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    "   ├─ ● retainers.legal": "https://api.sb/retainers.legal",
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        "Evergreen retainer replenishment (the request when a balance falls below its floor, and the client's payment into trust) · App": "https://api.sb/by-abstraction/software",
        "Trust-accounting rules by state (Rule 1.15 variants, IOLTA, record-keeping periods, reconciliation cadence) · Dataset": "https://api.sb/by-abstraction/data"
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        "MyCase: Practice management that sells trust accounting as the MyCase Accounting add-on at $39/user/month on top of the base plan, with three-way trust reconciliation": "https://api.sb/by-alternative/incumbent",
        "QuickBooks: General bookkeeping adapted to trust accounting. It has no built-in IOLTA structure, per-client trust ledger or three-way reconciliation": "https://api.sb/by-alternative/build",
        "State-bar three-way reconciliation spreadsheet template (IARDC): Free Excel template the Illinois ARDC publishes. Bank, firm ledger and client ledgers are reconciled by hand each reconciliation period": "https://api.sb/by-alternative/manual"
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        "occupations": "not placed yet: ideate.icp places it from the Startup’s sources",
        "processes": "not placed yet: ideate.icp places it from the Startup’s sources",
        "supplies": "not yet: build.product names the Verbs it serves",
        "drawsOn": "not yet: build.product names what it draws on",
        "beats": "not yet: the choice (ideate.hypothesis) names each rival by its URL"
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    "extend": "https://api.sb/retainers.legal/extend",
    "graduate": "https://api.sb/retainers.legal/graduate",
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    "🚀 the Startups retainers.legal uses": "https://api.sb/startups?usedBy=retainers.legal",
    "🚀 the Startups that use retainers.legal": "https://api.sb/startups?uses=retainers.legal",
    "🔍 search the Startups": "https://api.sb/startups?q=",
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