Matching Methodology

For a given intake (state + practice area), an attorney is eligible only if all of the following are true at the moment of routing:

• Status is VERIFIED (eight-layer verification complete and unlapsed).
• Active Credential subscription (or active founding-beta access).
• At least 1 lead credit in their balance.
• Accepting Intakes toggle is ON in their settings.
• Bar admitted in the requested state.
• Listed practice area matches the intake's practice area.

Eligible candidates are ordered by a transparent rotation score that prefers attorneys who have received fewer recent proposals, breaking ties by stable hash so the same intake produces the same ordering on retry. The Practice Tools subscription is an add-on for software access only and never affects allocation order.

For each delivered proposal we atomically consume one lead credit and write an append-only lead_receipts row capturing the reasoning codes, the matched attorney, and the cycle anchor. Receipts are immutable and auditable.