Empirical research and free tools for bankruptcy court transparency.
We build free, open-source tools that screen millions of federal bankruptcy cases for statutory compliance failures. Our research has been cited by the Federal Rules Advisory Committee. We operate on volunteer labor and public donations.
Automated discharge eligibility screening across all 94 federal bankruptcy districts. Our screener cross-references 4.9 million cases against statutory filing bars that courts have no systematic mechanism to check.
Data-driven analysis of bankruptcy outcomes, attorney performance patterns, and enforcement gaps. Methodology validated by faculty at UC Berkeley School of Law.
68-domain network covering every major bankruptcy statute in plain English, with calculators, guides, and Spanish-language resources. No ads, no intake forms, no acquisition.
Our empirical data and screening methodology have been formally accepted by the federal judiciary.
In March 2026, the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules accepted our empirical data and screening methodology as Suggestion 26-BK-3, proposing automated Section 1328(f) discharge bar screening in federal courts. The submission demonstrated that 391,951 prior filers in the FJC dataset had no systematic eligibility verification at the point of filing, representing a structural gap in the administration of bankruptcy cases.
View on uscourts.gov →Every site in the network is free, ad-free, and open source. No attorney referral fees. No data harvesting. No intake forms.
Our code, our data, our methodology. We believe public court data belongs to the public. Every tool we build is released under open source licenses and available for inspection, replication, and improvement.
View on GitHubThe Open Bankruptcy Project cannot be sold, merged, or acquired. This provision is written into our articles of incorporation and is unamendable. We exist to serve the public, permanently.
We operate on volunteer labor and public donations. Every dollar funds PACER access fees, infrastructure, and research operations. No corporate sponsors. No institutional backing.
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