LawSensai is not one tool. It is an answer engine plus a set of practice area workspaces, a document drafter, and an attorney match, and picking the right entry point saves real time. The short version: if you have a question, start with AskSensai. If you have a deadline, start with the center for that matter type. If you do not know which you have, start with Sensai Concierge and let it route you.
This guide maps common situations to the tool built for them, and notes where each one is designed to stop and hand you to a licensed attorney.
Where should you start if you are not sure?
Sensai Concierge exists for exactly this. You describe the situation in plain language, and it routes you to the right tool or to a vetted attorney, with guardrails and a visible AI disclosure. It is the right first stop when the situation does not sort itself neatly into a category, which is most situations. A layoff that involved a signed severance agreement, for example, is partly employment and partly contract, and Concierge is better at reading that than a menu is.
AskSensai is the other universal entry point: free plain English legal questions with answers that carry citations. Every answer also carries a safety flag. Green means legal information is likely enough for what you asked. Yellow means the answer is useful but you should consider attorney review. Red gates the answer behind a human attorney, because the question is one where general information is not a responsible substitute for advice. If you read one thing before using anything else, read the flag on your answer.
Which tool handles a lawsuit or a court paper?
EasySuit, in both directions.
If you have been sued, EasySuit reads the complaint and summons, computes your Answer deadline, surfaces the defenses that apply in your state, and drafts an Answer you can review and file. The deadline calculation is the part people underestimate. Default judgments are usually the result of a missed date, not a weak defense, so getting the clock right is the first job.
If you are the one bringing a claim, EasySuit has a small claims plaintiff flow and a demand letter generator, plus a dedicated path for security deposit disputes, which are one of the most common small claims filings in the country. Starting with a demand letter is often cheaper and faster than filing, and it produces a document you can attach later if you do file.
For a two party dispute where both sides would rather settle than litigate, Online Dispute Resolution is the better fit. It is a guided, neutral workflow for negotiating or mediating a civil dispute instead of going to court.
Which tool handles a family matter?
The Family Law Center, which is built on a different assumption than the question tools. A divorce, custody, or support matter is a case file that lives for months or years, not a single question, so the Center creates a matter and keeps everything attached to it.
Inside a matter you get structured triage that routes you to the right next step, a document vault for pleadings and financial disclosures with access scoped to that matter, child support calculation using the model your state actually uses, async mediation for working through disagreements without a live session, and a settlement composer with a guardrail scan before anything goes out. Intake and triage are available in English and Spanish, and the language preference follows the matter through to the attorney handoff.
If your family matter involves safety concerns, the Center is designed around that case rather than treating it as an exception.
What if you were arrested or have a court date?
The Criminal Defense Command Center is one authenticated workspace with five modules, and which one you need depends entirely on where you are in the timeline:
- Bail emergency triage for the first 48 hours, when the questions are about release conditions and what happens next.
- Case intelligence reports for understanding the charge, the elements, and the posture of the case.
- Court date tracking for keeping every hearing, DMV deadline, and probation review on one timeline. Each matter gets a private calendar export with reminders at 7 days, 1 day, and 1 hour before an event.
- Record clearing screener for expungement and sealing eligibility, which is state specific and often narrower or broader than people assume.
- Attorney match, including a warm introduction to a public defender path when you qualify.
One deliberate design difference worth knowing: the Criminal Defense evidence checklist does not store your files. The Family Law document vault does, under signed URL access. That split is intentional, and the reasoning is documented, so choose the tool that matches how you want your material handled.
Which tool handles an injury claim?
The Personal Injury Recovery Center. Its intake agent builds a case file from your account of what happened, the treatment so far, and the insurance posture, and the demand draft generator produces a state aware demand letter that accounts for the policy limit, the treatment record, and the liability picture.
Timing dominates personal injury more than almost any other area, because the statute of limitations is set state by state and missing it usually ends the claim regardless of merit. Start the file before you start negotiating.
Which tool drafts a document?
Smart Legal Documents for anything you intend to sign or send. You complete a structured intake, AI drafts the document, it routes to a licensed attorney in the LawSensai network for review, and it finishes with a signature in your dashboard. The draft does not leave until a human has signed off on it.
For a document someone else wrote, the clause explainer translates the terms rather than drafting new ones, which is what you want when the question is "what am I agreeing to."
For business documents specifically, Business Formation recommends an entity, drafts the LLC or corporate documents, routes them for attorney review, and tracks the compliance deadlines that follow formation. Total Protection is the ongoing compliance side of that: policy drafting, license and permit tracking, and gap monitoring. Contracts Central covers household and personal agreements.
For intellectual property, the IP Center brings trademark, patent, and copyright work into one place for clearance searches, filing guidance, and portfolio tracking, with attorney review on safety critical steps.
For credit report and debt collection problems, the Credit Defense suite analyzes the report, drafts FCRA dispute letters to the bureaus and FDCPA validation letters to collectors, and escalates to an attorney when the matter is legally complex.
When does a tool hand you to a lawyer?
Sooner than most people expect, and by design. Attorney Match reads your plain language description and connects you to licensed, vetted attorneys by practice area and location. LawSensai facilitates the match. It is not a law firm and does not represent you.
Three signals mean stop self serving and use the match:
- A red safety flag on an AskSensai answer.
- A deadline you cannot confidently calculate, or one that has already passed.
- Anything involving your liberty, your children, or an amount of money you cannot afford to lose.
If you want the meeting to be productive, use AskSensai to frame the question first and organize your documents in the relevant center, then book the consultation. Attorneys spend the first part of most first meetings assembling facts you already have.
How do you verify what the AI actually did?
Read the Trust Center. LawSensai publishes aggregate decision counts, safety findings, and the runbook for each AI agent at /trust, with per agent pages including /trust/brain, /trust/family, /trust/criminal-defense, and /trust/personal-injury. Every AI decision is recorded in a hash chain audit log, and the trust pages are where the aggregates are visible.
The line the whole product is built around is worth restating: legal information explains how the law generally works, legal advice applies it to your specific facts, and only a licensed attorney can give the second one. Every tool above is built to be clear about which side of that line it is on.