Govern the vendors you already use. One roster. One audit trail. One spend view.
Most firms use 30 to 50 vendor categories across the lifecycle of a case. None of them talk to each other. The court reporter is in one inbox, the records vendor is in a spreadsheet, the audit trail is in three Slack threads. Scope is the governance layer over the vendors you already work with.
Primary, backup, excluded. You set the policy. Scope routes by it.
Every vendor the firm uses, by category, tiered. Primary vendors get the dispatch first. Backups fire automatically when the primary cannot make it. Excluded vendors never receive a dispatch. The firm decides; Scope enforces. You bring your own vendors via the buyer-led import flow shipped 2026-05-26; nobody on the roster has to be a Scope customer first.
- PrimarySmith Process Service
- BackupHouston Legal Services
- BackupTexas Civil Process
- ExcludedDavis Serving Co.(service failure 2025-Q3)
Live spend, broken down the way you actually think about it.
Total this month, by category, by vendor, by matter, by attorney. The managing partner can see in five seconds that 40% of last month's vendor spend went to one expert witness, and ask why. Today most firms get this in a quarterly report from accounting; with Scope it is a dashboard. The underlying data is captured at every dispatch state change; the dashboards surface what the closed loop already records.
Illustrative numbers. Live data substrate is shipped (every dispatch state change writes to the activity log); the dedicated spend dashboard surfaces are being rolled out through Q3 2026 (beta).
The audit trail writes itself.
Every dispatch, accept, deliverable, and dollar movement is timestamped, in one place per matter. For PI plaintiff firms doing cost recovery against a settlement, that is the itemized vendor bill the client gets. For defense firms billing carriers, it is the documentation defending the rate. Pull it in one click instead of digging through three inboxes.
- Scope createdBuyer · 0s
- Qualified 4 vendorsSystem · +1s
- Prices computed from rate cardsSystem · +2s
- Smith Process selectedBuyer · +1m
- Smith Process acceptedVendor · +2m
- Service of process completedVendor · +1d
- Proof of service uploadedVendor · +1d
- Invoice generated, $135.00System · +2d
- Payment capturedSystem · +2d
Your rules. The system follows them.
Approval thresholds, category gates, roster-only enforcement. The rules live in Scope and the system enforces them. Today these rules live in someone's head and get followed inconsistently.
"Any dispatch over $500 requires partner sign-off." The system holds the dispatch in pending until the partner approves.
"Expert witnesses require matter-partner confirmation." Routing pauses on the gate until confirmed.
"No off-roster vendor without firm approval." Open-market dispatch is disabled by default for the firm.
Approval-threshold gate is live (the dispatch pending state handles it). Category gates and roster-only enforcement policies ship through Q3 2026 as configurable rules in the admin UI (beta).
Conflicts are checked before dispatch, not after.
When a matter has named adverse parties, dispatch is blocked from routing to a vendor with a relationship to those parties. Built into the flow at the conflict_check_required gate, not bolted on after the fact. The audit log records the check and the result, so the decision is defensible if it ever needs to be.
- PASSEDSmith Process Service - no prior relationship to Acme Corp
- PASSEDHouston Legal Services - no prior relationship to Acme Corp
- BLOCKEDDavis Serving Co. - served Acme Corp in 2025-Q1
Two vendors routed. One vendor blocked. Both outcomes are recorded in the matter's activity log.
Re-tier the roster with data, not memory.
Acceptance rate, average time-to-completion, failure rate, dispute count. All surfaced per vendor over rolling windows. The vendor everyone has been using on autopilot might not be the right one anymore; Scope tells you. Every quarter the firm can re-tier the roster based on what the data shows.
Vendor-health tile (acceptance + dispute count) is live in the buyer dashboard. The full rolling-window performance cards ship through Q3 2026 (beta).
Try Scope on any matter. Firms pay nothing.
Pick any real dispatch. One matter, one category, the whole roster - your call. If we cannot return a qualified vendor and a price faster than your current process, no harm done; firms pay nothing on Scope, ever. If it works, we talk about your roster, your team, and the next ten.