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Document Assembly Line roadmap

The Document Assembly Line is under continuous development, based on input from the courts, legal aid organizations, and other community members. This roadmap contains the master plan and current development priorities, which are made possible by our partners.

We hold an annual roadmapping meeting for the community to discuss and vote on priorities distilled from ideas and feedback we receive from the community. We post updates on the LIT Blog after our quarterly governance meetings.

Master plan​

Our ambitious, long-term goals for the Document Assembly Line are:

  • Establish a national document assembly and e-filing infrastructure for courts and legal-aid organizations
  • Foster a community of courts and legal aid organizations building access-to-justice tools using the Document Assembly Line

Current priorities​

Here are our current priorities, from our February 2026 roadmapping meeting:

Admin​

  • DAL project coordination/admin
  • Outreach and promotion
  • Contract negotiation and admin

Community software, support, and training​

  • AssemblyLine maintenance and upgrades
  • Community coordination/management
  • PDF accessibility improvements
  • Documentation task force, including some specific priorities:
    • Security best practices
    • Accessibility best practices
    • Seasoned dev best practices
    • ALIncome
    • AL code examples
    • Review screen code examples
  • Improve authoring tools to encourage accessibility
  • Error troubleshooting, log investigation tool
  • Deeper automated testing support
  • Guided coding editor
  • Tools for managing large interview libraries and users
  • Volunteer coordination
  • API access to interview snapshot data

Docassemble hosting​

  • Docassemble hosting infrastructure upgrades
  • Docassemble hosting support
  • New DevOps engineer onboarding

E-filing​

  • E-filing infrastructure upgrades
  • E-filing maintenance and upgrades
  • EFSP support
  • LITEfile, including some potential priorities (TBD during beta testing):
    • Off-ramp to get help from a filing clerk
    • ODR UX research RE user trust
    • Plug-and-play-ability
  • TrueFiling integration
  • ECF 5
  • Improved e-filing error reporting

Interview building and maintenance​

  • Student project coordination
  • Interview maintenance