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Softwarethat showsits work.

We design and build websites, business software, and AI tools for businesses of every kind, held to a lawyer’s standard of proof.

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A 1:27 narrated trailer for Lofted Technologies. Captions are on by default. Transcript: Every answer a lawyer relies on has to show its work. General-purpose AI doesn't. It invents citations. Stacks Legal MCP gives Claude New York and federal case law, statutes, and regulations. More than five million decisions, and answers that cite where they come from. Stacks Legal puts case law, statutes, and regulations behind one search box, with the citations linked to the decisions themselves. Its citator is built by machine from those decisions, and says so. It is not Shepard's or KeyCite. Stacks Cite Check for Word reads your brief and checks its cases, statutes, and quotations. Anything that needs a second look gets a Word comment on the words themselves. For the practice itself, a portal where a note typed on a phone becomes a draft for review. Claude drafts. A person confirms. Nothing Claude writes is final until someone says so. And one Claude conversation can use both. The same standard runs through everything we build: live public dashboards, regulatory tools, and websites. Lofted Technologies. Software that shows its work.

The premise

Every business runs on software someone has to trust: a storefront, a booking page, an internal system, or a research tool. It should be built with the care of someone who will answer for it. Lofted builds software that works on day one, shows its work, and holds up under scrutiny.

i.

Show the work

Figures, records, and AI answers link back to where they came from: a document, a rule, a record, or a dated source. Where the software is unsure, it says so.

ii.

People decide

AI drafts, sorts, and checks. People confirm. Systems keep an append-only trail of who did what, and when.

iii.

You own it

Your code, your accounts, and your data, documented well enough to hand to anyone. No per-seat licenses.

Selected work · 2025–2026

The reel.

07productions · 3 acts

Act ILegal research infrastructure

The deepest build on the reel, made for readers who check every citation. One corpus, three instruments: a research server that gives Claude citable law, a Word add-in that checks every authority in a brief, and a library that puts it all behind one search box.

Part one

Stacks Legal MCP

The engine: 5M+ decisions, 50 tools, and a citator built from scratch.

Part two

Stacks Cite Check for Word

The check: a brief's citations and quotations, checked inside Word.

Part three

Stacks Legal

The library: one search box and a page for every decision.

Claude · Stacks Legal MCP
Is Pell still the standard for arbitrary-and-capricious review? Pin cite, and how often the Court of Appeals still relies on it.
citing_references("34 NY2d 222") ✓ 0.2s
get_case("34 N.Y.2d 222") ✓
Yes. Matter of Pell v. Bd. of Educ., 34 N.Y.2d 222, 231 (1974): “Arbitrary action is without sound basis in reason and is generally taken without regard to the facts.” The citator finds 5,202 citing decisions, 247 of them from the Court of Appeals, and no formal negative treatment. Most recent Court of Appeals use: Matter of Mantilla v. N.Y.C. Dep’t of Hous. Pres. & Dev., 45 N.Y.3d 581 (2025).

50 tools

  • NY reported decisions
  • NY slip & motion decisions
  • Federal courts
  • NY Consolidated Laws
  • NYS bills
  • U.S. Code
  • Code of Federal Regulations
  • NYCRR
  • Federal Register
  • Regulatory dockets
  • Agency opinions
  • Court dockets
  • Verdicts
  • Practice treatises
  • Practice forms
  • NYS open data
  • Citator
Citator graph of Sept. 24, 2026
01 / Model Context Protocol server

Stacks Legal MCP

A 50-tool research server that lets Claude search, read, and cite New York and federal law, with answers that cite the decision, statute, or record they come from.

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Client
Lofted Technologies product, in use at a New York law firm
Role
Architecture, data engineering, and build
Year
2026
Status
In production · private
Stack
Python · Model Context Protocol · SQLite full-text search · OAuth 2.1
50research tools exposed to Claude
5M+court decisions held in full text
40M+citation links in the citator graph
800+automated tests
FileHomeInsertLayoutReferencesReviewCheck Citations
POINT I
THE DETERMINATION WAS ARBITRARY AND CAPRICIOUS

Review under CPLR 7803(3) asks whether the determination had a rational basis. Arbitrary action is action “without sound basis in reason and is taken without regard to the facts.” Matter of Pell v. Bd. of Educ., 34 N.Y.2d 222, 231 (1974).

A rational determination must be sustained, Matter of Ward v. City of Long Beach, 20 N.Y.3d 1042, 1043 (2011), but the record here contains no finding at all on the question the agency was required to decide.

Stacks Cite Check3 authorities
0 problems2 to check0 not checked1 OK
New York cases
Matter of Pell v. Bd. of Educ.Check
…in reason and is generally taken…
1 word of the source left out without an ellipsis
Matter of Ward v. City of Long BeachCheck
Year written as 2011; the decision is dated 2013-02-14.
Statutes & regulations
CPLR 7803(3)OK
Illustrative brief
02 / Microsoft Word add-in

Stacks Cite Check for Word

One button on Word's Home ribbon that checks a brief's cases, statutes, and quotations, and leaves a Word comment on the words themselves wherever something needs a second look.

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Client
Lofted Technologies product, in use at a New York law firm
Role
Product and engineering
Year
2026
Status
In production · private
Stack
Office.js · Python · OAuth 2.1
~2scorpus pass on a 150-citation brief
3platforms: Word for Windows, Mac, and the web
100+automated tests
3 daysfrom first commit to production
Stacks Legal · 34 N.Y.2d 222
Court of Appeals of New York · Decided May 15, 1974
Matter of Pell v Board of Education.
34 N.Y.2d 222 · 1974
CitatorNot Shepard’s
5,202
citing decisions · no negative treatment found
Ct. of Appeals247
App. Div./Term2,824
Trial & other2,113
Matter of Hillside Place, LLC v Housing & Community Renewal2d Dept · Sep 16, 2026 · at 230–231
Matter of 382 8th Ave. Realty Corp. v DHCR1st Dept · Aug 13, 2026 · at 231
Matter of Mantilla v NYC Dept. of Hous. Preserv. & Dev.Ct App · Dec 18, 2025 · at 231
Citator graph of Sept. 24, 2026
03 / Legal research library

Stacks Legal

A private research library: case law, statutes, and regulations behind one search box, citations linked to the decisions it holds, and a citator built from those decisions.

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Client
Lofted Technologies product, in use at a New York law firm
Role
Product, design, and engineering
Year
2026
Status
Live · private
Stack
Python · React 19 · Vite · SQLite full-text search · Claude · PWA
5M+decisions behind one search box
40M+citation links, shown beside each decision
25+library tools for the AI research assistant
Everyassistant quotation checked against the source text

Act IIWebsites & communities

Websites for any kind of business, and a private home for an alumni network, each built to feel considered from the first visit.

kettleandcrumb.examplefieldstonereno.exampletidewellpt.example
Sample site for Kettle & Crumb, a fictional bakery, headed Bread worth getting up for.Sample site for Fieldstone Renovation Co., a fictional contractor, headed One crew. One price. No surprises.Sample site for Tidewell Physical Therapy, a fictional clinic, headed Move freely again.
04 / Sample sites · three industries

Websites for Any Business

A bakery, a renovation contractor, and a physical therapy clinic: three fictional businesses, three sample sites, each with its own look, voice, and job to do.

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Client
Sample work · the businesses are fictional
Role
Design and engineering
Year
2026
Status
Samples
Stack
Semantic HTML · Hand-written CSS · Inline SVG · Playwright + axe-core
3industries, each with its own type, color, and voice
0automated WCAG 2.2 AA violations, checked with axe-core at phone and desktop sizes
0 KBof JavaScript needed to render any of them
6layouts designed and checked: each site on a phone and on a desktop
alsrfcalumni.com
Albany Law School Rugby Football Club alumni site home page.
05 / Private alumni community

ALSRFC Alumni

A members-only home for six decades of Albany Law School Rugby Football Club alumni: discussions, a directory, events, and end-to-end encrypted messages.

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Client
Albany Law School RFC alumni
Role
Design and engineering
Year
2025–26
Status
Live · alsrfcalumni.com
Stack
React · TypeScript · Vite · Express · PostgreSQL · WebSockets · Web Crypto
1966the club's founding year, sixty years of alumni
15+database tables behind the community
E2Eencrypted private messages, delivered in real time

Act IIIPublic data

Public tools that turn scattered official sources into answers: live monitoring and regulatory lookups that show where every answer came from.

hormuzhub.com
Hormuz Watch dashboard showing strait status, war cost band, headline radar, casualty tracker, and market stress tape.
06 / Live geopolitical monitor

Hormuz Watch

Is the Strait of Hormuz open? An independent, source-linked live dashboard that answers the question and shows its evidence.

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Client
In-house product
Role
Concept, design, and engineering
Year
2026
Status
Live · hormuzhub.com
Stack
Node.js · Vercel Functions · Vercel Blob · News and market data feeds
5 minbetween headline checks
8live modules on one dashboard
JSONopen API for the dashboard, timeline, and archive
Dailydated archive snapshots
safe2driveny.com
Parkway Access NY home page, headed Know whether your vehicle belongs on that parkway.
07 / Regulatory lookup tool

Parkway Access NY

Can this vehicle legally drive that parkway? A source-linked rule engine for New York's regulated parkways.

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Client
In-house product
Role
Legal research, rule engine, and design
Year
2026
Status
Live · safe2driveny.com
Stack
Next.js 16 · React 19 · TypeScript · Tailwind 4 · MapLibre GL · Vitest
38parkways and segments in the directory
19legal sources, each with review dates
6possible outcomes, never a bare yes or no
1 dayto build the first release

B-rollFrom the workshop

Prototypes, utilities, and smaller commissions: the experiments that feed the larger productions.

  • B01

    NY Law Search

    A plain-language search and reader for New York's consolidated laws. Copy any subsection and it hands back a properly formed cite.

    React · Express · OpenLegislation · 2026

  • B02

    Municipal Code Viewer

    An online code library for towns whose laws exist only as PDFs: OCR ingestion, AI-inferred structure and cross-references, full-text search, and stable section links.

    FastAPI · SQLite FTS5 · Claude · 2026

  • B03

    EntitlementHub

    A SaaS prototype for managing land-use entitlement projects, delivered with a business plan, a feasibility study, and a 20-slide deck.

    Next.js · Prisma · 2026

  • B04

    Kokoro Desktop Studio

    A fully offline text-to-speech studio that imports documents in seven formats, renders to WAV or MP3, and ships as a portable desktop app.

    Desktop app · kokoro-js · 2026

Capabilities

What webuild.

Four kinds of work, one standard. Each is backed by systems running in production today, some of them private by design.

  • 01

    Websites & communities

    Sites for any kind of business that feel considered on day one and meet accessibility standards on day one, too.In production: ALSRFC Alumni

    • Business sites & landing pages
    • WCAG 2.2 AA audits & remediation
    • Members-only communities
    • Editorial pipelines with approval gates
  • 02

    Business software & operations

    The internal software a business or agency runs on, with the controls an auditor would ask for.

    • Time, billing, and invoicing
    • Sign-in, roles, and audit trails
    • Human-in-the-loop AI capture
    • Migrations off spreadsheets and Notion
  • 03

    AI & research tools

    Search and AI assistants that answer from a body of documents and cite where each answer came from. Built first for law, where an unchecked citation costs the most.In production: Stacks Legal MCP · Stacks Cite Check · Stacks Legal

    • MCP servers for Claude
    • Document ingestion & full-text search
    • Citation graphs & citators
    • Checking quotations against the source
  • 04

    Public data & regulatory tools

    Public-facing tools that turn scattered official sources into answers and show where each answer came from.In production: Hormuz Watch · Parkway Access NY

    • Live monitoring dashboards
    • Rule engines with decision traces
    • Open JSON APIs & archives
    • Source and coverage ledgers

Approach

How a productionruns.

Modern tooling moves fast. The discipline is in what surrounds it: a written plan, a record of every change, and proof that it works before anyone depends on it.

  1. 01

    Read the record

    Every engagement starts with a consultation. Your workflow, documents, rules, and constraints get read the way a lawyer reads a file before advising on it. Rates are set per project from there.

  2. 02

    Write the plan

    A written plan you can approve: data model, security posture, integrations, costs, and what “done” means before any code is written.

  3. 03

    Build in the open

    Short release cycles with working software every week. AI-accelerated engineering, with human review before release.

  4. 04

    Prove it

    Automated tests, accessibility audits, security review, and restore drills: evidence, not assurances.

  5. 05

    Hand over the keys

    Your accounts, your repository, your data. Documentation written for the people who will use it, and maintenance if you want it.

Lofted Technologies LLC

Founded by a
New York State
attorney.Run by an entirely U.S.-based team

The studio

A lawyer’s standard of proof, for any kind of business.

Lofted Technologies was founded by a New York State attorney and is run by an entirely United States–based team of lawyers and developers.

Much of the work on this page began as tools a working law practice needed: a citator it could afford and research it could verify. The same discipline now goes into everything Lofted builds, for businesses and organizations of every kind: a storefront site, a booking page, a members-only community, an internal system, or a live public dashboard.

Based
New York
Team
Lawyers & developers, entirely U.S.-based
Focus
Businesses and organizations of every kind
Built with
TypeScript, Python, Postgres, SQLite, and Claude

Now in pre-production

The next productionstarts soon.

Lofted Technologies is preparing to take on outside engagements. Direct contact channels are on their way, and this page will list them when they open.

Email
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Consultations
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Rates
Set per project after a consultation