ALIGN™ · Your parenting plan, decoded
We'll figure it out
is the most expensive sentence in your parenting plan.
Nobody tells you the sentence you skim to get it over with is the one you'll be spending retainer hours on and arguing about five years from now. ALIGN decodes your plan clause by clause before that happens.
Instant download · works in any state · runs in your own AI account
You'll need a paid AI account and about ten minutes to set up, and then ALIGN usually takes about ten minutes more to read a plan on its own. Code FOUNDING takes 25% off through 31 December 2026.
Before you hold this line
The clause that could put you in contempt without you realizing it
Some lines in your plan can be read two ways and still come with enforcement attached. Holding firm on your interpretation, even in good faith, could put you at risk of contempt. ALIGN flags every one of them, shows both interpretations side by side, and tells you to get it clarified in writing before you rely on it.
You'd never buy a house without an inspection. This is the inspection for the agreement your family will live in.
"Exchanges shall occur at a reasonable time on Sunday evening."
BEFORE YOU HOLD THIS LINE Your documents attach enforcement to this clause. Get it clarified in writing first.
What you get
Five documents, customized to your family and your plan
- 5documents
- 16workbook tabs
- 15core checks
- 10real-life situations
Seven parts plus an appendix for your attorney. Every clause is quoted and color-marked where it's unclear or silent, ten real-life situations like "pickup is late again" are tied to the exact clause, every Before you hold this line flag sits right above the clause it belongs to, and the plan grade checks the same 15 core pieces every time and shows its math.
Open a sample
Sixteen tabs that keep working after the first read: who has the kids when, a deadlines tracker, an expense log that counts down repayment windows from your plan's own terms, proposed clarifications with blanks for you and your lawyer, and a Before You Hold This Line tab with both interpretations and what your documents attach to each.
Open a sampleSwipe for the workbook
Three more when you're ready. A hand-off for your attorney, mediator, guardian ad litem or parenting coordinator with your issues, open questions and deadlines ready for the first meeting. A fill-in version for mediation, with blanks where numbers would read as demands. And a letter to open the conversation with the other parent, when it's safe to send.
About ten minutes to set up
Here's how it works
- 1
You get a Start Here page
It opens the minute you buy and walks you through setup in the order that actually works. If you need to stop halfway, it's right where you left it.
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Add three files to your AI
ALIGN is designed and tested on Claude. Other paid AI programs can run it, but the output is variable, so plan on a paid account (Claude Pro is about $20 a month).
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Type Start and add your plan
It reads your documents first, so the only questions you get are the ones they can't answer. If something's missing, it tells you instead of guessing.
What you'll need
You only need two documents to start
Your parenting plan
It might be called a custody agreement, time-sharing schedule or parenting agreement. A draft from a mediator works just as well as a signed one.
The final judgment, if there is one
When the agreement and the court's order say different things, the order is what governs, so ALIGN reads both when you have both.
Your settlement agreement, child support worksheet and school calendar make the decode sharper, and the What to Gather sheet in your kit tells you where to find each one.
Why not just upload it to a chatbot?
Because a summary isn't a method
A chatbot will summarize your plan, and it fills in whatever's missing with what parenting plans usually say. ALIGN runs your plan through a proprietary method I spent ten years building. It doesn't just read your plan. It weighs each clause for how clear it is and how much is riding on it, so you know where to look first, anchored to your documents and your state's rules and nothing else. What comes back isn't a summary. It's every unclear line, every silent gap and every clause that can be read two ways, with what to do about each one, before it turns into retainer hours and court fees.
See how ALIGN compares to a lawyer, a coach and mediation, in money and in your own time.
Or see how it lines up with co-parenting apps, fill-in kits and coaching, and what you walk away with from each.
Your plan never comes to me. ALIGN runs inside your own AI account on your own files, and redaction is built in, so your kids stay by role and your address, school and case number never land on a page you hand to someone else.
What it costs
Know your questions before the clock starts
Typical billed range for family law attorney time, 2026 national figures. Not a quote and not legal advice. The bar shows the top of the range.
With a lawyer, it makes every billed hour count. Without one, it gives you the clearer picture you'd otherwise be paying for.
Foundations is included in your $149, the method behind all of it, for you to learn and set up in about an hour.
“The parenting plan is really the most important piece. It affects day-to-day living, and the financials too. My attorney wanted to use the generic county plan, and I had to add to it. I’m so thankful I did. It’s worth the price.”
"It showed me where my agreement actually worked in my favor, and where it had real gaps. That's not something I could see on my own."
If ALIGN doesn't work on your plan, write to me within 14 days. I'll fix it, and if I can't, I'll refund you.
Need more than ALIGN?
Each kit is ALIGN plus the tools for what you're facing now
I'm not a lawyer. I'm a mom who spent almost ten years in family court, paying by the hour out of my savings and then my 401(k) for someone to organize what I could have organized myself if I'd had a system. Every tool here came out of a night I needed it and couldn't find it, and if you're in that exhaustion right now, I see you, and this isn't your fault.Carrie Bailey, founder Read my story
Before launch, I ran ALIGN on six real parenting plans, from friends and friends of friends, to make sure it held up on plans I didn't write.
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I'm not a lawyer, so these tools can't tell you what your plan means for your case or what a judge will do. They're educational and organizational, and they work alongside a lawyer or without one.
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