STLMNT

Open class action settlements are real money left on the table: notices are scattered across administrator sites, eligibility is buried in legalese, and the apps that aggregate them tend to hoard personal data or quietly file claims on a user's behalf. STLMNT had to make settlements discoverable and claimable without becoming a data broker or a fake legal service.

I built an Expo Router app on an "Editorial Ink" design system — newspaper masthead meets legal ledger — over a default-deny Firestore model. Ingestion workers (FTC RSS, JND/Atticus/Simpluris/Kroll, and a CourtListener webhook) feed a review queue that an admin curates, optionally with an Anthropic Claude drafting step, before anything reaches the public catalog. The autofill profile routes through a callable Cloud Function gateway that envelope-encrypts sensitive fields with Cloud KMS, and receipts stay on the device. Crucially, the app only ever copies a claim to the clipboard — the user submits it themselves on the official site, under penalty of perjury.

STLMNT turns a scattered, jargon-heavy process into one honest workflow: find a settlement, check eligibility, autofill and copy the official form, file it yourself, and track status through to payout. It collects the minimum to be useful — brand names for matching, payment handles instead of account numbers — and lets users erase everything in a single tap.

• Built a curated catalog of verified, open settlements fed by ingestion workers (FTC feed, court-administrator scrapers, CourtListener) behind an admin review gate — nothing publishes until a human approves it.
• Shipped an autofill profile that envelope-encrypts sensitive fields (name, address, payment handles) with Cloud KMS, and never stores bank, SSN, or card numbers.
• Kept the user in control end to end: an eligibility self-check, copy-to-clipboard claim assist (never auto-submission), on-device receipts, local deadline reminders, and one-tap account and data deletion.

STLMNT's admin dashboard tracks every claim through its lifecycle — saved, filed, confirmed, approved, paid, with rejected as a terminal state. Here is that claims-by-status visualization, refactored from the app for the web and wearing STLMNT's own Editorial Ink palette.