How Quagga works, stated plainly.

• Quagga's data comes from public federal court records (PACER).
• You never need a PACER account. Quagga retrieves the court records, and your credits cover them.
• Quagga watches federal district courts nationwide. Courts publish different amounts of docket activity, so the signals available vary by court.

• A signal is a court event recorded on a case's docket. When a new docket entry matches a signal your workspace follows, in the courts and case types it chose, the case lands in your feed as an opportunity.

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• Strength describes the kind of court event. It is not a prediction about the case.

• New signals come from regular sweeps of federal court feeds.
• Court feeds are checked every hour.

• Before anyone spends a credit, your team sees the signal and its strength, the court and the dates, and, where the court record has them, the nature of suit, the judge and the names of the law firms on the case.
• The case name and the docket number stay hidden until the case is unlocked.
• Every plan includes a monthly allowance of team credits. Unlocking an opportunity costs one credit, per person who opens it.
• An unlocked case is visible to the person who unlocked it and to the account holder; a teammate who wants it spends their own credit.

• Briefs are drafted by an AI model from public docket text and public court filings.
• The only thing from your account that shapes a brief is the vendor type you chose at setup; if you chose Other, the description you typed is sent as written.
• No names, emails, notes, lists or payment details are sent to it.
• Grounded in the source filings means the brief is written from the filings themselves, not only from the docket text.
• A brief grounded in the source filings, with every section, costs 3 credits in total on Signals and 1 credit on Intelligence, the unlock included.
• A brief has three sections: Case summary, Opportunity insight and a third section that follows your vendor type: Estimated data scope for eDiscovery, legal-tech and forensics vendors, Estimated testimony scope for court reporting, Estimated review staffing for ALSPs.
• A brief usually takes a few minutes to prepare. When the filings are not yet available it can take longer, and the credit is returned if the brief cannot be finished.
• Your vendor type shapes how your briefs are written.

• Firm size is read from law firms' own websites and published rankings, and shown as a band or as 'At least N attorneys'. It is not known for every case.
• SignalsFirm size on locked cases is hidden until revealed, for at most 1 credit.
• On Intelligence, a known firm size shows on locked cases.

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• Credits are not refundable on request. A credit is returned automatically when a brief or a paid section cannot be prepared, or when a firm size cannot be revealed.
• Bought credits carry over. Any above the carry-over limit are credited back, never taken away.