus. And there is no document formatter to gate: § 40-5-310 places the UPL definition with the Supreme Court itself, so the strictest tier ships none — a posture that is code, not a promise.
The Theaters
the tribunal picks the rules — not habit
THE MASTER-IN-EQUITY leads: the referred-equity bench the appellate rules name inside circuit court itself. Then the Court of Common Pleas across sixteen statutory circuits, the $7,500 magistrate room with its own loaded rulebook, court-annexed ADR that is NON-BINDING by its own scope line, and the probate lane — each resolved to its OWN regime with gates and red lines.
The Traffic Ticket War Room
show the charged statute · route to defense counsel
A South Carolina ticket is a CRIMINAL charge — 'It is a misdemeanor for any person to violate any of the provisions of this chapter.' So this lane takes the criminal posture: the charged Title 56 section served whole from the loaded corpus, the license machinery shown as units, and the route to a licensed defense attorney. No options-education in a criminal matter, ever.
Served to proof-locked, on the record
Five steps. The first two belong to the engines; the last three are why the record can carry your name.
- 01
GOVERN resolves your forum
Common Pleas in one of sixteen statutory circuits, the $7,500 magistrate room, a master-in-equity referral, the probate lane — pinned to your matter and hash-sealed. Two minutes, not two weeks.
- 02
The serve-clock calendared — then the campaign faces the Mirror
The answer is SERVED within 30 days by the rule's own verb; the platform computes it raw with the loaded counting rule linked. Then every discovery draft is read from the opponent's chair before it goes anywhere.
- 03
The good-faith gate rules on the aggressive moves
High-pressure tactics export only behind the complete record — Rule 37's own fee sanction for bad-faith 26(f) framing is quoted at the door, and the frivolous-filing governor binds attorneys AND pro se litigants by name.
- 04
Serve, calendar, enforce
Deadline chains with citations attached. Deficiency matrices request by request against the loaded family. FILED is unreachable with a fatal block.
- 05
Proof Lock converts discovery into trial ammunition
Admissions ledger, authentication matrix, element map — every proposed fact carries its record cite or it does not export.
CONNECTED INTELLIGENCE
Court intelligence, resolved from the law itself
The circuit and court layer riding every South Carolina surface is resolved from the authorities that create it: sixteen judicial circuits with their county compositions straight from § 14-5-610's own text, the $7,500 magistrate line (§ 22-3-10) with its own loaded rulebook beneath it, and the master-in-equity named inside circuit court by the appellate rules' own definition. Each card carries its provenance; a circuit's practice is a real constraint but never flattened into law.
Explore the South Carolina court map →Sixteen judicial circuits — the composition is statutory
§ 14-5-610 composes every circuit county by county; the registry parses the loaded unit's own text, forty-six counties summed
The local-law board — honest circuit by circuit
no circuit's local orders are loaded, the SC-LOCAL namespace is reserved and empty, and all sixteen rows say so instead of pretending
The judge layer — a bench the General Assembly elects
no profiles hosted; the loaded law only — Supreme Court and circuit judges elected by joint public vote, magistrates the Governor's with Senate consent
The closed loop
- 01Official South Carolina authoritythe S.C. Code · six rule collections from the court's own pages · the Constitution · the D.S.C. rim
- 02Authority + procedure engineversioned · hash-pinned · human-reviewed · fail-closed
- 03Matter twinparties · claims · deadlines · evidence · docket
- 04Deterministic drafting compilerlocked clauses · calculations · record-bound facts
- 05Adversarial reviewopposing counsel · judge · clerk · privacy · record
- 06Release gates → filing packagecitation certificate · provenance manifest
- 07Outcome intelligencejudge patterns · comparable matters · playbooks
Product law (the non-negotiables)
RUN A REAL MATTER — FREE
Feel the whole desk before you pay a cent.
Founding access is the trial — the entire platform, on your own matter, with no card and no countdown. The free public tools stay free forever. When billing activates, you buy the matter in front of you; until then, the whole war room is open.
- ✓The full Discovery War Room on a real matter
- ✓GOVERN + the campaign engine + Proof Lock
- ✓Every deadline, deficiency matrix, and enforcement step
- ✓The integrity-sealed export ledger
- ✓The pro-se and attorney lanes, both
PRICED LIKE A TOOL, NOT A DEPARTMENT
Buy the matter in front of you.
FOUNDING ACCESS IS OPEN. Every plan is free right now — no card, no trial clock. Go-forward pricing activates when billing does: per-matter for Solo, a flat subscription for Firm. We won't show you a number until the checkout behind it is real — because “honest states, never faked” is the whole product, and that starts at the price.
The Public Tools
The arsenal anyone can fire
- ✓Deadline Engine — the SERVED-in-30 answer clock, raw counts with the LOADED Rule 6 linked, citation attached
- ✓THE SILENCE MECHANISM explained from the constitutional text itself — how rules become law when the legislature says nothing
- ✓Cite Check SC — registry-locked shapes, all nine rows solid, a sibling state's cite never resolves here
- ✓The verbatim South Carolina corpus + the rule stack — loaded per rule, no vendor boundary
- ✓The War Room mirror, the Escalation Zone, the Theaters — the public tools
No account required. Nothing you enter leaves your browser.
Solo — per matter
Buy the case in front of you — not a subscription
- ✓BenchPath court intelligence (benchpath.ai) — the judge & division layer, available as an add-on
- ✓For individual attorneys AND self-represented (pro se) parties — per matter, not per credential
- ✓The full workspace on one matter: GOVERN, the campaign, Proof Lock
- ✓The Discovery War Room + the lifecycle machine, wired to your docket
- ✓Deadline chains, deficiency matrices, the enforcement lane + the integrity ledger
- ✓Pro se? The parity rails ride along: plain-language surfaces, counsel-review packets on high-risk exports
No subscriptions, no seats, no minimums.
Firm
The whole desk, for the whole firm
- ✓BenchPath court intelligence (benchpath.ai) — the judge & division layer, INCLUDED
- ✓Unlimited matters and up to 25 org seats
- ✓The judicial registry + the attorney-review bridge
- ✓White-label surfaces + the connector roadmap (Clio, DocuSign)
- ✓Priority corpus verification + the drift-sweep feed
- ✓Everything in Solo, across every matter the firm runs
Flat firm subscription. Activates when billing goes live.
Questions litigators actually ask
What is TrialVector South Carolina, exactly?+
The eighth state on the TrialVector chassis — the same litigation operating system that runs Florida, Texas, North Carolina, Arizona, Washington, Nevada, and Colorado, re-keyed to South Carolina civil procedure. It shows official South Carolina law verbatim, attacks its own work like opposing counsel, computes every deadline with the citation attached, and proves in an immutable record that a human ruled on every finding. It is software, not a law firm.
Is this legal advice? Do you draft or file anything?+
No, no, and no. TrialVector provides legal information — and South Carolina is the strictest tier on this platform: there is no software safe-harbor statute here, and § 40-5-310 places the definition of unauthorized practice with the Supreme Court of South Carolina itself. So this platform ships NO document builder in South Carolina at all — the lane is not gated open pending review; it does not exist, and any future document feature is double-gated behind SC_LIVE and SC_UPL_COUNSEL_CONFIRMED in code. The platform shows the law and the clocks, points at the judiciary's own self-help resources, and routes drafting to licensed South Carolina attorneys. The signer owns the filing, always.
How much does it cost?+
The public tools — the Deadline Engine, the silence-mechanism explainer, Cite Check, the rule corpus — are free forever. The full per-matter workspace is free during founding access (no card, no clock). When billing activates, it is priced per matter for solo users and as a flat subscription for firms. We show no dollar figure until the checkout behind it is real.
Why won't you just show me a price?+
Because the entire product is built on "honest states, never faked." A corpus section that isn't loaded says so instead of guessing; a citation that isn't verified is flagged, not faked. A price with no live checkout behind it would be the same lie we refuse everywhere else. When billing is real, the number will be too.
What makes the Discovery War Room different?+
Every other tool tells you your request is fine. The War Room's Self-Audit Mirror reads every draft from the opponent's chair — a request that would flunk TrialVector's own deficiency engine does not serve. And South Carolina adds machinery of its own: the discovery plan is framed by agreement under Rule 26(f), Rule 37's own text makes bad-faith framing expensive, and § 15-36-10's reasonable-attorney line binds attorneys AND pro se litigants by name — the governors are in the loaded law, and the Mirror scores against them.
Is the law actually verbatim, or AI-summarized?+
Verbatim or absent. South Carolina publishes with two clean hands: the Judicial Branch puts EVERY rule on its own page (this corpus loads them per rule — no vendor boundary exists), and the General Assembly publishes the Code by chapter with its unofficial-compilation status stated — a status this platform carries on every unit instead of hiding. Rule amendments become law through the 90-day silence mechanism, and the April 30, 2026 wave is already integrated in the loaded text. The watch is armed on the compilation's own currency line. A model never authors law or a citation. Inspect it yourself on the engine page.
Does it work for self-represented parties, or only attorneys?+
Both — the same analytical engine, enforced by code, not promised. Attack-register vocabulary never reaches a self-represented surface, high-risk exports become counsel-review packets, and the pro-se lane demands the same attestations before anything leaves the door. And South Carolina's own frivolous-filing statute is why that rigor matters here: § 15-36-10 sanctions “an attorney or pro se litigant” by name — proceeding without counsel exempts no one. See Parity & Trust.
Where does the circuit and local intelligence come from?+
From the official sources themselves. The sixteen judicial circuits are composed county by county in § 14-5-610's own text — the registry parses the loaded unit, forty-six counties summed — and the magistrate room's $7,500 line is the statute's own enumeration. No circuit's local standing orders are loaded: that absence is stated on all sixteen rows of the board instead of papered over. See the local-law board and the court map.
What happens to my data?+
The public tools run entirely in your browser — nothing you enter is transmitted. Workspace matters are tenant-isolated, encrypted, and access-audited; the model is never trained on your matter content. Fail-closed never means data-hostage: if an entitlement lapses, existing matters stay readable.