§ About
A working tool, not a marketing site pretending to be one.
Opening argument
Recourse started with a simple observation. In India, the difference between a landlord who returns your deposit and one who does not is often a single piece of paper. A properly-worded, correctly-cited legal notice, sent by registered post, ends most of these conversations before they escalate.
And yet almost no tenant sends one. Not because their case is weak — because the tool for producing that piece of paper has been priced, gatekept, and made confusing. Generic templates online are unpersuasive. A private advocate will draft one, at ₹500 to ₹2,000, over the course of a week. Free legal aid exists, and is slow.
Recourse takes the middle path away entirely. Five minutes on your phone, a real notice with verbatim state-law citations, downloaded as PDF, free. And when the letter needs an advocate's name and letterhead on it — because some landlords only respect that — the same product hands you off, for ₹499, to a Bar Council–enrolled advocate on the marketplace, within forty-eight hours.
The rest of what we're building — filing, advisory, a browsable directory of advocates — follows from the same principle. Legal services in India cost too much because the two hardest things about them — retrieval and referral — are still done by hand. Recourse is the small, focused attempt to fix that, one product at a time.
§ Principles
Five
non-negotiables.
Any feature that violates one of these does not ship. Any partner who cannot honour them does not join the marketplace.
- I.
Verbatim over generated.
Statute text is retrieved from a curated corpus of ten state Rent Acts and national law. The model assembles; it does not invent citations. Every quoted section is checked before you see it.
- II.
Deterministic where it matters.
The forum recommendation is a hard-coded rule matrix. Same facts, same forum, every time — auditable end-to-end.
- III.
Real people on the seal.
The ₹499 stamp is not cosmetic. A Bar Council–enrolled advocate reads the draft, redlines it, and signs the sealed notice on their letterhead with their state roll number.
- IV.
Minimum data, maximum privacy.
The free draft requires no account and no email. Session data expires in 24 hours. The stamp step needs an email so the sealed PDF can reach you — nothing else.
- V.
Free as the default.
The draft is and will remain free. Marketplace services (stamp, filing, advisory) will always be strictly optional add-ons.
§ Chapters
One shelf, four books.
The order matters. Each layer only opens after the previous one is stable in tenants' hands.
- §01
The draft.
Launched as a free tool. Five minutes on your phone, a legal notice with verbatim state-law citations, downloaded as PDF. No account. No email. Solo-built as a public-interest project.
Aug 2026 - §02
The seal.
The first Bar Council–enrolled advocates joined a private beta. ₹499 to redline the draft, sign, and stamp it onto their letterhead. Turnaround under 48 hours.
Sep 2026 - §03
The directory.
Advocate profiles open for browsing — locale, state, specialisation, Bar roll on file, availability. Book stamp requests to a specific advocate rather than the pool.
Q4 2026 - §04
The rest of the shelf.
Filing your notice by registered post on your behalf. General legal consulting and short retainers on tenancy, consumer, and contract matters. All through the same marketplace.
2027
The team
Solo-built. Advocates on the panel.
Product, engineering, and copy by one person. Legal work by Bar Council–enrolled advocates on the marketplace, all named on the documents they sign. Source is public at siddharthkiit1-PM-gif/rental-recourse.
Say hello
Feedback, corrections, press, partnerships.
A person reads every email. hello@myrecourse.in
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