Compare · Predict vs Settlement evaluators

$1,500 a case, or $499 for the whole month.

Predict is a settlement-value tool for plaintiff PI attorneys: enter the facts of a motor-vehicle or premises case and get a jurisdiction-tuned number, shown with its confidence band, in about 30 seconds. Third-party settlement-evaluation firms (JAMS, IVO, the boutique valuation shops) produce a hand-written memo per case. The work is real. The economics only make sense on the cases where the memo justifies its own price.

Time to a defensible number

The evaluator-firm workflow is slow because a human is doing the analysis — which is also why it costs $1,500.

Predict
30 sec
Evaluator firm
1–2 wks
Predict
Settlement-evaluator firm
Cost
$499 / mo, unlimited cases
~$1,500 per case, sometimes $2,500+ for complex matters
Turnaround
30 seconds
1–2 weeks, sometimes longer in busy quarters
Output
Confidence-banded value + cited cohort + methodology
Hand-written memo + valuation; depth varies by analyst
In the workflow
At intake — before you sign the retainer
Pre-demand — after the retainer, by definition
Reproducibility
Same inputs → same number, every time
Different analyst → different number; some variance is craft, some is noise
Methodology disclosure
Public — the methodology page
Proprietary to the firm; varies by analyst
Human judgment
A model — no narrative review
A senior analyst's read on the case narrative
When the case is genuinely novel
Confidence band widens; we'll tell you when the cohort is thin
Hand-reasoned — judgment outside the data is the point

Where the evaluator firm still wins.

If you're 30 days from a $4M policy-limits demand and the case has facts you've never seen before, paying $1,500 for a senior analyst to read the narrative and stress-test your number is the right call. The human read is the product. Predict will tell you when the comparable cohort is thin — that's exactly the case where the evaluator is worth it.

On the other 80–90% of an intake pipeline — the cases where the facts are common, the jurisdiction is one of your usuals, and the volume of comparable verdicts is high — paying $1,500 to wait two weeks for a memo is the kind of friction that keeps the workflow stuck pre-demand. Predict subsumes the routine cases and frees the $1,500 for the cases that actually need a human.

Across a held-out test set, Predict's MVA and premises-liability values are 90 to 92% accurate against the realized settlement (median absolute percentage error). The band is the methodology, not a disclaimer: it's built on comparable verdicts and settlements across the jurisdictions we cover, and it widens, on the page, wherever that cohort thins. The number is the headline; the band shows how sure the model is.

See how accuracy is measured →
$92,000
± $16,000 · 90% CI
FL · MIAMI-DADE · PL
The cost on this case: $1,500 + 2 weeks for an evaluator memo, or 30 seconds inside a $499/month subscription that handles the next 50 cases too.