Kashtab is not a law firm and does not refer, rank or recommend lawyers. It reads demand letters, shows public settlement data, and gives two people a private room with sealed offers. When a matter needs counsel, it says so and stops — and the client arrives with a clean, dated record.
A person who used Kashtab knows the kind of claim, the deadline, the amount, the sender, and has a timestamped record of what was said. Your first meeting starts at step three.
Sexual harassment, discrimination, wages, safety, minors, criminal and government matters are stopped at the reader with a plain instruction: talk to a licensed attorney. No templates, no offers.
A party can open their room with their lawyer — same side, same access. The on-record thread and facts are visible; sealed limits stay sealed; private notes stay on the client's device. Separate counsel seats are on the roadmap.
Silence is the usual response to a demand letter. A recipient who understands the letter answers it. Kashtab's reply templates ask for documents — registration, basis of the amount, specific barriers — which is a conversation, not a wall.
Illustration. Timestamps, on-record messages and facts are exportable; sealed numbers are never included.
Practicing U.S. attorneys who want early access to room participation, or who send or receive these letters and want to talk. No fee, no referrals.
About two-thirds of U.S. adults experience a civil legal problem over four years, and the vast majority never involve a lawyer — not because they don't want one, but because the amounts don't justify one. Roughly three-quarters of state-court judgments are under $5,200. Those disputes still need a neutral place to be resolved and a record that survives. That's the layer Kashtab is building: below the lawyer line, and handing off cleanly above it.
Sources: NCSC Civil Justice Initiative; Legal Services Corporation Justice Gap reports. Not Kashtab data.