The legal infrastructure behind Terms.Law,
attorney-built and AI-enhanced.
I'm Sergei Tokmakov, a California attorney (CA Bar #279869). Over more than a decade I've built the infrastructure behind this practice: 13 intake tools, 6 interactive tools, 30 demand-letter pages wired to flat fees, and a sitewide attorney voice that survives audit. AI runs the operational layer; I do the legal work.
Written lease establishes tenancy. Contemporaneous texts admitting motive are a near-perfect § 789.3(c) evidence pattern. $100/day statutory penalty plus mandatory attorney's fees. Tier fit: $575 attorney letter.
Documented payment, no consideration delivered, signed agreement. Fraud and conversion theories survive bankruptcy under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(2)(A). Tier fit: $1,200 letter + draft complaint.
Independent expert directly contradicting the carrier is the strongest fact in a bad-faith case. DOI complaint preserves an agency record. Tier fit: $1,200 letter + draft complaint.
What's actually been built into this site.
Most lawyer sites have a chat widget bolted to a brochure. Mine runs on real practice infrastructure: tool-calling, content-graph aware, statute-grounded, voice-audited, and connected to my live calendar and payments. Here's the inventory.
What the upgrade looks like, one page at a time.
Across 30 demand-letter pages, the same playbook: live PayPal $575/$1,200 tiers, statute-grounded headlines, trust block, and zero "$240 Written Attorney Consultation" language. Drag the slider to compare.
California Security Deposit Demand Letter
If your landlord didn't return your deposit, you might have a claim. Send a demand letter and request a refund.
A demand letter usually works, more often than not, because landlords don't want a lawsuit.
$575Old version: generic call-first language, no clear price, no legal leverage.
Schedule a callNo tier table. No statute citation. No trust block. Em-dashes throughout. Stale price.
California Security Deposit Demand Letter (Cal. Civ. Code § 1950.5)
If your landlord kept your deposit past the 21-day window in Cal. Civ. Code § 1950.5(g), the statute lets me ask for up to 2x the withheld amount as bad-faith damages, plus interest and attorney's fees.
| Tier | What's included | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Letter only | USPS certified + email, statute-cited | $575 |
| Letter + draft lawsuit | Above + small-claims/Superior packet | $1,200 |
Statute-grounded headline · live PayPal tier table · trust block with bar number · em-dashes removed sitewide.
Six free AI tools, each one a working demo on its own.
Every tool takes free-text input from a real user and returns structured legal analysis, and I check every California citation against its source before it becomes legal work product.
Proof Posture
Describe a situation. Get the legal theory, a proof-posture read (strong / adequate / needs verification / weak), the controlling statute, and a sample attorney-letter paragraph.
Open the live toolCause Finder
Describe a dispute. Get every plausible California cause of action ranked by recovery, with statute and case-law anchors.
Open the live toolAI Firm Audit
Describe how your firm uses AI. Get a CRPC 1.1 / 1.6 / 1.5 / 5.3 / 1.4 compliance gap map with concrete remediation steps.
Open the live toolC&D Response
Paste a cease-and-desist. Get a strategy assessment (concede / pushback / counter-attack) plus a draft response paragraph.
Open the live toolClause Risk
Paste a contract clause. Get a risk score, AI-suggested redlines, and a plain-English explanation of what the clause actually does.
Open the live toolPro Se Roadmap
Describe a case and forum. Get a phase-by-phase California Superior Court filing roadmap with deadlines and document checklist.
Open the live toolWatch the chatbox route a real intake.
The chatbox on every page of this site runs production-grade AI with 13 tools. It reads the page you're on, extracts facts from your message, looks up the statute, classifies the proof posture, picks a tier, and gives you a live PayPal button. Below is a static replay so the scripts on this page don't collide with the real one.
Every California citation, reviewed by a California attorney.
Three layers of guardrails between the AI and the user, and I review every citation before it becomes legal work product.
Legal-risk pre-reply audit
Every chatbox reply runs through a `flag_legal_risk` self-check. Catches attorney-client implications, outcome guarantees, conclusory legal opinions before the message ships.
Safety sanitizer
A regex-pass Worker-side sanitizer strips em-dashes, "we/our" voice, "AI Lawyer" or "AI Attorney" brand drift, and "$240 Written Attorney Consultation" language as belt-and-suspenders.
URL sanitizer
Every link the AI suggests is validated against the site's actual content graph. The chatbox cannot send a user to a 404 or a hallucinated page.
California-only gate
A `check_outside_scope` tool blocks the AI from giving advice on out-of-state, criminal, immigration, or family-law matters. Out-of-scope users get a polite redirect, not a hallucinated answer.
What the rebuild moved.
Three rounds of upgrades. The numbers below come straight from the audit CSVs in /audit/.
Want this for your firm?
I build California-grounded AI stacks for law firms and legal teams. The same AI architecture you just saw, applied to your practice. Flat-fee $2,500 implementation, custom-scoped extensions billed at $300/hr.
Built by Sergei Tokmakov, Esq., California Bar #279869, J.D. Boston University School of Law.
Email owner@terms.law for scoping. Written intake only.