We Are Now the World's Largest Open Legal Workflow Database

Today we are proud to announce a milestone that none of us imagined when we started this project: the Open Matter Plans Network is now the world's largest open legal workflow database. With over 400 matter plans, more than 5,000 individual tasks, and plans covering Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we have built something that has never existed before in the legal industry.

The Numbers Behind the Milestone

Let us put this in perspective. When we launched the registry, we had a handful of Australian family law plans and a vision. Today, we have:

• Over 400 practitioner-grade matter plans across five countries
• More than 5,000 individual tasks with embedded legal commentary
• Coverage spanning family law, criminal law, civil litigation, property, employment, commercial, and more
• Dynamic timeline calculations tied to jurisdiction-specific court rules
• Practitioner traps that flag the deadlines and pitfalls most likely to cause a missed step

How the Plans Are Built

Every plan follows the same structure and the same research brief: the governing legislation, court rules and procedural steps for one matter type, in one jurisdiction, from intake to finalisation. Plans are drafted with AI-assisted research against that brief, classified against the SALI taxonomy standard, and checked against primary sources before they go live. Practitioners can suggest corrections on any task, and those suggestions are reviewed in the open.

We are particularly proud of the speed at which new jurisdictions have come online. The Canadian criminal law expansion added 37 plans, covering everything from summary conviction appeals to dangerous offender proceedings. The New Zealand family law suite brought 17 plans to a jurisdiction with few open legal workflow resources.

How We Got Here So Fast

Three things made this possible. First, our fork-and-review governance model lets practitioners adapt existing plans for new jurisdictions without starting from scratch. A family property plan in New South Wales can be forked, localised to Victoria or Western Australia, and reviewed by local practitioners in days rather than months.

Second, our commitment to the SALI Alliance standard means every plan slots into a universal taxonomy. When a PMS integration partner connects to our API, they get structured data that maps cleanly to their existing matter types - regardless of which jurisdiction the plan covers.

Third, a fixed structure. Because every plan has the same four levels and the same research brief, a new matter type or jurisdiction is a matter of research and checking, not of inventing a new format each time.

Looking Forward

This milestone is a beginning, not an endpoint. Our roadmap for the second half of 2026 includes expansion into Singapore and South Africa, deeper PMS integrations with Actionstep, LEAP, and Clio, and a new suite of tools that let practitioners generate custom plans from our template library with a single click.

We are also investing heavily in our practitioner trap system. Every plan will have embedded risk markers that translate directly into PMS automations - calculated deadline fields, escalating reminder sequences, and workflow gates that physically prevent downstream tasks from proceeding until critical steps are confirmed.

“The best legal workflows are not invented by committees or software vendors. They emerge from the collective experience of practitioners who do this work every day. We just built the platform that lets that happen at scale.”

- OMPN Team

Thank you to every practitioner who has trusted this database with their workflow, and to everyone who has taken the time to suggest a correction. We are just getting started.