Five steps. Weeks, not years.
Wireroom is not mediation and not arbitration. It's a structured way for two sides to discover — confidentially and without signaling weakness — whether a deal already exists. Your counsel directs every step.
Intake & screening
Days 1–3 · Free
Either party — or their counsel — describes the dispute confidentially. We determine whether it's a genuine candidate for early settlement. Cases that need precedent, an injunction, or a public verdict are screened out at no charge, because those disputes are about more than a number.
Limited document exchange
Weeks 1–3
Counsel for each side lists the few documents that actually determine value — the contract, the medical records, the financials. They're exchanged under a protective order. No interrogatory battles, no motion practice, no fishing expeditions.
One independent valuation
Weeks 3–5
Both parties receive the identical valuation range, grounded in comparable case outcomes in your jurisdiction. When both sides look at the same numbers built the same way, the negotiation stops being about posture.
Cost-of-continuing forecast
Weeks 3–5
Alongside the valuation, each side receives a projection of what the litigation path will cost in fees, time, and risk. The decision to settle becomes arithmetic: is the gap between your numbers really bigger than the cost of continuing?
The confidential match
Week 6
Each side privately submits its true figure — the plaintiff's real floor, the defendant's real ceiling. If they overlap, the case settles at the midpoint and your lawyers paper the agreement. If they don't, the numbers are destroyed unseen. Neither side ever learns the other's figure.
Why the same case settles for more, earlier
Litigation spend doesn't change what a case is worth — it changes how much of that worth is left for the parties. Set the amount in dispute and watch what each stage of a typical civil matter leaves behind.
What's left to divide, stage by stage
Illustrative civil matter — combined value remaining for both sides
Percentages are illustrative of a typical two-party civil matter litigated through each stage; actual figures vary by jurisdiction and case type. Your Step 04 forecast is specific to your dispute.
What each seat at the table gets
Plaintiff counsel
Resolve contingency matters in weeks instead of carrying them for years. Because your figure is never disclosed, proposing Wireroom — or walking away from it — signals nothing to the other side. Your client keeps value that discovery would have burned.
Defense counsel
Cap exposure before discovery costs mount. The document exchange is limited and under protective order; there's no public filing, no precedent, and no admission. If the numbers don't overlap, the litigation continues exactly as before.
In-house & insurers
Replace an open-ended reserve with a six-week process and a known downside. The cost-of-continuing forecast gives you a defensible, quantified basis for the settlement decision — one you can take to the board or the carrier.
What lawyers ask us first
Doesn't proposing early settlement signal weakness?
No — that's the point of the design. Your participation, your documents, and your figure are never disclosed to the other side unless a settlement actually happens. A failed match looks identical to never having tried.
How is this different from mediation?
Mediation is a negotiation session; positions are exchanged and a mediator shuttles between rooms. Wireroom never exchanges positions. Both sides get one independent valuation and submit sealed figures. There's no performative anchoring, and nothing to walk back if it fails.
Is anything binding?
Only the final settlement agreement your own lawyers draft and sign. Everything before that is a confidential, inadmissible settlement communication. Either side can withdraw at any point at no cost.
What does it cost?
Screening is free. Wireroom charges a fee only if your case resolves — so a matter that isn't a genuine candidate costs you nothing to find out.
What if my case needs a precedent or an injunction?
Then it isn't a Wireroom case, and we'll tell you so at screening, free. The platform exists for disputes where the real disagreement is a number.