Documents and notes decision
NoticeRegistry
A technically capable user can build a limited, single‑state replacement (search, summaries, alerts) in about a week, but reproducing NoticeRegistry’s full 51‑state indexed archive, scale, and dataset is impractical without significant ongoing collection and data-engineering work.
Visit website↗$9/mo
$108/yr
Read off the official pricing page.
$100one-off40 h to build
$100/mo4 h/mo upkeep
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 13 seats.
No open-source build does this yet
Nothing published replaces this one, so a replacement starts from an empty file. Here is what it would have to cover.
What a replacement has to do
- Ingest public notices, parse and extract entities, geocode and cross-link by address/party/case, provide search and notice detail pages, implement watchlists/email alerts and a simple REST API.
What it still won’t have
- Full, multi‑state archive and daily ingest across 51 states
- High-volume Data API quotas and CSV/Excel bulk export
- Built-in PDF download limits and case dossier generation
- Priority support, team/workspace features, and enterprise data hygiene
What remains hard
- Proprietary data
Every notice is pulled from official courthouse records and legal newspapers , parsed into plain English, geocoded, and cross-linked by address, party & case — with new filings added daily across 51 states.
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 13 seats.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a single-state public-notice indexer and search app using Node.js + Express, Postgres, and a simple React UI. In scope: scheduled ingest from a single official source (CSV or scraped page), store raw notices in Postgres, run an LLM (e.g., OpenAI) to generate a short plain‑English summary and extract entities, geocode addresses via a paid geocoding API, cross-link notices by normalized party/case/address, provide a REST search endpoint and a web UI for search/detail, implement watchlists with periodic background job and email alerts (SendGrid). Out of scope: multi-state ingest, PDF generation, team accounts, and large-scale API quotas. Include basic error handling, retries for network calls, logging, and unit tests for the ingestion, parsing, and search components.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- 3 cited sources+3
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- Hard moats found in the evidence-3
- Evidence score55
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 3
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productNoticeRegistry homepage
- official pricingNoticeRegistry pricing
- official docsNoticeRegistry features
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
