CourtPilot, a new AI-powered legal technology platform, has launched to help ecommerce sellers and marketplace traders recover money owed to them through the UK small claims court — without needing to hire a solicitor.
What I love about CourtPilot is that it’s one of the first of a new generation of packaged AI solutions we’ll see in the coming months and years. The raw AI models CourtPilot uses are widely available, sure… but (and it’s a big ‘but’), turning those models into a court-ready, CPR-compliant bundle that’s correctly structured, indexed and presented the way judges expect is absolutely not something you can knock together by chatting to a generic LLM.
By packaging all of that expertise, workflow and formatting into a ready-trained solution, CourtPilot brings the power of AI to anyone who can log onto a website and upload a few documents. You don’t need to understand prompts, tokens or model settings — you just answer plain-English questions, drop in your evidence, and CourtPilot does the heavy lifting of turning it into a professional, ready-to-file court bundle.
The platform is ideal for sellers on Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Shopify and TikTok Shop who are dealing with chargebacks, unpaid invoices, unfair buyer claims and non-paying customers. For a one-off fee of £97, CourtPilot provides lifetime access to AI-generated court documents, Letters Before Action, evidence analysis and step-by-step guidance through the entire small claims process.
CourtPilot born from personal experience
Founder James Pearson built CourtPilot after his own company won a £7,000 unpaid invoice claim in court — only to discover the £2,500 spent on solicitor fees was unrecoverable from the other side.
We won, but we ended up in essentially the same net position we could have achieved through direct settlement. We’d spent months stressed about proceedings and paid thousands in fees we couldn’t get back. The small claims court is designed so people can represent themselves, but most don’t feel confident doing it alone.
That’s the gap CourtPilot fills.
– James Pearson, founder, CourtPilot
How CourtPilot works
Users start with a free 2-minute claim assessment — no sign-up required — which uses AI to evaluate the strength of their case, estimate court fees (typically £35–£455), and flag any potential issues. Those who proceed get access to the full toolkit: AI-drafted Letters Before Action, CPR-compliant court bundles, witness statement templates, and an AI assistant that can answer case-specific questions.
The platform covers claims between £200 and £10,000 in England and Wales.
Always the best AI, so you don’t have to choose
CourtPilot currently runs on Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6, one of the most capable AI models available for legal reasoning and document generation. But the platform is model-agnostic by design — the team continuously benchmarks the latest models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and others against real UK small claims scenarios, testing for legal accuracy, CPR compliance, and document quality.
The AI landscape moves fast. A better model could drop tomorrow from OpenAI, Anthropic, or anyone else. We do that analysis and testing so our users don’t have to. If a new model produces more accurate legal documents or better case analysis, we switch. Our users always get the best available AI without needing to know or care which one is running under the hood.
– James Pearson, founder, CourtPilot
CourtPilot’s eCommerce disputes section addresses the specific problems marketplace sellers face: The platform’s AI is trained on UK small claims procedure and the Civil Procedure Rules, producing documents formatted the way judges expect to see them.
