Winning the 2026 Ingenuity Impact Inclusivity Prize did not just validate eLitigant. It started a second company.
This is a short note of thanks, and a piece of news.
Where it started
eLitigant was not designed in a boardroom. It began with a person sitting at a kitchen table, facing a court process without a lawyer, working out what a form wanted at eleven o’clock at night.
What became obvious quickly was that the hard part is rarely the law. The hard part is the paperwork. Which form. What goes in which box. What the court expects a document to look like, and in what order, and by when. Miss any of it and the merits of your case never get heard — not because you were wrong, but because the paperwork was.
Professionals have that machinery around them as a matter of course. Most people facing a court process do not. eLitigant exists to put the same machinery in their hands.
What eLitigant is for
eLitigant CIC exists for people who are facing a court or tribunal process without a lawyer. Not because they chose to go it alone, but because the alternative costs more than they have. Our job is to help them prepare their own formal documents to a professional standard, in their own words, with their own name at the bottom.
Since the prize, the platform has been in daily use by real litigants across the UK. This is what one of them wrote publicly, unprompted:
“The platform is user-friendly, even if you don’t know what form to use or how to structure your arguments. … eLitigant removes the fear and confusion around legal paperwork and empowers you to handle your case with confidence.”
We keep that one close. It is the whole brief in three sentences.
What that looks like on an ordinary day
There are two sides to this, and we work both.
Some people arrive because a process has come to them. A letter lands that they were not expecting and do not understand. A defence is due and they have never written one. A judge has ordered a directions questionnaire and the form runs to pages. The clock is already running and nobody has explained the rules.
Others arrive because something was done to them and they have decided not to let it go. An invoice ignored for months. Work paid for in full and never finished. A deposit never returned. A faulty product and a company that stopped replying. These people are not victims waiting to be defended — they are the ones bringing the claim, and they are entitled to put their case as well as anyone with a lawyer would put it.
We are as much for the person starting a process as the person answering one. Quite often the first properly written letter is where it ends: a claim that is set out clearly, with the facts in order and the law correctly identified, is frequently paid before it ever reaches a courtroom. That is a good outcome, and it is one of the most common ones we see.
Either way, the work is the same. They describe what happened in their own words. They leave with a document prepared to a professional standard — the right form, the right structure, the facts set out the way a court expects to read them — which they then check, sign and file themselves. Their case, their name at the bottom, their decision throughout.
That happens every day now, across England and Wales, for people who would otherwise have faced it alone or not at all.
The news: a second company
What we learned building eLitigant turned out to matter well beyond self-represented litigants.
The approach we developed — what we call personalised agentics — is built around one organisation’s actual way of working, rather than bolted on top of it. That distinction sounds small. In practice it is the difference between something people use once and something that becomes part of how the work gets done.
Professional firms started asking for it. So we incorporated Agentics 303 Ltd to take it to them.
eLitigant CIC continues exactly as it is: a community interest company, funded by the users, for the people who need us most. Nothing about that changes. But the second company exists because the first one worked, and the first one worked because a group of people in Nottingham took an unusual idea seriously before anyone else did.
The people who made it happen
Prizes are the visible part. The useful part is quieter.
The Ingenuity Lab at the University of Nottingham gave us something more valuable than a trophy: a room full of people who had already made the mistakes we were about to make, and who were generous enough to say so early.
Dr Terri Holloway, who manages the Lab, deserves a particular mention. The work she does is the kind that rarely gets written up — steady, practical, endlessly patient, and done for other people’s benefit rather than her own. Anyone who has been through the Lab knows exactly what we mean.
It is worth saying what that actually consists of, because “support” is a vague word and none of this is vague. There is a desk to work at, in a building on Jubilee Campus put up for people building things. There are events and roundtables where you meet founders at your stage and a little ahead of it, which is where most of the useful conversations happen — and a fair few of the social ones, which matter more than people admit when you are doing this without a team around you.
There are entrepreneurs in residence who have already run the kind of business you are trying to run, and who will tell you plainly which bit you have wrong. There is a cohort alongside you who know what a bad week looks like because they are having one too. And behind all of it sits a business school — professors and researchers whose working lives are spent on the questions founders are otherwise left guessing at, and who are, remarkably, happy to be asked.
For a company with no investors and no head office, that is not a nice-to-have. It is most of the infrastructure we have.
And the entrepreneurs in residence have championed what we are doing in rooms we were not in. For a small community interest company trying to be taken seriously, that matters more than any amount of marketing. You cannot buy someone credible saying your name when you are not there.
To all of them: thank you. Two companies now exist that would not have, in this form, without you.
And if you are sitting on an idea, this is the part to act on. The Ingenuity Lab is open to students and alumni of the University of Nottingham who want to build something, whether that is a fully formed business or a hunch you have not said out loud yet. There is an application form, and a page setting out what membership involves.
We applied as one company with a difficult idea and no obvious route to market. Two years later there are two companies. We are not suggesting that is typical — only that we would almost certainly not have got here without the room, and the application took a few minutes.
What happens next
eLitigant carries on doing what it does — helping people face a legal process they did not choose, with documents they can stand behind. Agentics 303 takes the same thinking to organisations who want it built around them.
Same origin. Same conviction: that good formal writing should not be the privilege of people who can afford it.
Agentics 303 is a Lab member too — which feels like the right place for the second one to start, given where the first one was made.
If your organisation wants this
If your firm or organisation recognises the problem — capable people losing their best hours to reading in, summarising, chasing references and first drafts at nine at night — that is precisely what Agentics 303 is built for. Not software bolted on top of how you work, but something built around one named person and the way they actually work.
Email scott@agentics303.com and you will get me, not a sales team. Fellow Lab members especially — come and find me.
eLitigant CIC (No. 16566612) is a community interest company registered in England & Wales. Agentics 303 Ltd (No. 17357982) is a separate company limited by shares. Winner, 2026 Ingenuity Impact Inclusivity Prize. We help people prepare their own documents to a professional standard. We are not a law firm and do not give legal advice. Published August 2026.
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