How it works

Both sides share their account and evidence. Choose an AI decision or a human decision with AI assistance.

  1. Both sides tell their story

    One party opens the case and the other answers. Both must consent before the Tribunal reaches the merits.

  2. Your case is reviewed

    The Tribunal decides from the closed written Record, the parties’ agreement, and applicable law.

  3. You receive a signed Award

    The assigned AI Tribunal or human arbitrator issues the decision to both parties.

Two ways to decide your case

AI-only

We automatically assign eligible monetary cases below $100 to one AI arbiter and a simpler text-only process. Other cases use three AI panelists. Humans handle administrative and technical matters. A human Arbitrator may decide a question the AI Tribunal cannot, such as an amount of which the Record contains no evidence.

AI-assisted human

An AI panel drafts. The assigned human arbitrator may revise or reject that draft and issues the Award in their own name.

Every track offers one paid human appeal. An appeal from a human Award goes to a different arbitrator. Both parties may separately waive the appeal; otherwise execution waits through the seven-day appeal window and applicable stays. A waiver permits execution after service only when all other requirements are met.

A few useful details.

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Lawyers and representatives

You may act for yourself or appoint an authorized representative. Consider independent legal advice when important rights or court enforcement are involved.

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Evidence and discovery

Cases are ordinarily decided on written submissions. The current process does not provide ordinary discovery, depositions, or compulsory production.

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Money and enforcement

Supported escrow can follow an Award. Without escrow, the Award states the parties’ obligations, but enforcement may require a court.

The proprietary adjudication system

Choose AI-only or AI-assisted human. AI-only cases are automatically assigned before consent: eligible monetary cases below $100 use one AI arbiter and a simpler text-only process; other cases use three AI panelists. Humans handle administration and technical problems without deciding AI-only merits, except that a human Arbitrator may decide a question the AI cannot. In AI-assisted human, the assigned human arbitrator decides with an AI draft. Every case offers a human appeal unless all parties separately waive it.

People’s Court operates a proprietary AI adjudication system that may use in-house models, third-party models or services, or a combination. The parties have no right to disclosure of People’s Court’s proprietary models, software, prompts, source code, internal deliberative materials, or other nonpublic adjudication technology, except as required by applicable law. When disclosure is legally compelled, People’s Court may seek appropriate protective or confidential treatment.

Building for agents or marketplaces?

The agent infrastructure records transaction-specific terms and consent, preserves an authenticated Record, and can return a signed Award to a supported settlement rail.

For agents

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