Manifold

Every Filing. Correct Workspace. Complete Metadata. Every Time.

The value of a DMS depends entirely on what's in it — and what's in it depends on whether someone profiled every document correctly. Manifold removes that dependency.

Manifold captures every federal filing your firm receives, extracts the full ECF metadata, and delivers each document to the correct client-matter workspace on your DMS — automatically, at scale, and without manual profiling.

The value of a DMS depends entirely on what's in it — and what's in it depends on whether someone profiled every document correctly. Manifold removes that dependency.

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NOTICE OF ELECTRONIC FILING

FEDERAL · DISTRICT

FEDERAL · BANKR.

FEDERAL · APPEL.

STATE · TRIAL

STATE · APPEL.

STATE · SUP.

METADATA EXTRACTED

[caseId]

[judge]

[magistrateJudge]

[caseNumber]

[caseTitle]

[natureOfSuit]

[docketEntries]

[filedDate]

MATTER A

MATTER B

MATTER C

DELIVERED — EVERY TIME

MANUAL PROCESS

MISFILED

INCOMPLETE

DELAYED — OR NEVER

court docketsDMS

WHAT MANUAL PROFILING COSTS YOU

Your DMS Is Only as Good as the Data That Gets Into It

Every filing that reaches your firm needs to land in the right workspace, in the right subfolder, with the right metadata. Today, that means someone manually downloads the document, identifies the matter, selects the workspace, chooses the folder, fills in the metadata, and uploads. Every filing. Every matter. Every time.

When that process runs on manual effort, three things happen: documents get misfiled, metadata gets skipped or entered inconsistently, and filings arrive in the DMS hours after the court dockets them — if they arrive at all. The workspace that should be the definitive record of a matter becomes unreliable. Attorneys search for a filing and don't find it. The docketing team spends their morning on data entry instead of coverage. And knowledge management initiatives built on the assumption of complete, searchable records start with an incomplete foundation.

When that process runs on manual effort, three things happen: documents get misfiled, metadata gets skipped or entered inconsistently, and filings arrive in the DMS hours after the court dockets them — if they arrive at all. The workspace that should be the definitive record of a matter becomes unreliable. Attorneys search for a filing and don’t find it. The docketing team spends their morning on data entry instead of coverage. And knowledge management initiatives built on the assumption of complete, searchable records start with an incomplete foundation.

HOW IT WORKS

ECF Files It. Manifold Captures, Profiles, and Delivers It.

Manifold monitors your firm's tracked federal cases across all district, bankruptcy, and appellate courts. When a new docket entry appears, Manifold retrieves the full filing, inspects the ECF record for structured metadata, and delivers the document to the correct client-matter workspace on your DMS — with metadata populated, naming conventions applied, and folder placement resolved according to your firm's mapping rules.

No manual downloads. No manual profiling. No workspace misfiles.

Metadata Capture

Manifold extracts the metadata embedded in the federal court's ECF system: case number, docket entry number, document type, filing date, court, filing party, and associated party information. This metadata is applied to every document uploaded to your DMS, ensuring consistent, searchable records across every matter in the firm.

FILING RECEIVED

MAPPING RULES

→

WORKSPACE TARGET

TARGET

DELIVERED

DMS INTEGRATION

Configurable Mapping That Respects Your DMS Architecture

Manifold doesn't treat your DMS as a file dump. Every filing resolves to a specific workspace based on your configured matter-to-workspace mapping logic. Documents land in the correct subfolder — not the workspace root. Metadata fields are populated from the court record. Permissions are inherited from the workspace security model.

Your folder structures, naming conventions, security groups, and ethical wall configurations remain intact. Manifold operates within the DMS architecture you've built — it doesn't override it, create orphan folders, or bypass access controls.

Manifold doesn’t treat your DMS as a file dump. Every filing resolves to a specific workspace based on your configured matter-to-workspace mapping logic. Documents land in the correct subfolder — not the workspace root. Metadata fields are populated from the court record. Permissions are inherited from the workspace security model.

Your folder structures, naming conventions, security groups, and ethical wall configurations remain intact. Manifold operates within the DMS architecture you’ve built — it doesn’t override it, create orphan folders, or bypass access controls.

TRACEABILITY

Every Document Action Is Logged. Any Disconnect Is Surfaced.

Manifold provides a complete audit trail for every document it writes to your DMS. Each entry records what was uploaded, when, to which workspace, which mapping rule was applied, and whether the upload succeeded or failed.

When a mapping exception occurs — a new matter without a provisioned workspace, a case number variant, a consolidated case — Manifold surfaces the error and quarantines the filing for admin review. No silent failures. No documents quietly dropped or misfiled.

Why This Matters

DMS administrators need to answer "what happened?" in under two minutes when something doesn't land where it should. The audit trail provides that answer without opening a vendor support ticket. For annual DMS governance audits, the log is exportable and complete.

COMPATIBILITY

Works With the DMS Your Firm Runs

Manifold integrates directly with iManage and NetDocuments. OpenText and Worldox are supported through PacerPro's technology partnership with SeeUnity.

Regardless of platform, the integration model is the same: configurable workspace mapping, structured metadata population, subfolder targeting, and permission inheritance. Firm-specific variations in folder hierarchies, custom metadata fields, and security models are expected and accommodated.

Manifold integrates directly with iManage and NetDocuments. OpenText and Worldox are supported through PacerPro’s technology partnership with SeeUnity.

BEYOND THE DMS

A Structured Court Data Library Your Firm Can Build On

Every filing Manifold captures — every document, every metadata record, every docket entry — becomes part of a comprehensive, structured library of your firm's federal court activity. This is not a passive archive. It's a queryable data asset.

The Manifold API provides programmatic access to this library, enabling downstream workflows: experience management platforms, competitive intelligence tools, practice analytics, and firm-built applications that depend on clean, structured court data as an input.

Every filing Manifold captures — every document, every metadata record, every docket entry — becomes part of a comprehensive, structured library of your firm’s federal court activity. This is not a passive archive. It’s a queryable data asset.

What the API Unlocks

Firms using PacerPro's data to power internal tools or AI initiatives start with an advantage: the data is already clean, consistently structured, and enriched with court metadata. That's a different starting point than raw PACER downloads or manually compiled records.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

Manifold at a Glance

Capability

Detail

Full ECF metadata extraction

Case number, docket entry, document type, filing date, court, parties

Workspace-level auto-upload

Configurable matter-to-workspace mapping

Subfolder targeting

Files to the correct subfolder, not just the workspace root

Permission inheritance

Respects workspace security model and ethical walls

Audit trail

Timestamp, source, target, mapping rule, success/failure — per filing

Error handling

Quarantine, admin alerts, and retry for mapping exceptions

Naming conventions

Configurable per firm

DMS support

iManage, NetDocuments (direct); OpenText, Worldox (via SeeUnity)

Data library & API

Programmatic access to your firm's structured court data

Programmatic access to your firm’s structured court data

Federal court coverage

All district, bankruptcy, and appellate courts

SAML SSO / SCIM

Supported

Sandbox / test mode

Validate configuration before production rollout

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See Manifold Map to Your DMS Environment

We'll configure a test batch against your workspace structure — your folder hierarchy, your metadata fields, your naming conventions. You'll see exactly how filings resolve, where documents land, and what the audit trail captures. No assumptions about your environment. Your DMS, your rules.

We’ll configure a test batch against your workspace structure — your folder hierarchy, your metadata fields, your naming conventions. You’ll see exactly how filings resolve, where documents land, and what the audit trail captures. No assumptions about your environment. Your DMS, your rules.

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