Triage NYC rent overcharge cases in minutes,
not weeks.
The deterministic engine, AI verification, and attorney-audience opinion summary your firm needs to take a stack of DHCR rent histories from intake to filing decision — built for the volume a real plaintiffs' practice runs.
Flat monthly subscription · No share of recovery · Cancel anytime
How firms use it
From rent history to filing decision in four steps.
The same intake pattern your paralegals already run — just instrumented, audited, and dashboarded.
Intake the case
Add the client and address. Optional internal case ID, notes, stage.
Upload DHCR history
Drag in the PDF. OCR parses every registration year — even crooked phone photos.
Analyze + verify
Deterministic legal-rent formula runs, then a Claude pass sanity-checks the output and flags anomalies.
Get the opinion
Attorney-audience summary: headline, recovery range, recommended actions, risks, client questions.
Comparison
Spreadsheet vs RentGuard for Firms.
The honest math on what each case costs your firm in paralegal hours, error risk, and turnaround.
Read the rent history
DIY (spreadsheet + Westlaw)
RentGuard for Firms
Calculate the base date
DIY (spreadsheet + Westlaw)
RentGuard for Firms
Verify each year's increase
DIY (spreadsheet + Westlaw)
RentGuard for Firms
Spot fraud indicators
DIY (spreadsheet + Westlaw)
RentGuard for Firms
Estimate damages window
DIY (spreadsheet + Westlaw)
RentGuard for Firms
Memo the case for review
DIY (spreadsheet + Westlaw)
RentGuard for Firms
A spreadsheet-driven workflow runs 4–8 paralegal hours per case. RentGuard runs in < 2 minutes per case with audit trail attached.
What's inside
Built for the work your firm actually does.
Deterministic legal-rent engine
Every number traces to RSC §2522 / §2526, HSTPA, or the relevant RGB order. No black-box "AI says so" outputs.
AI verification pass
Claude reviews the formula's output against the underlying registrations and flags anomalies. Never replaces the formula.
Attorney-audience opinion
Headline, likelihood, recommended actions, risks, client questions. Written for lawyers, not laypeople.
Case stage dashboard
Filter by stage (new, analyzing, in review, filed, in progress, resolved). Search by client, address, or case ref.
Per-firm data isolation
Strict server-side firm scoping. No firm sees another firm's cases. Consumer-side is entirely separate.
Multi-seat team management
Firm admin manages roster + billing. Attorney users intake, analyze, update cases. Invitations email a temp password.
Document vault
DHCR histories, leases, correspondence — versioned per case, OCR-indexed, retrievable by signed URL.
Internal notes + client metadata
Attach client name, internal case ref, current stage, free-form notes. Built for matter-management workflows.
Zero share of recovery
Flat monthly subscription. The platform never touches client funds. Your contingency is your firm's business.
Pricing
One flat fee. Unlimited cases.
No per-case fees, no per-document fees, no share of recovery. Cancel any time from your firm dashboard.
Firm subscription
Billed monthly. No annual lock.
- Unlimited firm cases
- Unlimited DHCR rent-history analysis
- AI verification + attorney opinion on every case
- Document vault with OCR
- Per-firm data isolation
- Multi-seat team management
- Email support
Need 10+ seats or a custom plan? Email firms@rentoverchargenyc.com
Who it's for
If your firm sees more than one DHCR rent overcharge case a month, this pays for itself.
Solo tenant attorneys
Compete with bigger firms on triage speed. Take more cases on contingency without doubling your paralegal payroll.
Mid-size plaintiffs' firms
Standardize how every associate analyzes a DHCR history. Cut the per-case triage cost from hours to minutes.
Tenant-rights nonprofits
Screen high-volume intake without burning legal-aid hours. Surface fraud indicators that warrant a full case workup.
FAQ
Common questions from firms.
Does RentGuard take a percentage of my contingency recovery?⌄
No. The platform charges a flat monthly subscription. We never touch settlement money or take any share of recovery — the contingency relationship is exclusively between your firm and your client.
How is the legal-rent calculation different from a spreadsheet?⌄
Every number cites the governing rule — RSC §2522.5 for renewal increases, §2522.6 for vacancy bonuses, §2526.1(a)(3) for the base date, the relevant RGB order for the applicable year, HSTPA for the lookback window, etc. The audit trail saves into your case file automatically.
Can I add associates and paralegals to my firm account?⌄
Yes. Each firm subscription includes seats for attorneys and staff. Firm admins manage the roster from /firm/team; attorney users can intake, analyze, and update cases.
Are firm cases isolated from consumer-side cases?⌄
Yes. Firm cases live in a completely separate data model with strict server-side row scoping. No firm can see another firm's cases. The consumer-side flow on rentoverchargenyc.com is entirely independent.
What does the AI verification actually do?⌄
After the deterministic formula runs, a Claude model pass reviews the formula's output against the underlying DHCR registrations and flags inconsistencies or anomalies the formula may have missed (irregular increases, missing years, suspicious jumps). It never replaces the formula — only adds an advisory layer for the attorney to consider.
What if the AI provider is down?⌄
The deterministic formula runs and ships normally. The AI pass is best-effort and fail-safe — if it errors or times out, the case still gets its full formula output.
Can I export case data?⌄
Yes. The full case payload (analysis, registrations, attorney opinion, document references) is exportable as JSON. Case PDFs (the original DHCR uploads) are downloadable via signed URL.
What's your data retention policy?⌄
Firm data is retained for the life of your subscription plus 90 days. Cancellation triggers an automated 90-day grace window during which you can re-subscribe or export. After grace ends, data is deleted.
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