Whitakr
The platform
Claims assessment and triage software, built for law firms. It does the heavy lifting on a claim so a lawyer can afford to look at it. Witty Claims borrows its habit of itemising everything.
whitakr.com.auAbout
Why we exist.
Most of what people are owed is too small for a lawyer and too annoying to chase. So it gets written off. We built a free tool so it doesn’t have to be.
THE SHORT VERSIONWitty Claims, in one docket
- A law firm
- No
- Legal advice
- No
- Your words, your name
- Yes
- What we store
- Nothing
- Cost
- $0
Built byWitty Tech
Backed byClever Legal
Not a law firm
The problem is economics, not merit
Witty Claims exists because a valid claim shouldn’t die for being small. A $300 bond, a refund that never came, a mate who owes you for the mirror: nobody will take it on, so most people either send an angry message that gets ignored or let it go and stay annoyed. We think the middle path is a calm, itemised message in your own name, and that anyone can write one in two minutes with the right template.
We came to this from the other end of the scale. Our founders run Clever Legal, a law firm that takes on claims other firms turn away, and built Whitakr, the claims assessment and triage platform behind it. The lesson from both was the same: the thing stopping most people isn’t the strength of their claim, it’s the cost of chasing it. For a large claim, technology fixes the economics so a lawyer can act. For a small one, the cheapest lawyer is still too dear. The fix there is to make you good at it.
So Witty Claims gives away the part a firm would otherwise charge for: the structure. Itemise everything you could ask for. Mark what you’re letting go, and say why. Pick one number and one date. Give them an honest way to disagree. Stay funny, stay calm, and never threaten anything you won’t do. That shape gets paid far more often than heat does, and it’s the shape every message this site writes.
Who built it
Witty Claims is a service of Witty Tech Pty Ltd, built by the team behind whitakr.com.au and cleverlegal.com.au. The three share founders, and nothing else: each is its own business with its own job.
Clever Legal
The law firm
An incorporated legal practice in Victoria: medical negligence claims in NSW and Victoria, and counsel for founders and commercial clients. At $1,000 and up, it’s the firm a Clever Claim goes to.
clever legalClaims + Counsel
Witty Claims
The free tool
For everything under the line a law firm can draw. A page that writes your claim, in your voice, and leaves the sending to you. Free, and it keeps nothing.
Write a claimThe person behind the voice
Campbell Unsworth
Co-founder, Witty Tech. Principal, Clever Legal.
Cam’s blurb to come. Every message this site writes is in Cam’s voice: the petty-cash list, the bank complaint, the lines you can click through in step 6. He is a lawyer at Clever Legal, a separate business. Nothing on this site is his advice to you, and nothing you write here is reviewed by him or anyone else unless you send it to Clever Legal yourself.
Where the voice comes from
The tone isn’t a marketing idea. It comes from real messages one of us sent and got paid on: a petty-cash list to a former housemate that waived $284 of a possible $300 and asked for $8, and an $80 ask to a bank that was rounded up to $100 and paid in three days. Both are on the home page as receipts, with the names left out. What they had in common was a list, one number, a date, and no heat.
“Witty” is the register, not a joke. Funny enough to get read, friendly enough to keep the relationship, and clear enough that a stranger in a complaints team can say yes to it without asking anyone. Every line this site writes for you follows the house rules: ask how they can win from this, itemise and don’t exaggerate, never “pay or we post”, and keep a claim against a person private. You can change any word of it.
What it is, and isn’t
- Not a law firm. Witty Claims doesn’t give legal advice, doesn’t act for you and doesn’t know your rights. If you’re unsure of them, use a free route or ask a lawyer.
- Your message, your name. The site writes a draft. You decide whether, what and to whom you send. Nothing goes anywhere until you press WhatsApp, Email or Copy, and then it goes from your own app.
- Nothing stored. The builder runs in your browser. No account, no cookies, no analytics, no server that sees what you type. Close the tab and it’s gone.
- A door to a lawyer, if you want one. At $1,000 and up a button opens an email to Clever Legal with your draft in it. Clever Legal is a separate business, tells you the cost before anything happens, and acts for you only if you ask it to and agree its terms.
Say hello
Found a bug, a line that lands wrong, or a free route we’ve missed? support@wittyclaims.com. We can’t advise on your claim, but we read everything.
Witty Claims (business name registration pending) is a service of Witty Tech Pty Ltd, ACN 698 099 802, Melbourne. Clever Legal is the trading name of a separate incorporated legal practice in Victoria which shares founders with Witty Tech.